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A Closer Look at Where I Live

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February 8th 2009
Since I've now been in Brussels for over three weeks, I'm getting pretty well settled in. I'm deep into my work at my internship and am pretty well settled into our apartment. This weekend was an off weekend for our travels so we just stayed in Brussels and got caught up on laundry, our directed studies and whatnot. In light of my rather uneventful week, I decided to give you a closer look at w ... 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