It isn't often I mention Belgium in this blog and I'm sure most of my faithful followers who have been to the country can understand why. This is why I am so pleased to be able to give it a little bit of a boost today. Don't read on, now - no cheating. You are thinking, that's odd, it isn't the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo or anything. The poor old geezer is losing his marbles. No, it is .... trumpet fanfare and roll of drums .... that today in 1900, Belgium became the first democracy in the world to elect a government by proportional representation.
Exciting, wasn't it?
In other news ...
Vincent 'Mad Vince' Price was born today in 1911. Oddly enough, it was Peter 'Mad Pete' Cushing's birthday yesterday (he was born in 1913). Perhaps surprisingly, they didn't share billing on as many films as you would think, but, God, were they scary? I can feel the hairs standing up on the back of my neck just thinking about it. Both extraordinarily nice men, by all accounts. I'm glad to hear it - it would be very unfortunate if they were just cast to type!
