A fort was built in the 8th century at the strategic point where the road crossed the river Zenne.

The 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire commented on Faro's ( to him ) disagreeable aftertaste, " It's beer that you drink twice ", believing that the Faro in Brussels was brewed from the waters of a river ( the Senne or Zenne ) that was also used as a sewer.

In the centre of Brussels, the Zenne was completely covered up and major boulevards were built over top in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Then the forest south of Brussels was crossed by the river Zenne / Senne and extended as far as Hainaut, covering most of the high ground between the Zenne and the Dijle.

The first one, Nedelaar Castle, was constructed in 1148 directly at the other site of river Zenne.

In the 14th century, thanks to its position on the Zenne, Vilvoorde became an important military centre and could compete against Leuven and Brussels for the title of most important city in Brabant.

A nickname for residents of the city, ' Zinneke ', is taken from the stray dogs which hung around the Zenne in the Middle Ages, known as ' Zenneke ' or ' Zinneke '.

Despite the covering up of the Zenne resulting in the river being all but invisible in the centre of Brussels, it has had a cultural impact on the city.

The Woluwe is one of the tributaries of the Zenne.

The main tributaries of the Dyle are the rivers Demer ( in Werchter, Rotselaar municipality ), and the Zenne at the Zennegat, on the farthest outskirts of Mechelen, where the canal Leuven-Mechelen also connects.

The first houses built in this forested area along the Geleysbeek, a tributary of the Zenne, date from the 7th century.

* The Zenne underneath Brussels, following the covering of the Zenne between 1865 and 1871

The Zenne ( Dutch ) or Senne ( French ) is a small river that flows through Brussels, left tributary of the Dijle / Dyle.

The Woluwe is a stream that goes through several municipalities in the southeast and east of Brussels and is a right tributary of the Senne / Zenne ( in Vilvoorde ).

* 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

The Nervii, and later the Romans, probably already settled in this strategic place near the river Zenne.

The French army lay facing North-West with its right on the Zenne at Steenkerque and its left towards Enghien.

In total the Zenne is 103 km long.

The unique seasonal wild yeasts of the Zenne river valley are used in the production of the regional lambic style of beer.

It is a tributary of the Zenne, which it joins in Schaerbeek, and its source is located near the Abbey of La Cambre.

There is another Maalbeek, tributary to the Zenne, in Grimbergen, and two other Molenbeeks, in Beersel and in Laeken.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The notorious Rusty n Edie's BBS, in Boardman, Ohio, was raided by the FBI in January 1993 for software piracy, and later sued by Playboy for copyright infringement in November 1997.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Among the notorious ones was the Tambov rebellion.

Possibly the most notorious such vehicle was the former Soviet TMM bridging truck that could carry and launch a 10 meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles.

Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.

One year later, " Captain " Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies.

The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.

Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.