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unusual facts about Boom, 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.

A Music Fairy

Ahmad Haseeb uses rare music videos of Nazia and Zoheb like Disco Deewane, Boom Boom, Mujhay Chahie, Telephone Pyar & Hulla Gulla Karien Hum.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

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.

Ardsley, New York

This second boom led to the eventual construction of several village schools, including Concord Road Elementary School (1952), Ardsley High School (1958), and Ardsley Middle School (1967).

Avraham Shekhterman

He studied civil engineering at Ghent University, where he chaired the Jewish Students Organisation, as well as working as a Betar instructor in Antwerp.

Bamberton, British Columbia

The demand for cement in the building boom of the times outstripped the capacity of the Tod Inlet operation and leading the company to construct a further plant at Bamberton which opened in 1912 under the name Associated Cement Company.

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.

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

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.

Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool

There was controversy before the church was consecrated because Bodley intended to use an early 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp which had carved tableaux of the Passion as the reredos.

Clancy Lowered the Boom

"Clancy Lowered the Boom" is a song written by Hy Heath and Johnny Lange in 1947, made famous by Dennis Day on Jack Benny's radio program (The Jack Benny Program).

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.

Exeter, Pennsylvania

In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.

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.

Giovanni Antoniano

He also published (Cologne, 1560) the writings of Paulinus of Nola, and the letters of St. Jerome in Antwerp, in 1568.

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

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.

Henri Depelchin

Then he was sent to Antwerp and Namur to teach in the Jesuit schools and to serve as a superior.

Holtville, California

The construction of railroads in the 1890s, the All-American Canal in the late 1940s, U.S. Route 80 in the 1920s later converted to Interstate 8 in the 1970s and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) economic boom in the 1990s brought more people to Holtville and the Imperial Valley.

Indeevar

Nazia Hassan's famous songs "Aap Jaisa Koi", "Boom Boom", "Meherbani", "Dil ki Lagi" & Zohaib Hassan's "Star" was written by Indeevar.

Islam in Belgium

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

Jack Whitten

Whitten is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York; Zeno X gallery in Antwerp, Belgium; and Guido Maus, beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL.

Jan Mabuse

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

Jhigli

Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens has seen a tremendous amount of newly opened Bangladeshi restaurants mainly by Sylhetis and a great influx of such residents attracted by the real estate boom there.

Kee Marcello

Namely, Canadian band The Moffats number one hit single "Bang Bang Boom", the title song for R&R Hall Of Fame inductee Percy Sledge's 2004 album Shining Through the Rain, and 3 consecutive platinum albums for Swedish singer Pandora in Japan.

Kike Posada

He is the founder of BOOM Magazine & BOOM Promotions and music correspondent for Caracol Radio WSUA Miami and the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez

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

Louisiana Highway 110

Longville, at the height of the logging boom, was the site of one of the largest sawmills in Louisiana founded by Robert A. Long.

Mochovce

In contrast, the power plant construction has brought an economic and demographic boom to the nearby town of Levice in the 1980s.

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.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

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.

Nick Broomfield

Each of these featured Broomfield with his trademark sound boom "investigating" rumours about the soon-to-be released Volkswagen Passat.

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.

Old Aberdeen

Since the 1960s, and the North Sea oil boom of the 1970s, however, housing development has surrounded the area, in particular with the nearby Tillydrone development.

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.

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 .

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Staf Van Reet

He obtained a degree of engineering in Applied Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a Law degree from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

Starborn

Starborn (Benjamin Warner) is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Boom! Studios.

Streetboys

The Streetboys became known for it's 1997 smash hit "Boom Tiyaya", which was composed by the Pastor brothers (Eazer and Edwin).

Table Rock, Wyoming

Table Rock was built in the late 1970s by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town, to house workers during an area boom and housing shortage.

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.

The Black and White Album

The song "Tick Tick Boom" was the official theme song for WWE's Survivor Series 2007 and also featured in the Madden NFL 11 soundtrack.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.


see also

RV Belgica

New Belgica (barque) The project to recreate the RV Belgica (1884) at De Steenschuit's yard in Boom, Antwerp.