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45 unusual facts about Antwerp


12275 Marcelgoffin

It was named in honour of Marcel Goffin (1913-1999), an accomplished amateur violin maker living in Hoboken, Belgium.

8832 Altenrath

The asteroid is named in memory of Henricus Altenrath (1832–1892), initiator and first director of the "Nijverheidsschool" a well-known Antwerp school for teaching of technical professions.

Antwerp World Diamond Centre

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is a public/private corporation, officially representing and coordinating the Antwerp diamond sector.

Antwerp, Victoria

Ellerman named the area after his birthplace, the Belgian city of Antwerp.

Baalhoek

Baalhoek is mostly associated with the "Baalhoekkanaal" (Baalhoek Canal), a plan for a shortcut to the harbour of Antwerp to bypass the narrows of Bath that was proposed in 1967, but finally rejected in 1998 due to the resistance of a coalition of environmentalists and farmers.

Brico

These are smaller stores located in city centers (Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Gent ...) that focus on most basic and easy-to-store items.

Celso Antunes

During roughly the same period (1994–1997) he was also Chief Conductor of the Antwerp-based ensemble Champ d'Action.

Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool

There was controversy before the church was consecrated because Bodley intended to use an early 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp which had carved tableaux of the Passion as the reredos.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

Some of the Cologne committee members under David Hansemann (1790–1864)—a merchant and banker from Aachen—and the Aachen Committee favoured a railway line through Belgium to the seaport of Antwerp.

Cristo de La Laguna

The latest studies conducted by Professor Francisco Galante Gomez confirm that the figure came from the flourishing workshops of Antwerp, thus making it of Flemish-Brabanzon origin, and it was sculpted by Louis Van Der Vule around 1514.

Dilute budgerigar mutation

birds with greenish-yellow bodies and very pale wing markings were reported from Belgium (in both Brussels and Antwerp) and Germany (in both Kassel and Berlin).

E.M.T.

In 1971, in search for a new artistic terrain, Alfred Harth moved from Frankfurt/Main to live nearby Antwerp in Belgium playing with pianist and artist Nicole Van den Plas in duo with guests as her brother cellist Jean Van den Plas and later in 1972 with German bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Paul Lovens a.o. in Brugge and Antwerp a.o.

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E.M.T. extended gradually their musical language, included guests from time to time and played many concerts in venues as the Fabrik Hamburg, Quasimodo Berlin, Festival Antwerp.

Eadmer

The Vita Anselmi, written in about 1124, and first printed at Antwerp in 1551, is probably the best contemporary life of the saint.

Earl Thomson

He sought to represent the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, but was ruled ineligible due to his Canadian citizenship.

Eierland

The shallow waters between the two islands werre sold to a group of developers led by trader Nicolaas de Cock from Antwerp in 1835.

Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky

In 1926, he helped organise the Young Mizrachi and League for the Religious Worker groups in Antwerp, and in 1929 became vice-president of the Belgian Zionist Federation.

English Renaissance theatre

History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.

General Motors Europe

With ongoing restructuring plans Opel announced the closure of its Antwerp plant in Belgium.

Greggs

Starting in 2003, in an attempt to test the foreign market, Greggs opened a total of ten stores in Belgium; principally in Antwerp and Leuven.

Hansweert

For a long time, Hansweert was an important stop on the shortest shipping route between the busy ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, but all that changed when the Scheldt–Rhine Canal opened up and became the quicker route.

Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau

He was awarded gold medals at the Antwerp and Paris Exhibitions.

Lindon Wallace Bates

His advisory services were employed by the governments of Belgium, Great Britain, and Russia in such large undertakings as the improvement of the port of Antwerp, the enlargement of the Suez Canal, and the increasing of Black Sea harbor efficiency.

Lode Craeybeckx

François Ferdinand Louis Craeybeckx, better known as Lode, was born in Antwerp in 1897.

Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez

In 1830 he was part of the blockade and capture of Algiers, followed by the blockade of Antwerp.

Michel Virlogeux

The Award Presentation took place during the Opening of the IABSE Symposium 'Structures for High-Speed Railway Transportation', Antwerp, Belgium on 27 August 2003.

