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6 unusual facts about Namur


ALCOR

:ALCOR is a radar tracking station in Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Henri Depelchin

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

Then he studied philosophy at the University of Namur (1849–1851) and theology at the Catholic University of Louvain (1851–1854).

Jacky Munaron

Jacques Munaron (Namur, 8. September 1956) was a Belgian Football player.

MMW

MMW is a radar tracking station in Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands

TRADEX

TRADEX is a radar tracking station in Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands


Adolphe Max

As a result he was arrested and held in captivity, first at Namur, and then at Glatz, until he escaped on 13 November 1918.

Baldwin of Avesnes

After the Edict of Péronne and the death of his brother John, he reconciled with his mother, who sent him to Namur on a revenge expedition.

Belgian American

The Sisters of Notre Dame, from Namur, established bilingual schools in 14 of those states and the Benedictines built missions in the western part of the country.

Boitsfort railway station

Trains calling at this station are local trains travelling between Brussels-South and Louvain-La-Neuve, Louvain-La-Neuve and Binche (via Brussels-South) and between Brussels-South and Namur.

Burgundian Circle

He thereby became the progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy who systematically came into possession of different Imperial fiefs: his grandson Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1419, purchased Namur in 1429, inherited the duchies of Brabant and Limburg from his cousin Philip of Saint-Pol in 1430.

Business engineering

Among others, university business schools offering those programmes are the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the Louvain School of Management (Université catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur), HEC Management School - University of Liege, the KULeuven, the HUBrussel (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), Ghent University or still the University of Antwerp.

Cambio CarSharing

The cambio locations in Belgium in 27 cities, for example: Arlon, Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Chiny, Ghent, Hasselt, Kortrijk, Leuven, Lier, Liège, Mechelen, Mons, Namur, Oostende, Ottignies, Turnhout and Zwijndrecht.

Castle of Vêves

The Castle of Vêves occupies a rocky platform just outside the village of Celles, in the province of Namur, Belgium.

Counts of Namur

The following is a list of Counts or Margraves of Namur.

Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg

In 1223 Ermesinde and Waleran pressed their claim to Namur against Margrave Philip II, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

Falisolle

Falisolle (Farjole in Walloon ) is a village in the Belgian municipality of Sambreville, located in Wallonia in the province of Namur.

Floreffe Abbey

When Norbert of Xanten, founder of the Premonstratensian Order, was returning from Cologne in the year after its foundation with relics for his new church at Prémontré, Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis received him in their castle at Namur.

Florent de Berlaymont

In 1579 he succeeded his brother Gilles, who was killed at the Siege of Maastricht (1579), as stadtholder of Namur and Artois.

Georgia State Route 383

It is named after Lieutenant Colonel Aquilla James "Jimmie" Dyess, a United States Marine Corps officer who was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" at the head of his troops during World War II in the Battle of Kwajalein, on Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands on February 2, 1944.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Mystique et militant de la non-violence, Namur, Fidélité, 2010, preface by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

Jemeppe Castle

These offered little protection against the ruling families of Namur and Luxembourg, who had been fighting to gain control of the territories of Durbuy and La Roche since the 12th century.

John III, Marquis of Namur

He succeeded his elder brother William II as Marquis of Namur, when William died without children in 1418.

Joseph Jaquet

In l879, Joseph Jaquet designed a statue of Louise of Orléans, first Queen of the Belgians: this statue was on the Place d'Armes in Philippeville then was moved to the old École moyenne, Namur street.

Juan Pavón

During the 10 years he worked for the company, he spent long periods in Alcatel centers outside Spain, in France (Lannion and Vélizy), Belgium (Namur and Antwerp).

Karl Heeremans

From this time on, numerous awards and recognitions were presented to him, such as the 1964 - price of Namur, Belgium 1962–1967 Italian Olivetti, Knokke and Ronse, Belgium and Cannes, France.

Leignon

Leignon is a village in the municipality of Ciney, in the Belgian province of Namur.

Maillen

Maillen is the largest town in the municipality of Assesse in the province of Namur, Belgium.

Maredsous

Maredsous Abbey, a Benedictine monastery at Denée near Namur in Belgium

Patrick Bath

F.X. Martin wrote of him – “Though Bath died at Cahors in 1607, before the Irish Mission became a reality, he brought prestige to the Irish Capuchins by his appointment as guardian of the friary at Namur. His prominence among the Capuchins was due to the fact that a bare nine months after profession he was appointed lector of philosophy in the Capuchin study house newly opened at Louvain.” (p. 9).

Quatre Bras

More specifically it refers to the crossroad of the Charleroi-Brussels road (currently named N5) and the Nivelles-Namur road South of Genappe in Wallonia, Belgium.

Rocquencourt

After the defeat of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Grouchy's army withdrew to Paris via Namur and Dinant, reaching Paris on 29 June, a few days before the Prussians, who camped at Versailles.

Royal Belgian Football Association

At the end of 2006–07 season, the final of the third division final round was played between Namur and Verbroedering Geel, and won by Geel.

Thomas Strickland

Thomas John Francis Strickland known as Abbe Strickland (1679?–1740), bishop of Namur and doctor of the Sorbonne

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies

Jörundur Hilmarsson (Reykjavík, died 1992, founder and former editor-in-chief), Werner Winter (Preetz, died 2010), Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (1992-1993 and supervision of the supplementary series 1992-1997), Lambert Isebaert (Louvain/Namur, assistant editor until 2000)

Water supply and sanitation in Belgium

In Mons surface water from the Maas is treated to provide another 30% of the city's water needs; in Vedrin, part of Namur, water is pumped from an abandoned Pyrite mine; springs in Genappe, wells in Waterloo and Zaventem, and mines in Ligny and Écaussinnes provide the remainder of Brussel's water supply.


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