Schoon en Meedogenloos ("Clean and Bold", an allusion to the Flemish title of The Bold and the Beautiful namely Mooi en Meedogenloos, more so "schoon" and "mooi" are synonyms) is the Flemish version of the British television show How Clean is Your House?. The program aired on vtm.
Flanders is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. The official capital of Flanders is the City of Brussels, although the Brussels-Capital Region has an independent regional government. The government of Flanders only oversees the community aspects of Flanders life in Brussels, such as Flemish culture and education.
Potchefstroom is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. Potchefstroom is on the Mooi Rivier, roughly 120 km (75 mi) west-southwest of Johannesburg and 45 km (28 mi) east-northeast of Klerksdorp.
The Flemish Community is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital. Unlike in the French Community of Belgium, the competences of the Flemish Community have been unified with those of the Flemish Region and are exercised by one directly elected Flemish Parliament based in Brussels.
How Clean Is Your House? is a British entertainment/lifestyle television programme in which expert cleaners Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit dirty houses and clean them up. The thirty-minute show was produced by Talkback Thames, the UK production arm of Fremantle, and aired on Channel 4 from 2003 to 2009. Though a ratings success, Channel 4 announced that they had decided to cancel the series in 2009 in order to make way for new programming.
Saint Gudula was born in the pagus of Brabant. According to her 11th-century biography, written by a monk of the abbey of Hautmont between 1048 and 1051, she was the daughter of a duke of Lotharingia called Witger and Amalberga of Maubeuge. She died between 680 and 714.
VTM 2 is a Belgian television channel owned by the commercial broadcasting company DPG Media.
Bart Van den Bossche was a Flemish singer, actor and radio and television presenter.
Saint Amalberga of Maubeuge was a Merovingian nun and saint who lived in the 7th century.
Hilde Rens, better known by her stage name Yasmine, was a Belgian singer, presenter and television personality.
Arthur Achiel Albert, Knight Blanckaert, known by his stage name Will Tura, is a Belgian artist famous in Flanders and the Netherlands. Tura is a singer, musician, composer and songwriter. He is married to Jenny Swinnen, with whom he has a son David and a daughter Sandy Tura.
Play5 started in October 2004 as SBS Belgium's second channel and a sister channel to VIER.
Leo Pleysier is a Belgian writer.
Paul Gustaaf Julia Hoste, pseudonym Pol Hoste is a Belgian writer. He graduated in Germanic philology at the University of Ghent. He started his career as a teacher of the English and Dutch languages. From 1983 until 1985 he was an editor at Heibel and made contributions to De Morgen, De Nieuwe and the Volkskrant.
Jan van Nijlen was a Belgian writer and poet. He was born at Antwerp and died at Uccle.
Loosduinen is a former village in the Netherlands that was a municipality unto itself until 1923, when it was annexed by The Hague and subsequently became a district of the city.
Zudkerque is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
The Master of the Brandon Portrait or Portraits was an Early Netherlandish painter active about 1510–1530 in Bruges and at the court of Henry VIII in England. His notname is based on the Portrait of Charles Brandon, Earl of Suffolk now in a private collection. He may be the same person as Joannes Corvus.
Fox is a Belgian Dutch-language pay television channel broadcast in Flanders, owned by Fox Networks Group Benelux. It was launched on 1 October 2015 and features programming from Fox and HBO.
Chris Van den Durpel is a Belgian impressionist and actor. He became known for his parody of Paul Jambers and Herman Le Compte and self-made characters such as Kamiel Spiessens, Jimmy B.,Snelle Eddy, Ronny King and Firmin Crets. He is also famous as an imitator of famous Flemish and Dutch people.
Cornelis (Cornelius) Columbanus Vrancx was a Flemish writer of prose, poetic refrains and spotlied against the Reformed. He was the 60th abbot of St Peter's Abbey in Ghent from 1597 and wrote thirty-seven concise works. Cornelis Columbanus Vrancx is seen as the forerunner of the Flemish poet Adriaan Poirters.