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Another Vote? In this week's referendum, Leopold got 72.2% of the Flanders vote. He barely carried Brabant (50.2%) and got only 40.2% of the vote in Wallonia. For the country as a whole his majority...
...conceded that he should be allowed to return if he got 65%. Leaders of the Liberal Party, which holds the balance of power in Parliament, imposed a stricter condition: they would vote against Leopold unless he got a majority in all three sections of the country-Flanders, Wallonia and Brabant (the Brussels area...
...growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself as "the rose of Brabant," but of whom her uncle remarked: "Poor Rudolph! His bride has the daintiness of a dragoon...
...town's name, which means "the Duke's wood." perpetuates the memory of the Duke of Brabant, who gave it a municipal charter in 1185. (The odd-looking prefix is the Dutch sign of the possessive case.) The land around 's Hertogenbosch is low-lying and swampy. The Maas is three miles away to the north...
...grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...