The most well-known Belgian punk bands are Chainsaw, The Kids (" Fascist Cops ", " There will be no Next Time "), Janez Detd, Funeral Dress and Plastic Bertrand who had a worldwide hit with " Ça Plane Pour Moi " ( 1978 ).

; Belgian surrealism: The surrealism movement has major representatives in Belgium: Paul Delvaux, René Magritte.

Major Belgian representatives of this popular art movement are Edgar P. Jacobs, Jijé, Willy Vandersteen and André Franquin.

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

Later he would become a missionary to the Belgian Congo and then first mission secretary of the Norwegian Pentecostal movement.

* In the Mu. Zee ( a new museum after the fusion of the Provinciaal Museum voor de Moderne Kunst-Aan-Zee and the " Museum voor Schone Kunsten "), the museum of modern art from the 1830s to the present, you can view works of noted local painters such as James Ensor, Leon Spilliaert, Constant Permeke and the revolutionary post-war Belgian COBRA movement amongst others.

Shortly after the siege of Belgrade he was invited to place himself at the head of the Belgian revolutionary movement, in which one of his sons and many of his relatives were prominent, but declined with great courtesy, saying that " he never revolted in the winter.

In 1885, Giraud became a member of La Jeune Belgique, a Belgian nationalist literary movement that met at the Café Sésino in Brussels.

Hergé started drawing his comics series The Adventures of Tintin in 1929 for Le Petit Vingtième, the children's section of the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, run by the Abbé Norbert Wallez, an avid supporter of social Catholicism, a right-wing movement.

Thomas Blom Hansen described Elst as a " Belgian Catholic of a radical anti-Muslim persuasion who tries to make himself useful as a ' fellow traveller ' of the Hindu nationalist movement ".

Amongst the candidates suggested for having coined the term are the composer Nigel Osborne, the Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich, and the British / Australian musicologist Richard Toop, who gave currency to the concept of a movement with his article " Four Facets of the New Complexity ".

I expected someone like Léon Degrelle of the Belgian Rexists or like the leaders of the Breton independence movement, or the Ukrainian leaders with whom I had become acquitained in Berlin.

Mariën is one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement.

This pincer movement of the German army threatened to block the western retreat route of the Belgian army out of Antwerp.

Its militants are active in the students ' movement and as members of the Socialist Party – Differently ( SP. a ) and of the General Federation of Belgian Labour ( ABVV / FGTB ).

The Flemish Movement () is the political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders, for protection of the Dutch language, and for the over-all protection of Flemish culture and history.

Leon became a member and then leader of the Belgian branch of Hashomer Hatzair, a left wing Zionist youth movement.

In Belgium, the Union des progressistes juifs de Belgique is, since 1969, the heir of the Jewish Communist and Bundist Solidarité movement in the Belgian Resistance, embracing the Israeli refuseniks cause as well as of the undocumented immigrants in Belgium.

Belgian art critic Paul Haesaerts later gave this movement the title animism, which he took from anthropologist E. B.

Van Speijk despised the Belgian independence movement.

In the 1950s, an independence movement arose in the Belgian Congo, and the Belgians became convinced they could no longer control the territory.

Lt. Col. James Kabarebe of the AFDL, for example, was a former member of Uganda's National Resistance Army, the military wing of the rebel movement that brought Museveni to power, and French and Belgian intelligence reported that 15, 000 Ugandan-trained Tutsi fought for the AFDL.

During a group game against Belgium, Wilkins scored a memorable goal when he lobbed the whole Belgian defence and, in one movement, latched on to the ball ( thereby breaching the Belgians ' obvious offside trap ) and delivered a second lob, this time over the head of the goalkeeper and into the net to put England ahead.

They could be compared musically and philosophically with the M-Base movement and artists such as M-Base founder Steve Coleman, Belgian ensemble Octurn, Stéphane Payen's Thôt, Sylvain Cathala's Print, Vijay Iyer, and Rudresh Mahanthappa to name a few.

Van Zeeland's government resigned in the spring of 1936 due to the agitation of Rexism ( a Belgian fascist party ), but he was able to start a new term ( June 1936-November 1937 ).

The ideology of Rexism, which was disseminated in the writings of Jean Denis, called for the moral renewal of Belgian society in conformity with the teachings of the Church, by forming a corporatist society, and abolishing democracy.

Rexism soon began to ally itself with the interests of Nazi Germany and to incorporate Nazi-style antisemitism into its platform after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, and received financial support from German interests, while ties to the Roman Catholic Church were increasingly repudiated by the Belgian bishops.

