This is interesting.  A heading named "Footnotes" will be deleted from the
export result (html, latex,...).

--- example.org:  Do "C-c C-e h o" or whatever on it ----------------------
* Heading 1
* Footnotes
* Heading 3
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--- my setup
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Emacs  : GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32)
 of 2016-09-17
Package: Org mode version 9.0.2 (9.0.2-elpaplus @
c:/Users/scott/OneDrive/scotto/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20161214/)
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