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 Antwerpen (Antwerp), Belgium
Antwerp (Dutch: Antwerpen, French: Anvers, Spanish: Amberes, Latin: Antverpia) is a city and a municipality in the province of Antwerp (and its capital), in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.
Antwerp is one of the three primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with New York City's "diamond district", and South Africa), traditionally controlled by the city's Hassidic Jewish population, the largest outside of New York.
Antwerp is the end of the oldest railway line in continental Europe (between Brussels and Antwerp through the city of Mechelen).
creekin.net /c1377-n18-antwerpen-antwerp-belgium.html   (1143 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Antwerp counts cost of gem heist
Thieves in Antwerp have stolen diamonds worth tens of millions of dollars in a raid which could threaten the city's reputation as the hub of the world diamond trade.
True to the town's style, the burglars' employed discretion - unlike the attempted raid on London's Millennium Dome in 2000, when armed robbers used a JCB digger and high-powered drills, in a raid thwarted by police.
Antwerp has been a diamond centre for 600 years and it is estimated that 80% of the world's diamonds pass through Antwerp at some stage.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/business/2781791.stm   (360 words)

  
 Antwerp (town), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The town is named after Antwerp in Belgium, the home of one of the early investors in the town.
The town is on the northeast border of the county and much of it is in the Fort Drum Military Reservation.
In the town the population was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antwerp_(town),_New_York   (658 words)

  
 Antwerp (city) - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Antwerp (city), city in northern Belgium, administrative center of the province of Antwerpen, on the Schelde River, also called the Escaut River,...
Deurne, former town, northern Belgium, in Antwerpen Province, incorporated into the city of Antwerp in 1983.
Roeselare, (French Roulers), industrial town in the Flemish region of northwestern Belgium, 95 km (59 mi) southwest of Antwerp, on the Mandel River....
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 Antwerp Director's Blog - CNN.com
Antwerp airport consists of basically one room, so it doesn't take long before we're out of the plane and in a cab.
Antwerp has one of the largest Hasidic populations in Europe -- and they all tend to reside in the same area.
This is where Luc's studio is; and it's one of his favorite areas of Antwerp that he believes represents the diversity and character of the town.
www.cnn.com /2006/TRAVEL/02/16/antwerp.blog/index.html   (1000 words)

  
 City Mayors: New York City Hall
New York City is one of the few metropolises in the world that does not require an introduction.
New York’s first City Hall was build by the Dutch in the 17th century on Pearl Street.
Plans for building a new, representative City Hall were discussed by New York City Council as early as 1776, but the financial strains of the War of Independence put a stop to it.
citymayors.com /cityhalls/newyork_cityhall.html   (1145 words)

  
 New York
New York, abbreviated "NY", is in the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S. Its capital is Albany.
There were 18,976,457 people in New York as of the 2000 census.
Please explore the cities and towns of New York, below.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/new-york   (56 words)

  
 Siege of Antwerp
Antwerp, the temporary capital of Belgium, was at this time invested, but not yet besieged, by the German army.
The devastation was for the defensive purpose of giving an unobstructed view to the cannon of Antwerp's outer fortifications, which on that side covered one sector of the circle swept by her enormous guns.
Having started from Antwerp during its investment, but prior to its siege by the German army, we were now on the third stage of a round trip which was to land one of us back in the Belgian temporary capital in time for the bombardment.
www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Antwerp_02/Log_Noncombatant_01.htm   (16655 words)

  
 Antwerp, Jefferson, NY, Bacon, Lewis & Nutting Biographies
Leonard A. Bacon was born in Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York, April 13, 1826.
Of the remaining six children in the Lewis family, all are settled in life; two are in Illinois, one in Delaware, and two in the state of New York, and the daughter, now Mrs.
His father was a native of the same place, and was born in 1782, and emigrated to the town of Antwerp in 1820, in company with his wife and two children, Hiram T, and Mary.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/jefferson/antwerp/antbios2.htm   (836 words)

  
 Antwerp, Jefferson, NY, Churches, Part II
Services were first held in the chapel of the Antwerp Seminary, then in Foster Hotel hall, next in an upper room in S. Wiggins’ block, used as a school-room, and then in Mrs.
Laton Bentley succeeded in raising $2,000, subscribed in Antwerp, on the condition that the church at large should raise $1,000 when the church was completed.
Parrish on the hill near the brick house, and upon this ground their new meeting-house was completed in 1843.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/jefferson/antwerp/antch2.htm   (864 words)

  
 Antwerp Forum - CNN.com
About Antwerp politics and attitudes: feeling proud about your "turf" is a good thing and if you ask me, it takes that special Flemish brand of pathological modesty to think otherwise.
Antwerp is too commercial to be a city of some kind of self-centered fascists.
Antwerp has been called Belgium's political laboratory and that's how it is. But this has nothing to do with tourism and I've never heard one complain about it -- ever.
www.cnn.com /2006/TRAVEL/02/17/antwerp.forum   (1841 words)

