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unusual facts about Sint-Gillis-Waas



Alfred Vanderpuije

The ancestors of Vanderpuije originally came from Sint-Maartensdijk on the former island of Tholen in the Netherlands.

Alfred Vreven

Alfred (Freddy) Marie Daniel Ghislain Joseph Vreven (Sint-Truiden, 24 March 1937 - Jette, 15 June 2000) was a Belgian liberal politician for the PVV.

Beekkant metro station

The station is located in the borough of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, running parallel to a railway used for freight trains and in 2010 again as suburban railway line of the future Brussels RER.

Bernard van Orley

The Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem, Holland, also has a set of stained-glass windows designed by van Orley, depicting the donor Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht and his patron saint Martin.

Bert Kruismans

Kruismans was born in 1966 in the village of Sint-Katharine-Lombeek as Bert Hilda Van der Cruyssen and now lives in Meldert, near Aalst.

Blue of Sint-Niklaas

It has been bred since the 19th century, near the city of Sint-Niklaas, to supply the local fur-industry, and is thereby one of the oldest fur-rabbit breeds of the world.

Capstone Program

The technology that changed this and put the routes and approaches where they were needed, at low altitudes over the fjords, is the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS).

Carol Christensen

Christensen was married to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis star Dwayne Hickman from 1963 to 1972.

County of Saint-Pol

The county of Saint-Pol (or Sint-Pols) was a county around the French city of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas) on the border of Artois and Picardy, formerly the county of Ternois.

Demets

Fernand Demets (Sint-Gillis, 8 March 1884 - Brussels, 29 September 1952) was a Belgian liberal politician.

Dušan Belić

He played for FK Hajduk Beograd, PSK Pančevo and FK Dinamo Pančevo before moving to Belgium where he would play for Sint-Truidense VV for eight and a half years playing a total of 217 league matches.

Equipment codes

/L RNAV capability with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), including GPS or Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) with en route and terminal capability, and with RVSM

Feed the Animals

Feed the Animals is the fourth album by Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis), released on Illegal Art in 2008.

Fien Troch

After graduating from the Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nominations and awards in her chosen career.

Flemish Sign Language

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.

Grant Gillis

Grant Gillis (January 24, 1901 – February 4, 1981) was a utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1927 through 1929 for the Washington Senators (1927–28) and Boston Red Sox (1929).

Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

Meg White of The White Stripes grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, according to her former husband, John "Jack" White, né Gillis.

Gustave Van de Woestijne

He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks of the Lys, near Ghent.

Jacques Brel metro station

The station opened on 6 October 1982 as part of the Beekkant - Saint Guidon extension of line 1B.

Jan Mostaert

In 1500 Mostaert was commissioned to paint the shutters for a receptacle housing the relics of Saint Bavo in the Groote Kerk, Haarlem.

Johnny Dusbaba

Johnny Dusbaba (born 14 March 1956 in The Hague) is a retired Dutch football player who played for ADO Den Haag, Ajax, Anderlecht, Standard Liège, NAC Breda and Sint-Niklase, as well as the Dutch national side.

Joseph Van Crombrugghe

He was member of the provincial council (Dutch: Provinciale Staten) of Oost-Vlaanderen (1816–1817), member of the House of Commons of the Staten-Generaal (1817–1824), burgomaster of Sint-Martens-Leerne (1820–1825), burgomaster of Ghent (1825–1836, 1840–1842) and a member of the Provincial Council of Oost-Vlaanderen (1836–1842) for the liberal party.

Marcus Minucius Felix

The Octavius is admittedly earlier than Cyprian's Quod idola dei non sint, which borrows from it; how much earlier can be determined only by settling the relation in which it stands to Tertullian's Apologeticum.

Max Kohnstamm

During World War II, Kohnstamm and Kessler were both held hostage by the Germans along with other prominent Dutchmen at camp Beekvliet in Sint-Michielsgestel; they became quite close there despite the difference in age.

Military Ordinariate of Belgium

The Military Ordinary's seat is located at the Co-cathedral of Saint Jacques-sur-Coudenberg (Sint-Jacob op de Koudenbergkerk) in Brussels, Belgium.

Moerbeke

Moerbeke-Waas, a place and municipality in the north of East Flanders

Moerbeke-Waas

It is thought to have been the hometown of William of Moerbeke, who as Bishop of Corinth produced a new translation into Latin of the works of Aristotle, including certain which had been rediscovered from Arab sources, in the late thirteenth Century.

Morton Sherman Bellucci

Morton (Jo Casters), Sherman (Herman Gillis) and Belluci (Roland Beelen) were among the founders of the New Beat musical trend that started in Belgium and expanded to elsewhere in Western Europe in 1987.

