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...that the covering of the Senne River (construction pictured) created the major boulevards of Brussels?
...that the Belgian Government in London during World War II was described as a "rump"?
...that of the vast Silva Carbonaria, "the charcoal forest" that stretched from south of Brussels to the Rhine in Merovingian days, 44.21 km² still remains in the Forêt de Soignes/Zoniënwoud?

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