Search results for "Belgian" - New World Encyclopedia
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- first king of the independent Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. He was the brother of Charlotte, Empress of ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (October 26, 1926 – February 15, 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 03:52, 15 August 2023
- The Dutch emperor William I left the Belgian region in 1830 after a successful struggle for independence by the Belgian people. In 1831 the first ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- administrative connections with the former Belgian Congo. ... writers such as Mark Twain. In 1908, the Belgian parliament, which was at ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- ) (July 16, 1858 - May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer ... he became the master of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 18:51, 11 September 2023
- Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (pronounced "ot-LAY") (August 23, 1868 - December 10, 1944) was an Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and ...22 KB (3,199 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- ==Mwaant Yaav under the Belgian Congo== *Muteba III a Kasang cont. ... * Bustin, Edouard. 1975. Lunda under Belgian rule: the politics of ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- uncle by approximately five hundred Dutch, Belgian, English, Italian, and German ... present-day Peyresq, a village rebuilt by Belgian students). ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- rights sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix in a three-year deal; the "ING Australian Grand Prix" and "2007 ING ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- becoming a regional center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962 ... Rwanda with a League of Nations mandate. Belgian rule was far more direct ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- was made the administrative center of the Belgian League of Nations mandate ... was a United Nations Trust Territory under Belgian administrative authority. ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He is ... version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- were extended further into Rwanda and into the Belgian Congo, to form the Albert National Park, a huge area of 8090 km², run by the Belgian colonial ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...6 KB (839 words) - 05:49, 26 August 2023
- 10, 1910 – January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican monk whose work ... During the Second World War, Pire served as chaplain for the Belgian ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 23:54, 28 November 2022
- not an overstatement to give the zealous Belgian priest the bulk of the credit ... missionary: Louis Lambert Conrardy, a Belgian priest; Mother Marianne ...24 KB (3,819 words) - 01:38, 26 March 2024
- from 1815 to 1830, when, during the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Belgian ... During World War I, Antwerp became the fallback point of the Belgian ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- Guard had Mamluk soldiers during the Belgian campaign, including one ... squadron of two companies of Mamluks for the Belgian Campaign. ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- French republican troops invaded, annexing Belgian principalities to France ... The Belgian Revolution began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
