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37 unusual facts about Antwerp


12275 Marcelgoffin

It was named in honour of Marcel Goffin (1913-1999), an accomplished amateur violin maker living in Hoboken, Belgium.

8832 Altenrath

The asteroid is named in memory of Henricus Altenrath (1832–1892), initiator and first director of the "Nijverheidsschool" a well-known Antwerp school for teaching of technical professions.

Antwerp World Diamond Centre

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is a public/private corporation, officially representing and coordinating the Antwerp diamond sector.

Darron McDonough

Darron Karl McDonough (born 7 November 1962 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a former English footballer, most noted as a player for Oldham Athletic and Luton Town.

Dilute budgerigar mutation

birds with greenish-yellow bodies and very pale wing markings were reported from Belgium (in both Brussels and Antwerp) and Germany (in both Kassel and Berlin).

Eadmer

The Vita Anselmi, written in about 1124, and first printed at Antwerp in 1551, is probably the best contemporary life of the saint.

Earl Thomson

He sought to represent the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, but was ruled ineligible due to his Canadian citizenship.

Economy of Belgium

The postwar boom years, enhanced by the establishment of the European Union and NATO headquarters in Brussels, contributed to the rapid expansion of light industry throughout most of Flanders, particularly along a corridor stretching between Brussels and Antwerp, which is the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.

The port of Antwerp was in 2004 the second largest European sea port by cargo volume, and the Antwerp freight railway station accounts for one-third of Belgian freight traffic.

English Renaissance theatre

History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.

French National Monotype 1924

It might originate (or vice versa) as the Scheldejol a Class originated in Antwerp, Belgium and also used in The Netherlands but is a little different at certain measurements.

General Motors Europe

With ongoing restructuring plans Opel announced the closure of its Antwerp plant in Belgium.

Henry Mabb

Sometime in the late 19th century, Henry Liddell Mabb Sr. relocated the family to Antwerp, Belgium.

Italy men's national water polo team

Although a domestic league was soon established, the Italian national water polo team did not first compete at the Olympic Games until the 1920 Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, where they were forced to forfeit their first round match, before losing 5–1 to Greece and being eliminated.

Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau

He was awarded gold medals at the Antwerp and Paris Exhibitions.

Jeffrey van Hooydonk

A native of Antwerp, Van Hooydonk began racing karts in 1990 and graduated to open-wheel racing five years later.

Kijūrō Shidehara

He subsequently served in the Japanese embassy in London, Antwerp and Washington D.C. and as ambassador to the Netherlands, returning to Japan in 1915.

Langerwehe station

Since the line originally served particularly freight traffic between the Belgian city of Antwerp and the Rhineland, a freight shed was also established, which was partly used for the temporary storage of wood for the nearby coal mines of the Aachen district.

Lode Craeybeckx

Lode Craeybeckx (24 November 1897 – 25 July 1976) served as Mayor of Antwerp, Belgium from 1947 until his death in 1976, becoming the longest serving mayor of the city in its history.

Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez

In 1830 he was part of the blockade and capture of Algiers, followed by the blockade of Antwerp.

Melchers

Franz Melchers (Münster 1868 - Antwerp 1944), painter of German origin, he studied arts in Brussels and La Haye.

Mischa Levitzki

He was playing the violin at the age of three, but soon developed an interest in the piano, which he studied in Warsaw with Aleksander Michałowski before making his debut in Antwerp in 1906.

Morgnshtern

In 1937 Morgnshtern had prepared a delegation to take part in the Workers Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, but the Polish government refused to give travel visas to the athletes.

Plesiocetus

The genus Plesiocetus was originally coined for three mysticete species from Neogene marine deposits in the vicinity of Antwerp, Belgium: P. garopii, P. hupschii, and P. burtinii.

R. Cappellen F.C.

Cappellen F.C. is a Belgian football club from the town of Kapellen, near Antwerp.

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour

"Romeo en Julia: van Haat tot Liefde" (Sep. 22, 2002 - March 16, 2003)/(Jan. 27, 2004 - Apr. 25, 2004) -- (Antwerp, Stadsschouwburg Theatre) and Netherlands Tour.

Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

Over the tapestry of the Crucifixion (executed in Antwerp on Ludwig van Schoor's cartoons, 1698) is a painting by Luca Giordano, with the Passage of the Red Sea (1691).

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

SM UB-5

UB-5 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to Antwerp for reassembly.

Spire

After the destruction of the 135 m tall spire of the St. Lambert's Cathedral, Liège in the 19th century, the 123 m spire of Antwerp is the tallest ecclesiastical structure in the low countries .

Tedford H. Cann

He had qualified for and was preparing to participate in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp when he was involved in a serious car accident.

The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero

Unsigned, it was commissioned by the St George Guild of Archers in Antwerp for their banqueting hall and is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister within the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel.

Tongo, Sierra Leone

The Government of Sierra Leone headed by the Minister of Natural Resources under the Administration of president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah originally granted a Mining Lease for the Tongo Diamond Field to Rex Diamond Mining Corporation Limited, a diamond mining and exploration company with its head office in Antwerp, Belgium.

Vlodrop-station

The hamlet is named after the railway station of Vlodrop, which was located on the Iron Rhine connection between Antwerp and Germany.

William IV of Eberstein

# Otto (1533 – 4 December 1576, drowned in Antwerp), he was initially a canon in Strasbourg and later returned to the lay state and became an imperial councilor and later colonel.

Winnipeg Falcons

That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium.

Zeke Sanborn

Zeke Sanborn was a member of the rowing team for the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.


1996 European Community Championships

The 1996 European Community Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Sportpaleis Antwerp in Antwerp in Belgium and was part of the Championship Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

2008 Estoril Open

The women's draw was headlined by Viña del Mar and Acapulco champion Flavia Pennetta, Auckland quarterfinalist Maria Kirilenko, and Antwerp runner-up Karin Knapp.

André-Joseph Léonard

Priests who abused children in their care, Leonard went on television to say, must be made aware of what they did, "but if they're no longer working, if they have no responsibilities, I'm not sure that exercising a sort of vengeance that will have no concrete result is humane." On 31 September 2010, the bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, said this was "a personal point of view" and not that of the church.

Anton Moortgat

Anton Moortgat (21 September 1897 in Antwerp – 9 October 1977 in Damme Belgium) was a Belgian archaeologist.

Berendrecht Lock

Costing €340 million, of which 50% will be financed by the European Investment Bank, the Flemish KBC Bank is also making available a €81 million credit line, with the balance provided by the Antwerp Port Authority and the Flemish Government.

Bob Van Reeth

Later buildings include in 2007 a new wing for the Westvleteren Abbey, and the black-and-white Huis Van Roosmalen facing the Scheldt in Antwerp.

Brecht Abbey

During World War II in 1943, Henri van Ostayen was in favor of locating the new abbey in Brecht, of which he was burgomaster, but was killed in Antwerp by a V-1 flying bomb before the end of the war.

Brico

These are smaller stores located in city centers (Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Gent ...) that focus on most basic and easy-to-store items.

Changer

In 2005, Changer played overseas for the first time, at Nevelfest in Antwerp, Belgium.

Confédération syndicale belge

It was formed by the small revolutionary Confédération générale du travail (founded on 28 January 1906 in Brussels), the Antwerp diamond workers union (3,000 members), the glass workers union (Union Verrière) of Lodelinsart and others in reaction to the creation of the Commission syndicale, a trade-union confederation directly linked to, and under the orders of the Belgian Labour Party.

Economy of Belgium

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects (consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky

In 1926, he helped organise the Young Mizrachi and League for the Religious Worker groups in Antwerp, and in 1929 became vice-president of the Belgian Zionist Federation.

Gaston Féry

Born in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle he competed for France in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Géo André, Maurice Delvart and André Devaux in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay event.

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Once in Antwerp, Dona Gracia and her staff gave them instructions and the money to travel by cart and foot over the Alps to the great port city of Venice, where arrangements were made to transport them by ship to the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey in the East.

Greggs

Starting in 2003, in an attempt to test the foreign market, Greggs opened a total of ten stores in Belgium; principally in Antwerp and Leuven.

Guglielmo de Sanctis

Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.

Hansweert

For a long time, Hansweert was an important stop on the shortest shipping route between the busy ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, but all that changed when the Scheldt–Rhine Canal opened up and became the quicker route.

Islam in Belgium

The majority of Belgian Muslims live in the major cities, such as Antwerp, Brussels and Charleroi.

Jan Mabuse

Mabuse shows Antwerp influence in the large altar-pieces previously located at Castle Howard and Scawby.

Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Wicar headed the commission set up by Napoleon I of France to loot artworks from the Austrian Netherlands to enrich museums in France - an initial convoy left Antwerp on 11 August 1794, notably with paintings by Rubens, for the Louvre.

Jimmy Hare

During World War I he documented American, British, Canadian, and Italian soldiers, St Dunstan's home for blind soldiers, the Greek harbor town of Thessaloniki, the military hospital at the Hall of Mechanics at the Grand Palais in Paris, people fleeing Antwerp, funerals of the dead from the RMS Lusitania, and the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, among other subjects.

Johannes Goropius Becanus

He also reports that Ters, a deity who seems to have been an equivalent of Priapus, was invoked by Antwerpian women when they were taken by surprise or sudden fear, and that there was a house in Antwerp adjoining the prison (see Het Steen) that bore a statue which had been furnished with a large worn away phallus.

Juan Pavón

During the 10 years he worked for the company, he spent long periods in Alcatel centers outside Spain, in France (Lannion and Vélizy), Belgium (Namur and Antwerp).

Julien Dillens

Julien Dillens (8 June 1849 – November 1904) was a Belgian sculptor born in Antwerp, the son of the painter Hendrick Joseph Dillens.

Laurent Delvaux

In Brussels he was a student of Denis Plumier from Antwerp, he followed Plumier to London in 1719 and collaborated with him on the funerary monument of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham (1721-22, London, Westminster Abbey).

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Monita Secreta

The place where they were found was variously set down as Paderborn, Prague, Liège, Antwerp, Glatz, and on board a captured East Indiaman.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Novastar

After a sold out club tour in the Fall of 2008, Novastar performed in February in a fully packed Antwerp based Lotto Arena and Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Peteca

When Brazil was present at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium the Brazilian athletes took with them some shuttlecocks for amusement on the ship and during the intervals between games.

Philip I, Duke of Burgundy

In 1357, by marrying the future Countess Margaret III of Flanders, then heiress of Flanders, he was promised the counties of Flanders, Nevers, Rethel, and Antwerp, and the duchies of Brabant, and Limburg.

Pieter Franciscus Dierckx

Dierckx was born and died in Berchem (Antwerp), where he was a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and at the higher institute .

Polsteam

80-90% per that shipping involved tramping services and although the ship operator had three lines since 1951 namely: Szczecin - Stockholm, Szczecin - London - Rouen and Szczecin - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp.

Red Star Line

In the city of Antwerp, the former warehouses of the Red Star Line were recently landmarked and reopened as a museum on September 28, 2013 by the City of Antwerp.

Renaat Braem

He graduated as an architect from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1935, with a constructivism-inspired design for a linear city between Antwerp and Liège.

Robert Granjon

Some of the materials used by Granjon are preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.

Scottish trade in the Middle Ages

Although Bruges remained the major trading partner, from the 1460s trade also developed with Veere, Bergen op Zoom and Antwerp.

Simon Hardimé

He received commissions from the Earl of Scarborough, and in Antwerp and Brussels.

St Patrick's Church, Liverpool

On the east wall above the altar is a large painting of the Crucifixion executed in about 1834 by Nicaise de Keyser of Antwerp.

Tessenderlo

It is on the Albert Canal and the European route E313, the highway between Antwerp and Liège, one of the reasons why it was the place for the first Belgian "Industrial Zone of National Importance" in the 1960s.

Thomas Tichborne

On 20 April he was executed with Watkinson and Francis Page, S.J. The last named was a convert, of a Middlesex family though born in Antwerp.

William Aylesbury

On the fall of Charles I, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Antwerp; and he took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde.