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Nationality | Belgian |
Born | Ghent, Belgium | 10 May 1965
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Sport | Windsurfing |
Paul Van Den Abeele (born 10 May 1965) is a Belgian windsurfer. He competed in the men's Lechner A-390 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1]
Pieter Van den Abeele is a computer programmer, and the founder of the PowerPC-version of Gentoo Linux, a foundation connected with a distribution of the Linux computer operating system. He founded Gentoo for OS X, for which he received a scholarship by Apple Computer. In 2004 Pieter was invited to the OpenSolaris pilot program and assisted Sun Microsystems with building a development eco-system around Solaris. Pieter was nominated for the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board and managed a team of developers to make Gentoo available on the Solaris operating system as well. Pieter is a co-author of the Gentoo handbook.
St. Nicholas Church is one of the oldest and most prominent landmarks in Ghent, Belgium. Begun in the early 13th century as a replacement for an earlier Romanesque church, construction continued through the rest of the century in the local Scheldt Gothic style. Typical of this style is the use of blue-gray stone from the Tournai area, the single large tower above the crossing, and the slender turrets at the building's corners.
Hendrik Herregouts was a Flemish history and portrait painter and draughtsman with an international career spanning Italy, Germany and his native Flanders.
The Museum of Fine Arts an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark.
Robert Dennis Chantrell was an English church architect, best-known today for designing Leeds Parish Church, now Leeds Minster.
The Coudenberg group was a Belgian federalist think-tank, it was named after the place where the members met, the Coudenberg, one of the seven hillocks on which the centre of Brussels has been built. President of the organization was the lawyer Jean-Pierre De Bandt.
Michel, Baron van den Abeele is a former Director-General of the European Commission, is actually chairman of the board of the Belgian public owned company APETRA and active in several Belgian charities.
Psallentes is a Gregorian chant ensemble founded in 2000 and based in Leuven, Belgium.
Peter Joseph Triest was a prelate of the Diocese of Ghent. He is known for his foundations of religious communities in this diocese, and has been called "the St. Vincent de Paul of Belgium".
Albert Silvain Jules Van Den Abeele was a Belgian sailor. He competed in the O-Jolle event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
van den Abeele is a surname of Belgian origin, and may refer to:
Beaumarchais is a 1996 French biopic film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc and Sandrine Kiberlain. It is based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays. It was adapted from a play by Sacha Guitry.
Jan Baptist Herregouts was a Flemish painter, etcher, printmaker and brewer. He is known for his portraits, history subjects and allegorical scenes.
Frank Van Den Abeele is a Belgian former professional cyclist. He rode in the 1991 Tour de France and 1995 Giro d'Italia.
Andries Maurice Jean Marie Baron Van den Abeele is a Belgian historian and historical preservationist and former entrepreneur, politician and employers' organization chairman.
Dirk Van den Abeele is a Flemish ornithologist, specializing in the genus Agapornis. He has written a number of books on this subject. Most of his books have been translated into English, Greek, Spanish, French, Czech, Italian and German. Since 1999, Van den Abeele is a member of MUTAVI, Research & Advice Group in The Netherlands, where he is conducting research, together with Inte Onsman, into pigmentation of the various colour mutations in birds. Together with the Australian veterinarian Terry Martin he collaborated on the 'International Agreements for Naming Colour Mutations in Psittaciformes'. He was chairman of BVA International, the Belgian Lovebird Society from 1999 till December 2010. Since 2011 he is honorary chairman of BVA-International.
Peter Van Den Abeele is a Belgian cyclist. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Ernest-Camille Bock was a Belgian lawyer and colonial administrator. He was governor of Orientale Province in the Belgian Congo from 1945 to 1952.
De natura rerum is a thirteenth century work of natural history, written by Flemish Roman Catholic friar and medieval writer. Thomas of Cantimpré. De natura rerum may be Thomas' most significant work, as it's both the one he dedicated more time to and the one that had the largest posthumous fortune, as witnessed by the large number of codes that contain this work, but also by the many authors that took inspiration from it.
The Belgium vs Netherlands Cups were a series of international football friendly cup matches contested by the national teams of Belgium and the Netherlands. From their first unofficial friendly derbies in the early 1900s, until the mid-1920s, Belgium and the Netherlands competed for floating trophies. During the encounters in Belgium the teams played for the Coupe Vanden Abeele until 1925, while in the Netherlands they faced off for the Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad Beker until 1923. In total, there has been 39 Belgian-Dutch friendly cup duels, of which 35 were official internationals.