It is named after the Belgian village of Schelderode near the Scheldt River in Flanders.
The song achieved success in many European countries where it was a top ten hit, particularly in Belgium (Flanders Region) and Denmark, where it reached number one.
This was demonstrated on 15 July 1796 when Glatton fought a French squadron of four frigates, two ship-corvettes, a large brig-corvette and an armed cutter off the coast of Flanders.
Before his twentieth birthday, he joined the Spanish army as a volunteer in Havana, he fought in Flanders, Seville and Tortosa, and saved the life of King, in a war in Villaviciosa, Asturias.
To the left is the view through the marble arches revealing the chocolate box corner shop, built in the Flemish style in 1899 to designs by Alan Hussell.
Its northern portion is occupied by the military barracks of Kokolo, whose buildings prominently display traditional Flemish architecture.
In 1997 their achievements were recognised with their nomination as Cultural Ambassador of Flanders.
His harpsichords drew on the Flemish tradition, dominated by Ruckers, whose harpsichords had become extremely prized in the 18th century; he himself owned and hired out two Ruckers harpsichords.
After one year he gave it to his wife, the duchess Margaret of Flanders.
•
1393: Claus Sluter carved the famous group showing Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders ; the duke and the duchess are seated under an elm, surrounded by sheep;
As a choreographer, d'Amboise has created more than fifty ballets for numerous international companies, including those in San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Flanders.
After the Restoration of 1660 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Catharine of Braganza, and returned to London, where he spent most of his remaining years with occasional visits to Flanders.
The work of Willem Boy is of exceptional quality, which is perhaps explained by the fact that lions were a dominant feature in the heraldry of Flanders, and he would therefore have had a great deal of exposure to it before receiving the commission for the tomb of Gustavus I.
Flanders (Belgium) hosts a number of criteriums, as does the Netherlands.
Cubitus is known as Dommel in Flanders and the Netherlands, and his name derives from the French name of the ulna bone.
De Grote Sprong is a Flemish reality television series broadcast on VTM, based on the Celebrity Splash! format created by Dutch company Eyeworks.
De Kreuners are a Flemish rock band established in 1978.
An American-Flemish Collaboration founded in 2001, in Ghent, Belgium, the primary interest of all the performers and collaborators was sound composition.
Born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585, he probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo, a landscape painter from Antwerp and a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Flempton takes its name from its founders who came from Flanders (Flemings) and settled the area in Anglo-Saxon times.
The comic first appeared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, and was later also published in the Netherlands and in Wallonia in French.
He died of disease while in camp with his regiment in Flanders.
The song peaked at number twenty-three in Belgium (Flanders).
However, iatrochemistry was popular between 1525 and 1660, especially in Flanders.
They also had the adverse effect of being used by the French Revolutionary Army, after their invasion of Flanders in 1790, to requisition the best paintings for transport to the Musée Central des Arts in the Louvre, Paris.
From a popular female trio which had hit records three years in a row (1978–1981) in a dozen of countries, Luv' became an act which only caught the attention of the Dutch speaking mass media in the Netherlands and in Flanders (Belgium).
In Flanders, he met another Leveller and anti-Cromwell plotter, Edward Sexby, in 1656.
Nathaniel moved to Belgium with his family in 1991 and began his football development by playing with Flanders club Overijse's U–12 and U–14 sides.
Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy (10 January 1588 – 1653/1656) was a Dutch painter of Flemish origin.
Built in 1971, the circuit hosted two rounds of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix in 1972 and 1974 during the time when the race was supposed to alternate between Walloon and Flemish circuits.
The first Norman knight to land in Ireland was Richard fitz Godbert de Roche in 1167, but it was not until 1169 that the main body of Norman, Welsh and Flemish forces landed in Wexford.
The grange was established to enclose the large flocks of sheep needed by the Abbots to trade wool with Flanders.
The building is famous for its postmodern architectural design topped with Flemish-inspired neo-gothic spires which blend architecturally with the city's historic skyline.
