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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
- 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 ...7 KB (980 words) - 19:56, 27 April 2020
- Arnold Demannez.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Belgian astronomer, mathematician ... . In 1833, Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian mathematician who was influential ...17 KB (2,512 words) - 01:44, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- first President of the UN General Assembly was Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak. The Soviets were strongly in support of former labor lawyer ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- of her father, Frederic de Jongh, established the Belgian escape network for returning fighting men, particularly shot down airman, to Britain. The ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- for foreign citizens in Beijing. The Spanish, Belgian, and German legations were not in the same compound. Although the Spanish and Belgian legations ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- quot; by Lewis (a tribute to the Belgian gypsy jazz guitar player Django Reinhardt), "Afternoon In Paris," also by Lewis and "Bags ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- founded the American Hostels for the relief of Belgian refugees. In 1916, Wharton edited a volume entitled The Book of the Homeless, featuring writings ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- Brazza (1852-1905) competed with agents of Belgian King Leopold's International ... Sergeant Malamine Camara, who prevented a Belgian takeover. ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- Kigali into firing upon demonstrators and Belgian United Nations Assistance ... by the presidential guard. The ten Belgian UNAMIR soldiers sent to ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- From the sixteenth century until the Belgian revolution in 1830, many ... Ardennes caves in southern Belgium and in Belgian Limburg. A dug-out pine ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ... In 1908, the Belgian parliament, which was at first reluctant, bowed ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- its own enzymes). Lysosomes were discovered by the Belgian cytologist Christian de Duve in 1949. ==Overview== [[image:biological_cell.svg|thumb ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- of Fauvism include: Charles Camoin, the Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel, French painters Jean Puy, Othon Friesz, and the Swiss painter Alice ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 01:43, 26 March 2024
- the nineteenth century (including Franco-Belgian comics series such as The ... The 1920s saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition, with Belgian ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- in 1842, and independently in Ascaris worms by Belgian scientist Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910). Chromosome behavior in animal (salamander) cells ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
- artists of the early twentieth century, including Belgian printmaker Rene Carcan. Klee worked with many different types of media--oil paint, watercolor ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- of Lorraine. The Grand Duchy borders the Belgian Walloon Region, in particular ... ===Belgian revolution=== William treated Luxembourg as a conquered ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- a riot that became the signal for the Belgian Revolution that drove out the Dutch. Official and other dignities testified to the public appreciation ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- * Feather Bowling. A Belgian game similar to Italian bocce lawn bowling, in which oddly shaped bowling balls are thrown toward a feather, the ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- sprouts. However, linking the name with the Belgian capital of Brussels would argue against dropping the last "s" in the first word (although ...12 KB (1,657 words) - 16:48, 22 November 2023
- Rhodesia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Belgian Congo, Angola, and Namibia. He spent the most time studying "The White Lady" of Brandberg ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
- Another use of the flugelhorn is found in the Dutch and Belgian "Fanfareorkesten" or fanfare orchestras. In these orchestras the flugelhorns ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- ===Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897 - 1899=== Amundsen was a member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as second ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- 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 ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur, Octave ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- Kamra," the darbar hall, has Belgian glass chandeliers and fine paintings which have won it renown. * The Rangaji Temple, built in 1851, ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- des Prez. Indeed the area around the current French-Belgian border produced an astonishing number of excellent composers in the fifteenth and sixteenth ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- ships, paddle steamers, private yachts, and Belgian barges, plus Merchant Marine and Royal Navy boats, departed from Sheerness, Chatham and Dover, ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- Dumouriez, Pierre LeBrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789–1793 (New York ... Dumouriez, Pierre LeBrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789–1793. New York ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- official World Heritage Emblem, Designed by Belgian artist Michel Olyff and adopted in 1978, represents "the interdependence of the world’s natural ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- Adam Schall von Bell (1582-1666) and the Belgian Ferdinand Verbiest (1623 ... Before he died Verbiest educated another Belgian Jesuit Antoine Thomas ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Legion of HonorFrench Croix de Guerre (+ Palm)Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm |laterwork= actor, songwriter, horseracing, oil }} ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- ideas but is unique in its own form. The Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps contributed several works to this form. Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- van Rysselberghe, daughter of his friend, the Belgian neo-impressionist painter, Théo van Rysselberghe. His wife, Madeleine, died in 1938. Later ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- escaped to France; the perceived delay of the Belgian authorities in applying for extradition, combined with British disgust at Belgian atrocities in ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- The Tianjin tram network was awarded to a Belgian company in 1904 ... * American, British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian and Japanese ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- In 1960 the former Belgian colony and now newly-independent Congo asked for UN aid in defusing the escalating civil strife. Hammarskjöld made ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,456 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Europe, which brought him into contact with the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens and the work of the French Impressionists. Their influence can be seen ...16 KB (2,363 words) - 10:36, 11 May 2023
- account was widely ridiculed. Decades later, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans (1995) came to Fawcett's defense, arguing that Fawcett's ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- ===Belgian Congo=== After a hastened decolonization process of the Belgian Congo, Belgium ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- *1924 Belgian Open ==Major Championships== ===Wins (11)=== {|class="wikitable" |- |width="50"|Year |width="165" ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 18:48, 17 April 2023
