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...that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless?"
...that until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
...that the installation of an artificial Christmas tree in Brussels prompted an online petition against it with 25,000 signatures?

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Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/May#1 May 2008, archive of Main Page appearance.
Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/January#5 January 2008, archive of Main Page appearance.
Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/December#26 December 2012, archive of Main Page appearance.

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