Brussels
About Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than 4 km (2.5 mi) south.
On the show — 56 mentions total
They wanted to create what they called a world palace — basically all the world's knowledge and information. It was in the Palais Mondial in Brussels. They got up to 12 million index cards.
from 286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi, 2019-09-13 at 00:26:53 · read transcript
Other times Brussels came up
They get snow in some bits of the country sometimes anyway he said it is not permitted to make a statue out of snow even by way of play and fun and he also said it promotes lustiness and eroticism only in Brussels yeah we're going to have to move on very soon to our next fact.
No Such Thing As Michelangelo's Snowman, 2015-10-30 · listen
But everyone says that after they've melted, there's no burden of proof. Some people think that it was the basis or they did it as a practice for David, for Michelangelo's David. Just on the subject of snowmen and religion, this January there was a cleric in Saudi Arabia who issued an edict banning snowmen from being built. I would imagine not a massive problem in Saudi Arabia. He said, I mean I'm sure they get snow in some parts of the country at some times.
85: No Such Thing As Michelangelo's Snowman, 2015-10-30 · listen
You kind of had all of them. The 1927 Solve conference on quantum mechanics, which was held in Brussels. Oh. there were 29 people in this photo 17 of whom got Nobel prizes The photo was stunning So you said Einstein You said Mary Curie You said Dirac Someone said Paul Dirac Niels Bohr Max Planck Heisenberg Irwin Trotinger August Piccarat Like everybody 17 of them got no bells And just Picard Wow.
No Such Thing As Clean Victoria, 2025-05-01 · listen
I reckon tons of cats can, they just choose not to. What I think is nice is that fireman's poles are still going despite many articles over the last 30 years that keep claiming they're being phased out. Why are they being phased out? I'm surprised Europe hasn't gotten rid of them. EU, Brussels, it's woke, isn't it? Because of woke. I'm trying to build on my character of being a pro duke. Of course.
539: No Such Thing As Kimchi Pirates, 2024-07-11 · listen
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