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Brussels. Rue d'Aerschot, Brussels. The main red light district in Brussels is north of the Gare du Nord. In Rue d'Aerschot, Rue de Brabant and the surrounding side-streets there are sex shops and many windows where prostitutes sit. [ 2] Most of the prostitutes near the Gare du Nord, including Rue d'Aerschot, are Romanian and Bulgarian.
The University of Antwerp ( Dutch: Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is UAntwerp. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 students, which makes it the third-largest university in Flanders. The University of Antwerp is characterised by its high standards in ...
Prussian blue was created in the early 18th century and is the first modern synthetic pigment. It is prepared as a very fine colloidal dispersion, because the compound is not soluble in water. It contains variable amounts [ 2] of other ions and its appearance depends sensitively on the size of the colloidal particles.
Transatlantic. The Red Star Line was a shipping line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp [ 1][ 2] in Belgium, Liverpool and ...
Some cities in Belgium have a red-light district, often with window prostitution. [6] In 2015, it was estimated that there were 26,000 prostitutes in Belgium, [7] many of them are from Bulgaria. [8] A report commissioned by the National Bank of Belgium, [9] revealed estimations of a turnover tax of €840 million from forms of prostitution in ...
Melun Diptych. The Melun Diptych is a two-panel oil painting by the French court painter Jean Fouquet ( c. 1420 –1481) created around 1452. The name of this diptych came from its original home in the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame in Melun. The left panel depicts Étienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen and the right panel ...
deSingel is a Belgian arts center. It is located on the Desguinlei in Antwerp. Its various stages, concert halls and exhibition spaces offer a manifold program of music, dance, theater and architecture. It is also home to the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, [1] the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAI), [2] the Study Center for Flemish Music (SVM ...
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp ( Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art ...