In Belgium, the French Community refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Since 2011, the French Community has used the name Wallonia-Brussels Federation, which is controversial because its name in the Belgian constitution has not changed and because it is seen as a political statement. The name "French Community" refers to Francophone Belgians, and not to French people residing in Belgium. As such, the French Community of Belgium is sometimes rendered in English as "the French-speaking Community of Belgium" for clarity.
The Belgian First Division A is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Following the 2015–16 season it was renamed from the Belgian Pro League (officially known as Jupiler Pro League. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Belgian First Division B. Seasons run from late July to early May, with teams playing 30 matches each in the regular season, and then entering play-offs 1 or play-offs 2 according to their position in the regular season. Play-offs 1 are contested by the top 6 clubs in the regular season, with each club playing each other twice. Play-offs 2 are contested by teams ranked 7 to 15 in the regular season, divided in two groups of 6 teams playing each other twice. The team finishing in 16th place is relegated. As of 2014 the league was sponsored by AB InBev, brewers of Jupiler beer, and officially known as Jupiler Pro League.
Jacques "Jacky" Munaron is a former football goalkeeper, and currently the goalkeeper coach of FP Halle-Gooik.
Louis Scutenaire was a poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant. Born Jean Émile Louis Scutenaire in Ollignies, Belgium; died in Brussels.
Henri Storck was a Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
Jean Tordeur was a Belgian writer writing in French. He was the cultural critic of the daily newspaper Le Soir (Brussels). Tordeur was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.
Basketball Club Oostende, for sponsorship reasons Filou Oostende, is a Belgian professional basketball team. The club is based in Ostend and was founded in 1970. The club competes in the top Pro Basketball League (PBL). Oostende is the most successful basketball club in Belgian history, as the club's honour list includes a record nineteen Belgian League championships, a record nineteen Belgian Cups and eleven Belgian Supercups.
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium. It was managed by the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo-SD), a branch of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt, in order to collect and deport Jews and Romani mainly out of Belgium towards the labor camp of Heydebreck-Cosel and the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in German occupied Poland.
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly known as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris SG, or simply PSG, is a French women's professional association football club founded in 1971, and based in the city of Paris in France. The club is the women's department of the men's football club Paris Saint-Germain Football Club.
Rapide Club de Relizane , known as RC Rélizane or simply RCRfor short, is a football club based in the city of Rélizane. The club was founded in 1934 and its colours are white and green. Their home stadium, Stade Tahar Zoughari, has a capacity of some 30,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.
Maurice Philippe Gaspard Beeli was a Belgian mycologist.
The Algerian Basketball Championship, now called the ABC National 1, formally known as the ABC Super Division, is the pre-eminent men's basketball league in Algeria, National 1 is contested by 16 teams, with the two lowest-placed teams relegated to the Second Division and replaced by the two winner of the playoffs. From the 1963 onwards, GS Pétroliers and WA Boufarik both dominated Also there is Darak El-Watani won 11 titles but it no longer exists, though National 1 also saw other champions, including OC Alger, ASM Oran, USM Alger, RAM Alger, MC Oran, NB Staouéli, AS PTT Alger and CSM Constantine.
André Gilles Célestin Lawalrée was a Belgian botanist and pteridologist. He was head of the Department of Vascular Plants (Spermatophyta-Pteridophyta) in the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. As an expert on the Belgian flora he was invited to act as the regional adviser for Belgium on the Flora Europaea project. He also made a study of the flora of central Africa, especially that of the former Belgian Congo.
Radio Belgique, also known in Dutch as Radio België, was a radio broadcast transmitted to Nazi-occupied Belgium from London during World War II. It was produced with the support of the Belgian government in exile and formed part of the BBC's European Service.
Alsace de Bagnolet or Alsace Bagnolet is a French basketball club founded in 1924 and based in Bagnolet in the eastern suburbs of Paris. It is a part of the sports club of the same name founded in 1908. It belonged to the highest level championship of France in the 1960s, winning three league titles. In 2006, the club tried to restructure itself in order to regain entry to the Championship of France. It currently operates in National League Three.
Jonction Basket is a professional basketball club based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Stade Français Genève is a Swiss basketball club part of the homonymous multi-sports club that is based in Geneva.
BBC Lausanne is a Swiss basketball club from Lausanne.
Jean Willem "Willy" Steveniers is a Belgian former professional basketball player and coach. Standing at 1.80 m tall, Steveniers played at the shooting guard position.
Barry Mitchell is an American former professional basketball player.
