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...transplanted Englishman, Ensor spent almost his entire life in the Belgian seaside resort of Ostend, working in an attic studio above his family's souvenir and novelty shop, a place crammed with seashells, stuffed fish, old books and the Flemish carnival masks that crowd so many of his canvases. His only long absence from the city began in 1877, when he headed to Brussels and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, trying and failing to become the academic painter he was never suited to be. Three years later, he was back in Ostend, making highly capable portraits, still lifes...
...crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, Ostend, Belgium...
...crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, OSTEND, BELGIUM...
...Graham Greene Stamboul Train This thriller follows travelers on the Orient Express from Ostend, Belgium, to Constantinople. But railway officials rejected Greene's request for a free ride, and he could afford the trip only as far as Cologne. He extrapolated the rest, setting the last chapter near tourist sites featured in books...
...further collisions in the world's busiest shipping lane: hence the buoys and the coastguard signals. But the precautions were wasted on the Vicky, which even ignored a direct instruction from a French patrol boat to change course. French authorities launched an investigation, and the Vicky was taken to Ostend for inspection. Luckily, little of its cargo, 70,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil, had leaked. BOSNIA Changing the Guard In its first overseas security operation, the E.U. officially took over the U.N.'s decade-long peacekeeping role. The NATO-led Stabilization Force handed control of Sarajevo airport...