" The Political Geography of Belgian Fascism: The Case of Rexism ", American Sociological Review 53. 1 ( February 1988 )

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle ( 15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994 ) was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS ( becoming a leader of its Walloon contingent ) which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union.

* Historically, Rexism, Belgian French-speaking fascist political party, has advocated a version of corporatist identity centered on Belgian nationalism.

When the German occupier forbade the publication of American and British comics in the Belgian newspapers and magazines, opportunies arose for local people.

In response, “ the secretary general suggested the dispatch of UN technical personnel to the Congo to assist in restoring order and discipline within the armed forces .” Canadian National Defence assumed that the United Nations would ask for French-speaking military advisers, the army maintained a standby list of one hundred officers, including many who were bilingual and could be posted abroad on short notice .” Before Hammarskjold could put his plan into action, however, a second Congolese request arrived, sent directly to the secretary general from President Joseph Kasavubu and Prime Minister Joseph Lumumba, “ the Congolese leaders asked for UN military forces to counter the violent Belgian intervention .” Again Canada offered combat troops stating that if the need arose for Canadian military intervention in the Congo Canada could also “ deploy one of three French speaking battalions made ready for UN Service .” The offer for combat troops was again refused, though Hammarskjold officially accepted the Canadian French-speaking officers.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

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The rebels were driven out with the aid of Belgian paratroopers.

Such Men Are Dangerous was based on the life Alfred Lowenstein, a Belgian captain who either jumped or fell out of his plane in 1928.

He won from the front at the Dutch, French and Belgian Grands Prix, where title rival Moss was badly injured in a practice accident that put him out for two months.

On this occasion, U. S. Navy Commander John Collins pointed out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that Eddy Merckx, the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded " maximum oxygen uptake " of any athlete ever measured, so perhaps cyclists were more fit than anyone.

* October 31 – Riots break out in the Belgian Congo.

In August 1830, stirred by a performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie ( Dutch: De Munt ), the Belgian Revolution broke out, and the country wrested its independence from the Dutch, aided by French intellectuals and French armed forces.

A week after Messines Ridge Haig gave his objectives to his Army commanders: wearing out the enemy, securing the Belgian coast and connecting with the Dutch frontier by the capture of Passchendaele Ridge, followed by an advance on Roulers and Operation Hush, an attack along the coast with an amphibious landing and that if the manpower and artillery were insufficient, only the first part of the plan might be fulfilled.

At the matinee, that didn't sell out, Herman Brood and Belgian musician Jean Blaute dropped by for the only live-performance of Als Je Wint ( When You're A Winner ; a song about success and equally-lasting friendships ).

The Belgian Commission has found that the execution was carried out by Katanga's authorities, but de Witte found written orders from the Belgian government requesting Lumumba's execution and documents on various arrangements, such as death squads.

When the Second World War broke out, he returned to Britain on a Belgian ship.

Sixteen men, forming two firing squads, carried out the sentence pronounced on her and on four Belgian men at Tir National shooting range in Schaerbeek, at 6: 00 am on 12 October 1915.

The first, a non-contiguous line with a small gap in the middle of Dog White sector and a larger gap across the whole of Easy Red sector, was 270 yards ( 250 m ) out from the highwater line and consisted of 200 Belgian Gates with mines lashed to the uprights.

A classmate recalled that when the Belgian priests, whose first language was Dutch, misspoke in French, Mobutu would leap to his feet in class and point out the mistake.

Among other criteria spelled out under the Maastricht treaty, the Belgian Government had to attain a budget deficit of no greater than 3 % of GDP by the end of 1997 ; Belgium achieved this, with a total budget deficit in 2001 ( just prior to implementation of the Euro ) that amounted to 0. 2 % of GDP.

In order to do so, the Belgian Army is currently phasing out all tracked vehicles in favour of wheeled vehicles.

In the Belgian Pro League, the 15th team out of 16 in the final standings has to join a playoff pool with three teams from the Belgian Second Division after each season, to determine which of these teams gets to play in the Pro League the oncoming season.

The communities, regions, language areas, municipalities, and provinces, are the five most important subnational entities of Belgium, as laid out in the Belgian constitution.

Bredene is situated at the Belgian coast and makes its income mostly out of tourism.

After the Belgian government found out about the atrocities that were being committed in the Congo, they annexed the land and renamed it Belgian Congo, removing it from the personal power of their king, Leopold II.