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.

NCO: Those who have completed five years of high school and have served a 4 months as voluntary soldier, will do a 9-month-stage at the Infantry Training Department of the Belgian Army in Arlon, before becoming a sergeant in the Luxembourg army.

Two books resulted from this and these books guided a whole generation of Belgian children through the first few years of school, I Read with Michel and Nicole and I Calculate with Michel and Nicole.

The priests found him several weeks later, and at the end of the school year he was sent to the Force Publique ( FP ), the Belgian Congolese army.

Among the people who studied there were Bob de Moor, Jacques Martin, Roger Leloup, and Edgar P. Jacobs, all of whom exhibit the easily recognizable Belgian clean line style, often opposed to the " Marcinelle school "- style, mostly proposed by authors from the Spirou magazine, such as Franquin, Peyo and Morris.

At this school different Belgian and international celebrities went to school ( e. g. Cédric Van Brantegem ( runner ), a brother of Princess Mathilde, ...).

The municipality comprises the towns of Drieslinter, Melkwezer, Neerhespen ( where canine school of the Belgian police is situated ), Neerlinter, Orsmaal, Overhespen and Wommersom.

Preparing the site of the Universal exhibition of 1958 in Laeken, Brussels, the Belgian Government moved the French speaking section of the technical school for Girls " Ecole Normale Ménagère et Agricole de l ' Etat " from Laeken to the newly purchased castle of Argenteuil in Waterloo.

Emile Verhaeren (; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916 ) was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism.

She founded a school where poor women and girls were educated in sewing ( 1832 ), and a hospital for soldiers wounded in the Belgian revolution ( 1830 ).

At 18, Akerman entered the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion, a Belgian film school.

* Georges Cuisenaire ( 1891 – 1976 ), Belgian primary school teacher who invented Cuisenaire rods

Wappers even gave him a suit of clothes and eventually presented him to King Leopold, who ordered the Wonderjaar to be added to the libraries of every Belgian school.

* Sabena Flight Academy, Belgian aviation school

De Winne followed the elementary flying school of the Belgian Air Component at Goetsenhoven.

* Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, a Belgian arts school

In 1992, Poelvoorde, Delvaux and Bonzel directed together their first long feature C ' est arrivé près de chez vous ( Man Bites Dog internationally ) originally a low-budget school graduation project ( 1992 ) and a kind of cynical " noir " movie, inspired from the famous Belgian series " Strip-Tease " which went on to become a critically acclaimed cult movie.

It was famous for its goalkeeping school that has produced such players as Jean-Marie Pfaff, Filip De Wilde, Geert De Vlieger, Erwin Lemmens, and Tristan Peersman, all of whom have played for the Belgian national team.

Permeke went to school in Bruges from 1903 until 1906, when he was drafted into the Belgian army.

Born the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London to a British ( Barbadian / Belgian ) mother and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic independent day school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing, west London.

Once the Belgian state finished their new school and built infrastructure to it, the Dames de Berlaymont handed the site, which they had been under pressure to sell to developers for years, to the Belgian government in November 1963.

Adoniram Judson Gordon opened a Bible school called the Boston Missionary Training Institute in the basement of his Baptist church in 1889 to train Christian missionaries for work in the Belgian Congo.

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.

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

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

The Belgian waterway network has 2, 043 km, 1, 532 km of which in regular commercial use.

The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein, myostatin (" myo " meaning muscle and " statin " meaning stop ).

Conversely, the Belgian Blue's meat tenderness has been argued to be just as tender because there are a large number of smaller muscle fibers.

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.

During its history the area has also been known as Congo, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Zaire.

* Belgian Congo ( 1908 – 60 ) this was arguably the longest-albeit coerced-period of tranquility the country has experienced.

* the constituent governing institution of the federal Belgian state through the institutions named the Flemish Community ( capital " C "), exercising the powers in most of those domains for the aforementioned community, and the officially Dutch-speaking Flemish Region, which has powers mainly on economic matters.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

The government of Luxembourg has ordered 1 Airbus A400M transport aircraft in cooperation with the Belgian Air Component and will be delivered in 2019.

* Armand Quoidbach, is a Belgian saw player who has played the saw since 1997.

" Thuis " often is in the top-5 of most watched Belgian shows and has over one million viewers ( with 6. 3 Flemmings in total ).

The ball is interrupted by General Müffling ( John Savident ), who announces that Napoleon has crossed the Belgian border at Charleroi, much to Wellington's displeasure.

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

The domestic pet known as the " Belgian hare " is a rabbit that has been selectively bred to resemble a hare.

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 ).

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.

In order to conform to the common guidelines on the design of national faces of coins, Belgium has updated the design of the Belgian national face of euro coins to be produced from 2008.

In Belgium, the title of Duke of Brabant ( historically the most prestigious in the Low Countries, and containing the federal capital Brussels ), if still vacant, has been awarded preferentially to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the king, other male dynasts receiving various lower historical titles ( much older than Belgium, and in principle never fallen to the Belgian crown ), such as Count of Flanders ( King Leopold III's so-titled brother held the title when he became the realm's temporary head of state as prince-regent ) and Prince of Liège ( a secularised version of the historical prince-bishopric ; e. g., the present King Albert II until he succeeded his older brother Baudouin I ).

Since 15 November 2006, the Belgian national football team has used the King Baudouin Stadium.