It also urged that the U.N. eject, and prevent the return of, all Belgian and other foreign military and political advisers ; ;

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 ".

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.

The Belgian Blue's meat cuts also have a lower collagen content, which allows the protein quality to be improved due to a higher yield of amino acids.

* The Belgian ( horse ) is also known as a Brabant or Brabançon

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

Elements of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the East African Campaign during World War II.

François d ' Aguilon ( also d ' Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius ) ( 4 January 1567, Brussels – 20 March 1617, Tournai ), was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect.

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.

King William I was also given rule over Belgium, but this lasted only until the conclusion of the Belgian Revolution in 1831.

Haggis-maker MacSween conducted a taste-test which indicated that whisky is a proper accompaniment, and adds that lighter-bodied, tannic red wines, such as those made from the Barbera grape, are also suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavoured Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.

The progenitor of the A9 / A10 was the German V-2 rocket, also designed by von Braun and widely used at the end of World War II to bomb British and Belgian cities.

The loss of Belgian markets also caused painful economic problems for the state.

The Luxembourg Government in exile in London made agreements for a group of seventy Luxembourg volunteers to be assigned to in 1944 the ' Artillery Group ' of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ( also known as the Piron Brigade ).

There is also is unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking community of Belgium annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940 – 1944.

Belgian King Leopold II also tried to gain a foothold on the northern bank of the Congo River and send Stanley to the area around Brazzaville.

Other foreign soaps that used to air on Belgian television are " The Young And The Restless " ( at VTM ), " EastEnders " ( also at VTM ), " Port Charles " ( at één, back then called TV1 ), " Coronation Street " ( at Vitaya ).

Albert Henry wrote that although in 1988 the word Walloon evoked a constitutional reality, it originally referred to Roman populations of the Burgundian Netherlands and was also used to designate a territory by the terms provinces wallonnes or Walloon country ( Pays wallon ), from the 16th century to the Belgian revolution, and later Wallonia.

In 2000, the Belgian comic book artist and writer Crisse ( Didier Chrispeels ) introduced the first of a series of comic books featuring Atalanta, who is also abandoned by her father but saved by goddesses and nurtured by a bear.

Like many elements in Belgian folklore, this is mainly based on the French " La Marseillaise " which is also both an anthem and the name of a monument-the sculptural group Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called " La Marseillaise ", at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

* The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

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.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

Henny also worked with Belgian singer-songwriter Jan De Wilde and recorded a duet with the lead singer of demissionary New Dutch Wave-survivors Frank Boeijen Groep.

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

Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.

Examples alleged by the journalists include the gear-less wind turbine technology designed by the German firm Enercon and the speech technology developed by the Belgian firm Lernout & Hauspie.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

Themes developed in the novella's later scenes include the naïveté of Europeans ( particularly women ) regarding the various forms of darkness in the Congo ; the British traders and Belgian colonialists ' abuse of the natives and man's potential for duplicity.

Unlike the Belgian, British, French and Portuguese colonial masters in central Africa, Germany had developed an educational program for her Africans that involved elementary, secondary and vocational schools.

The Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.

The urban and other textile industries, which had developed in the Belgian territories since the 12th century, became under the Burgundians the economic mainstay of northwestern Europe.

In Belgium, a payment service company, Proton, owned by 60 Belgian banks issuing stored value cards, was developed in 1995.

The area was first developed in 1801 when a Belgian aristocrat, Henri Joseph Stier, purchased 800 acres situated between two tributaries of the Anacostia River known as the Paint and Northwest branches.

The paternalistic description of the indigenous people of Belgian Congo was more naive than racist, and Hergé developed an important theme of Tintin in this book: international trafficking.

It was developed in 1958 at the Belgian company Janssen Pharmaceutica and submitted to the first of clinical trials in Belgium later that year.

The alto horn is a member of the sax brass family, developed by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

It actually developed from the earlier French / Belgian game billard Russe, with supposedly Russian origins.

After 1900, the Belgian Congo province of Katanga on the western shores of the lake developed faster than the Northern Rhodesian side, the Luapula Province and the town of Kasenga a few hours by boat up the Luapula River became the most developed in the Luapula-Mweru valley, and until the 1960s was the main commercial centre with better services and infrastructure than elsewhere.

This event gives a hint at how student life and traditions have developed on the newly born campus, reviving some long lost customs as the traditional Catholic Belgian students hat, the calotte.

The original design for a Denil fishway was developed in 1909 by a Belgian scientist, G. Denil ; it has since been adjusted and adapted in many ways.

FL Studio ( formerly known as FruityLoops ) is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line.

Freddy Monnickendam of Belgian character licensing firm SEPP originally developed the " Snorks " concept in 1982.

It was initiated by the CNES ( Centre national d ' études spatiales — the French space agency ) in the 1970s and was developed in association with the SSTC ( Belgian scientific, technical and cultural services ) and the Swedish National Space Board ( SNSB ).

The first " mitrailleuse " was a manually fired 50-barrel volley gun originally developed in Belgium in 1851, 10 years before the advent of the Gatling gun, by the Belgian Army Captain Fafschamps, who made a rough prototype and drawings of his invention.

In 1879 Webley developed & sold commercially a rugged and powerful revolver intended for the British military, the WG or Webley Government in. 455 /. 476, the WG's cylinder was long enough for. 44 Russian &. 45 Colt length rounds Farmer has seen. 45 Colt chambered WG models, but is unsure if they were converted. 455s-further research is needed for WG chamberings-he has seen Belgian WG copies made in. 44-40.

It is the only Dutch culinary region which developed a haute cuisine and it forms the base of most traditional Dutch restaurants including typical main courses served such as Biefstuk, Varkenshaas, Ossenhaas, these are premium cuts of meat, generally pork or beef, accompanied by a wide variety of sauces and potatoes which have been double fried in the traditional Dutch ( or Belgian ) manner.