It not only introduced a new sound based on " New Beat ", a dance genre developed around the Belgian music scene, but it was also one of the first songs to pioneer the short-lived hip-house genre, a fusion of house music with elements of hip-hop.

The Belgian hip hop scene started in the late 1980s with a U. S .- based techno / hip hop group called Technotronic.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

Following the Belgian general election held on 13 June 2010, a process of cabinet formation started in Belgium.

However, his talents lay more in salesmanship and motoring pioneering than practical engineering ; in January 1903, with the help of £ 6, 600 provided by his father, he started one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co. based in Fulham, to import and sell French Peugeot and Belgian Minerva vehicles.

" The use of the term " Ruhr " for the industrial region started in Britain only after World War I, when French and Belgian troops had occupied the Ruhr district and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations in 1923.

In 1888, Herschell attracted expatriate Belgian Eugene de Kleist to North Tonawanda, who started the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory to produce band organs.

Very important for the image of the town was the attention it started to receive from the Belgian kings Leopold I and Leopold II.

After World War I, the village started to attract a large quantity of both Belgian and foreign immigrants, and quickly became the biggest city in Limburg after Hasselt, peaking to a population of 70 000.

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.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

The project started in May 2000, when Yves Barbieux gathered to create their first album, One-o-Four, a score of artists together, already well known in the traditional Belgian stage ( Orion, Luc Pilartz, Perry Rose, Tom Theuns, Didier Laloy ).

Villeneuve started the year with 11 straight retirements, and failed to finish a race until the Belgian Grand Prix that August.

Henin started off with a straight sets victory over Belgian Kirsten Flipkens.

His maternal great-grandfather, Peter VanDeKeere, s was known as “ The King of the Belgians ” because he would help the Belgian immigrants get started in the Sheffield area by giving them food, a place to stay, or a job on his farm.

Since October 2007 construction works have started on a new railroad between Schaarbeek and Mechelen on the central reservation of the E 19 ( Belgian A1 ) with the purpose of improving the train connection between Antwerp, Brussels Airport and Brussels.

Thordendal started to work on a second solo album in June 2010 with the Belgian drummer Dirk Verbeuren.

In 2006, the FIA announced the Belgian Grand Prix would not be part of the 2006 Formula One season, since the local authorities had started major repair work in Spa-Francorchamps.

With the start of the Cold War the party started its decline and after the elections of 1985 it was no longer represented in the Belgian Parliament.

The EMS started on 13 March 1979, and towards the end of the month Sterling started to gain in value against the EMS currencies because of rising oil prices, and by 30 March Sterling breached the upper fluctuation band limit of the Belgian franc and the Irish currency could no longer track Sterling.

Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights but it was Sir Francis Galton, a pioneering English eugenist who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, Hereditary Genius.

The plan was postponed since the Belgian army itself had started preparations to inundate the area between the river Yser and its tributary canals.

Born in Amsterdam, Rensenbrink started his career at DWS, an Amsterdam amateur club, before moving to Belgian side Club Brugge in 1969.

It started as a Dutch / Belgian coproduction, with only one thirty-minute episode a week.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

Vague in wording, it called for withdrawal of Belgian troops and authorized the Secretary-General `` to take the necessary steps to provide the ( Congolese ) Government with such military assistance as may be necessary, until, through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks.

The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.

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 ".

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

Inspector Japp gives some insight into Poirot's career with the Belgian police when introducing him to a colleague:

Japp is outgoing, loud and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot ’ s world.

The Belgian post office also released a set of stamps to coincide with the exhibition.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

* SS Belgian, a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934

* List of all pages beginning with " Belgian "

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

Belgian cult films Man Bites Dog with Benoit Poelvoorde and Camping Cosmos starring cult figures like Lolo Ferrari, Noël Godin, and Arno Hintjens, are an element of the Belgian visual landscape.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

Marker had collaborated with Belgian sociologist Armand Mattelart and ISKRA members Valérie Mayoux and Jacqueline Meppiel to shoot and collect the visual materials, which Marker then edited together and provided the commentary for.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.