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unusual facts about Basilica of Our Lady, Maastricht



1998 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial

The Women's Individual Time Trial at the 1999 World Cycling Championships was held on Wednesday October 7, 1998 from Maastricht to Vilt, within the commune of Valkenburg aan de Geul.

2010 Amstel Gold Race

Several riders who planned to compete in the race were unable to make it to Maastricht because of the colossal ash cloud formed by the eruption of the Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which grounded flights throughout Europe.

Aachen Schanz station

Several bus lines to western Aachen stop here, including regional buses to Kelmis and Maastricht and the medical centers of the city (Luisenhospital, Franziskushospital, Alexianerkrankenhaus and Klinikum Aachen).

Basilica of Our Lady, Maastricht

Apart from Saint Nicholas Church, the parish made use of three other chapels dedicated to Saint Hilarius, Saint Evergislus, and Saint Mary Minor.

Battle of Baesweiler

On 20 August, Wenceslas led his army from the border town of Maastricht towards the enemy capital of Jülich.

Benny Neyman

Wilhelmus Albertus "Benny" Neyman (9 June 1951 in Maastricht, Netherlands - 7 February 2008 in Soesterberg, Netherlands) was a Dutch singer.

Betasuchus

Its fossil, holotype BMNH 42997 (now NHM R 42997), a part of a right femur, 312 mm long, was found in the Netherlands near Maastricht, and originally described as a new species of Megalosaurus in 1883 by Harry Seeley: M. bredai, honouring the late Dutch biologist and geologist Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda, a director of the Teylers Museum, who had collected the fossil at some time between 1820 and 1860 from the chalkstone quarry at the St Pietersberg.

British Rail Class 77

Their main work was on The HagueCologne express trains as far as the border at Venlo although they travelled to their home depot at Maastricht either with a train or light engine on Sunday for their weekly examination before returning to traffic the following day.

Capture of Maastricht

While Venlo and Roermond were lost to the Spaniards in 1637, Maastricht remained in Dutch hands, even though sovereignty over the condominium was to be shared with the prince-bishops of Liège.

Charles de Brouckère

He worked as a banker in Maastricht and served as a representative for the province of Limburg in the Second Chamber of parliament.

DB Class ETA 150

Between 1978 and 1988 the railcars also worked from Aachen to Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf

The church was probably built as a private chapel for Arnold of Wied, provost of Limburg Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral and the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht.

Drug policy of the Netherlands

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

Duchy of Limburg

Combined with the Landen van Overmaas (the lands beyond the Meuse: Dalhem, Herzogenrath and Valkenburg) and Maastricht, the duchy became one of the Seventeen Provinces held by the Habsburgs within the Burgundian Circle established in 1512.

Eleventh Amendment

Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permits the state to ratify the Maastricht Treaty

Eugene Nalimov

He received a ChessBase award at the ChessBase meeting in Maastricht in 2002 for his work.

François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt

He opened the campaign of 1793 with the victory of Aldenhoven and the relief of Maastricht, and on 18 March 1793 proved instrumental in causing the complete defeat of Charles Dumouriez at the Battle of Neerwinden.

Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

The chief military exploits of Frederick Henry were the sieges and captures of Grol in 1627, 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629, of Maastricht in 1632, of Breda in 1637, of Sas van Gent in 1644, and of Hulst in 1645.

George Frederik Willem Borel

George Frederik Willem Borel (Maastricht, Netherlands 22 August 1837 to Bad Nauheim, Germany, 4 August 1907) was a major general in the Netherlands, notable for his involvement in the Banjarmasin and Aceh Wars.

Gerd Leers

He became mayor of Maastricht in 2002, but he resigned following an affair concerning a holiday villa project in Byala, Varna Province in Bulgaria.

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim

His operations were far-ranging and his restless activity dominated the country from Stade to Kassel, and from Hildesheim to Maastricht.

Hubert Vos

The Louvre Museum (Paris, France), Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, Netherlands), the Chicago History Museum, the Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Luxembourg Palace (Paris), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding works by Hubert Vos.

Hubertus

Be that as it may, Hubert set out immediately for Maastricht, for there Lambert was bishop.

Jean-Baptiste Coclers

From 1731 till 1738 he worked in Maastricht, after which he established himself in Liège, where he was made court painter of the prince-bishops Georges-Louis de Berghes, John Theodore of Bavaria and Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont.

John Walbach

He was present during the campaign of 1792 in Champagne in the advance of the Prussian army until it was disbanded at Maastricht, on 6 January 1793, participated in the attack on Frankfurt, and subsequently served during the campaign of 1793 in attacks on the French lines at Germersheim, Langenkandel, and Weissenburg.

Klinikum Aachen

University Hospital Aachen (UKA) and the University Medical Centre Maastricht (Maastricht UMC+)will start a Cardiovascular Centre of Excellence on the Avantis Technology Park on the Dutch-German border between Heerlen and Aachen

Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts

The Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts does not have a doctoral programme.

Maastricht silver

The oldest known piece stamped with the Maastricht hallmark is the so-called arm of Saint Thomas, a 15th-century silver reliquary in the shape of an arm, now in the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht.

Maastrichtian dialect

These exceptions are previously separate villages and/or municipalities that have merged with the municipality of Maastricht namely Amby, Borgharen, Heer and Itteren.

This is not only because of geographic closeness of a Francophone region (namely Wallonia) to Maastricht but also because of French being the predominant spoken language of the Maastrichtian cultural elite and the higher secondary educational system of the region in the past.

Meuse–Rhine Euroregion

It comprises 11.000 km² and has around 3.9 million inhabitants around the city-corridor of AachenMaastrichtHasseltLiège.

Panti Rapih Hospital

The building was similar to St. Carolus Borromeus Main Monastery in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Percy Kirke

In 1673 he was with Monmouth at Maastricht and was present during two campaigns with Turenne on the Rhine.

Schagen

From Amsterdam Centraal these Intercity trains continue trough Utrecht Centraal either to Eindhoven and Maastricht or to Arnhem and Nijmegen.

Settela Steinbach

Of the Steinbach family, only the father survived; he died in 1946 and is buried in the cemetery of Maastricht.

Sociocracy

The main advantages of adopting the sociocratic approach have been extensively studied, especially in collaboration with professor Georges Romme (at Maastricht University respectively Eindhoven University of Technology); see for example: Romme & Endenburg (2006).

St. Lambert's Cathedral, Liège

Saint Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, was assassinated in Liège about 705, and was initially buried in Maastricht.

Swasti Mitter

She has held posts as Professor of Gender and Technology at the University of Brighton, and as a Deputy Director of the UNU Institute of New Technologies at the University of Maastricht (Now UNU-MERIT).

The Cicero Foundation

The Cicero Foundation (CF) is an independent nonprofit pro-EU and pro-Atlantic think tank, based in Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Paris (France).

Think tank

Maastricht in the Netherlands is also the headquarters of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) a "think and do tank" with a Europe and Africa focus.

Thomas Regout International

Founded in 1834, Thomas Regout International B.V. is located in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Townhouse Designhotel Maastricht

Townhouse Designhotel is sponsor for Maastricht football club MVV during the season 2010-11.

UCMSA Universalis

The organisation was registered with the Maastricht Chamber of Commerce and certified by a notary on 3 December 2002, marking the official establishment of UCM Study Association Universalis.

Victim in Pain

Richard Bruinen (nicknamed Richie Backfire), drummer of the Maastricht band Backfire!, had Victim in Pain tattooed on his stomach.

Zepperen

Till the end of the 18th century the village was an enclave owned by the chapter of Saint-Servaas of Maastricht amidst the land of the principality of Liège.


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