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Troon Funkin Blow

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April 30th 2008
We took the Thalys high speed train to Brussels on Tuesday morning. Trains are fast! But they're so smooth, you don't really get sense of it, until you have some other reference. We were next to an expressway for part of it, and were proabbly going more than twice as fast as the cars and trucks, so that's something. I made a cool video, half by accdient, that, again, I can't post right now. Bru ... read more

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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more