  
 Project Liberty Ship
We had heard that these bombs were being used against Antwerp, with quite some fury, too; and Jerry had said the reason he had left the port almost intact was so that he could destroy it, and the shipping in it, at a later date.
Chapter IX New Years Eve of '44 will live in my memory, not for its hilarious nature (for it definitely was not that) but for one that was considerably different -- much different from the one last year when we were ploughing through some rather rough and very frigid seas off Nova Scotia.
It was almost as spacious as the lobby of the New Yorker, the decorations were fresh and showed good taste, the furnishings were not ornate but displayed excellent quality and the displays in glass cabinets surrounding the lobby would not have looked out of place on 5th Avenue.
www.liberty-ship.com /html/contributed/antwerp.html   (13947 words)

  
 Painting the Town -- Museum of the City of New York
Gracie Mansion on the East River at 88th Street, now the official residence of New York City's sitting mayors, was made available by the city as a home for the new Museum of the City of New York in 1924.
Bridaham may have encountered Ensor's painting in Antwerp in 1930 -1931, when he was studying "gargoyles and grotesques" in Europe and traveling to galleries throughout the continent under the auspices of the American Field Service.
When Davies made his major donation to the Museum of the City of New York in 1929, interviews with the collector were in demand.
www.mcny.org /collections/painting/pttramnotes.htm   (1919 words)

  
 Antwerp Diamonds Lose Cutting Edge
Antwerp remains the world's leader in diamond turnover, with $16 billion last year, followed by Israel, India and New York, although the Indian industry based in Bombay is rapidly catching up.
Alarmed by a survey showing a rapidly aging workforce, with few new entrants, the industry trade group is offering financial incentives allowing young people to get started in the business and for teachers to travel around the world to learn the latest laser technology.
Amsterdam overtook Antwerp as a diamond capital in the 19th century, but many people who fled from Amsterdam to Britain to avoid the Holocaust resettled in Antwerp after World War II, so the diamond-cutting business is now far larger in Antwerp.
www.iht.com /articles/1991/08/06/diam.php   (820 words)

  
 Antwerp bed and breakfast inns | Bed and Breakfast Center
Antwerp is one of the Belgium cities where you can fancy yourself the King of Belgium over a glass of Koninck beer (or one of the other 400 brands) with a view on the old guildhouses on the Grote Markt.
The painter's, and diplomat's, spirit is present all throughout town.
A river cruise is definately not to be missed, not only to admire the famous skyline with its antique towers from the water, but also to experience the busy world port from the inside.
www.bedandbreakfastcenter.com /search.cfm/489/Antwerp.htm   (793 words)

  
 NNYObits.com :: Newzjunky | NNY death notices
ANTWERP, N.Y. Franklin W. Bresett, 87, a long time resident of Antwerp and formerly of 11 Irish Avenue, died Monday morning at Country Manor Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Carthage, where he had resided since August 2005.
Born September 11, 1918 in Antwerp, New York, he was the son of the late Joseph R. and Mae Bellinger Bresett and was raised by his aunt and uncle, Eva and Harvey Bresett after the death of his mother when he was six weeks old.
He was a lifetime member of the F and AM Mansonic Lodge, Antwerp holding the position of Master from 1955-1956 and Assistant Grand Lecturer of the Jefferson Lewis District in 1977, and was a member of the Antwerp Congregational Church, Antwerp.
www.newzjunky.com /obits/0703bresettobit.htm   (336 words)

  
 City Mayors: Antwerp City Hall
Antwerp City Hall was constructed between 1561 and 1565 under the supervision of the master builder Cornelis II Floris de Vriendt, with the collaboration of the Italian Nicolo Scarini, among others.
The Aldermen of Antwerp were given a building—het Schepenhuis—for the city’s administration and their meetings around 1406.
This room is also home to the Portrait of Princess Charlotte, the sister of King Leopold II and the Empress of Mexico, by Niçaise de Keyser, and the Portrait of Maria, Countess of Flanders by Joseph Delin (1821–1892), a pupil of Wappers, who made his name as a portrait artist.
www.citymayors.com /cityhalls/antwerp_cityhall.html   (1820 words)

  
 Diamonds.net News - Monstrey Case: Antwerp Investigation May Grow
Until about one year ago imports and exports of diamonds were to be handled exclusively through the Diamond Office, but in accordance with the European law, it suddenly became illegal for any national authority to control the free circulation of goods on European soil.
Added to a number of legal complaints underway in Antwerp however, and court cases during the past several months, diamantaires now fear the industry's reputation is failing apart in the eyes of Belgian and European authorities.
As if that was not enough, federal police have indicated that documents found during their investigation at Monstrey revealed a number of issues and companies they intend to investigate further in coming weeks.
www.diamonds.net /news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=13436   (484 words)

  
 Antwerp Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Here new researches and a workshop at this conference by Mari't Westermann, featuring such younger scholars as Rebecca Parker Brienen, are beginning at long last to tackle the rich legacy of foreign travel imagery and publications in colonizing Holland.
Recent decades have somewhat redressed prior deficiencies for neglected visual culture in Flanders: tapestries have benefited from the ongoing expertise of Guy Delmarcel, architecture from the researches of Krista De Jonge, wooden sculptures from Lynn Jacobs, and stained glass from Ellen Konowitz as well as Tim Husband’s outstanding Cloisters exhibition of 1995.
Representations of soldiers in particular have received focused attention by the historian of warfare, J. Hale, and by a new anthology on art and warfare, edited by Pia Cuneo.
www.hnanews.org /2005/silver.htm   (3957 words)

