“The Belgian Nation adopts red, yellow and black for its colours” (art. 193 Belgian Constitution).
Wait. What?
Shouldn’t that be the other way around: black, yellow and red?
Belgium must be the only country whose official flag is, strictly speaking, ‘unconstitutional’ — although lawyers are quick to point out that this is, in fact, not the case, since the Constitution does not expressly dictate that the order in which the colours are mentioned must coincide with their appearance on the flag: a line of reasoning that only lawyers tend to be susceptible to… Read More...
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Back in 2014, questions were being asked about just how long then-37-year-old Tom Brady could carry on playing pro football — and the quarterback wasn’t happy. “When I suck, I’ll retire,” he said. “[But] I don’t plan on sucking for a long time.”
Nearly seven years on and Tom Brady will, on Sunday evening, attempt to break his own record as the oldest QB ever to win a Super Bowl when his Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the reigning champs, the Kansas City Chiefs, on the Bucs’ home turf. Read More...
HONOLULU — A Chinese fighter jet flew within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber operating in international airspace over the Pacific this week, passing beneath the bomber’s wing and disappearing from the pilot’s view, U.S. military officials said Thursday.
It was a highly unsafe maneuver that risked causing a midair collision, officials said.
Video released by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command shows the Chinese J-11 fighter closing in quickly on the B-52, passing in front of and below the American jet’s wing, over the South China Sea on Tuesday. Read More...
