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		<title>“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Juliet was wrong. In William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet, protagonist Juliet seems to suggest that a name by itself holds little intrinsic value. She implies that names do not tell us the inherent qualities of an individual. Yet when we delve deeper into history&#8212;especially European History—we find countless examples of rulers and nobles [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Inspiring Belgian Beguines: Then and Now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The origin of the word Beguine has been lost to history, yet the legacy of the Beguines remains deeply rooted in Belgium’s cultural and spiritual identity. To be a Beguine between the 13th and 16th centuries meant belonging to a semi monastic community of women devoted to voluntary poverty, simplicity, and caring for the sick [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Industrial Revolution’s Second Act in Belgium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“ The Industrial Revolution fueled all of humanity….everything we do has been exploding ever since. It has been the biggest, most impacting thing for human beings in the last 250 million years.”                 David La Chapelle, American Avant-guard film director, photographer, and philosopher. “ The greatest revolution in the history of mankind is the Industrial Revolution.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Library with Staying Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Libraries are so much more than a collection of books. When it comes to intellectual preeminence for example, The British Library in London is iconic unto itself. Not only does the library have an enormous collection of books, it also has a rare collection of relics and maps found nowhere else on the globe. Still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Did the King of Hollywood Bomb Antwerp?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Antwerp has the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed Belgian city in the nightmare known as World War II. The city was bombarded by both German and Allied airpower. The German Luftwaffe dropped an untold tonnage of bombs resulting in over 6,000 civilian casualties. Allied planes followed with heavy bombing through the war [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Erich and Helmuth’s Not-So- Excellent Adventure </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belgium&#8212;neutral Belgium&#8212; held its collective breath waiting for the inevitable storm of conflict known as World  War II. At the German /Belgian border near Münster, two German officers were caught up in a bizarre incident that would alter the trajectory of the German invasion of Belgium. But first ,some background.   The 1939 German invasion of Poland left the Allies&#8212; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six (Belgian) Degrees of Separation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, it is a disjointed list that lacks a coherent connection. How is it that: a former nun, a best- selling novelist, the iconic “little black dress,” a canal house in&#160; Bruges, and an Academy Award winning movie, could be woven together to form a Belgian specific sequence? Unlikely you say? Consider… Marie Louise Habets [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Badass Belgians : A Beer, A Dog, and an Indomitable Soldier</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/badass-belgians-a-beer-a-dog-and-an-indomitable-soldier/77208/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Badass: refers to someone or something that is impressive ,bold, admirable and stands out. From The Oxford Dictionary of American Slang.          Bruz Beers, located in Denver, Colorado U.S.A., is an artisanal brewery dedicated to traditional Belgian style beers. Cofounders Charlie G. and Ryan E. discovered Belgian beer while backpacking through Europe. Their experience transformational. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title> A Colorful Cast of Belgians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To describe this cadre of Belgians as merely “colorful” would be a profound understatement. We could easily add such descriptives as: legendary, intrepid, undaunted, courageous, adventurous, etc. What follows are  profiles of a few Belgian World War I  “ace” pilots who made their dynamic presence known in a new kind of military warfare. Consider… World [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Actress, A Princess, and Belgium&#8217;s Iron Harvest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Actress Angelina Jolie was so profoundly moved by what she witnessed in Cambodia, that it would change the course of her life. While filming the 2001  movie Tomb Raider, Angelina was greatly impacted by the calamitous effects of  thousands of  landmines laid by the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian government. She would go on to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Born in Exile</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 20:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and overview into the realities of the world”    Stefan Zweig –Austrian writer and playwright During the chaos of World War II, there were so many “governments in exile” in London that the area became known as “miniature Europe.” Charles de Gaulle for example left Paris [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Expo 58 in Brussels shaped the space race and the Cold War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the Chinese Zodiac Calendar, 1958 was the Year of the Dog.  In literature, Boris Pasternak won the  1958 Nobel Peace Prize  for his novel Doctor Zhivago but Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was the best- selling book. The soundtrack to the film South Pacific topped the charts while The Bridge on the River [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Edgar?… Edgar Who?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If asked to name some of the key figures associated with World War II, most would answer: Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, etc. Perhaps others might mention Benito Mussolini, Dwight Eisenhower, Emperor Tojo, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, Harry S. Truman, and Robert Oppenheimer. But very few are apt to mention a relatively [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Sorrow of Belgium &#8212; (three versions)</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/the-sorrow-of-belgium-three-versions/69647/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seldom have there been three texts with the same title, written by three different authors from three different countries. Also unlikely is the fact that the texts have been written in three different genres reflecting three different eras in Belgium’s past. This article directs your attention to this anomaly. Consider… Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>High Flying Heros</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/high-flying-heros/68102/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ “Tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on           Vladimir Lenin Pigeons are often perceived as pests that tend to perch on window ledges, statues, and in Lenin’s view, tombstones. To be sure city pigeons (often feral) are typically seen as an urban environmental nuisance due to their droppings. However, pigeons are  much more multidimensional. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Belgium’s Train Stations….