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Splash · « **Reply #400 on:** January 30, 2019, 11:22:37 pm »

Quote from: eberhard on January 13, 2019, 09:42:03 pm

Please give more information as to this picture:

Exactly what I need - pots of money.

Ri · « **Reply #401 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:42:09 pm »

That looks like an interesting meal

Thanks for the updates

eberhard · « **Reply #402 on:** January 31, 2019, 06:38:44 pm »

Quote from: Splash on January 30, 2019, 11:22:37 pm

Quote from: eberhard on January 13, 2019, 09:42:03 pm
Please give more information as to this picture:
Exactly what I need - pots of money.

Where I look at the pictures of the food, I see $$$$ (besides

food).

Splash · « **Reply #403 on:** February 03, 2019, 05:38:12 pm »

Royal Museum of Central Africa

Ri · « **Reply #404 on:** February 03, 2019, 05:56:20 pm »

Is that last building the museum?! Impressive! And beautiful.

eberhard · « **Reply #405 on:** February 03, 2019, 06:01:42 pm »

I take it (assume) that that is Leopold II’s palace and his Congo legacy. Impressive indeed, that is the structure I mean.

Splash · « **Reply #406 on:** February 03, 2019, 10:16:06 pm »

Quote from: Ri on February 03, 2019, 05:56:20 pm

Is that last building the museum?! Impressive! And beautiful.

Congo paid for the museum. Maybe not the best legacy for Belgium. Just been renovated.

eberhard · « **Reply #407 on:** February 04, 2019, 05:40:27 am »

King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

By Mark Twain

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/kls.html

The above is a thought provoking read (not very long)

Ri · « **Reply #408 on:** February 04, 2019, 04:50:08 pm »

Quote from: eberhard on February 04, 2019, 05:40:27 am

King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

By Mark Twain

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/kls.html

The above is a thought provoking read (not very long)

Quite long

eberhard · « **Reply #409 on:** February 04, 2019, 08:25:26 pm »

Quote from: Ri on February 04, 2019, 04:50:08 pm

Quote from: eberhard on February 04, 2019, 05:40:27 am
King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

By Mark Twain

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/kls.html

The above is a thought provoking read (not very long)

Quite long

I once did a course in speed reading. I read War and Peace in two hours.

It’s about Russia.

Mr Zog · « **Reply #410 on:** February 05, 2019, 02:51:17 am »

Quote from: eberhard on February 04, 2019, 05:40:27 am

King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

By Mark Twain

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/kls.html

The above is a thought provoking read (not very long)

I spent quite a lot of time on the Congo some years ago. About two years in all. And I was stationed in many parts of the Congo. The practice of chopping off hands / arms still persists. But now between factions, the belief being that if you have no hands you cannot make your mark on a ballot. No generation alive has seen peace, civil war and tribal factions have killed countless millions. I found it a stunningly beautiful, yet incredibly sad country.

Splash · « **Reply #411 on:** February 05, 2019, 08:38:18 am »

The museum was packed full. Congo still has a lasting impact on Belgian's.

Splash · « **Reply #412 on:** March 03, 2019, 08:09:33 pm »

Fort de Loncin (Leige) - taken with a Big Bertha in August 1914

eberhard · « **Reply #413 on:** March 03, 2019, 08:47:39 pm »

Incredible the craters made by the shells. Yet so green. Difficult to imagine the utter destruction caused by those shells.

Welcome back. Missed your contributions.

Splash · « **Reply #414 on:** March 03, 2019, 09:02:18 pm »

Quote from: eberhard on March 03, 2019, 08:47:39 pm

Incredible the craters made by the shells. Yet so green. Difficult to imagine the utter destruction caused by those shells.

Welcome back. Missed your contributions.

The Germans hit the fort's underground magazine, taking 250 solders lives whom are still buried under the crater.

Fudmucker · « **Reply #415 on:** March 04, 2019, 03:31:12 am »

I like the fences with the timber droppers every 15cm that you see above the ramparts.
Costly, but pretty.

Ri · « **Reply #416 on:** March 05, 2019, 10:17:04 am »

Really enjoy these photo's. Beautiful and haunting.

Splash · « **Reply #417 on:** March 09, 2019, 07:57:50 pm »

TET - Leuven (BE) Loop

eberhard · « **Reply #418 on:** March 09, 2019, 08:09:38 pm »

Is that you on that green mean machine?

The last picture looks like great fun. I envy you.

Splash · « **Reply #419 on:** March 09, 2019, 11:06:15 pm »

Quote from: eberhard on March 09, 2019, 08:09:38 pm

Is that you on that green mean machine?

The last picture looks like great fun. I envy you.

Will stick to my orange (with lots of red and blue) KTM. A friend on a 250 having lots of fun.