- by the Cuban architect Carlos Maruri and the Belgian architect Paul Belau and was inaugurated in 1920 by President Mario García Menocal. It remained ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- 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. ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- and independently, in Ascaris worms, by the Belgian scientist Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910). The use of basophilic aniline dyes was a fundamentally ...15 KB (2,079 words) - 00:18, 14 January 2023
- Adolphe Sax was a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist, and clarinetist working in Paris. He constructed saxophones in several sizes by the ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- 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 ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- occupying about 80 miles of the German/Belgian border. Casualties from ... **The equivalent of 3 British divisions as well as contingents of ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- declared independence in 1830 (the Belgian Revolution), and its independence was recognized by the Netherlands in 1839, giving birth to Belgium ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- 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 ...40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
- In the Belgian province of East-Flanders (Aalst) and the west part of West Flanders (Ypres), children receive presents from Saint Martin on November ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- *The King Albert Medal by the Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences *An honorary fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford (1995) ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- * The Belgian bass system is a variation used in Belgian chromatic ... Stradella system in reverse order like the Belgian bass – that travel parallel ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- Batman, and The Amazing Spider-Man. The French/Belgian Tintin is another such example. The strip follows the continued adventures of the journalist ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- with atrocities committed in the former Belgian Congo, the Mau Mau Uprising ... The standard infantry weapon was the Belgian FN FAL Rifle as produced ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- society, but because others, most notably the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet, had begun to use that term in a different meaning, Comte felt the ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- The Belgian Félicien Rops was instrumental in the development of ... Belgian * Jean Delville (1867–1953) * Théodore Hannon (1851–1916) ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- [[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 ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- variety of reasons, political and economic. Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer has proposed Terra as a possible "world currency," based on the ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- *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. ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- 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 ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- wore a distinctive greenish-khaki uniform of the Belgian army which stood out from the white cotton cloak (shamma) worn by most Ethiopian fighters, ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- 1976, he knocked out two largely unknown opponents, Belgian stonecutter Jean-Pierre Coopman and English boxer Richard Dunn. On April 30, 1976 Ali faced ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Martha's Vineyard with Maurice Tempelsman, a Belgian-born, married industrialist and diamond merchant. Jacqueline Onassis appreciated the ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- 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 ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- * Belgian Croix de Guerre * Belgian Order of the Cross * Czechoslovakian Order of the White Lion ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- the U.S. deputy ambassador, and the Belgian chargé d'affaires were murdered. The remaining hostages were released. The first oil pipeline ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- conferences that recognized Greek and also Belgian independence, the latter ... to defend William I; on the other, many Belgian revolutionaries, like Charles ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- empathy while Hercules Poirot, the narcissistic Belgian detective, used logic and and rational methods to solve the crimes. She said in her diary, that ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- *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 ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- quot; named after the homonymous Belgian town, near the market square in Delft in 1641. Reynier Vermeer probably served as inn-keeper while also ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- php?storyId=5787947 From the Belgian Congo to the Bronx Zoo.] Retrieved August 4, 2018. ==African Pygmies== [[Image:Pygmy_house_inside_fire.JPG ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- middle and late twentieth century, like the Belgian etcher Rene Carcan, was significant. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. == Kandinsky's ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- level of education of any particular quality (Belgian linguistic case). ===Prot. 1, Art. 3—elections=== Article 3 provides for the right to ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- organs. As Charles François Antoine Morren, a Belgian botanist found, the flowers can only be naturally pollinated by a specific Melipone bee found ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 00:03, 14 November 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- [[File:Fernand Khnopff 002.jpg|thumb|400px|The Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff's The Caress]] One of the key cultural influences of fin ...28 KB (4,018 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- the city, opposing the French and Belgian fortresses of Verdun and Liège. This placed a huge obstacle to urban development, as forts, bunkers ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- century. Most historians however agree that Belgian Father Louis Hennepin observed and described the falls much earlier, in 1677, after traveling in ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- *The Belgian Deportations, with a statement by Viscount Bryce (T. Fisher Unwin 1917) *The German Terror in Belgium: An Historical Record (Hodder ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 11:09, 20 September 2023
- System devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian mathematician. to allocate Ministries proportionally to the main parties; * establishment of ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- gave Armenian separatists, in the command of Belgian anarchist Edward Jorris, Kristofor Mikaelyan which was the field responsible, Robina, Nishan ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Belgian historian Henri Pirenne published the "Pirenne Thesis" in the 1920s which remains influential to this day. It holds that the ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
- Soon, Swiss, British, French, Belgian, German, Swedish, and American investors appeared in Baku, including Nobel brothers and Rothschilds, and ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- 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% ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- Italian Communist Party was created in 1921, the Belgian Communist Party in September 1921, and so on. Writings from the Third Congress, held ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- with Germany meant that an attack through Belgian (and possibly Dutch) territory ... Belgium on August 4. This act—violating Belgian neutrality to which Germany ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- 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 ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- awarded the Light of Truth Award along with Belgian artist Hergé (posthumously for Tintin) by the Dalai Lama for his contribution towards public understanding ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- The one in Beijing Ancient Observatory was made by Belgian missionary Ferdinand Verbiest (南懷仁) 1673 C.E. Unlike other Chinese celestial globes ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- | || Belgium || The Belgian Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa, later ... independence through the ending of the Belgian trusteeship. ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- speaking) and regionalist. There is also a unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking region ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- Raptis appointed Secretary and Ernest Mandel, a Belgian, taking a leading role. Pablo and Mandel aimed to counter the opposition of the majorities ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- quot; plastics. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state, was a chemist searching for insulating shellac to coat ...34 KB (5,272 words) - 07:59, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (5,199 words) - 16:57, 21 January 2024
