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23 unusual facts about Brussels


2011 Macedonian protests

He also took part in a public hearing held in the European Parliament (Brussels, 2011) where he shared his experience from the protests regarding the media coverage and spoke publicly about the pressures to silence the press and the attempts by the Macedonian government to cover up the truth for the murder of Martin Neškoski.

2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

The violin competition took place between 30 April and 26 May 2012 in Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts.

Alfred Verdyck

He played the first official match for Belgium on 1 May 1904, in Brussels against France (3-3).

Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery

The arrondissement was created in 1963, when the bilingual Arrondissement of Brussels was split up into three administrative arrondissements: the bilingual Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, the unilingual Dutch-speaking Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde and a peculiar arrondissement that officially didn't have a name, but was commonly referred to as Brussels-Periphery, and which comprised the six municipalities with language facilities around Brussels.

Axel Bossekota

Born in Versailles, Bossekota soon moved with his family to Brussels in Belgium.

Bart Laeremans

Bart Laeremans (Ghent, 17 April 1966 - ) is since 21 May 1995 member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Vlaams Belang for the constituency Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.

Benjamin Clemens

His Works during his life were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art regularly as well as all over the world including Paris, Rome, Brussels and the United States.

BHV

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, a former Belgian electoral and judicial district

Bobby Duffy

He won his one and only senior cap and scored for the Ireland on May 10, 1950 in a 5-1 defeat to Belgium in Brussels.

Crazy to Marry

Prints are held by Cinematheque Royale de Belgique, Brussels and Gosfilmofond, Russian State Archive, Moscow.

Houthoff Buruma

Houthoff Buruma has offices in London, Brussels and New York serving as communication hubs for cross-border work.

International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use

In 1989, Europe, Japan, and the United States began creating plans for harmonisation; ICH was created in April 1990 at a meeting in Brussels.

International Institute of Administrative Sciences

Created in 1930, the International Institute of Administrative Sciences is an International Association with Scientific Purpose whose seat is in Brussels.

Jerry Frissen

Jerry Frissen (born Thierry Frissen in Brussels, on June 2, 1964) is an American comic book writer and a toy designer from Los Angeles, California.

K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt

The club was founded in Ganshoren (North-West of Brussels) as Crossing F.C. Ganshoren in 1913 and was given the matricule n°55 by the Belgian Football Association.

Mattie Clarke

He won his one and only senior cap for the Ireland on 10 May 1950 in a 5-1 defeat to Belgium in Brussels.

Mount Kapaz

A famous "Göygöl Winery" utilizes some of that pure water for production of certains brands of vodka such as "Khan-VIP", "Khan Export" and "Khan Premium" which gained it gold and bronze medals at "United Vodka-2008" competition in Brussels.

Office Baroque

Situated in the heart of downtown Brussels, its exhibition spaces extend across the ground floor of a 1909 cast iron building by the Brussels architect Paul Hamesse who was part of the Art Nouveau generation.

Paul Wolff Metternich

Count Metternich held early diplomatic postings in London, Brussels and South America.

Peter Schöttel

He won league and domestic cup titles with Rapid and played the full 90 minutes of the 1996 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost.

Pierre Hanon

Pierre Hanon (born 29 December 1936 in Brussels) is a former footballer who played mainly for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the national team.

Steve Nicol

Like many others in the Liverpool squad, Hillsborough was the second tragedy Nicol had witnessed, four years earlier just before the 1985 European Cup final at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels football hooligans had charged a section of, mainly, Juventus supporters causing a retaining wall to collapse killing 39 people,

Víctor Ibarbo

During the match against Belgium, Ibarbo was substituted on in the 66th minute, scoring the second goal for Colombia in a 2-0 win in Brussels.


Adèle Kindt

Her Épisode des journées de septembre 1830, portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the Grand Place

Boitsfort railway station

Trains calling at this station are local trains travelling between Brussels-South and Louvain-La-Neuve, Louvain-La-Neuve and Binche (via Brussels-South) and between Brussels-South and Namur.

Branko Rašović

Crown of his career was the 1966 European Cup Final in Brussels, when Partizan played in the final againstth Spain champion Real Madrid C.F. They played at the famous Heysel Stadium in front of 55 000 spectators.

Brico

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

Cæsar Clement

Though originally destined for the English mission, Clement never went to England, but held the major positions of Dean of St. Gudule's, Brussels, and Vicar general of the King of Spain's army in Flanders.

Christine Harper

She previously worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Brussels and the US, and worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a reporter for Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Chronica sancti Pantaleonis

The manuscripts from Brussels and Wolfenbüttel are richly illustrated with images of rulers and genealogical trees.

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies except for the medical faculty, which moved to the Brussels site.

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.

Edvald Boasson Hagen

Boasson Hagen lost any chance of overall victory but made up by winning the following stage in Brussels by passing Jimmy Engoulvent in the final fifteen meters of the race.

Élie Reclus

1894–1904 : conferences at the New University of Brussels on the evolution of religions.

Frédéric Etherlinck

They then lived in Nice, France for three years before returning to Brussels.

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

Gable stone

They are a particularly charming feature of the urban fabric of Amsterdam, and are also found in cities such as Brussels, Lille and Copenhagen.

George Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley

He married on 18 April 1816 in Brussels Anne Jane Donelly, daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

International Institute of Administrative Sciences

General Directorate is the day-to-day management body in Brussels and is led by Mr. Rolet Loretan, Director General.

