Belgian hip hop music has a few rappers stemming from Africa and Italy.

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

To find out more about today's Belgian hip hop scene, check out http :// www. belgianhiphop. be / and http :// www. vlaamserap. be /

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Starflam is a Belgian hip hop group from Liège in the French-speaking southern part of Belgium-Wallonia.

't Hof van Commerce is a Belgian hip hop crew from Izegem in the province West Flanders in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.

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Survivant ( French word for Survivor ) is the first album by Belgian hip hop group Starflam to be released by EMI.

Hooverphonic, formed in the mid-1990s, is a Belgian pop / trip hop band that achieved international recognition through their inclusion on the soundtrack Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Io Ballo da Sola ( English: Stealing Beauty ).

* Allagash Hugh Malone ( 8. 5 % ABV ) A golden ale with significant hop flavor and aroma, based on the notion of combining the American IPA style with Belgian ale characteristics.

Belgian hip-hop started with the rise of Starflam, CNN ( a Brussels-based crew ) and't Hof van Commerce in the mid 1990s.

* 1982 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater

* 1940 – José van Dam, Belgian opera singer

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.

When van de Velde was forced to resign in 1915 because he was Belgian, he suggested Gropius, Hermann Obrist and August Endell as possible successors.

The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride, has been known since ancient times ; however, around 1630, chlorine gas was obtained by the Belgian chemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont.

* 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist

* 1933 – Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist

* 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter ( d. 2010 )

The Belgian philosopher of law Frank van Dun is one among those who are elaborating a secular conception of natural law in the liberal tradition.

* 1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver

Henry van de Velde, the master of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar was asked to step down in 1915 due to his Belgian nationality.

** Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist

* May 31 – Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player

* September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1615 )

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

* Mattheus Ignatius van Bree ( 1773-1839 ), Belgian painter, sculptor and architect

* Philippe-Jacques van Bree ( 1786-1871 ), Belgian architectural scholar and brother of Mattheus

Paul Guillaume van Zeeland ( 11 November 1893 – 22 September 1973 ) was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman born in Soignies.

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When the civil marriage of Leopold and Lilian was made public by Cardinal van Roey, in a pastoral letter read throughout Belgian churches in December, 1941, there was a mixed reaction in Belgium.

Also in 2002, Belgian musicians Thomas Desmet, Joris van Eeckhoven, Stefan Vanlokeren and Alexander Kerkhof formed the temporary band ' Caligari ' and composed a complete score to the original film.

Through these articles, he became a lifelong friend of the Neo-impressionist Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe, resulting in a vast body of letters.

The excuse was offered for them that they had mistaken the Italians for Belgian mercenaries.

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.

A royal decree issued in 1910, two years after the Belgian government assumed authority for the administration of the Congo, prescribed the registration of all adult males by chiefdoms.

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

Before considering more recent activities, we should note another important aspect of demography in Belgian Africa.

`` And it's all the more tragic because it's so little deserved '', said Mr. J. J. A. Frans, a Belgian official of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

The Belgian government itself took over administration, commencing a program of paternalism unmatched in the history of colonialism.

The beneficiaries of this administration were a number of huge cartels in which both individuals and the Belgian government itself held stock.

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.

Terror engulfed the thousands of Belgian civilians who had remained in the country.

The Belgian government decided to act, and on July 10 dispatched paratroops to the Congo.

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.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

Christie's Poirot was a francophone Belgian.

Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police.

: " 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.

As an adult, Poirot joined the Belgian police force.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Readers were told that the British authority learned about Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain Belgian royals.

The Murder On the Links saw the Belgian pit his grey cells against a French murderer.

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.

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )