Emiel Puttemans ( born 8 October 1947 ) is a retired middle-and long-distance runner, who set world records for 3000 metres ( 7 minutes 37. 6 seconds ) in 1972, for 2 miles ( 8 minutes 17. 8 seconds ) in 1971, and for 5000 metres ( 13 minutes 13 seconds ) in 1972.

* 1970: Travels to Belgium to work with the architect Pierre Puttemans on the photographs for a book on modern architecture in Belgium, often accompanied and assisted by his son.

* Emiel Puttemans, middle-and long-distance runner ( b. 1947 )

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

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I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

In 1569 he was sent to finish it at the University of Leuven in Flanders.

Merleau-Ponty was the first student to study at the Husserl-archives in Leuven.

His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.

However, feeling that the lack of sympathy which prevailed at Leuven at that time was actually a form of mental persecution, he sought refuge in Basel, where under the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely.

A new development, called the rotating-wheel braille display, was developed in 2000 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) and although a second rotating display was designed at the Leuven University in Belgium both wheels are still in the process of commercialization.

InBev opened a new fully automated brewery in Leuven in 1993, and by 2006, total production volume was over a billion litres annually.

In 1528 Vesalius entered the University of Leuven ( Pedagogium Castrense ) taking arts, but when his father was appointed as the Valet de Chambre in 1532, he decided to pursue a career in medicine at the University of Paris, where he moved in 1533.

Vesalius was forced to leave Paris in 1536 due to the opening of hostilities between the Holy Roman Empire and France, and returned to Leuven.

The subject of the projected work was a matter of discussion between composer, librettists and the Opéra-Comique management ; Adolphe de Leuven, on behalf of the theatre, made several suggestions that were politely rejected.

CESAER was set up on May 10, 1990, with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

The University of Leuven ( Louvain ) was closed in 1797, priests were considered criminal, and churches were plundered.

On 2 February 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Vesalius was the first to publish a treatise, De humani corporis fabrica, that challenged Galen " drawing for drawing " travelling all the way from Leuven to Padua for permission to dissect victims from the gallows without fear of persecution.

Jansen returned to the University of Leuven, where he completed his doctorate in 1619 and was named professor for exegesis.

Pinthereau was also the author of a critical history of Jansenism titled La Naissance du Jansénisme découverte à Monsieur le Chancelier ( The Birth of Jansenism Revealed to the Chancellor, Leuven, 1654 ).

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He was awarded honorary doctorates by Cambridge University ( 1992 ), Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, the University of Essex, University of Leuven, Williams College and University of Silesia.

The architect of the City Hall of Leuven, Matthew Layens, was called to draw up plans.

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In Leuven, he worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Myrica from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe, although the role of Mercator in the project was not primarily as a cartographer, but rather as a highly skilled engraver of brass plates.

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Born at Leuven, he was the son of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Aleidis of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy.

He was buried in the church of the Minderbroeders in Leuven, but since the Protestant iconoclasm ( Beeldenstorm ) in 1566, nothing remains of his tomb.

He was probably born in Leuven.