René Magritte
War dead, Art, Seriously Famous
Subjects
Manneken-Pis
There are various legends about this little squirt but really nobody knows anything (except that it's way too small). Since the name is of Flemish origin the "s" is pronounced.
Fiction, Seriously Famous, Tourism/Traditions
2 memorials
Karl Marx
Commemorated at 4 memorials in London.
Person, Exile, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany, United Kingdom
1 memorial
Gerard Mercator
Geographer. Born Flanders, son of a poor cobbler. "Mercator" is the Latin translation of his name, Gerard Kremer. He invented a means of projecting the spherical world onto a flat sheet of pape...
War dead, Science, Seriously Famous
1 memorial
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