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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 ...
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  • Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French ...
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  • Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (October 26, 1926 – February 15, 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • administrative connections with the former Belgian Congo. ... writers such as Mark Twain. In 1908, the Belgian parliament, which was at ...
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  • ) (July 16, 1858 - May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer ... he became the master of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing ...
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  • Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (pronounced "ot-LAY") (August 23, 1868 - December 10, 1944) was an Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and ...
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  • ==Mwaant Yaav under the Belgian Congo== *Muteba III a Kasang cont. ... * Bustin, Edouard. 1975. Lunda under Belgian rule: the politics of ...
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  • uncle by approximately five hundred Dutch, Belgian, English, Italian, and German ... present-day Peyresq, a village rebuilt by Belgian students). ...
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  • rights sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix in a three-year deal; the "ING Australian Grand Prix" and "2007 ING ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was made the administrative center of the Belgian League of Nations mandate ... was a United Nations Trust Territory under Belgian administrative authority. ...
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  • 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He is ... version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...
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  • 10, 1910 – January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican monk whose work ... During the Second World War, Pire served as chaplain for the Belgian ...
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  • not an overstatement to give the zealous Belgian priest the bulk of the credit ... missionary: Louis Lambert Conrardy, a Belgian priest; Mother Marianne ...
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  • from 1815 to 1830, when, during the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Belgian ... During World War I, Antwerp became the fallback point of the Belgian ...
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  • Guard had Mamluk soldiers during the Belgian campaign, including one ... squadron of two companies of Mamluks for the Belgian Campaign. ...
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  • French republican troops invaded, annexing Belgian principalities to France ... The Belgian Revolution began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 ...
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  • As a translator, Bryusov was the first to render the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren accessible to Russian readers, and he was one ...
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  • Arnold Demannez.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Belgian astronomer, mathematician ... . In 1833, Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian mathematician who was influential ...
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  • Rwanda with a League of Nations mandate. Belgian rule in the region was far ... Mbonyumutwa, with the support of the Belgian government, led a coup d ...
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  • uniting the Catholics. Upon his initiative, a Belgian College in Rome was opened in 1844. Pecci was named papal assistant in 1843. He first achieved ...
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  • first President of the UN General Assembly was Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak. The Soviets were strongly in support of former labor lawyer ...
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  • of her father, Frederic de Jongh, established the Belgian escape network for returning fighting men, particularly shot down airman, to Britain. The ...
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  • for foreign citizens in Beijing. The Spanish, Belgian, and German legations were not in the same compound. Although the Spanish and Belgian legations ...
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  • quot; by Lewis (a tribute to the Belgian gypsy jazz guitar player Django Reinhardt), "Afternoon In Paris," also by Lewis and "Bags ...
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  • Marlow relates how he was hired by a Belgian trading company to travel ... atrocities that he quit on the spot. The Belgian Congo of that time, under ...
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  • founded the American Hostels for the relief of Belgian refugees. In 1916, Wharton edited a volume entitled The Book of the Homeless, featuring writings ...
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  • protests against exploitation forced the Belgian parliament, in 1908, to ... in 1920, at which time the capital of the Belgian Congo was moved from Boma ...
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  • Brazza (1852-1905) competed with agents of Belgian King Leopold's International ... Sergeant Malamine Camara, who prevented a Belgian takeover. ...
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  • Kigali into firing upon demonstrators and Belgian United Nations Assistance ... by the presidential guard. The ten Belgian UNAMIR soldiers sent to ...
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  • From the sixteenth century until the Belgian revolution in 1830, many ... Ardennes caves in southern Belgium and in Belgian Limburg. A dug-out pine ...
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  • César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ...
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  • Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ... In 1908, the Belgian parliament, which was at first reluctant, bowed ...
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  • its own enzymes). Lysosomes were discovered by the Belgian cytologist Christian de Duve in 1949. ==Overview== [[image:biological_cell.svg|thumb ...
