* Belgium, entry on the Catholic Encyclopedia 1913, republished on Wikisource

The non-U. S. singles were " Nobody Knows ," a minor hit in the UK, Australia and Germany ; " Dear Mr. President ," an open letter to the U. S. President George W. Bush ( featuring the Indigo Girls ) and a number 1 hit in Belgium, a top five hit in Germany, Australia and other countries ; " Leave Me Alone ( I'm Lonely )," a UK top 40 and Australian top five entry ; and "' Cuz I Can.

ISO 3166-2: BE is the entry for Belgium in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Being situated at Southside of the mouth of the rivers Rhine and Meuse with the hinterland consisting of the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and partly France, Europoort is by certain measurements the world's busiest port and considered a major entry to Europe.

She has also created gardens for Flower Shows across the UK and received, with David Fountain, an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for successfully moving ( from Belgium ) and replanting the world's largest tree in January 2001.

The 2010 entry for Belgium was Tom Dice, runner-up of the Belgian Flemish version of The X Factor in 2008.

In 2011, the entry for Belgium was Witloof Bay.

* Belfries of Belgium and France-UNESCO World Heritage Centre entry

The invasion of Belgium was the event that triggered the United Kingdom's entry into the war ; the unexpected vigor of the city's defense allowed more time for the western Allies to organize and prepare their defense of France.

For example, in 1914 the German invasion of Belgium triggered the entry of Britain into World War I.

Pierre Laval, the French prime minister, refused to grant Serge an entry permit, but Emile Vandervelde, a veteran socialist who by then was a member of the Belgian government, managed to obtain Serge a visa to live in Belgium.

For the second straight race, Ferrari had only one entry following the death of Gilles Villeneuve in Belgium four weeks earlier, and Didier Pironi qualified it in fourth spot.

450101 was damaged in Belgium and returned to Test-and Validationcenter Wegberg-Wildenrath to have repairs conducted by Siemens, therefore delaying its entry into the UK.

For example, the 2010 entry list included players from the British Isles ( England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland ), mainland Europe ( France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland ), North America ( USA, Canada, Mexico ), South America ( Argentina, Bolivia, Peru ), Asia ( China, India, South Korea, Japan, Singapore ), Australasia ( Australia, New Zealand ) and Africa ( South Africa ).

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Haelen a. k. a. ( Battle of the Silver Helmets ) last cavalry style attack from the German army on the city of Halen Belgium.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

By the mid late 18th century developments in cheaper zinc distillation such as John-Jaques Dony's horizontal furnaces in Belgium and the reduction of tariffs on zinc as well as demand for corrosion resistant high zinc alloys increased the popularity of speltering and as a result cementation was largely abandoned by the mid 19th century.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium.

There were 4. 668 million land telephone lines in use in Belgium in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4. 769 million in use in 1997.

Waterways are managed on a regional level in Belgium.

In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.

* Westende, Belgium ( artificial bouldering structures on the beach )

At the end of September 2003, the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country.

The German invasion of France, with subsidiary attacks on Belgium and the Netherlands, consisted of two phases, Operation Yellow ( Fall Gelb ) and Operation Red ( Fall Rot ).

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

Russian commuter trains, on the other hand, frequently cover areas larger than Belgium itself, although these are still short distances by Russian standards.

In 1956, he became the first African-American instructor at the Museum of Modern Art, where he taught for a year before going to Belgium on behalf of MOMA and the State Department.

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks in the 1830s with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer ( Stroboscope ) in Austria, Joseph Plateau ( Phenakistoscope ) in Belgium and William Horner ( zoetrope ) in Britain.

Public radio in Belgium is controlled by the VRT for the Dutch speaking region ( Flanders and Brussels ) the RTBF for the French speaking region ( Wallonia and Brussels ) and the BRF for the German community in Belgium.

Public television in Belgium is controlled by the VRT for the Dutch speaking region ( Flanders and Brussels ) the RTBF for the French speaking region ( Wallonia and Brussels ) and the BRF for the German community in Belgium.

Soon, the war began to go well ; French troops marched across the southern half of the Netherlands ( which would later become Belgium ), and the emergency that had placed the Committee of Public Safety in control was no more.

Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the British and French ( allied ) forces, due to the harsh treatment of civilians by the German Army, which had invaded and occupied large parts of Belgium and northern France.

* The Cesar Vanbiervliet Foundation, a section of the City Public Library of Kortrijk, Belgium.

The New York Public Library holds a large collection of literary works in Walloon, quite possibly the largest outside Belgium, and its holdings are representative of the output.

Statistics Belgium ( formerly known as the NSI ) is part of the Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy.

Based in Brussels, Belgium, the IIAS is a worldwide platform providing a space for exchanges that promote knowledge and practices to improve the organization and operation of Public Administration and to ensure that public agencies will be in a position to better respond to the current and future expectations and needs of society.

Irwin served on the executive committee of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium in 1914 – 1915 and was chief of the foreign department of George Creel's Committee on Public Information in 1918.

He also won the " prix du Public " at the Festival de Spa in Belgium in 1978.

Category: Public transport in Belgium

* Corporate & Public Bank, Belgium

In 1912, the International Committee of National Federations of Teachers in Public Secondary Schools was established in Belgium.

* Studying in Belgium at Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs