For about 70 years, this wooded area in Chatillon, Belgium was home to one of the largest car cemeteries in the world. Discarded automobiles lined the forest and gave the appearance of a post-apocalyptic traffic jam. A common explanation for the super snarl-up is that U.S. soldiers left the cars behind after World War II…
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U.S. Ambassador Loses World Cup Bet, Makes Pancakes For Belgian Ambassador
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Matthew Barzun, the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, made pancakes at the Belgian embassy on Tuesday. 1. Last week, before the U.S. played Belgium in the World Cup, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. made a bet with his counterpart from Belgium. View this image › Via buzzfeed.com Matthew Barzun offered to cook American…
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Hurdle Jumping Cow from Belgium (Video)
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Photo: focus-wtv.be Hanne Claeys, an 11-year-old Belgian girl from West Flanders, is teaching her cow Fleur how to jump over hurdles like a horse. It took Fleur under a year of training to jump over a fence and she can reportedly jump around two-and-a-half feet off the ground with Hanne riding on her back. Hanne…