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Painting of Belgica, the national personification of Belgium, painted in 1880 for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence

And yes, that is where my profile picture comes from

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Camille Gutt*, not Pierlot. My bad.

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Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot inspecting Belgian army nurses. London, 1942.

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Oostende, 1895

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Portrait of Pope Adrian VI, the only Dutch pope, as a priest.

Although from Utrecht, in what is now the Netherlands, he studied for the priesthood at the University of Leuven, even becoming vice-chancellor of the university.

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Drawing of Brussels, somewhere in the 1800s

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@PorcoVolant https://t.co/vmLXfuoIqw

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@bennymichielsen @joris_lebbe @gillesdoignon Yes, I apologise for not having read too much about this poster specifically. I just found several other charts about Belgian irredentism after WWI with identical borders to this one, so I assumed this one would just be no different.

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@bennymichielsen @joris_lebbe @gillesdoignon Yes, I apologise for not having read too much about this poster specifically. I just found several other charts about Belgian irredentism after WWI with identical borders to this one, so I assumed this one would just be no different.

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Belgian irredentist poster from immediately after WWI

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Think of this as a late May 1 post.

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‘Slaaf noch bedelaar, mag de arbeider zijn. Hij moet een vrij en welvarend man wezen’ — Adolf Daens, Flemish Catholic priest and labour activist

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Albert Einstein in the harbour of Antwerp, 1933. The professor briefly lived in Belgium during this time.

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@Ismailovitch888 I don't know the details, though I think it comes somewhere from WWI

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King Albert I of the Belgians together with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. King Albert was 193 cm tall, whereas Victor Emmanuel was only 153 cm tall.

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Brussels in the 1920s

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(Yes, that's Mao Zedong in the last picture)

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Queen Elisabeth in China, 1961

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@ViribusUnitis83 Intéressant, Wikimedia indiquait que ça datait de 1670. Autant pour moi.

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Painting of a market scene on the Grand Place in Brussels, c. 1670

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Princess (later Queen) Paola of Belgium, 1960