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If you didn't read my History of Belgium you should.  It's all true!  So is this comment on the history of Belgium which comes from Steve, via my cousin Danny. 

 

In Belgium, if you ask a French-speaking person what is he, he will say that he is a Walloon.  If you ask a Dutch-speaking person what is he, he will say that he is Flemish.

If  you come across a person in Brussels and he tells you that he is a Belgium citizen, then he is Jewish.   This is true!  Only the Jews in Belgium recognize a country by that name.  

 

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