- *[http://www.sckcen.be SCK.CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol.] *[http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/glossary/ American Nuclear Society ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- a masterpiece of nineteenth century Belgian literature, depicts the Dutch War of Independence in an extremely partisan manner, though it was ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- of the work went to the highest bidder. The Belgian publishing house Lacroix and Verboeckhoven undertook a marketing campaign unusual for the time ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- in the Zeitung began, Marx was expelled by Belgian police. Two weeks later, around March 20, a thousand copies of the Manifesto reached Paris ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- songs from 1912 set to poems by Belgian symbolist Albert Giraud, was atonal and daringly innovative for its Sprechstimme technique, or speak ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- To keep a neutral position during the 1830 Belgian Revolution, he moved to Paris where he contracted cholera. Cured but weakened, he bought a ...40 KB (6,459 words) - 01:55, 8 September 2022
- is references made by Foucault and Derrida to Belgian artist René Magritte's experiments with signification, with their appreciative understanding ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- 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 ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- other nationals, including Free French and Belgian pilots serving amongst the squadrons. The RAF at least had the advantage of fighting over ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin investigating a plane crash ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- The union split in 1839 after the Belgian Revolution, which was partially motivated by religious differences between Protestants and Catholics ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...43 KB (6,055 words) - 04:51, 1 May 2023
- * [http://www.sckcen.be SCK.CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre.] * [http://www.nei.org Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).] * [http://www.phyast ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- (three from the 79th Armoured Division) British, Belgian, Canadian, and Dutch independent brigades were committed to the operation, along with four ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- of other Europeans (Dutch, German, French, Swiss, Belgian, and in smaller numbers, Polish, Lithuanian, English, and Croatian communities) immigrated during ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- made of colorfully painted paper by the renowned Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, and items from the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- , 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 ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- with the Norwegian ship Imo, chartered to carry Belgian relief supplies. In the aftermath of the collision, Mont-Blanc caught fire and exploded. The ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- 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. ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- Bronze, having returned from Italy. Modelled by a Belgian soldier, the figure drew inspiration from Michelangelo's Dying Slave, which Rodin had ...42 KB (6,353 words) - 19:06, 21 August 2023
- 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 ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- 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 ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Formulation of the theory is credited to the Belgian psychologist Albert Michotte and Italian psychologist Fabio Metelli, with their work developed ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Simba movement in the Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Belgian Congo). Guevara, his second-in-command Victor Dreke, and twelve of the Cuban expeditionaries ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- #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 ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- or prisoners. At Meteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- 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 ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- impossibility of surrendering French or Belgian territory (despite Napoleon's commonsense dictum about the advantages of sacrificing ground ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Early in Bernhardt's career, she had an affair with a Belgian ... masked ball in Brussels where she met the Belgian aristocrat Henri, Hereditary ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- side of the car, Princip fired two shots from a Belgian-made 9x17mm (.380 ACP) Fabrique Nationale model 1910 semi-automatic pistol. Pistol serial ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- on some payments. In response, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region, Germany's most productive industrial region at the time ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- areas of England. The German, Russian, and Belgian governments did all they could to sponsor the new industries by the provisions of state funding. ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- 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. ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- As French, Belgian, and Portuguese activity in the lower Congo River region threatened to undermine orderly penetration of tropical Africa, the ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- and Head of the Mathematical Board, the Belgian Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) became the teacher, companion and friend of the Kangxi emperor ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- commonly in other countries. The French and Belgian governments have had to launch special programs for treating discovered ammunition. ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- 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 ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Gibbon was echoed a century later by the Belgian historian Godefroid Kurth, who wrote that the Battle of Poitiers "must ever remain one ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- larger parties from the British, French and Belgian units of the Special Air Service brigade. ===Airborne operations=== The success of the amphibious ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- 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 ...72 KB (10,129 words) - 16:53, 27 December 2023
- 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 ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- (HRD) Official certification laboratory of the Belgian diamond industry, located in Antwerp. [https://www.hrdantwerp.com/en Antwerp World Diamond ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- humorous, performers like Georges Brassens and the Belgian Jacques Brel. ===Philosophy=== French philosophy has been extremely diverse and influential ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- by the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis. The Belgian Compagnie de Tramways et d' Éclairage Électrique de Salonique operated it from 1912 ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024