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24-25	May 2007 Readings/Article The $50,000 question SEE ALSO: Belgium; Campaign funds; Career as candidate for U.S. president; Career as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contributor; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Kerry, John; 2004; Fox, Sam; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
20-25	May 1998 Readings/Article Let's pie the polluting lolly! By Hugues Henry (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Belgium; Career as prankster; Interviews; Godin, Noël; Practical jokes PDF IMAGES
30-33	January 1998 Readings/Article I was born By Luc Sante SEE ALSO: Autobiography; Belgium; Childhood and youth; Sante, Luc PDF IMAGES
58-65	June 1995 Article Continental drift: In Brussels, among the Eurocrats By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Belgium; European Union; Journeys—Belgium; 1951-; Fraser, Nicholas PDF IMAGES
30	July 1955 Article The do-nothing Congress By King of Belgium Leopold SEE ALSO: Belgium PDF IMAGES
80-82	May 1955 After hours/Article Bitter pill By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Belgium; Career in art expertising; Career in art forgeries; Expertising; Forgeries; Meegeren, Han van; Vermeer, Johannes; Painting; Coremans, Paul PDF IMAGES
627-636	May 1937 Article Belgium and Holland—isolated? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Belgium; 1898-1948; National security; Netherlands; Neutrality PDF IMAGES
244-255	July 1919 Article My capture and escape By John O.W. Donaldson SEE ALSO: Air pilots, Military; Belgium; Escapes; Imprisonment; Donaldson, John O.W.; Portraits; Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Anderson, Robert; Tillinghast, Theose PDF IMAGES
264-269	January 1919 Article Side shows in Armageddon By John Foster Fraser SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Battlefields; Belgium; Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia; Prisoners and prisons; Symbolism of flowers; Trench warfare PDF IMAGES
281-292	July 1910 Article Some votaries of Bruges By Charles Henry White SEE ALSO: Belgium; Expatriate artists PDF IMAGES
497-506	September 1907 Article A country under two kings By Robert Shackleton SEE ALSO: Belgium; Boundaries; Prussia PDF IMAGES
443-452	February 1902 Article Belgium's art crusade By Charles Mulford Robinson SEE ALSO: Architecture; Belgium; Conservation and restoration; Public art PDF IMAGES
246-248	January 1902 Article Bell music By H.R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis SEE ALSO: Belgium; Bells PDF IMAGES
373-388	February 1900 Article The Congo State and Central-African problems By Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger SEE ALSO: Administration; Africa; Africa, Central; Africans; Belgium; Colonies; Congo (Brazzaville); 1884-1960 PDF IMAGES
722-740	April 1897 Article From home to throne in Belgium By Mary Clare de Graffenried SEE ALSO: Belgium PDF IMAGES
390-402	August 1890 Article Plantin-Moretus By Mary Alice Seymour SEE ALSO: Antwerp; Moretus, Balthasar; Belgium; Career in publishing; Plantin, Christophe; Portraits; Printing; Publishers and publishing; Statues PDF IMAGES
688-696	October 1883 Article Nicaise de Keyser By Zadel Barnes Buddington Gustafson SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Belgium; Charles Quint délivrant les Esclaves chrétiens à Tunis (Painting); L'École d'Anvers (Painting); Keyser, Nicaise de PDF IMAGES
637-638	September 1881 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Belgium; Brussels; Cardinals; Leo XIII, Pope; Ugliness PDF IMAGES
401-406	February 1879 Article Old Flemish masters (VI.—Roger Vander Weyden; VII.—Jacques Jordaens; VIII.—Erasmus Quellyn the Elder; IX.—Franz Snyders) By E. Mason SEE ALSO: Belgium; Quellinus, Erasmus; Quellyn, Erasmus; Snyders, Frans; Jordaens, Jacob; Jordaens, Jacques; 15th century; Painting, Flemish; Portraits; Weyden, Roger van der; The boar-hunt (Painting); The family concert (Painting); Youthful satyrs (Painting) PDF IMAGES
807-813	November 1878 Article Old Flemish masters. V.—David Teniers the younger By E. Mason SEE ALSO: A Flemish fair (Painting); Belgium; Teniers, David; Drinking philosophers (Painting); Painting, Flemish; Portraits; The jealous woman (Painting); The temptation of St. Anthony (Painting) PDF IMAGES
190-198	July 1878 Article Old Flemish masters. IV.—Anthony Van Dyck By E. Mason SEE ALSO: Belgium; Charles the First (Painting); Painting, Flemish; Portraits; Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir; The crown of thorns (Painting) PDF IMAGES
836-846	May 1878 Article Old Flemish masters. III.—Peter Paul Rubens By E. Mason SEE ALSO: Belgium; Drunken Silenus (Painting); Painting, Flemish; Portraits; Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir; The descent from the cross (Painting); The flight into Egypt (Painting) PDF IMAGES
510-517	March 1878 Article Old Flemish masters. I.—Quentin Matsys By E. Mason SEE ALSO: Belgium; 16th century; Painting, Flemish; Portraits; Metsys, Quentin; The banker and his wife (Painting); The entombment of Christ (Painting); The masters (Painting) PDF IMAGES
823-830	May 1873 Article Antoine Wiertz By Wirt Sikes SEE ALSO: Wiertz, Antoine Joseph; Appreciation; Belgium PDF IMAGES
565-566	September 1859 Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Amputation; Belgium; Casualties; Foot; Longevity; Paris (France); War of 1859 PDF IMAGES
134-135	December 1858 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Belgium; Brussels; Congresses; Copyright, International; Piracy (Copyright) PDF IMAGES
323-336	August 1858 Article Vagabondizing in Belgium SEE ALSO: Antwerp (Belgium); Belgians; Belgium; Career in painting; Brontë, Charlotte; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Catlin, George; Homes and haunts—Belgium—Brussels; Journeys—Belgium; Wittkamp, Mynheer PDF IMAGES
708	October 1856 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Belgium; Coronations; Léopold I, King of the Belgians; Pageants PDF IMAGES
420-421	February 1856 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Appreciation—Belgium; Appreciation—United States; Awards; Leys, Hendrik, Baron; Belgium; Goodyear, Charles; McCormick, Cyrus Hall; Industrial arts; Processions; Morse, Samuel Finley Breese PDF IMAGES
128-129	June 1852 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Donald Grant Mitchell SEE ALSO: Hugo, Adèle; Dumas, Alexandre; Autographs; Belgium; Charitable contributions; Collectors and collecting; Correspondence PDF IMAGES