Morgnshtern

In 1937 Morgnshtern had prepared a delegation to take part in the Workers Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, but the Polish government refused to give travel visas to the athletes.

Philip III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

They then made a Grand Tour to Antwerp, Mechelen, Lion, Brussels, Breda and Strasbourg and then to Buchsweiler (now: Bouxwiller in France), the "capital" of Hanau-Lichtenberg, where they visited their relatives.

Quiberon Bay

Operation Chastity was never implemented because by the time the Allies had seized the Quiberon area, they had also captured Antwerp, a major port that was much closer to the front lines.

Robert Crannell Minor

Robert Crannell Minor (1839-1904), American artist, was born in New York City on 30 April 1839, and received his art training in Paris under Diaz, and in Antwerp under Joseph Van Luppen.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

The initiative for the railway line came from the of industrialists of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, who intended to give domestic industry cheap access to raw materials from overseas via the port of Antwerp and to cheap supplies of coal from the Ruhr.

Sahr Ngaujah

Sahr began as a director under the guidance of Freddie Hendricks, working as an assistant director on FH Y.E.A. productions, playing for audiences ranging from the Atlanta Black Arts Festival to the Tweetakt Festival 2000 Antwerp.

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

Sinamorata

Also, the DVD has live footage from a Hof Ter Lo performance in Antwerp, November 2003.

SM UB-5

UB-5 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to Antwerp for reassembly.

Sprundel

In the past it was the main city of the region, with roads to Roosendaal to the west, Breda to the east, Rotterdam to the north and Antwerp to the south.

SS Black Osprey

By the mid-1920s, West Arrow was sailing for American Diamond on their cargo service to Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Tedford H. Cann

He had qualified for and was preparing to participate in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp when he was involved in a serious car accident.

The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero

Unsigned, it was commissioned by the St George Guild of Archers in Antwerp for their banqueting hall and is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister within the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel.

Tongo, Sierra Leone

The Government of Sierra Leone headed by the Minister of Natural Resources under the Administration of president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah originally granted a Mining Lease for the Tongo Diamond Field to Rex Diamond Mining Corporation Limited, a diamond mining and exploration company with its head office in Antwerp, Belgium.

Triptych

The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, contains two examples by Rubens, and Notre Dame de Paris is another example of the use of triptych in architecture.

Ulu Grosbard

Born in Antwerp, Grosbard was the son of Rose (Tennenbaum) and Morris Grosbard, who worked in business and as a diamond merchant.

Wilhelm Normann

From 1917, Normann built a fat hardening factory in Antwerp for the margarine company SAPA Societe anonyme des grasses, huiles et produits africaines, which operated in India.

Winnipeg Falcons

That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium.

Wouter Van Besien

In 2006, he became a member of the district council of (district of Antwerp).


1996 European Community Championships

The 1996 European Community Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Sportpaleis Antwerp in Antwerp in Belgium and was part of the Championship Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

1997 European Community Championships

The 1997 European Community Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Sportpaleis Antwerp in Antwerp in Belgium and was part of the Championship Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

André-Joseph Léonard

Priests who abused children in their care, Leonard went on television to say, must be made aware of what they did, "but if they're no longer working, if they have no responsibilities, I'm not sure that exercising a sort of vengeance that will have no concrete result is humane." On 31 September 2010, the bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, said this was "a personal point of view" and not that of the church.

Avraham Shekhterman

He studied civil engineering at Ghent University, where he chaired the Jewish Students Organisation, as well as working as a Betar instructor in Antwerp.

Belgium–Mexico relations

Simon Pereyns of Antwerp is considered the founder of Mexican painting, and some of his painted screens are in the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.

Berendrecht

In 1958, Berendrecht and Zandvliet and Lillo were joined at Antwerp and the polder landscape was mainly expropriated for the port extension.

Berendrecht Lock

Costing €340 million, of which 50% will be financed by the European Investment Bank, the Flemish KBC Bank is also making available a €81 million credit line, with the balance provided by the Antwerp Port Authority and the Flemish Government.

Brecht Abbey

During World War II in 1943, Henri van Ostayen was in favor of locating the new abbey in Brecht, of which he was burgomaster, but was killed in Antwerp by a V-1 flying bomb before the end of the war.

