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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam

The Teenage Diarist Hidden in an Amsterdam Attic for 25 Months Who Was Betrayed on 4 August 1944 and Died of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Anne Frank and her family hid in a concealed annex behind her father's Amsterdam office from 6 July 1942. They were arrested on 4 August 1944 after an anonymous denunciation. Anne died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945, aged 15, weeks before the camp's April 1945 liberation. Her diary, published by her father in 1947, has been translated into more than 70 languages.

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Paramaribo, Suriname

The 52-Year-Old German Widow Who Sailed to a Dutch Colony in 1699 to Document Insect Metamorphosis and Produced One of the Founding Works of Modern Entomology

Maria Sibylla Merian, a 52-year-old Frankfurt-born artist and naturalist, sailed alone with her younger daughter to the Dutch colony of Suriname in June 1699. Over two years she documented the life cycles of approximately 90 South American insect species, ate the same food as her enslaved Indigenous and African informants, and produced the 1705 *Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium* — one of the founding works of modern entomology.

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Haarlem, Netherlands

The Dutch Speculative Bubble of 1636-1637 in Which Tulip Bulb Prices Reached the Equivalent of a Wealthy Amsterdam House and Then Collapsed Within Weeks

The Dutch tulip futures market peaked in February 1637 with the rarest bulb varieties trading at prices equivalent to fully furnished Amsterdam canal houses. The collapse on 3-7 February 1637 produced the first documented modern speculative bubble. The actual economic damage was substantially smaller than the conventional legend describes; most contracts were never enforced.

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