A Belgian neo-Nazi organization, Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw ( Blood, Land, Honour and Faithfulness ), was created in 2004 after splitting from the international network ( Blood and Honour ).

In turn, it must part with Orange's Belgian subsidiary ( sold in its entirety to KPN ), since it already owns the Mobistar network there.

Though the Internet itself has existed since 1969, it was with the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian Robert Cailliau and its implementation in 1991 that the Internet truly became a global network.

In 1835, the first railway on the European continent linked Brussels with Mechelen, which became the hub of the Belgian railway network.

While the Brussels Haren airport was Sabena's main base, the company also operated services from other Belgian airports, and had a domestic network that was mainly used by businessmen who wanted to be in their coastal villas for the weekend.

Though a railroad had been built there, this road was removed around 1950 ; it is now part of the famous circle network in Belgian Limburg.

The railway has been used occasionally by various film and television production companies to shoot movie scenes that are too elaborate to be filmed on the Belgian national railway network because of the potential disruption to traffic.

When the RTT was created, huge sums were invested in the Belgian telephone network.

In an attempt to reduce the high unemployment rate in the sector the State forced the entire Belgian telephone network to become automated.

The Belgian competition authority allowed the deal to go ahead after Belgacom agreed to some divestments, including Scarlet's fibre network.

Several freight operators have since received access permissions for the Belgian network.

Based in Castelnau-sur-l ' Auvignon, posing as a retired Belgian mining engineer who had made a fortune in the Congo, he successfully organised a French Resistance network in the southwest corner of France, between Toulouse, Bordeaux and the Pyrenees, designated by the SOE as the ' Wheelwright Sector '.

The leading case in 1991, Régie des Télegraphes et des Téléphones ( RTT ) v. GB-Inno-BM ( GB ), which involved a small telephone equipment maker, GB and the Belgian state telephone provider, RTT, which had the exclusive power to grant approved phones to connect to the telephone network.

The massacre of Brabant has also been linked to a conspiracy among the Belgian " stay-behind " network SDRA8 ( Gladio ) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6 and the US secret service Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ).

However, the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio found no substantive evidence that Gladio was involved in any terrorist acts or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network.

As of 2011 Evi was working as a TV presenter on Belgian network Gunk TV.

Intended for the French-speaking part of Belgium and with studios in Brussels, this station is licensed ( along with many competing commercial stations ) by the Belgian Government, with a network of FM transmitters covering Brussels and Wallonia, and no particular connection with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg other than its ownership by the RTL parent company.

Price sold the whole network in 1893 to theFranco – Belgian group Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, which extended it further east to Afyonkarahisar in 1896 and further north to Bandırma in 1912.

C-DANCE was a Belgian radio network founded by V .'t Jolle and J. Goos.

This line was part of the famous and extensive Belgian vicinal tramway network which once covered the whole country ;

It competes with mobile network operators Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.

In 2009, Telenet acquired the Belgian retail store network of BelCompany from Dutch Macintosh Retail Group.

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 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 Belgian school has a three-tier education system, each stage being divided into various levels:

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.