According to Sbaralea (Suppl. Script. Franciscani ordinis, Rome, 1806, 571) he was a native of Flanders and belonged to the Franciscan ecclesiastical province of Cologne.
This earl is the hero of a famous altercation with King Edward I in 1297, which arose from the king's command that Bigod should serve against the King of France in Gascony, while Edward himself went to Flanders.
The devotion to the Precious Blood was a special phenomenon of Flemish piety in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, that gave rise to the iconic image of Grace as the "Fountain of Life," filled with blood, pouring from the wounded "Lamb of God" or the "Holy Wounds" of Christ.
He now became chaplain to the Cameronian regiment, serving under the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders.
This Flemish bagpipe is also known as schäferpfeife, as it is similar in appearance.
Born in Flanders, New Jersey, he attended Mount Olive High School and established himself as a distance runner while there, receiving four high school All-America honours before graduating in 1998.
It charted elsewhere internationally, including the Belgian Albums Chart in both Flanders and Wallonia, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
The Ultimate Dance Battle (TUDB) is a Dutch and Flemish dance competition and reality show for professional level choreographers and dancers.
In a prefatory note addressed to the book's child readers, Neill states that he and his family live in Flanders, New Jersey, which he describes as "on top of the Schooley Mountains and the Jenny Jump Mountains are really truly mountains right next to us."
Whetstone, however, was reviled, and when he went over, he was arrested and sent to Flanders for trial.
His reproductions of Italian, Dutch, Flemish and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself.
The beams were clearly visible from the terrace at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York, from at least as far west as western Morris County, in Flanders, New Jersey, at least as far as the barrier beach of Fire Island in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, and as far south near Trenton, New Jersey in nearby Hamilton.
This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Brill painted vedute as early as the 16th century.
vtm or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (English: Flemish Television Company) is the main commercial television station in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium and forms part of a network of channels owned by Vlaamse Media Maatschappij (VMMa).
Flanders | County of Flanders | Count of Flanders | Flanders and Swann | In Flanders Fields Museum | In Flanders Fields | West Flanders | Tour of Flanders | Ned Flanders | Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial | Ed Flanders | Laura Flanders | French Flanders | Flanders, New Jersey | Zeelandic Flanders | Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Flanders | Margaret II, Countess of Flanders | Joshua Flanders | Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine | Flanders Recorder Quartet | Flanders Fields | Flanders Field | count of Flanders | Romance Flanders | Parliament of Flanders | Mutinous troops of the Army of Flanders ransack the ''Grote Markt | Lilloise Flanders | Jack Flanders | Holly Flanders | Helen Hartness Flanders |
The 1913 Tour of Flanders was the 1st edition of the Tour of Flanders single-day cycling race, known as one of the Monument classics.
In The Simpsons episode "The Bart of War", Milhouse mentions he feels "like luge silver medalist Barbara Niedernhuber" while riding Flanders' video cart.
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.
In Flanders, VRT channels (Eén, Canvas and Ketnet/OP12) had a combined market share of 42.0% in 2012, VMMa channels (VTM, 2BE, Vitaya and vtmKzoom) 28.8%, SBS Belgium channels (VIER and VIJF) 10.5% and Concentra (Acht) 0,5%.
The resistance included both men and women, from both Walloon and Flemish parts of the country.
World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;
The Van Beveren, also a fur-rabbit breed, is family and has been bred in the same region of Flanders, the Waasland.
Though originally destined for the English mission, Clement never went to England, but held the major positions of Dean of St. Gudule's, Brussels, and Vicar general of the King of Spain's army in Flanders.
His efforts would culminate in his supervision of the first successful deployment of what is nowadays considered as a weapon of mass destruction in military history, in Flanders, Belgium on April 22, 1915.
See also : William Clito (1102-1128), the son of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, by his marriage with Sibylla of Conversano and count of Flanders.
