1553 – Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England.
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
2002 – The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat that it had held for 50 years. A commission on human rights at the UN carries about the same logic as a symposium on chastity at a whorehouse.
2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. Now it’s Pontiac, Hummer and Saturn’s turn.
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Where exactly are Flemish people from? What makes somebody Flemish? Was there once a Flemland?
Scarlet, you could look up “Flemish People” in Wikipedia. Their nation was called Flanders, and was in what is now northern Belgium, and maybe extended into what is now The Netherlands.
The Flemish/Dutch language is a Germanic dialect. Belgium has two official languages, Flemish and French (Walloon).