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  • of Fauvism include: Charles Camoin, the Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel, French painters Jean Puy, Othon Friesz, and the Swiss painter Alice ...
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  • the nineteenth century (including Franco-Belgian comics series such as The ... The 1920s saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition, with Belgian ...
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  • in 1842, and independently in Ascaris worms by Belgian scientist Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910). Chromosome behavior in animal (salamander) cells ...
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  • artists of the early twentieth century, including Belgian printmaker Rene Carcan. Klee worked with many different types of media--oil paint, watercolor ...
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  • of Lorraine. The Grand Duchy borders the Belgian Walloon Region, in particular ... ===Belgian revolution=== William treated Luxembourg as a conquered ...
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  • based in Aachen, Germany, close to the Dutch and Belgian border, and began using the newly opened Berlin–Aachen telegraph line to send news to Berlin ...
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  • Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology ...
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  • a riot that became the signal for the Belgian Revolution that drove out the Dutch. Official and other dignities testified to the public appreciation ...
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  • * Feather Bowling. A Belgian game similar to Italian bocce lawn bowling, in which oddly shaped bowling balls are thrown toward a feather, the ...
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  • sprouts. However, linking the name with the Belgian capital of Brussels would argue against dropping the last "s" in the first word (although ...
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  • Rhodesia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Belgian Congo, Angola, and Namibia. He spent the most time studying "The White Lady" of Brandberg ...
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  • Another use of the flugelhorn is found in the Dutch and Belgian "Fanfareorkesten" or fanfare orchestras. In these orchestras the flugelhorns ...
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  • control passed to Belgium. It became part of the Belgian League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi in 1923 and later a United Nations Trust Territory ...
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  • ===Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897 - 1899=== Amundsen was a member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as second ...
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  • his own. Although he was a violinist of the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war ...
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  • to see the Pygmies in what was previously the Belgian Congo. He traveled on a motorcycle with his musician friend, Norman Beal. Once there, he met ...
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  • have been such that some such as former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt ... while the largest group by nationality is Belgian (21.4 percent), probably ...
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  • Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur, Octave ...
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  • Kamra," the darbar hall, has Belgian glass chandeliers and fine paintings which have won it renown. * The Rangaji Temple, built in 1851, ...
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  • Following the fall of Liège, most of the Belgian army retreated to ... the Battle of the Yser in October, the Belgian forces controlled a 35 km ...
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  • Meanwhile, a single codex had been sold in Cairo to a Belgian dealer. After an attempt was made to sell the codex in both New York and Paris ...
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  • des Prez. Indeed the area around the current French-Belgian border produced an astonishing number of excellent composers in the fifteenth and sixteenth ...
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  • ships, paddle steamers, private yachts, and Belgian barges, plus Merchant Marine and Royal Navy boats, departed from Sheerness, Chatham and Dover, ...
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  • Dumouriez, Pierre LeBrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789–1793 (New York ... Dumouriez, Pierre LeBrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789–1793. New York ...
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  • official World Heritage Emblem, Designed by Belgian artist Michel Olyff and adopted in 1978, represents "the interdependence of the world’s natural ...
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  • Adam Schall von Bell (1582-1666) and the Belgian Ferdinand Verbiest (1623 ... Before he died Verbiest educated another Belgian Jesuit Antoine Thomas ...
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  • Legion of HonorFrench Croix de Guerre (+ Palm)Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm |laterwork= actor, songwriter, horseracing, oil }} ...
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  • in 1625. It included 31 fables conveyed orally by a Belgian Jesuit missionary to China named Nicolas Trigault and written down by a Chinese academic named ...
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  • ideas but is unique in its own form. The Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps contributed several works to this form. Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie ...
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  • van Rysselberghe, daughter of his friend, the Belgian neo-impressionist painter, Théo van Rysselberghe. His wife, Madeleine, died in 1938. Later ...
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  • escaped to France; the perceived delay of the Belgian authorities in applying for extradition, combined with British disgust at Belgian atrocities in ...
