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Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, and immediately north-east of the larger town of Braine-l'Alleud. It is the site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815. Waterloo lies immediately south of the official language border between Flanders and Wallonia.
The erection of the Lion's Mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after a Bertrand drawing. [a]The Lion's Mound was designed by the royal architect Charles Vander Straeten, at the behest of King William I of the Netherlands, who wished to commemorate the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of his elder son, King William II of the Netherlands (then Prince of ...
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [a] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes (châteaux, manor houses or country houses).
A New York judge is set to decide this week whether President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star should be overturned in light of the U.S ...
U.S. mortgage rates rose this week to the highest level since July. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate loan rate rose to 6.91% from 6.85% last week, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac. The ...
The Waterloo 1815 Memorial (French: Mémorial Waterloo 1815) is a Belgian museum complex located on the site of the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium. It includes a museum inaugurated in 2015, the Lion's Mound , the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo and the Hougoumont farm .
Fructose is a natural sugar found in fruits, vegetables, and honey. Fructose can be bad for your health when consumed as part of high-fructose corn syrup in processed foods. Past studies have ...
Braine-l'Alleud (French: [bʁɛn lalø] ⓘ; Walloon: Brinne-l'-Alou; Dutch: Eigenbrakel [ˈɛiɣə(m)ˌbraːkəl] ⓘ) is a municipality of Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Brussels.