(and the stories they tell)</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/belgiums-train-stations-and-the-stories-they-tell/66498/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“ Life is a train….get on board !” Khaled Hosseini: Afghan/ American novelist It is no surprise to any European traveler that train travel can be one of the most comfortable, convenient, and affordable modes of travel. You cannot beat the Eurostar 1-hour Brussels to Paris run, for example. For tourists, the Eurail pass has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Classic English Literature and Belgium’s Red Devils</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/classic-english-literature-and-belgiums-red-devils/65320/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Granted, the link between these two disparate story topics might, at first glance, seem somewhat remote. What could possibly be the connection between some of the masterpieces of English literature and Belgium’s beloved football team? Let us connect the dots… The Brontë Sisters&#8212;Charotte and Emily&#8212;authored some of the most enduring 19th-century literary classics. Charlotte’s novels Jane [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Novi Belgica: How Peter Minuit&#8217;s $24 Land Deal Created New York City</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/novi-belgica-how-peter-minuits-24-land-deal-created-new-york-city/63793/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Young Peter Minuit closed on perhaps the most savvy real estate deal ever recorded. For the equivalent of $24, Peter purchased land whose value has, over time, appreciated by 17 billion percent!  (yes… billion!) This real estate transaction begs the question: Who was Peter Minuit? What was his land deal, and how did it create [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bacteria, Belgium, and Benevolence</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/bacteria-belgium-and-benevolence/60203/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Epidemiologists—or those who study diseases— claim it is the oldest afflictionin human history. Social scientists believe this disease has carried with it thelongest and most malingering social stigma known to human behavior. Religiousscholars have interpreted this curse as an extended metaphor between good andevil. The disease that we call leprosy has a long and misunderstood [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insert/ Tap/ or Swipe in Flanders&#8230;( in the 14th century?)</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/insert-tap-or-swipe-in-flanders-in-the-14th-century/58644/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you use your credit card in Bruges or Antwerp &#8212;-even for the most basic transaction&#8212; you are probably unaware that you are part of a centuries-old Dutch tradition. Your transaction mimics a long legacy of business practices historically linked to the Flanders region of Belgium. Allow me to explain… In the late 13th_ century, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Irish Dames, The Dirty Shirts and Ypres, Belgium</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/irish-dames-the-dirty-shirts-and-ypres-belgium/57736/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s no accident that Hiroshima, Japan and Ypres, Belgium are official “sister cities”.  Both cities were nearly obliterated in wartime destruction. Tragically, Hiroshima was the target of the first nuclear weapon in history.  Ypres, a municipality in West Flanders, was the site of the first use of chemical warfare (think: mustard gas) coupled with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Duffel’s Legacy</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/duffels-legacy/55667/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The storyline begins in the 11th-century province of Antwerp. By the 1500s, Flemish émigrés shifted the narrative to England. By the 19th and 20th centuries, elements of the story turned to mainland Europe and North America. Today it is part of the global culture – especially in the world of fashion. It is the story [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The French Ticket to Gold ?</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/the-french-ticket-to-gold/53422/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The year 1848 witnessed two events that, while occurring simultaneously and separated by an ocean, triggered the most unlikely narrative. These events, while somewhat tragic and sometimes colorful, give insight into some of human nature’s most basic impulses. Allow me to explain… In February of 1848 the French monarchial government of King Louis Philippe was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Bull by the Horns</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/a-bull-by-the-horns/49907/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Brussels police report was concise, clipped, and cryptic. &#160;The press speculation that followed the crime however got the attention of diplomats and policy makers worldwide. Following the March,1990 murder at an upscale Brussels suburb, theories as to the who, what and why of the crime remain germane today. What follows is the story of&#160; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Belgium’s Border Wars (Sarcasm)</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/belgiums-border-wars-sarcasm/38265/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Add to the list: China and Taiwan, India and Pakistan, and it is safe to say that “border disputes” are, and historically have been, hot-button issues. This article directs your attention to Belgium’s borders but on a very much lighter note.  Belgium’s borders have a story to tell which is sometimes arbitrary, sometimes illustrative, and many times humorous.
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		<title>Uncles, Nephews, and Tribal Elders: An Enduring Belgian Connection to Native Americans.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adrien Croquet (1818-1902) was born in Braine l’Alleud ,Belgium.  He was ordained in 1844 as an abbot after studying at the University of Louvain. Missionary work in America was his calling. Fr. Croquet traveled to The Oregon Territory on the distant Pacific shore---then a remote, North American wilderness. The territory was decades away from official American statehood. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Belgian was “A Cut Above”</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/this-belgian-was-a-cut-above/33613/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  As an author Andreas was prolific. By the age of 23, his treatise on bloodletting---a popular treatment for just about any disease, was prototypical and disproved many assertions concerning that practice. Vesalius’ published work on the vascular and nervous systems, despite being regarded as heretical by the Inquisition, evolved into the gold standard for the treatment of a vast variety of treatments. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The ‘horse-fisherman’ of East Dunkirk</title>
		<link>https://brusselsmorning.com/the-horse-fisherman-of-east-dunkirk/31950/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belgium's horse-fisherman have a rich cultural history and our known to harvest some of the tastiest shrimp in Europe. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brussels Born and The Black Dress</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) She was self-effacing&#8212;sometimes even a little insecure. She once famously said; “ I’m half Dutch and half Irish but I was born in Brussels, Belgium. If I was a dog, I would be a mess”! Her loving son said of his famous mother: “She would be the first to admit  that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Most Memorialized Woman You’ve Probably Never Heard of… Or, Edith Who?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) With the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, it would be hard to find a woman throughout history who has been more celebrated. For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth has been at the forefront of public attention as her life, her impact, family, and now her demise was there for public consumption. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Effective Humanitarian Aid? &#8230;  It’s In the Bag!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gaioni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belgium on the other hand was “neutral” on paper only. Its neutrality had been formally guaranteed by The Treaty of London in 1839. Germany however ignored the document--- referring to the declaration as a “mere scape of paper” --- and by August 1914, had occupied “neutral” Belgium. The civilian population of Belgians suffered as the German army engaged in numerous atrocities: imprisonment, forced labor, wholesale executions, deportations, and starvation tactics, (more about that later…). 
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