Word: adelbogen
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Early that afternoon in Brussels King Albert, eager for exercise, had slipped into his dressing room and put on an old pair of riding breeches and hobnail boots. His son, Crown Prince Leopold, was where he himself longed to be, at Adelbogen, high in the Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name...
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