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19 unusual facts about Brussels


2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

The violin competition took place between 30 April and 26 May 2012 in Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts.

2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held during July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) 1903, starting in Brussels, Belgium (until August 6) and ending in London.

Andreas Heraf

In his first season back, the longhaired Heraf played in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost.

APCO Worldwide

The headquarters of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is in Brussels.

Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery

The arrondissement was created in 1963, when the bilingual Arrondissement of Brussels was split up into three administrative arrondissements: the bilingual Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, the unilingual Dutch-speaking Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde and a peculiar arrondissement that officially didn't have a name, but was commonly referred to as Brussels-Periphery, and which comprised the six municipalities with language facilities around Brussels.

Axel Bossekota

Born in Versailles, Bossekota soon moved with his family to Brussels in Belgium.

Bart Laeremans

Bart Laeremans (Ghent, 17 April 1966 - ) is since 21 May 1995 member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Vlaams Belang for the constituency Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.

BHV

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, a former Belgian electoral and judicial district

Black Russian

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

Bobby Duffy

He won his one and only senior cap and scored for the Ireland on May 10, 1950 in a 5-1 defeat to Belgium in Brussels.

Brussels-West station

The station also connects with tram and bus, and the new Jacques Brel bus and metro depot has been built very near to it.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Bobzin

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Bobzin (b. in 1826) was an artisan in Germany and became a member of the German Workers' Society in Brussels in 1847.

Houthoff Buruma

Houthoff Buruma has offices in London, Brussels and New York serving as communication hubs for cross-border work.

K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt

The club was founded in Ganshoren (North-West of Brussels) as Crossing F.C. Ganshoren in 1913 and was given the matricule n°55 by the Belgian Football Association.

Mário Matos

Mário Santos de Matos (born 21 June 1988 in Brussels) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for C.F. União as a goalkeeper.

Mattie Clarke

He won his one and only senior cap for the Ireland on 10 May 1950 in a 5-1 defeat to Belgium in Brussels.

Mount Kapaz

A famous "Göygöl Winery" utilizes some of that pure water for production of certains brands of vodka such as "Khan-VIP", "Khan Export" and "Khan Premium" which gained it gold and bronze medals at "United Vodka-2008" competition in Brussels.

Steve Nicol

Like many others in the Liverpool squad, Hillsborough was the second tragedy Nicol had witnessed, four years earlier just before the 1985 European Cup final at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels football hooligans had charged a section of, mainly, Juventus supporters causing a retaining wall to collapse killing 39 people,

Youth for Exchange and Understanding

Youth for Exchange and Understanding (YEU) is an International Non-Governmental Non-profit Youth Organisation established in 1986 and member of the European Youth Forum in Brussels as an INGYO.


09-15-2000, Brussels

09-15-2000, Brussels is a live album by the German avant-garde/experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten and was released in 2002.

Alexandre Galopin

His name has been given to a street; avenue Alexandre Galopin, in Etterbeek, Brussels.

Andrew Combe

Early in 1836 he received the appointment of physician to King Léopold I of Belgium, with Dr. James Clark's recommendation, and moved to Brussels ; but his health again failed, and he returned to Edinburgh in the same year.

Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation

The Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation, a joint initiative of the national, Brussels, Flemish and Wallonian governments, was founded on 28 June 2005 and officially inaugurated on 17 May 2006 in the presence of the ministers Rudy Demotte, Catherine Fonck and Inge Vervotte.

Belgian Resistance

Most of the resistance was focused in the French-speaking areas of Belgium (Wallonia and the city of Brussels), though Flemish involvement in the resistance was also significant.

Brussels School of International Studies

Dr Wiener was appointed the founding Dean of the University of Kent at Brussels, and was later succeeded by John Macgregor, former British Ambasssador to Austria.

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Christine Harper

She previously worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Brussels and the US, and worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a reporter for Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Chronica sancti Pantaleonis

The manuscripts from Brussels and Wolfenbüttel are richly illustrated with images of rulers and genealogical trees.

Claus Sluter

Sluter probably worked in Brussels before moving to the Burgundian capital of Dijon, where from 1385 to 1389 he was the assistant of Jean de Marville, Court Sculptor to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies except for the medical faculty, which moved to the Brussels site.

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.

Edvald Boasson Hagen

Boasson Hagen lost any chance of overall victory but made up by winning the following stage in Brussels by passing Jimmy Engoulvent in the final fifteen meters of the race.

Euronews Persian Service

Based on a report by Radio Zamaneh in Amsterdam, Mr. Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO of Euronews, no members of the Iranian Embassy in Brussels were invited by the organization.

European School of Brussels I

The European School of Brussels I is located in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium.

François Gény

Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

Gabriel Van Dievoet

He settled initially rue Faider, then at the 91, rue Souveraine at Ixelles, Brussels.

George Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley

He married on 18 April 1816 in Brussels Anne Jane Donelly, daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly.

Goetzingen

Owing to its proximity to Capellen and the The A6 motorway or European route E25 to Luxembourg City and Brussels, it is increasingly popular for those working in the surrounding area.

Gré Brouwenstijn

Brouwenstijn's roles at La Monnaie in Brussels were Chrysothemis in Elektra, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and Sieglinde in Die Walküre.

Henriette Amelie de Nerha

Henriette Amelie de Nerha (Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, 1754 - Amsterdam, 19 June 1818), was a Dutch memoir writer, known for her relationship with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

Islam in Belgium

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

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

James David Bevan

He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served in Kinshasa, Brussels, Paris, and Washington, as well as various posts in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Jean-Joseph Fiocco

Jean-Joseph was active in the Austrian Netherlands and - during his time as choirmaster of Maria Elisabeth of Austria's chapel-royal in Brussels - he trained the composer Ignaz Vitzthumb and the violinist Pierre van Maldere.

Joint Research Centre

The JRC has seven scientific institutes, located at six different sites in Belgium (Brussels and Geel), Germany (Karlsruhe), Italy (Ispra), the Netherlands (Petten) and Spain (Seville), with a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities.

La saga de los Aznar

It was awarded Best European Science Fiction Series at the Eurocon in Brussels in 1978.

Michael Konsel

In 1996 he played in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final for a second time, this time against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost again.

Our Lady of Bethlehem

Specialists in 15th-century art attribute the painting to the school of the Brussels painter Rogier van der Weyden, or an anonymous disciple of the school.

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).

Peter Schöttel

He won league and domestic cup titles with Rapid and played the full 90 minutes of the 1996 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St Germain in Brussels, which Rapid lost.

Pierre Alamire

Manuscripts copied by Alamire can be found in many European libraries, including the Habsburg court library in Vienna, in London (the Henry VIII manuscript), the Vatican (a manuscript for Pope Leo X), Brussels, Munich, and Jena, which has the court books for Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Quatre Bras

More specifically it refers to the crossroad of the Charleroi-Brussels road (currently named N5) and the Nivelles-Namur road South of Genappe in Wallonia, Belgium.

Rémy Belvaux

On 4 February 1998 he was one of the four people (including Noël Godin and Jan Bucquoy), one of which who threw a cream pie in the face of the American businessman and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, during Gates' visit to Brussels.

Self Help Africa

In 2009 the organisation collaborated with a number of international development agencies including Development Fund of Norway and FARM-Africa to publish 'Climate Frontline - African Communities Adapting to Survive', which was launched in Dublin by Irish Environment Minister John Gormley, at the EU in Brussels, in London, and in several African capitals.

Simon Hardimé

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

Suzette Defoye

On June 30, 1766, she was one of fifteen actors granted exclusive right by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to perform in Brussels, known as the Ordinary Actors to H.R.H. Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor of the Austrian Netherlands.

Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987

As the songs title contained the trademark names Coca-Cola and the Swedish chewing gum Bugg, the European Broadcasting Union demanded that the lyrics would be changed before the Brussels final, so the song was renamed Boogaloo.

Sydney Airport Holdings

MAp owned shareholdings in Brussels and Copenhagen Airports besides Sydney until 2011 when the company sold its shares to concentrate on the latter, though retained a 1% holding in Bristol Airport.

Sylvain Ngabu Chumbu

Ngabu obtained a master Degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Leuven in Brussels.

Victor Merzhanov

He sat as a jury member in more than 40 international competitions including the Rachmaninov Competition (which he founded), the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Bartók-Liszt Competition in Budapest, and international competitions in Montreal, Tokyo, Brussels and others.

Victor Safonkin

Victor's work has been highly acclaimed, and in 2005 he was invited to exhibit at the European Parliament in Brussels.

VUB night frog

Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels.

William P. Latham

His orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Radio Orchestras in Brussels, Belgium and Hilversum, Holland, under such well known conductors as Eugene Goossens, Howard Hanson, Thor Johnson, Anshel Brusilow, John Giordano, and Walter Susskind.

Willy Coppens

Coppens was born in Watermael-Boitsfort, near Brussels and was conscripted into the army in 1912, to serve with the Premiere Regiment Grenadiers.

Wybo Fijnje

The Fijnje family went to Antwerp, later to Brussels and finally to Watten (French-Flanders).