Oct 2005	Number of toilet seats at the EU Parliament building in Brussels that a TV station had tested for cocaine: 46	Harper's Index Source: Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (Nuremberg)
Oct 2005	Number of toilet seats at the EU Parliament building in Brussels that a TV station had tested for cocaine that tested positive: 41	Harper's Index Source: Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (Nuremberg)
Feb 2005	Rank of the Vlaams Blok, Belgium's far-right anti-immigration party, among the most popular in Flanders: 1	Harper's Index Source: Dedicated Research (Brussels)
Oct 2003	Rank of Sudan and Belgium, respectively, among 122 countries assessed for water quality : 118, 122	Harper's Index Source: U.N. World Water Development Report

July 13, 2008	The Belgian brewer InBev planned to buy Anheuser-Busch for nearly $50 billion.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: AP via Google
April 19, 2006	Belgian researchers found that men lose their decision-making skills when exposed to an attractive woman.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
October 27, 2005	In Brussels, a 47-year-old Flemish woman was arrested for racism after she called her husband a "lazy Walloon."	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
October 14, 2005	Belgian police issued a warning to whoever stole 440 pounds of leeks that the leeks were probably toxic.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
September 7, 2005	A Brussels woman urinating in a graveyard was crushed to death by a falling gravestone.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
April 29, 2005	Doctors in Belgium treated a fifteen-year-old Iraqi girl for leg wounds caused by a cluster bomb, then sent the bill to the U.S. embassy.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
March 28, 2005	George W. Bush was showing the world his frisky, impishly fun side, telling a Belgian television correspondent that she had “great eyes,” and rubbing bald heads for luck.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: New York Times Source 2: Globe and Mail
February 21, 2005	Speaking in Brussels, Bush called on Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon; he also said it was time for Europe and the United States to work together.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Guardian
July 31, 2004	a gas pipeline blew up in Belgium.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
April 28, 2004	"Brother Guide" Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya arrived in Brussels, along with his white stretch Mercedes limo and four female bodyguards wearing tight uniforms, to meet with European officials. He called on the United States and China to rid themselves of nuclear and chemical weapons. "Hopefully," he said, "nothing will force us to go back to the days when we used our cars and explosive belts."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

780-787	October 1897 Fiction A strange tale of Gheel By Hezekiah Butterworth SEE ALSO: Belgium; Care; Mentally ill women PDF IMAGES
363-370	February 1860 Fiction Relics of General Chassé. A tale of Antwerp By Anthony Trollope SEE ALSO: Antwerp; Belgium; Chassé; Homes and haunts—Fiction; Travelers PDF IMAGES
764-769	May 1853 Fiction A search on the battle field SEE ALSO: Autobiographical fiction; Belgium; Campaigns; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; War stories PDF IMAGES
650-653	April 1853 Fiction The night wanderer SEE ALSO: Autobiographical fiction; Belgium; Horror tales; Sleepwalking PDF IMAGES

23	January 1994 Readings/Illustration Annie Laurie MacNutt By Thierry Poncelet SEE ALSO: Belgium PDF IMAGES
23	January 1994 Readings/Illustration Lars-Hamlet Knudsen By Thierry Poncelet SEE ALSO: Belgium PDF IMAGES
	January 1924 Illustration Mother and children By Cornelis de Vos SEE ALSO: Belgium; Mother and child PDF IMAGES

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