Portal:Belgium/Did you know/2


 * ...that Lutgardis (pictured) is reported as having levitated and dripped blood from her forehead when entranced?
 * ...that the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant?
 * ...that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, had died in World War I at the First Battle of Ypres?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2007/August, archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2006/March, archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2010/January, archive of Main Page appearance.