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  • which quickly fell into the hands of the Belgian intelligence services. ... On May 10 there were 93 French, 22 Belgian, 10 British, and nine Dutch ...
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  • The Tianjin tram network was awarded to a Belgian company in 1904 ... * American, British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian and Japanese ...
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  • In 1960 the former Belgian colony and now newly-independent Congo asked for UN aid in defusing the escalating civil strife. Hammarskjöld made ...
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  • based in Aachen, Germany, close to the Dutch and Belgian border, and began using the newly opened Berlin–Aachen telegraph line to send news to Berlin ...
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  • Europe, which brought him into contact with the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens and the work of the French Impressionists. Their influence can be seen ...
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  • account was widely ridiculed. Decades later, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans (1995) came to Fawcett's defense, arguing that Fawcett's ...
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  • ===Belgian Congo=== After a hastened decolonization process of the Belgian Congo, Belgium ...
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  • *1924 Belgian Open ==Major Championships== ===Wins (11)=== {|class="wikitable" |- |width="50"|Year |width="165" ...
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  • by the Cuban architect Carlos Maruri and the Belgian architect Paul Belau and was inaugurated in 1920 by President Mario García Menocal. It remained ...
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  • can be traced back as early as 1794, when a Belgian composer, Guilliame-Alexis Paris (1740-1850) used a baton while conducting opera in Hamburg, Germany. ...
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  • and independently, in Ascaris worms, by the Belgian scientist Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910). The use of basophilic aniline dyes was a fundamentally ...
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  • Adolphe Sax was a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist, and clarinetist working in Paris. He constructed saxophones in several sizes by the ...
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  • suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavored Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.[http://www.macsween.co.uk/recipes/content.asp?PageID=17 Drinks ...
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  • Prior to its being taken over by Belgium to form the Belgian Congo ... with Belgium, and whose victims were not Belgian citizens or residents. However ...
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  • occupying about 80 miles of the German/Belgian border. Casualties from ... **The equivalent of 3 British divisions as well as contingents of ...
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  • declared independence in 1830 (the Belgian Revolution), and its independence was recognized by the Netherlands in 1839, giving birth to Belgium ...
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  • baptism or purgatory (for example Baptême in Belgian French, doop in Belgian Dutch, chrzciny in Polish) or variations on a theme of naïveté and the ...
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  • In the Belgian province of East-Flanders (Aalst) and the west part of West Flanders (Ypres), children receive presents from Saint Martin on November ...
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  • *The King Albert Medal by the Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences *An honorary fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford (1995) ...
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  • * The Belgian bass system is a variation used in Belgian chromatic ... Stradella system in reverse order like the Belgian bass – that travel parallel ...
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  • Batman, and The Amazing Spider-Man. The French/Belgian Tintin is another such example. The strip follows the continued adventures of the journalist ...
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  • with atrocities committed in the former Belgian Congo, the Mau Mau Uprising ... The standard infantry weapon was the Belgian FN FAL Rifle as produced ...
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  • In 1877, the first of a series of Belgian expeditions arrived on Zanzibar. Dar es Salaam remained a small port until the German East Africa Company ...
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  • society, but because others, most notably the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet, had begun to use that term in a different meaning, Comte felt the ...
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  • The Belgian Félicien Rops was instrumental in the development of ... Belgian * Jean Delville (1867–1953) * Théodore Hannon (1851–1916) ...
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  • [[Image:Belgian Shepherd Malinois on top of tank.jpg|thumb|Belgian Malinois war dog.]] The first ways that dogs were useful to humans were as ...
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  • variety of reasons, political and economic. Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer has proposed Terra as a possible "world currency," based on the ...
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  • sixth place in the election of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and on the seventy-sixth place in the Walloon version of the same ...
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  • *1976 Stig Blomqvist wins the Belgian Boucles de Spa Rally in a Saab 99 EMS. *1977 Stig Blomqvist wins the Swedish Rally in a Saab 99 EMS. ...
