Featured articles Replicating Belgian Architecture - Camelot Development is building a shopping center. Story Number: 505739 - Seminole Tribe of Florida buying Hard Rock cafe business. Creationism Was Not Invented In Europe - Fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. But fantasy is also another name for Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug. About Utopian Communities - In 1803 George Rapp, a Lutheran separatist from Germany came to America in search of religious freedom. Along with 800 people from Pennsylvania, Rapp carved out a utopian niche in the wilderness. If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium ! - Nine countries in eighteen days... impossible. But not for some hapless American tourists who, during a whirlwind trip to Europe, come up against a lot more than just a language barrier. Last note of intention - Potential Estate mixes artistic research and practice. Participants to the project elaborate open proposals in the public space or for various institutions. Institutions are invited to collaborate and implement the project on location. Please Keep for future reference! BY : humans@potentialestate.org Who are they? Potential Estate is a scenario, put together by a group of artists examining collaboratively the possibilities of the idea of embarkation in North-America. After an exploratory mission in the U.S., Belgium, a small suburban entity situated in Wisconsin – founded by their Belgian and Luxemburg ancestors, has been identified as a potential terrain for a residential-annex-exhibition-project. Navigation

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Flemish Bastard aka Jan Smits aka John Smiths aka Canaqueese : metis Mohawk chief whose birth and death dates remain unknown. Son of a Mohawk mother and a Dutch father, he led war parties against the French and served as an intermediary between the French, Dutch, and English circa 1650-1687.

Source: Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l’Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History); see also "The Role of Chief Canaqueese in the Iroquois Wars" by Peter Lowensteyn Belgique : a ghost town Belgique is an unincorporated community in eastern Perry County, Missouri, USA. It is located about five miles south of Chester, Illinois. Its post office has closed and its mail now comes from Perryville. The community was founded in 1890 and is named after the French name for Belgium. In 1970 it had more than 20 occupied residences and a large building. Since the flood of 1993 there is no longer a town, but the cemetery remains. Shop New Belgium Shop New Belgium, Co "We speak belgian" Walloons from Wisconsin don’t use the word "walloon" to define the dialectal langage they speak? They say : "we speak belgian".

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