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* In Belgium, it is commemorated annually on the Catholic liturgical feast of the Ascension ( also a public Holiday there ) by the Christian Labour Movement ( which has a traditional link with the Christian Democrat parties, all substantively Roman Catholic ), as a kind of counterpart to the socialist Labour Day ( also a public holiday in Belgium ) on May 1.
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* 1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, west of Cologne.
Antwerp is the name of a city, a district and a province in Flanders, Belgium:
The baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège in modern Belgium ( before 1117 ) is an outstanding masterpiece of Romanesque brass casting.
The country code for Belgium is BE.
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.
Postal codes in Belgium consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e. g. " 9000 " is the postal code for Ghent.
The country code for Belgium is 32 and the international call prefix is 00.
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.
Belgium is under a closed telephone numbering plan, but retains the trunk code, " 0 ", for all national dialling.
The majority state-owned public telephone company of Belgium is Belgacom.
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.
This digital terrestrial network is owned by Norking Belgium.
Satellite transmission ( DVB-S ) in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia is operated by Airfield Belgium or Digidream.
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.
Transport in Belgium is facilitated with well-developed road, air, rail and water networks.
The only rapid transit system in Belgium is the Brussels Metro.
Regional transport in Belgium is operated by regional companies: De Lijn in Flanders operates the Kusttram and the Antwerp pre-metro as well as a bus network, TEC in Wallonia operates the Charleroi pre-metro as well as a bus network and MIVB / STIB in the Brussels Capital-Region operates the Brussels metro as well as the Brussels tram and bus network.
The road network in Belgium is managed by regional authorities, meaning that a road section in Flanders is managed by the Flemish Government, a road section in Brussels by the Brussels government and a road section in Wallonia by the Walloon Government.
The road network in Belgium is made of highways, national ( or regional ) roads ( the secondary network ) and communal roads ( or streets ).
Belgium and commemorated
The countries honored in this way are ; starting from the left side, beginning with the apse: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico ; in the middle of the church are commemorated: Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, and to the right: Belgium, Canada, Germany, and the United States of America.
They are buried or commemorated all over the world, from Belgium to India.
Upon being asked by a television journalist to name which event is commemorated by Belgium's national day ( 21 July ), Leterme wrongly replied that it was the proclamation of the constitution, when the correct answer is the coronation of the country's first King, Leopold I of Belgium.
This is the only American World War I cemetery in Belgium and 411 American servicemen are buried or commemorated there.
Belgium and annually
Vineyards in the Moselle Valley annually produce about 15 million litres of dry white wine, most of which is consumed within Luxembourg and also in Germany, France, and Belgium on a lesser scale.
Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003.
FOSDEM is held annually during the first weekend of February at the Université Libre de Bruxelles Solbosh campus, situated in the southeast of Brussels, Belgium and easily reachable by public transport from Brussels-Central railway station.
The Total 24 Hours of Spa is an endurance racing event held annually in Belgium at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
The Gent Jazz Festival is an international jazz festival held annually in Ghent, Belgium in mid July.
The port of Bruges-Zeebrugge ( in short: Port of Zeebrugge ) is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles and passenger ferry terminal port in the municipality of Bruges, Flanders, Belgium, handling over 50 million tonnes of cargo annually.
Belgium and on
* 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.
* Belgium, entry on the Catholic Encyclopedia 1913, republished on Wikisource
* Belgium, entry on the Public Diplomacy wiki monitored by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy
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.
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