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  • In 1995, 3.5 million tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught by Belgian ... are popular destinations for tourists. The Belgian, Dutch, German, and Danish ...
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  • wore a distinctive greenish-khaki uniform of the Belgian army which stood out from the white cotton cloak (shamma) worn by most Ethiopian fighters, ...
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  • 1976, he knocked out two largely unknown opponents, Belgian stonecutter Jean-Pierre Coopman and English boxer Richard Dunn. On April 30, 1976 Ali faced ...
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  • Martha's Vineyard with Maurice Tempelsman, a Belgian-born, married industrialist and diamond merchant. Jacqueline Onassis appreciated the ...
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  • French and at Antwerp against a combined Anglo-Belgian force. The weapon that made these victories possible were the German Big Berthas and the Skoda ...
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  • and was again practiced by the Spanish-born Belgian Queen Fabiola of King Baudouin's funeral. It was the custom for the Queens of France to ...
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  • * Belgian Croix de Guerre * Belgian Order of the Cross * Czechoslovakian Order of the White Lion ...
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  • the U.S. deputy ambassador, and the Belgian chargé d'affaires were murdered. The remaining hostages were released. The first oil pipeline ...
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  • conferences that recognized Greek and also Belgian independence, the latter ... to defend William I; on the other, many Belgian revolutionaries, like Charles ...
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  • rare at the beginning of WWII, although the Belgian army deployed a few T.15 tank destroyers and the French army was developing several wheeled and ...
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  • empathy while Hercules Poirot, the narcissistic Belgian detective, used logic and and rational methods to solve the crimes. She said in her diary, that ...
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  • *Les Bleus de la marine, an album of the Belgian bande dessinée series Les Tuniques Bleues, features a story set against the backdrop of the ...
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  • cross of the Légion d'honneur. In 1896, the Belgian Royal Academy of Literature and Art made him a member. In 1909 and 1910, events were held in ...
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  • James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ...
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  • Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...
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  • quot; named after the homonymous Belgian town, near the market square in Delft in 1641. Reynier Vermeer probably served as inn-keeper while also ...
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  • php?storyId=5787947 From the Belgian Congo to the Bronx Zoo.] Retrieved August 4, 2018. ==African Pygmies== [[Image:Pygmy_house_inside_fire.JPG ...
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  • middle and late twentieth century, like the Belgian etcher Rene Carcan, was significant. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. == Kandinsky's ...
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  • level of education of any particular quality (Belgian linguistic case). ===Prot. 1, Art. 3—elections=== Article 3 provides for the right to ...
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  • organs. As Charles François Antoine Morren, a Belgian botanist found, the flowers can only be naturally pollinated by a specific Melipone bee found ...
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  • the Kivu Volcanoes in his beloved Belgian Congo, an area near to that depicted by the hall's magnificent gorilla diorama. Amnh.org, [http://www ...
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  • [[File:Fernand Khnopff 002.jpg|thumb|400px|The Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff's The Caress]] One of the key cultural influences of fin ...
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  • the city, opposing the French and Belgian fortresses of Verdun and Liège. This placed a huge obstacle to urban development, as forts, bunkers ...
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  • century. Most historians however agree that Belgian Father Louis Hennepin observed and described the falls much earlier, in 1677, after traveling in ...
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  • forged and ruled as a personal colony by the Belgian King Leopold II. Millions of Africans died there, as a result of lust for rubber and rubber profits ...
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  • *The Belgian Deportations, with a statement by Viscount Bryce (T. Fisher Unwin 1917) *The German Terror in Belgium: An Historical Record (Hodder ...
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  • known to be bigger than the celebrations of the Belgian National holiday. The city also hosts a fireworks show outside of Congress Hall and many unofficial ...
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  • System devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian mathematician. to allocate Ministries proportionally to the main parties; * establishment of ...
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  • palace, occupy a suite of rooms known as the Belgian suite, which is on the ground floor of the North-facing garden front. These rooms, with corridors ...
