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4 days ago · All of Brussels can be seen as an open-air museum with streets, squares and parks adorned by historical statues and memorials, mostly meant to represent and even glorify Belgium’s past. But for a long time, one monument in memory of Belgium’s colonial rule in Africa has been missing.
3 days ago · Before attaining his current status as a rugged éminence grise of network TV, Tom Selleck bestrode half a century as a certain hirsute ideal of American manhood: in 1970s commercials, the mustachioed yang to Farrah Fawcett’s feather-haired yin; in the ’80s, as the beach-casual private eye in Magnum, P.I. (not to mention one of the adoptive hunks in Three Men and a Baby); in the ’90s, as ...
4 days ago · He started writing all his secrets down and sending copies of them to random people including Mae Brussell, the host of a conspiracy theory radio show. Mae hired Stephanie Caruana, a writer from Playgirl magazine, to summarise the hundreds (or thousands) of pages of messages that Bruce had sent her.
4 days ago · Major figures produced the imagery to represent the Congo in these colonial exhibitions, including Auderghem painter Alfred Bastien and 1930s Modernist architect Victor Bourgeois, while Art Nouveau architect Paul Hankar also helped design the pavilions for the 1897 exhibition in Tervuren.
3 days ago · On wednesday, july 19, 2023, the Ambassador of the Republic of Burundi to India H.E. M. Aloys Bizindavyi presented to the President of the Republic of India Her Excellency Mrs. Droupadi Murmu, his credentials accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burundi to India.
2 days ago · Cynthia Ann Parker is the most famous Indian captive in American history. She was born in Illinois, around 1827. In 1833, her family moved to Texas and built Fort Parker in what is now Limestone County, east of Waco. Comanche warriors attacked the fort in 1836 and took young Cynthia Ann captive.
1 day ago · Brussels, city, capital of Belgium. It is located in the valley of the Senne (Flemish: Zenne) River, a small tributary of the Schelde (French: Escaut). Greater Brussels is the country’s largest urban agglomeration. It consists of 19 communes, or municipalities, each with a large measure of administrative autonomy.
