And just like the Telegraph<\/a>, I\u2019ve discovered Belgium isn\u2019t just worth studying because of its unhappy tendency to be between two hostile nations. \u00a0So raise a pint and celebrate. \u00a0A step forward in its day, and still going strong.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Belgium National Day! \u00a0 The \u2018Low Countries\u2019 have always been a region that have occupied too little of my time in European studies. \u00a0I\u2019ve been trying to remedy that. And just like the Telegraph, I\u2019ve discovered Belgium isn\u2019t just worth studying because of its unhappy tendency to be between two hostile nations. \u00a0So raise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,39],"tags":[8,80],"class_list":["post-10446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-history","tag-fun-stuff","tag-history"],"yoast_head":"\n
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