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The Past Tense is a blog on history, trying to make you remember all the stuff you learned at school. History is more than dates, names and abstract movements; it is not as dull and dusty as most people remember it. The aim is not to develop new insights, but to tell stories that make ordinary people think “hey, I never knew that!”

Arjan van der Gaag is a web developer, student in Information Management and amateur historian living in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Find out more at his personal website.