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  • the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium?
  • the Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city?
  • the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium houses European Commission headquarters?
  • the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia (pictured) exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I?
  • the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof?
  • it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?
  • of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie, only 7 have been located?
  • since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults?
  • the Gileppe Dam (pictured) was the first dam built in modern Belgium?
  • the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?
  • the association l\'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium?
  • the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts?
  • until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
  • the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?
  • the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium, was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton?
  • the Strépy-Thieu boat lift in Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes?
  • the Temple of Human Passions, first building of Art Nouveau\'s architect Victor Horta, was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?
  • in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California?
  • despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
  • Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
  • Paul Simon\'s ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music?
  • singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt?
  • Belgium\'s sillon industriel (steelmaking pictured) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe?
  • Belgium\'s Carnival of Binche (pictured), which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days?
  • Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour?
  • Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market?
  • U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?
  • Charles Le Gendre (pictured), was born in France, married in Belgium, but died an American general in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emperor of Korea?
  • Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea\'s ambassador to Belgium?
  • a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz?
  • an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
  • Martial van Schelle fought as an American soldier in World War I, but was executed as a Belgian citizen during World War II?
  • Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) cemetery in Belgium was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and contains the grave of the playwright Alan Bennett\'s uncle?
  • Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland?
  • goose pulling (pictured) was a popular blood sport practiced in Belgium, England, the Netherlands and the United States that involved a man on horseback galloping past a live goose and pulling its head off?
  • Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler"?
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    Dr Who

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    From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

    Belgium is a nation in western Europe. It lies immediately to the north of France.

    The Tenth Doctor rescued the kidnapped Charlemagne from Momus, an insane computer, in 800. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, WC: The Lonely Computer)

    In 1913, the Sixth Doctor and Peri encountered Toby the Sapient Pig and Marcel Proust in a hotel in Ostende. (BFA: Year of the Pig)

    In 1914, the Tenth Doctor visited the battlefields of the First World War in Belgium twice, once with Rose Tyler and once with Daniel Francis Thompson. (DWAM: Warfreekz! and Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

    In 1944, the Eighth Doctor, Samantha Jones and Fitz Kreiner become involved with the Battle of the Bulge. (EDA: Autumn Mist)

    In 2001, the Eighth Doctor, Anji Kapoor and Fitz Kreiner became involved with preventing the Kulan invasion of Earth in Brussels. (EDA: Escape Velocity)

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    Belgium was a nation-state on Earth, and was part of the European Alliance. The country bordered the Netherlands, France and Germany. Its inhabitants spoke the languages of these neighbouring countries (TOS novelization "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"). Major cities located in Belgium include Brussels and Antwerp. One member of this country was one-quarter Betazoid negotiator Devinoni Ral, born in 2325 (TNG episode: "The Price").

    In 2372, a Federation conference being held in Antwerp was targeted by the Dominion. The conference was disrupted and many left dead after a Changeling infiltrator made its way into the conference and set off an explosive device. (DS9 episodes: "Homefront", "Paradise Lost")

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    DC Comics

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    Ice Hockey

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    Belgium is a country of over 10,000,000 people in western Europe.


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    Lostpedia

    Up to date as of February 07, 2010

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    The logo of Prime, the Belgian channel that airs the episodes in closest proximity to the US
    The logo of VT4

    The channels that broadcast Lost in Belgium correspond to the two largest regions of the country, namely Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia.

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    Broadcasts in Flanders (Vlaanderen)

    Canal+ and Prime

    The pay television station Canal+ first acquired the rights for Lost and started airing Season 1 in Belgium in 2005. The television station is now called Prime and aired Season 2 in 2006 (a four week break followed "Dave", and "Live Together, Die Alone" was aired on July 3). The first episode of Season 3 was aired December 18 2006, and the season finale was aired June 25 2007. The first episode of Season 4 was aired May 5 2008, and the season finale was aired July 4 2008. The first episode of Season 5 was aired March 10 2009.

    During season 5, one new episode, subtitled in Dutch, is shown every Tuesday at 21:00 CET and is repeated throughout the week.

    VT4

    The commercial television station VT4 aired Season 1 after it had already fully been shown on Canal+, in quarter 4 of 2005. Season 2 started on March 20 2006 at 21:10 CET on the same channel. "Dave" was followed by a long break; the remainder of the season was aired in the fall of 2006. "A Tale of Two Cities" was aired on June 4 2007 at 20:35 CET as an "avant-première" and was followed by the finale of Heroes. Fans had to wait until September 3 2007, when the season officially started airing on VT4, to see the second episode. During the third season (and with the exception of the avant-première), two new episodes, subtitled in Dutch, are shown every Monday at 20:35 CET.

    Broadcasts in Wallonia (la Wallonie)

    The show is broadcast by the Walloon television station RTL-TVI, which promoted Season 2 with a teaser ad about Oceanic-Airlines. Although Season 1 was broadcast at a 2 or 3 episodes per week rate, Season 2 was shown one episode a week, probably because the season was still being aired in the US at that time, and had to be dubbed in French. Season 3 was again aired at a 2 episodes per week rate, and premiered on April 16 2007; it ended with the airing of "Through the Looking Glass" on August 6 2007. During each season, the episodes, dubbed in French, are shown Mondays at 20:15 CET.

    Episode names

    For the names of the episodes in French, as they appear in Wallonia, see Wikipedia.

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    Marvel Database

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    In early February, 1945, Captain America and Bucky swept through the town of Bastogne in Belgium to help out the GIs. They learned that the village had been overtaken by vampires who had begun feeding on American soldiers. After cutting their way through one vampire after another, they discovered that the vampire progenitor was a Nazi named Helmutt von Schuler. Schuler had in turn been transformed into a vampire by the infamous Baron Blood. The mission proved harrowing for both Captain America and Bucky as they were forced to execute not only vampire soldiers, but children as well. [1]

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    • Bastogne

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    1. Captain America #601

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    ST Expanded

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    Belgium is a nation-state on Earth, located on the European continent. People or things from Belgium are known as Belgian. The capital of Belgium is Brussels.

    By the 24th century Belgium was part of the European Alliance. (TNG: "The Price")

    The city of Antwerp in Belgium was the sight of negotiations between the Federation and Romulan Star Empire in 2372, which were bombed by a Changeling infiltrator. (DS9: "Homefront")

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