Islam in Belgium

The majority of Belgian Muslims live in the major cities, such as Antwerp, Brussels and Charleroi.

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Jack Heslop-Harrison

In March 1945 he was posted to 21 Army Group Headquarters in Brussels, where he was tasked with retrieving a sample of the fungus Eremothecium ashbyi from the Dutch National Mycological Collection at Baarn; it had proved useful in synthesising vitamin B, something in demand in post-war Europe.

Jean-Baptiste Fresez

He attended the Luxembourg Drawing School where he was awarded the first prize when he was just 14, before continuing his art studies at the Royal Academy in Brussels.

Jean-Joseph Fiocco

Jean-Joseph was active in the Austrian Netherlands and - during his time as choirmaster of Maria Elisabeth of Austria's chapel-royal in Brussels - he trained the composer Ignaz Vitzthumb and the violinist Pierre van Maldere.

Joint Research Centre

The JRC has seven scientific institutes, located at six different sites in Belgium (Brussels and Geel), Germany (Karlsruhe), Italy (Ispra), the Netherlands (Petten) and Spain (Seville), with a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities.

Komiti Skopje

Also 'KOMITI' have made numerous away trips in Europe, like Bordeaux, Halmstad, Brussels, Valencia, Vienna, Bucharest, Kiev, Southampton, Rome and Gent.

La saga de los Aznar

It was awarded Best European Science Fiction Series at the Eurocon in Brussels in 1978.

Maria van Eicken

Maria van Eicken (1571 in Brussels – 21 April 1636 in Porta Angelica Monastery, Flaumbach Valley, near Treis-Karden) was the wife of the Margrave Edward Fortunatus of Baden-Baden.

Melchers

Franz Melchers (Münster 1868 - Antwerp 1944), painter of German origin, he studied arts in Brussels and La Haye.

Michael Konsel

In 1996 he played in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final for a second time, this time against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost again.

Michel Schooyans

He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences of the Vatican, of the Royal Institute of International Relations in Brussels, the Institute for Demographic Policy in Paris, the Population Research Institute in Washington.

Mildred Barnes Bliss

Because of his diplomatic postings, they lived in Brussels (1908–1909), Buenos Aires (1909–1912), Paris (1912–1919), Washington, D.C. (1919–1923), Stockholm (1923–1927), and Buenos Aires again (1927–1933) before returning, in retirement, to Washington, D.C. (1933).

Multilateral Agreement on Investment

By the end of 1996, Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network based in Malaysia, obtained a document prepared for the OECD Ministerial meeting of May 1995 as well as for future WTO negotiations by the European Commission (Commission of the European Communities 1995: A Level Playing Field for Direct Investment World Wide, March 1, Brussels).

Our Lady of Bethlehem

Specialists in 15th-century art attribute the painting to the school of the Brussels painter Rogier van der Weyden, or an anonymous disciple of the school.

Pamela E. Bridgewater

Between 1980 and 1990 she was posted as Vice-Consul to Brussels, and Labor Attaché/Political Officer in Kingston, Jamaica.

Philippe Ambroise Eugène Ghislain d'Olmen de Poederlé

Philippe Ambroise Eugène Ghislain d'Olmen de Poederlé (7 December 1773, Brussels - 2 October 1815, Brussels) was a soldier and politician of the Austrian Netherlands.

Pierre Alamire

Manuscripts copied by Alamire can be found in many European libraries, including the Habsburg court library in Vienna, in London (the Henry VIII manuscript), the Vatican (a manuscript for Pope Leo X), Brussels, Munich, and Jena, which has the court books for Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

PSI-20

It is one of the main national indices of the pan-European stock exchange group Euronext alongside Brussels' BEL20, Paris's CAC 40 and Amsterdam's AEX.

Quatre Bras

More specifically it refers to the crossroad of the Charleroi-Brussels road (currently named N5) and the Nivelles-Namur road South of Genappe in Wallonia, Belgium.

Sabena Flight 548

Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire United States Figure Skating team on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Self Help Africa

In 2009 the organisation collaborated with a number of international development agencies including Development Fund of Norway and FARM-Africa to publish 'Climate Frontline - African Communities Adapting to Survive', which was launched in Dublin by Irish Environment Minister John Gormley, at the EU in Brussels, in London, and in several African capitals.

St John's Catholic School for the Deaf

Boston Spa was the only school in England that used a signed language other than British Sign Language which is Belgian Sign Language introduced from Brussels by the two Daughters of Charity.

Suzette Defoye

On June 30, 1766, she was one of fifteen actors granted exclusive right by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to perform in Brussels, known as the Ordinary Actors to H.R.H. Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor of the Austrian Netherlands.

The Military Philosophers

A meeting in Brussels with Bob Duport brings news of Templer's death in the Balkans.

Tony Cunningham

On leaving Strasbourg and Brussels in 1999 he became the Chief Executive of Human Rights NGO INDICT where he remained until his election to Westminster.

Victor Merzhanov

He sat as a jury member in more than 40 international competitions including the Rachmaninov Competition (which he founded), the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Bartók-Liszt Competition in Budapest, and international competitions in Montreal, Tokyo, Brussels and others.

VUB night frog

Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels.

Willy Coppens

Coppens was born in Watermael-Boitsfort, near Brussels and was conscripted into the army in 1912, to serve with the Premiere Regiment Grenadiers.

Wybo Fijnje

The Fijnje family went to Antwerp, later to Brussels and finally to Watten (French-Flanders).