Its roots lay in the arts and crafts school founded by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1906 and directed by Belgian Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde.

In 2000, Hewitt reached his first Grand Slam final at the Wimbledon mixed doubles partnering Belgian Kim Clijsters.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

Bruce won the Race of Champions at the Brands Hatch circuit and Hulme won the International Trophy at Silverstone, both non-championship races, before Bruce took the team's first championship win at the Belgian Grand Prix.

* May 8 – French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

Apart from a second place at the Belgian Grand Prix, the only other European Championship race, the French Grand Prix, resulted in a disappointing 11th place finish.

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.

Ecclestone has expressed an intention to return Formula One racing to the circuit by hosting a biennial French Grand Prix at the circuit beginning in 2013 ( with a Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps in the alternate years ).

* Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics

When Villeneuve was eleven years old, his father was killed during the qualifying session for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder following a collision with Jochen Mass.

Schumacher's penalty was for blocking and forcing Hill off the road at the Belgian Grand Prix ; Hill's was for colliding with Schumacher under braking at the Italian Grand Prix.

" At the German Grand Prix Hill scored his first point of the year, and at the Belgian Grand Prix in very wet conditions he took Jordan's first win.

Villeneuve died in a 140 mph ( 225 km / h ) crash caused by a collision with the March of Jochen Mass during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.

Hawthorn made his Formula One debut at the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix, finishing in fourth place.

This is often done in order to avoid confusion with the Belgian province of the same name-when hearing Luxembourg, a Belgian would spontaneously think about the province rather than the Grand Duchy.

The number of municipalities was reduced to 2, 508 when the Belgian borders were recognised in 1839 as 124 municipalities were ceded to the Netherlands and another 119 municipalities became the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Because of the large number of races which were being termed ' Grands Prix ', the AIACR formally recognised the most important race of each of its affiliated national automobile clubs as International Grands Prix, or Grandes Épreuves, and in 1933 Monaco was ranked as such alongside the French, Belgian, Italian, and Spanish Grands Prix.

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.

He followed it with two more at the Belgian, taking the lead after pitstop problem for Prost, and at the Italian Grands Prix where Prost's engine failed towards the end.

Germany | German – Netherlands | Dutch – Belgium | Belgian border as seen from the town area

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.

Metro ( Belgian newspaper ) ( Concentra ) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.

Users refer to European nightcrawlers by a variety of other names, including dendrobaenas, dendras, Dutch Nightcrawlers, and Belgian nightcrawlers.

Dutch or Belgian gin, also known as jenever or genever, evolved from malt wine spirits, and is a distinctly different drink from later styles of gin.

On 10 May 1940, Ribbentrop summoned the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors to present them with notes justifying the German invasion of their countries, several hours after the Germans had invaded those nations.

Much of the Luxembourgish population joined the Belgian revolution against Dutch rule.

Encouraged by the contacts established with the Dutch and Belgian governments in exile, Luxembourg pursued a policy of presence in international organizations.

Due to Luxembourg's small size, the Israeli embassy is located in Brussels and Luxembourg is represented politically by the Dutch embassy and economically by the Belgian embassy.

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river ( Dutch: Maas ) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border ( with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre ) and near the German border.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

On the other hand, Dutch ( Amstel, Grolsch, Heineken ) and Belgian pilsners ( Jupiler, Stella Artois ) have a slightly sweet taste.

Efforts of Belgian channel Vitaya to air the Dutch soap opera " Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden " were unsuccessful in 2010.

More than 100 bishops from Africa, Asia, and Latin America were Dutch or Belgian and tended to associate with the bishops from those countries.

Its meaning narrowed yet again during the French and Dutch periods and at Belgian independence the term designated only Belgians speaking a Romance language ( French, Walloon, Picard, etc.

* The Brussels Parliament declares Belgian independence, in revolt against the Dutch government.

* Half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands ( since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg ).

The Dutch, Belgian, Thai, and Israeli Armies have various configurations of the Van Halteren Metaal LARIT M109 trainer.

The younger William had fought as commander of combined Dutch and Belgian forces at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo.

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.