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  • gave Armenian separatists, in the command of Belgian anarchist Edward Jorris, Kristofor Mikaelyan which was the field responsible, Robina, Nishan ...
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  • Belgian historian Henri Pirenne published the "Pirenne Thesis" in the 1920s which remains influential to this day. It holds that the ...
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  • Soon, Swiss, British, French, Belgian, German, Swedish, and American investors appeared in Baku, including Nobel brothers and Rothschilds, and ...
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  • 32.1%, French 19.9%, Italian 15.3%, British 5%, Belgian 2.3%, Swiss 2%, German 1.9%, Russian 1.8%, American 1.1%, Dutch 1.1%, Moroccan 1%, other 16.6% ...
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  • Italian Communist Party was created in 1921, the Belgian Communist Party in September 1921, and so on. Writings from the Third Congress, held ...
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  • with Germany meant that an attack through Belgian (and possibly Dutch) territory ... Belgium on August 4. This act—violating Belgian neutrality to which Germany ...
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  • guardians), teak doors inlayed with ivory, Belgian stained glass, cast iron ... in the banquet and dance halls, and the Belgian cut glass lamps. The Jaganmohan ...
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  • awarded the Light of Truth Award along with Belgian artist Hergé (posthumously for Tintin) by the Dalai Lama for his contribution towards public understanding ...
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  • The one in Beijing Ancient Observatory was made by Belgian missionary Ferdinand Verbiest (南懷仁) 1673 C.E. Unlike other Chinese celestial globes ...
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  • | || Belgium || The Belgian Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa, later ... independence through the ending of the Belgian trusteeship. ...
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  • speaking) and regionalist. There is also a unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking region ...
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  • Raptis appointed Secretary and Ernest Mandel, a Belgian, taking a leading role. Pablo and Mandel aimed to counter the opposition of the majorities ...
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  • quot; plastics. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state, was a chemist searching for insulating shellac to coat ...
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  • ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with a Belgian relief ship, the Imo. The collision sparked a fire on the munitions ship which was filled with ...
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  • a masterpiece of nineteenth century Belgian literature, depicts the Dutch War of Independence in an extremely partisan manner, though it was ...
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  • of the work went to the highest bidder. The Belgian publishing house Lacroix and Verboeckhoven undertook a marketing campaign unusual for the time ...
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  • isolated and identified in pitchblende from the Belgian Congo in very small quantities (about 0.2 ng/kg); there it originates as a spontaneous fission ...
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  • in the Zeitung began, Marx was expelled by Belgian police. Two weeks later, around March 20, a thousand copies of the Manifesto reached Paris ...
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  • songs from 1912 set to poems by Belgian symbolist Albert Giraud, was atonal and daringly innovative for its Sprechstimme technique, or speak ...
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  • To keep a neutral position during the 1830 Belgian Revolution, he moved to Paris where he contracted cholera. Cured but weakened, he bought a ...
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  • is references made by Foucault and Derrida to Belgian artist René Magritte's experiments with signification, with their appreciative understanding ...
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  • gun which fires .45 ACP, and the Belgian FN P90 which uses a new 5.7x28 mm cartridge. Because of their small size and limited projectile penetration ...
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  • other nationals, including Free French and Belgian pilots serving amongst the squadrons. The RAF at least had the advantage of fighting over ...
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  • comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin investigating a plane crash ...
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  • The union split in 1839 after the Belgian Revolution, which was partially motivated by religious differences between Protestants and Catholics ...
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  • place the blame on Toyota's choice to run Belgian Freddy Loix as one of the team's points scoring drivers at the Rally of Spain instead of ...
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  • (three from the 79th Armoured Division) British, Belgian, Canadian, and Dutch independent brigades were committed to the operation, along with four ...
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  • of other Europeans (Dutch, German, French, Swiss, Belgian, and in smaller numbers, Polish, Lithuanian, English, and Croatian communities) immigrated during ...
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  • made of colorfully painted paper by the renowned Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, and items from the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. ...
