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3 unusual facts about Gent


Aston Hall

Washington Irving used Aston Hall as the model for Bracebridge Hall in his The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..

Irving's The Sketch Book stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned.

Sarah Curran

Washington Irving, one of America's greatest early writers, devoted "The Broken Heart" in his magnum opus The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. to the romance between Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran, citing it as an example of how a broken heart can be fatal.


1132 Hollandia

It was discovered by H. Van Gent on September 13, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bojan Jorgačević

In the first game of the season 2007/2008, which was his first year at KAA Gent, his competitor Alexandre Martinovic started in the goal.

Brico

These are smaller stores located in city centers (Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Gent ...) that focus on most basic and easy-to-store items.

Christian Brüls

Partly because of his strong performances for the young Red Devils, he attracted the interest of some Belgian top-clubs, including Club Brugge, Germinal Beerschot and Gent.

EDF Luminus

It operates CCGT plants at Angleur, Ghent-Ringvaart and Seraing, and classic thermal plants in Angleur, Gent-Ham, Izegem and Monsin.

Ferhan Hasani

After interest from FC Groningen and Gent fell through, Hasani remained at Shkendija for the first half of the new season.

G. Pels

The asteroid 1667 Pels was named in his honour by his colleague Van Gent.

G.W. Sok

This track was also released as the 7 inch "Illusies 1 & 2" under the bandname Zoikle, consisting of Sok, guitarist Lukas Simonis, cellist Nina Hitz, drummer Cor Hoogerdijk and Maarten van Gent on metal percussion.

Georges van Vrekhem

Georges Van Vrekhem (Wakken, 28 March 1935 – Auroville, 31 August 2012) was a Flemish-speaking Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent".

Inverted Dendermonde

18 of the 25 stamps were sold at the Post Office of Gent (Fr. Gand) on 13 August 1920.

Jean-François Chevrier

Exhibitions and catalogues he has curated and co-edited include Matter of Facts (Nantes et al., 1988), Une autre objectivité / Another Objectivity (London, 1988), Photo Kunst (Stuttgart, 1989), Craigie Horsfield (London, 1989), Lieux communs, figures singulières (Paris, 1991), Walker Evans and Dan Graham (Rotterdam, 1992) and Craigie Horsfield. La ciutat de la gent (Barcelona, 1996).

Komiti Skopje

Also 'KOMITI' have made numerous away trips in Europe, like Bordeaux, Halmstad, Brussels, Valencia, Vienna, Bucharest, Kiev, Southampton, Rome and Gent.

Luc Castaignos

Castaignos made his Europa League debut in a 1–0 win over Gent, coming on as a substitute.

Oman Daily Observer

The managing editor for several years of the Oman Daily Observer was Maurice Gent, an Irish journalist with experience working on Fleet Street, at The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times, and at the BBC.

Rhys Pollock

DFL riders and staff included former Gent-Wevelgem winner Nico Mattan, Daniel Lloyd, Jens Mouris and Bernard Sulzberger.

Ronald Verlin Cassill

Cassill worked as an editor for the Western Review of Iowa City from 1951 to 1952, Collier's Encyclopedia from 1953 to 1954, and Dude and Gent in 1958.

Tom Boere

Returning to KAA Gent, where he spent much of his youth during the winter transfer window of the 2011-12 season as a free transfer, Boere made his senior debut in Belgium coming on as an 86th minute substitute for Rafinha in the Gent - Zulte Waregem home match on 21 January 2012.

Traci Topps

She has also featured as the cover model and centrefold of magazines such as Score, Gent and the Larry Flynt publication Juggs.

Vinkt Massacre

As the German Army continued to advance west, pushing back both the British Expeditionary Force (trying to escape to Dunkirk) and the Belgian army, the village of Vinkt became an important target, as it lay both on the road south from Gent to Lille, and astride the Schipdonk Canal that blocked the German advance to the west.

William Boot

Barring the question of age, a more appropriate model for Boot may be William Beach Thomas who, according to Peter Stothard, "was a quietly successful countryside columnist and literary gent who became a calamitous Daily Mail war correspondent" in World War I.

Yassine El Ghanassy

Yassine El Ghanassy (born 12 July 1990) is a Belgian-Moroccan footballer who plays as a forward for the UAE League side Al Ain on loan from Gent.


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