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Fellow blogger Luc Van Braekel lives in Waregem , where there is a "small" American cemetery. It's called "Flanders Field...

GIVE US WEAPONS. From the desk of Paul Belien (Friday, 21 April 2006) On the videofootage you see them standing like predators alongside the...

Brussels Central Station is, as its name implies, a busy node in Belgium’s railway network. On working days, some 140,000 plus government em...

To everybody who is serving, or has served, in whatever branch of the US Armed Forces, be it Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force or God knows wha...

Some background and some facts. Belgium will have municipal elections in October 2006. All through fall 2005 and spring 2006, polls showed a...

Just a quick post. I'm sorry, but I just don't feel in the mood for an elaborate one. a.) NORWAY: Previous center-right government s...

This is again a couple of days old, learned about it via LGF naturellement , and it blew me such that I felt I had to spill some words on i...

IT WAS A POLE , CAPICE??? He was POLISH !!!! He came from POLAND !!! Got that? PO-LAND !!!! The country between Germany and Belarus, OK? Nor...

A.) SHE USED TO BE NINA, NOW THIS IS SUHAILAH. From the online edition of NRC Handelsblad , a leading Dutch newspaper: The number of native ...

"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." -...

Came back from Poland last Monday, April 25. We travel to this eastern European country twice a year, primarily to visit my mom-in-law and b...

...it's just a demo, you know. "...I find religious behaviour endlessly fascinating in its multi-faceted cultural manifestations......