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  • A favourite excursion for the children is to the Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, where the stuffed animals are cute but the historical record is, in more than one sense of the word, whitewashed.

    November Books 16) King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild nwhyte 2009

  • Their active, if often behind the scenes, support for NATO SYG (and former Dutch Foreign Minister) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, as well as their commitment to the NRF (and SRF, ISAF, and NTM-I), have helped push back efforts, such as Tervuren, which might otherwise create tensions between the NRF and EU battlegroups or other emerging ESDP capabilities.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • In the end, the best result by an American belonged to Dombroski, who finished seventh in the final race of the week in Tervuren.

    American cyclocrossers take the battle to Belgium for holiday week racing 2011

  • Page finished ninth in Loenhout and inside the top 15 twice — in Baal and in Tervuren— despite the ankle injury.

    American cyclocrossers take the battle to Belgium for holiday week racing 2011

  • It started with much less bike-friendly Brussels suburbs (with the odd poorly-maintained bike path), and then - after actually rather a pleasant run alongside the lakes in the park at Tervuren - brought me to a km of narrow trail with huge stinging nettles on the left and a sharp drop into a stream on the right.

    On yer bike nwhyte 2010

  • All week, American women posted strong results, as Sue Butler finished 11th in Loenhout and Maureen Bruno Roy finished two places behind the best American in both races: ninth in Tervuren and 13th in Loenhout.

    American cyclocrossers take the battle to Belgium for holiday week racing 2011

  • Matter, a two-year veteran of the EuroCrossCamp, racing in Belgium on his own for the first time, held on to the top American title for the remainder of his trip, with a 32nd place ahead of Mark Lalonde in Baal and 36th in Tervuren, just behind Belgian Elite-without-contract champion Geert Wellens.

    American cyclocrossers take the battle to Belgium for holiday week racing 2011

  • In some cases the time at home would be brief — several will return for Worlds in just a few weeks — but for others the sunshine in Tervuren marked the end of another year of cyclocross.

    American cyclocrossers take the battle to Belgium for holiday week racing 2011

  • [Gary Hunter, Thomasville, NC] 2. (a) I got mine; (b) I got yours too [Brian Kenner, Tervuren, Belgium].

    Katrina vanden Heuvel: Decoding the State of the Union 2008

  • That's why short-hair Belgian Sheepdog Malinois is usually used for police work and not the Groenendale or the Tervuren which looks more like a collie.

    I've never had a dog. Ann Althouse 2008

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