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  • , 41 Relations were close in the likes of the Belgian Rexists (which was eventually denounced by the Church), but in the Nazi and Fascist parties ...
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  • with the Norwegian ship Imo, chartered to carry Belgian relief supplies. In the aftermath of the collision, Mont-Blanc caught fire and exploded. The ...
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  • However, as the date neared, it was clear that Belgian police were monitoring it, and so the venue was changed to the Brotherhood Church in London. ...
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  • Bronze, having returned from Italy. Modelled by a Belgian soldier, the figure drew inspiration from Michelangelo's Dying Slave, which Rodin had ...
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  • of 1918, he was an international hero. The Belgian town of Leuven named a prominent square after him. After the United States entered the war ...
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  • Europe (SHAPE) located at Casteau, north of the Belgian city of Mons. This is about 80 km (50 miles) south of NATO’s political headquarters in Brussels ...
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  • Formulation of the theory is credited to the Belgian psychologist Albert Michotte and Italian psychologist Fabio Metelli, with their work developed ...
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  • Simba movement in the Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Belgian Congo). Guevara, his second-in-command Victor Dreke, and twelve of the Cuban expeditionaries ...
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  • #039;s equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, predicted that the recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of ...
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  • or prisoners. At Meteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the ...
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  • Empire, with whom he had an instant rapport; Belgian King Leopold; and Czar Alexander II of Russia. Grant was warmly received by the Emperor of Japan ...
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  • Congo in 1908 as a colony of Belgium, known as the Belgian Congo. While Stanley was exploring Congo on behalf of Léopold II of Belgium, the French ...
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  • Early in Bernhardt's career, she had an affair with a Belgian ... masked ball in Brussels where she met the Belgian aristocrat Henri, Hereditary ...
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  • side of the car, Princip fired two shots from a Belgian-made 9x17mm (.380 ACP) Fabrique Nationale model 1910 semi-automatic pistol. Pistol serial ...
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  • on some payments. In response, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region, Germany's most productive industrial region at the time ...
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  • areas of England. The German, Russian, and Belgian governments did all they could to sponsor the new industries by the provisions of state funding. ...
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  • in a left-flanking march northeast towards the Belgian border in an attempt to avoid the Prussians before striking south to link up with Bazaine. ...
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  • As French, Belgian, and Portuguese activity in the lower Congo River region threatened to undermine orderly penetration of tropical Africa, the ...
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  • and Head of the Mathematical Board, the Belgian Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) became the teacher, companion and friend of the Kangxi emperor ...
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  • commonly in other countries. The French and Belgian governments have had to launch special programs for treating discovered ammunition. ...
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  • of the Czech 7.92 mm Brno ZB26. There were also Belgian and French LMGs. Surprisingly, the NRA did not purchase any of the famous Maschinengewehr 34s ...
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  • Gibbon was echoed a century later by the Belgian historian Godefroid Kurth, who wrote that the Battle of Poitiers "must ever remain one ...
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  • larger parties from the British, French and Belgian units of the Special Air Service brigade. ===Airborne operations=== The success of the amphibious ...
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  • 1950s, leading to large-scale trials in the then Belgian Congo and the vaccination of seven million children in Poland against serotypes PV1 and PV3 ...
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  • Ritter von Leeb, commander of Army Group C on the Belgian border, to support a planned coup if Hitler gave such an order. At the same time Oster warned ...
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  • (HRD) Official certification laboratory of the Belgian diamond industry, located in Antwerp. [https://www.hrdantwerp.com/en Antwerp World Diamond ...
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  • regime spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry and by early 1960 had doubled the size of Cuba's armed forces. Fearing counter ...
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  • humorous, performers like Georges Brassens and the Belgian Jacques Brel. ===Philosophy=== French philosophy has been extremely diverse and influential ...
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  • by the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis. The Belgian Compagnie de Tramways et d' Éclairage Électrique de Salonique operated it from 1912 ...
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