Changer

In 2005, Changer played overseas for the first time, at Nevelfest in Antwerp, Belgium.

Charles Bernardy

From 1775 to 1780, the troop put on shows at Amiens, Cambrai, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris (at the "théâtre des Petits Comédiens du Bois de Boulogne"), Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Marseille, Dijon, Passy, Saint-Quentin, Antwerp and Brussels.

Economy of Belgium

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects (consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

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The postwar boom years, enhanced by the establishment of the European Union and NATO headquarters in Brussels, contributed to the rapid expansion of light industry throughout most of Flanders, particularly along a corridor stretching between Brussels and Antwerp, which is the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.

Flag of Sardinia

It's just in the time of the Catholic Monarchs and especially from the time of the Emperor Charles V, that the quattro mori are frequently used as a symbol of the Kingdom of Sardinia among the countless possessions of the Emperor, including in a book printed in the famous printing house of Plantin, Antwerp, representing the funeral procession of the same sovereign composed of bishops and harnessed horses with the insignia of each state.

Gaston Féry

Born in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle he competed for France in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Géo André, Maurice Delvart and André Devaux in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay event.

Giovanni Antoniano

He also published (Cologne, 1560) the writings of Paulinus of Nola, and the letters of St. Jerome in Antwerp, in 1568.

Guglielmo de Sanctis

Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.

Henri Depelchin

Then he was sent to Antwerp and Namur to teach in the Jesuit schools and to serve as a superior.

Jack Whitten

Whitten is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York; Zeno X gallery in Antwerp, Belgium; and Guido Maus, beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL.

Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Wicar headed the commission set up by Napoleon I of France to loot artworks from the Austrian Netherlands to enrich museums in France - an initial convoy left Antwerp on 11 August 1794, notably with paintings by Rubens, for the Louvre.

Jeffrey van Hooydonk

A native of Antwerp, Van Hooydonk began racing karts in 1990 and graduated to open-wheel racing five years later.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Luc Cromheecke

After having studied painting, graphic arts and publicity at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts of Antwerp, he created the magazine "Flan Imperial" with fellow student Fritzgerald; it featured material by Dutch artists René Windig and Eddie De Jong.

MS Europa 2

Europa 2's maiden voyage started on 11 May 2013 for 14 nights from Hamburg, Germany, and is stopping at Amsterdam, Antwerp, Honfleur, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bilbao, Leixoes and Lisbon.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Nicholas Fitzherbert

The biography was reprinted at Antwerp, 1621, 8vo, and in Thomas Francis Knox, Letters and Memorials of Cardinal Allen, (London) 1882, pp.

Novastar

After a sold out club tour in the Fall of 2008, Novastar performed in February in a fully packed Antwerp based Lotto Arena and Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall.

Peteca

When Brazil was present at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium the Brazilian athletes took with them some shuttlecocks for amusement on the ship and during the intervals between games.

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

Raoul Weiler

During his professional activities, mainly as an ICT-manager at Bayer Antwerpen N.V., he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers.

Red Star Line

In the city of Antwerp, the former warehouses of the Red Star Line were recently landmarked and reopened as a museum on September 28, 2013 by the City of Antwerp.

Robert Granjon

Some of the materials used by Granjon are preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.

Scottish trade in the Middle Ages

Although Bruges remained the major trading partner, from the 1460s trade also developed with Veere, Bergen op Zoom and Antwerp.

Staf Van Reet

He obtained a degree of engineering in Applied Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a Law degree from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

Tessenderlo

It is on the Albert Canal and the European route E313, the highway between Antwerp and Liège, one of the reasons why it was the place for the first Belgian "Industrial Zone of National Importance" in the 1960s.

The Puppet Designer

The world premiere took place on April 4, 1995, at the Singel in Antwerp with the Oxalys Chamber Orchestra (without conductor), featuring Henk Lauwers (baritone).

Thomas Tichborne

On 20 April he was executed with Watkinson and Francis Page, S.J. The last named was a convert, of a Middlesex family though born in Antwerp.

Van Straelen

Robert Van Straelen (b. 1934), Belgium Emeritus Professor at Antwerp Management School

William Aylesbury

On the fall of Charles I, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Antwerp; and he took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde.