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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walloons (French: Wallons, Walloon: Walons) are a Romance-speaking people partly from Germanic origin and Celtic origin; in any case a melting-pot speaking French, living in Belgium principally in Wallonia, more generally the inhabitants of Wallonia. They also speak regional languages like Walloon or Picard.The term Walloon is derived from Walha, a very old Germanic term used by Germanic Tribes to refer to Celtic and Latin speakers. According to region, Walha transformed, in particular by loans in other languages, and by semantic reduction. The Swiss region Wallis and the British region Wales have the same etymological explanation. "Walloon" was created in Romance languages alongside other related terms, but it supplanted them. Its oldest written trace is found in Jean de Haynin's Mémoires de Jean, sire de Haynin et de Louvignies in 1465, where it refers to Roman populations of the Burgundian Netherlands. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mol is amunicipality located in the Belgian provinceof Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town ofMol proper. On January 1, 2007 Mol had a totalpopulation of 33,054 inhabitants. The total area is114.26 km² which gives a population density of 289inhabitants per km².Mol is a popular holiday resort,with a number of lakes surrounded by woods. The twomain tourist lakes are Zilvermeer, which opened as aProvincial Park in 1959 and offers a white sand beachas well as facilities such as an outdoor playground,and Kempensen Meren, which is bordered on its southernedge by the large Sun Parks holiday centre. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Paracommando Brigade (Dutch: Paracommando Brigade/French: Brigade Paracommando) was an elite fighting force in the Belgian Land Component, consisting of three Paracommando battalions plus several support units (one artillery battery, one anti-aircraft artillery battery, one logistics company, one engineer company, one medical company and an intelligence unit).During the Second World War parachutist and commando units were founded in Great Britain. In 1952 the parachutist and commando units were brought together in a Para-Commando Regiment. Later an antitank company, a field artillery battery and a reconnaissance squadron were added. In November 1991 the ... Read more

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Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, and customs of the smallest of the Benelux countries. ... Read more

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Euro gold and silver commemorative coins are special euro coins minted and issued by member states of the Eurozone, mainly in gold and silver, although other precious metals are also used in rare occasions. Belgium was one of the first twelve countries in the Eurozone that introduced the euro (€) on 1 January 2002. Since then, the Belgian Royal Mint have been minting both normal issues of Belgian euro coins, which are intended for circulation, and commemorative euro coins in gold and silver. These special coins have a legal tender only in Belgium, unlike the normal issues of the Belgian euro coins, which have a legal tender in every country of the Eurozone. This means that the commemorative coins made of gold and silver cannot be used as money in other countries. Furthermore, as their bullion value generally vastly exceeds their face value, these coins are not intended to be used as means of payment at all—although it remains possible. For this reason, they are usually named Collectors' coins. The coins usually commemorate the anniversaries of historical events or draw attention to current events of special importance. ... Read more

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Subtitle: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian CollectionGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1852Original Publisher: The authorSubjects: England Description and travelFrance Description and travelIndians of North AmericaEnglandFranceHistory / Native AmericanHistory / United States / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / People ... Read more

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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting personal financial affairs--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Historian Martha Howell reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate--and ultimately redefine--property and gender relations. ... Read more

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Howell does a great job examining how Renaissance women protected their interests, and the interests of their children.her book is extremely detailed and well researched. Although my historical interests are as faraway from Renaissance Europe, this book sure raised my interest level ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio2 is a Belgian radio station of the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT). As opposed to the more formal Radio 1, Radio2 features a more populist schedule aimed at a general family audience and is currently, one of the most popular radio stations in Flanders. Radio2 operates five regional opt-out stations in the provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and West Flanders. Each opt-out station produces seven regional news bulletins per day and dedicated programmes for its province at breakfast (Ochtendpost), lunchtime (Middagpost) and drivetime (Avondpost). ... Read more

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This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and different locations, the contributors examine the various dimensions of health ecology in a human ecology framework, examining how local, regional and global factors impinge upon the health and environment of individuals, communities and the globe. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 4924 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice. ... Read more

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Jean-Claude Van Damme (born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Vaerenbergh, 18 October 1960(1960-10-18)) is a Belgian martial artist and actor who is best known for martial arts and action movies. His most successful films include Bloodsport (1988), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), and Timecop (1994). Due to his physique and his Belgian background, he is sometimes known as "The Muscles from Brussels." After studying martial arts intensively from the age of ten, Van Damme achieved national success in Belgium as a martial artist and bodybuilder, earning the "Mr. Belgium" bodybuilding title. He emigrated to the United States in 1982 to pursue a career in film, and achieved breakout success with Bloodsport (1988), based on the alleged true story of Frank Dux. He attained subsequent box office success with Timecop (1994), which grossed over $100 million worldwide and became his most financially successful film. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3764 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio 1 (Radio Één) is a Belgian radio station of the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT). Radio broadcasting is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to a receiving antenna. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both. Audio broadcasting also can be done via cable FM, local wire networks, satellite and the Internet. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Secret Army is a television drama series made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister. The series chronicled the history of a Belgian resistance movement during the Second World War dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually having been shot down by the Luftwaffe, back to their home country. The series was made in the United Kingdom and broadcast on BBC1 for three series from 7 September 1977 to 15 December 1979. In the first series, the show was set in a Brussels café (Le Candide), where the owner Albert Foiret helps Lisa Colbert (code-named "Yvette") hide airmen and control the various members of the "Lifeline" organisation as they take the airmen across borders to safer neutral countries such as Spain. Their principal opponents were Ludwig Kessler, an officious officer in the SS, and the more laidback Luftwaffe officer Major Erwin Brandt. Flight Lieutenant John Curtis is flown into Brussels to act as Lifeline's British liaison and is at first greeted with hostility and suspicion, with signs of a growing romantic tension between him and Lisa. ... Read more