Ghent
About Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality in the East Flanders province of the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the province and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city.
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Kiss the anus of a black cat is the name of a band from Ghent.
from 45: No Such Thing As A Travelator In Ancient Rome, 2015-01-31 at 00:41:16 · read transcript
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There were lots of ideas. There were demonstrations. Protesters in Ghent occupied one of the city squares and then the country which had gone longest without a government before that was Iraq. They invited an Iraqi delegate to come and hand over a trophy as the longest running country without a functioning government. 541 days they went, didn't they, without a government? I think Belgium has the world's only carrot museum.
NSTAAF International Factball: Belgium v Algeria, 2014-06-16 · listen
It's done galloping. You never really know what the good news is and it's got this great rhythm of horses, just galloping from Ghent to X. All I remember is they gallop. they galloped dirt galloped we galloped all three you know what you're embarrassed that you couldn't remember much of it i still think that's pretty impressive i think you almost got further than browning himself um no you're right it's and the pace when you listen to him speak it and this is online so if you go on youtube and put this in anyone listening can can actually hear the man himself um it does feel like it's a old western he's some galloping grun it's a fantastic pace to it but he only gets a few lines in and he suddenly says, I'm most terribly sorry that I can't remember my own verses, but then adds, but the one thing I will remember all my life is this astonishing sensation produced upon me by your wonderful invention.
No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot, 2020-01-17 · listen
This is only a few months before he died. Robert Browning, I think he was at a party and it was being held by the artist Rudolf Lehmann. He had with him one of those Edison wax cylinder talking machines. He got Robert Browning to recite his poem, which was called how they brought the good news from Ghent to X. I know it's X. Like X on France.
304: No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot, 2020-01-17 · listen
They used people to walk in there. Sometimes children. Right. Actually, in Ghent, there's still a crane children's street. Krankinderstrand.
No Such Thing As Space Eggs, 2026-02-05 · listen
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