  
 Northern New York Genealogy
Northern New York Genealogy is dedicated to genealogy research, family history, and historical structures of Jefferson County, Lewis County, and St. Lawrence County, which comprise Northern New York.
Our goal is to preserve the rich history of the north country of New York and to aid you in your family search.
The News page provides a list of projects underway as well as those that have been recently completed.
www.nnygenealogy.com   (246 words)

  
 JMU oIP | JMU Semester in Antwerp: European Marketing Minor
Before you arrive in Antwerp, you must have completed MKTG 380, as that course is the prerequisite for all of the other courses in Antwerp.
The FMIR is the professor sent to Antwerp by James Madison University to manage and oversee the COB 300 experience in Europe.
A: The University of Antwerp is a conglomerate of three universities, the University of Antwerp, UFSIA, and RUCA.
www.jmu.edu /international/abroad/jmu_antwerp_marketing/faq.shtml   (5774 words)

  
 Day Trips & Excurions - November 2001 - Antwerp, Belgium Travel Guide - BootsnAll.com
Built in 1906 as part of the ring of forts around Antwerp, Breendonk is best known for its function as an SS prison camp during World War II.
This nature reserve lies in the region east of Antwerp known as "de Kempen", and is ideal for long walks, preferably in autumn or spring (in summer the area sometimes gets closed off due to fire hazard).
Mechelen is a city halfway between Antwerp and Brussels.
www.bootsnall.com /europetravelguides/antwerp/nov01antwerp.shtml   (469 words)

  
 Antwerp Adventure Travel - Antwerp Travel Guide
Antwerp (Antwerpen) is one of western Europe's most hidden gems.
Given that the city boasts a magnificent cathedral, a fine arts museum full of Flemish masterpieces, a maze of medieval streets in the town center, and a vibrant nightlife and cultural scene, it's amazing that Antwerp has been relatively neglected by tourists.
You find two statues in the town commemorating the Roman's act of revenge, and replicas of the giant's hand appear in everything from chocolate to brass.
away.com /destination-overview/Antwerp-304307-travel-guide.html   (537 words)

  
 News 10 Now | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES
A new and improved health center is coming to the village of Antwerp.
Wednesday a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Irwin Brown Clinic.
Since 1979, the hospital has been providing health care to people in Antwerp but now they say its time to move on to a bigger and better facility.
news10now.com /content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=69541   (163 words)

  
 Siege of Antwerp
THE siege of Antwerp, one of the most famous and beautiful cities in Europe, the goal of innumerable ambitions and the victim of many wars, began on Monday, September 28th.
E. Alexander Powell, correspondent of the New York World, in a remarkable description of the German entry, reprinted in The Times, "the mighty host poured through the streets of the deserted city, while the houses shook to the thunder of their tread.
A correspondent who visited Antwerp after the German occupation was struck by the comparatively small amount of damage done, his general impression being that little of the town was destroyed.
www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Antwerp_02/Great_World_War_01.htm   (3517 words)

  
 The Portrait of Frances Jane (Baldwin) Bent (1830-1894)
Hartwell Fletcher Bent was born in the town of Philadelphia, New York, on May 9, 1837, the seventh child of Dalmanutha Bent and his wife Betsey Phippen Bent.
Hartwell was a prominent citizen of the village, and had been elected to serve as Town Supervisor for the fifth time when he died suddenly of pneumonia on February 29, 1884 at the age of 46.
Lynn was a 1915 graduate of the New York State School of Agriculture at Canton, and on August 23, 1916, at the age of 22, married Helen Sophia Sterling, 23, daughter of Frank Riley and Jane Camidge Sterling.
www.gegoux.com /j-bent.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Diamonds.net News - Antwerp Circulars Spread Ahead of HRD Board Vote
Members of the Indian diamond community are requested to stay in town for the election, so as to support their candidates.
In reaction, Laurent Grossmann of Grossmann Diamond Manufacturing has been distributing a letter in Antwerp, explaining why those goals defined in the circular were in contradiction to the interests of the HRD.
Choksi added that Kaushik Mehta would be honored in New York as being THE person who is and always acted as a bridge between Jewish and Indian communities in Antwerp.
www.diamonds.net /news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=14807   (623 words)

  
 Antwerp hotels and accommodation, hotel reservations in Antwerp, by all-hotels.com
The Express by Holiday Inn Antwerp City-North is located in the city centre of Antwerp, more specific in the most trendy part,...
The Tulip Inn Antwerp Astoria is a distinguished, superior first-class hotel located in the city centre, but in a very quiet area,...
The *Cammerpoorte* hotel is uniquely situated in the old part of town the heart of Antwerp - opposite the fashion museum.
www.all-hotels.com /europe/belgium/antwerp/antwerp_c1.htm   (724 words)

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