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Belgium
Books set in Belgium.
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In Brussels between 1909 and 1914, Louis Mascré sculpted away for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Science, creating a plaster cranium, a mother and child, the upper body of an elder. At a time when Belgium was brutalizing the Congo, the country’s Royal Academy compared Africans to apes and also depicted Neanderthals as simian rather than caveman-like.
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― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture! Especially when you are in Belgium surrounded by Belgian chocolates!
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