Limburg

Eugène Dubois To begin the story of Homer Erectus, I would like to introduce you to one of my favourite characters in the story of Paleoanthropology, Mr Eugène Dubois.

Eugène Dubois was born in a village called Eysden in the Duchy of Limburg in the Netherlands in the year 1858.

From a young age, Dubois was fascinated by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Dubois was clearly a young man of academic talent, but also with an obstinate will of his own which comes down to us in his reflective legacy to this day.

Spain sedulously fostered this feeling and on January 30, 1648, concluded a treaty at Munster whereby she at last acknowledged the complete independence of the United Provinces.

She ceded to them all the places in Brabant, Flanders and Limburg of which they were then in possession, afterwards known as the Generality.

And she even granted liberty of conscience to all Dutch subjects in her territory.

Lastly she consented to close the navigation of the Scheldt and adjoining waterways and so to ruin Antwerp, her great commercial centre, for the benefit of its Dutch rival, Amsterdam.

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Reverses of Louis in 1675.

Secret Treaty with Charles II In the spring and early summer of 1675, Louis always beforehand had captured Liège and Limburg, and had recovered Denain, Huy, and Givet.

The line of the Meuse was thus secured from the French frontier to Maastricht, while that of the Moselle was blocked by the possession of Treves.

W- with one outstanding exception.

Uh, now the Netherlands has previously staged the event, uh, seven times, uh, usually in Valkenburg, uh, down in Limburg which is a bit more undulating.

Uh, but uh, this time obviously it's in two of the flattest provinces in the Netherlands, which is really saying something.

But, uh, yeah, the, the one place where they will be able to get out of breath is, uh, the legendary Côte du Famme, otherwise known as-

And she sent us a voice note saying what she thinks about what was unveiled.

Can you imagine? Our local deputy of Limburg arranged that three universities in the border of, uh, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands work together, and that you can have one degree there.

But if you take the train from one to the other, there have to be three train managers [laughs] on that train bringing you from A to B because we don't trust each other's qualifications when it comes to train managers.

This is what happening [laughs] in Europe, and this is not solved by the skills portability initiative.