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If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium ! - Nine countries in eighteen days... impossible. But not for some hapless American tourists who, during a whirlwind trip to Europe, come up against a lot more than just a language barrier.
About Utopian Communities - In 1803 George Rapp, a Lutheran separatist from Germany came to America in search of religious freedom. Along with 800 people from Pennsylvania, Rapp carved out a utopian niche in the wilderness.
Creationism Was Not Invented In Europe - Fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. But fantasy is also another name for Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug.
Story Number 505739 - Seminole Tribe of Florida buying Hard Rock cafe business.
Tape Number: EF06/1189
Duration: 00:03:22
Intime: 10:40:12
Date: 2006-12-072006-12-07 GMT
Source: AP TELEVISION/ Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment
Nova Belgica - From 1615, the region between Virginia and New-England was equally named New-Belgium or New-Netherlands.
"We speak belgian"
Walloons from Wisconsin don’t use the word "walloon" to define the dialectal langage they speak ? They say : "we speak belgian".
If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium (1968)
"I’m Europe, Baby. I sent you Dutch Elm Disease, German Measles, and Russian Roulette. You sent me World Wind Vacation Tour #225. Now we’re even."
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Nova Belgica
According to the legend, New York was founded in 1626 by the Dutch in the southern part of Manhattan Island. Some schoolbooks, history books, television broadcasts - and down to cigarettes makers - even say that the founder of New York was named Peter Stuyvesant.
The reality is somewhat different... (read further)
Belgique : a ghost town
Belgique is an unincorporated community in eastern Perry County, Missouri, USA. It is located about five miles south of Chester, Illinois. Its post office has closed and its mail now comes from Perryville. The community was founded in 1890 and is named after the French name for Belgium. In 1970 it had more than 20 occupied residences and a large building. Since the flood of 1993 there is no longer a town, but the cemetery remains.
Proposing a radio publicity
On the occasion of Cabinet Reclus, Potential Estate was offered the opportunity of broadcasting a radio publicity on national radio. The outcome of incorporating this format in Potential Estate operations was a reenactment of VRT announcement style by American native speaker Adam Leech in Dutch. Ultimately the proposition was rejected, and replaced by a VRT employee reinstating the VRT announcemnet style. The score for this publicity was provided by DJ Elephant Power. It consisted of a remix of Walloon folk songs that were interpreted by Belgian immigrants settled in Wisconsin since the 19th Century. The score was reworked unauthorized by VRT. Potential Estate offers you the possibility to listen to the
original proposition HERE.
Venturi in Milwaukee
Robert Venturi’s early professional work was in the office of Eero Saarinen,
where among other projects, he worked on the design of the Milwaukee
County War Memorial Center.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour collaborated on
another book, published in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas," a further
exploration of urban sprawl and the suburbs in relation to their
architectural theories.
Floating Island
Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island (1970-2005) is a project by Robert Smithson that was realized posthumously. Produced by Minetta Brook in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, Floating Island features a barge landscaped with earth, trees, shrubs and rocks : a "non-site" of Central Park. Towed by a tugboat, this fabricated "island" circled the island of Manhattan for a week in September of 2005. A video documents the evolution and realization of this project.