Murray Waas

Ralph Nurnberger, a former staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and professor at Georgetown University, later concluded in a study for the African Studies Review that the economic sanctions imposed against Amin by the U.S. led to Amin's downfall.Nurnberger wrote that the congressional initiative to impose the sanctions had garnered little attention or support until "Jack Anderson assigned one of his reporters, Murray Waas to follow the issue" and write regularly about it.

Nieuwland

Nieuwland, Zeeland in the province of Zeeland, now part of Nieuw- en Sint Joosland

Nieuwpoort, Belgium

The municipality comprises the city of Nieuwpoort proper and the towns of Ramskapelle and Sint-Joris.

Besides Nieuwpoort proper, two small villages in the Flemish polders are part of the municipality, Sint-Joris and Ramskapelle.

North Hills High School

Such commissioned works have been written for the band by Mr. Don Gillis, Mr. Edward Madden, Mr. Robert Jager, Mr. Jerry Bilik, Mr. Philip Catelinet, Mr. Rex Mitchell, Mr. Vaclav Nelhybel, Dr. Paul Whear, and Mr. Norman Dello Joio.

Petar Puača

In the beginning of the 1998/99 season he was to play in Belgium with Sint-Truidense but he left shortly after arriving, allegedly for bad behaviour.

Poeke Castle

Later, Charles Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme d'Hailly, Burgrave of Nieuwpoort, Oombergen, Sint-Lievens-Esse and Schoonbergen, Baron of Poeke and lord of Neuville, Kanegem and Velaine (1716–1792), carried out significant work on the castle between 1743 and 1752.

Prime Minister of the Netherlands

The independent cabinets of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten also have their own prime ministers: Mike Eman (Prime Minister of Aruba), Gerrit Schotte (Prime Minister of Curaçao), and Sarah Wescot-Williams (Prime Minister of Sint Maarten).

Roel Sterckx

Sterckx was a pupil at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Mol (Belgium) and was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University, University of Cambridge (Clare Hall; Ph.D 1997) and University of Oxford (Wolfson College).

Roermond witch trial

Near Straelen the magistrates arrested another 10 witches, who in their turn accused a midwife named Entjen Gillis.

Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido metro station

Nearby sights include the Collegial Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guy (Sint-Pieter En Guidokerk), for which the station was named; the Erasmus House Museum; the Old Beguinage (now community museum); and the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, where R.S.C. Anderlecht football club play their home games.

Simon Gillis

Gillis was practicing with a 16 pound hammer in a vacant lot on Park Avenue between 134th and 135th street on September 30, 1904, and "just as he had let the 16 pound hammer go for an extra long throw, Christian Koehler, a fourteen-year old boy, climbed the fence in pursuit of a baseball. Gillis and several boys shouted a warning, but Koehler did not hear. The hammer struck him in the head and he was instantly killed."

Sint Antoniesbreestraat

At the corner of Sint Antoniesbreestraat and Hoogstraat is an entry to the Nieuwmarkt stop of the Amsterdam Metro system.

Sint-Agatha-Berchem

The Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and raised here; this is also the site of the Cité Moderne a housing project from 1922-1925 designed by the great Belgian architect Victor Bourgeois.

Sint-Amandsberg

During the First World War, on 7 June 1915, the German airschip LZ37 crashed after being destroyed by Reginald Warneford.

St John's Catholic School for the Deaf

In the primary department, teachers use the Maternal Reflective Method of English language teaching, pioneered by Father van Uden, a Dutch oralist based at the Institution for the Deaf in Sint Michielsgestel.

St. Elizabeth's flood

Elizabeth's flood (Sint Elisabethsvloed) can refer to two disasters that struck Europe's Low Countries

Tom van Imschoot

Tom van Imschoot began his career with Sint-Truidense in 2002 and he played with them for three seasons, making 59 league appearances and scored 5 goals during his time at the Stayen.

Ulrich Boner

See also GE Lessing in Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Werke, ix.); and C Waas, Die Quellen der Beispiele Boners (Giessen, 1897).

Verna Gillis

After the closing of Soundscape in 1984, Gillis worked career development with such musicians as Youssou N'dour from Senegal, Yomo Toro from Puerto Rico; Salif Keita form Mali, and Carlinhos Brown from Brazil.

Vincent Kompany

His brother, François Kompany currently plays for Sint-Niklaas, having previously had spells at Germinal Beerschot and Macclesfield Town.

Waard

Grote Hollandse Waard, farming region between Zuid-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabethsvloed (1421)


see also

Clinge

Clinge is located on the Dutch-Belgian border and joins with the Belgian town of De Klinge, in the Belgian municipality of Sint-Gillis-Waas.