The region comprising future Flanders was, from an economic point of view, a flourishing region, with a series of ports along the Scheldt river: Ghent, Tournai, Valenciennes, Cambrai and Lambres at Douai on the Scarpe and a number of seaports: Quentovic, Boulogne and Isère portus, a port at the mouth of the Yser.
Socialist politician Steve Stevaert of Hasselt implemented a policy allowing registered residents in Flanders aged 65+ to ride anywhere in Flanders free.
Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent which follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learned to surf with South African troops.
On 26 April 2006, the Flemish Parliament unanimously recognised the Flemish Sign Language as a language in Flanders.
•
When the first deaf schools were established in Flanders, the teachers were directly or indirectly influenced by the methods used at the Paris deaf school (and consequently by French Sign Language); either by following training programs in Paris, or by following training programs in two deaf schools in the Netherlands (Groningen and Sint-Michielsgestel), which were themselves influenced by the Paris school.
He defeated the army of Flanders that had invaded Walcheren in 1253, where he captured Guy and John of Dampierre, both sons of Margaret II, Countess of Flanders and commanders for Flanders.
High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.
According to Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th century Flemish.
1/1st Hampshire Yeomanry was part of the 1st South Western Mounted Brigade on mobilisation but departed for France and saw action in Messines, the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and Flanders.
In 1766, after years that had seen the Swedish Navy being reduced, he travelled on his own expense to Brest, Flanders and Amsterdam, where he observed shipbuilding and fortress construction techniques.
In 1388, Henry VIII, in exchange for his resignation of the administration of the diocese of Wroclaw, received from Pope Urban VI the Bishopric of the remote Cambrai in Flanders.
On 2 October 1470, King Edward had fled to Flanders in the face of a rebellion by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
During World War II Schiltz was a member of the Nationaal-Socialistische Jeugd Vlaanderen (English: National Socialist Youth Flanders).
The museum houses the large painting The Golden Canvass of Flanders (“Het Gulden Doek van Vlaanderen”) by Dutch-born Belgian painter Henry Luyten.
At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Ingegerd and her sister Cæcilia Knudsdatter followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.
Hesdin, the town from which he took his name, was a fortified citadel in the Pas-de-Calais, then part of Flanders and a stronghold of the Dukes of Burgundy.
With his final term paper he won the International Scholarship of Flanders-prize and was able to study two years of econometrics at Lawrence Klein.
Proske was a pioneer in the field, and the fact that his editions reflected only the German, Flemish, and Italian repertoires - excluding Spaniards for the most part, though he did include Victoria - does not diminish his amazing contributions to Sacred music.
Contrary to the other major Flemish newspapers like De Standaard/Het Nieuwsblad (with Spike and Suzy) and Het Volk (with Nero), Het Laatste Nieuws had no local, Flemish comic strip but only published Dutch comics by Marten Toonder or Hans G. Kresse, which left an opportunity for Merho.
(Michel Joseph, Duc de Bournonville in French), ( Diksmuide, Flanders, 30 June 1672 - Madrid, 2 October 1752), was a Spanish noble.
His paintings show the mingling of several cultures, as Alfonso V of Aragon had brought to Naples artists from Iberia, including the Valencian Jacomart, Burgundy, Provence, and Flanders.
He was admitted to the Company of Jesus on 24 October 1601 by Father Oliveræus, the provincial of Flanders, and commenced his novitiate at Tournay on 23 November 1601.
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.
:* Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Cambrai 1917, St. Quentin, Ancre 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18
He travelled through Cambrai, Tournai, Arras, Flanders, and Picardy, his sermons vehemently denouncing the vices of the clergy and the extravagant dress of the women, especially their lofty head-dresses, or hennins.
Born to Protestant parents in Flanders and a fervent counter-remonstrant, Baudartius left the Netherlands on the arrival of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo and landed in England at Sandwich.
He served in Flanders under the Duke of York, and in 1795 was promoted major, and purchased the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 19th regiment.
The Fijnje family went to Antwerp, later to Brussels and finally to Watten (French-Flanders).