Administratiekantoor Fransens


Administratiekantoor Fransens
Administratiekantoor Fransens (28-02-2026)

Sinds 8 maart 2025 is het kantoor van de familie Fransens gevestigd aan de Raadhuislaan 19 in Oude Pekela schuin tegenover het gemeentehuis.

Vader Pieter is  in 2011 met het bedrijf gestart, daarna kwamen Ronald en Irma in de zaak.

( De onderneming Administratiekantoor Fransens was gevestigd op Noordercolonie 49 te Nieuwe Pekela en was actief in de branche Accountancy, belastingadvisering en administratie. )

https://www.administratiekantoorfransens.nl


Boston’s North End

Boston’s North End
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On January 15th, 1919, in what was probably the most bizarre disaster in United States’ history, a storage tank burst on Boston’s waterfront releasing two million gallons of molasses in a 15 ft-high, 160 ft-wide waves that raced through the city’s north end at 35mph destroying everything it touched.

The wave killed young Pasquale Iantosca, smashing a railroad car into the ten-year-old. It pinned Walter Merrithew, a railroad clerk on the Commercial Street wharf, against the wall of a freight shed, his feet 3 ft off the floor. He hung there as he watched a horse drowning nearby.

The wave broke steel girders of the Boston Elevated Railway, almost swept a train off its tracks, knocked buildings off their foundations, and toppled electrical poles, the wires hissing and sparking as they fell into the brown flood. The Boston Globe reported that people ‘were picked up and hurled many feet.


The gigantic Soviet antenna – Duga Radar

Duga Radar
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The Duga radar facility, also known as the “Russian Woodpecker,” was a Soviet over-the-horizon radar used for early warning of missile launches during the Cold War.

Location: Near Chernobyl, Ukraine
Size: Approximately 150 meters high and 700 meters long
Power: Over 10 megawatts, disrupted radio communications worldwide

After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the facility was abandoned. Today, it stands as a ghostly legacy of the Cold War, attracting historians and adventurers alike.