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Ghent City Hall. / 51.0545; 3.7253. The City Hall ( Dutch: Stadhuis ⓘ) of Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, is a four-sided complex surrounded by the Botermarkt, the Hoogpoort, the Stadhuissteeg and the Poeljemarkt. The main wings are the late-Gothic alderman's house of De Keure and the alderman's house of Gedele in the Renaissance style.
Logo of Ghent. Ghent ( Dutch: Gent [ɣɛnt] ⓘ; French: Gand [ɡɑ̃] ⓘ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. [2]
Saint Peter's Abbey (Dutch: Sint-Pietersabdij) is a former Benedictine abbey in Ghent, Belgium, now a museum and exhibition centre.. Saint Peter's was founded in the late 7th century by Amandus, a missionary sent by the Frankish kings to Christianize the pagan inhabitants of the region, who founded two monasteries in the area, St. Bavo's, and Saint Peter's on the Blandijnberg.
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Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station: 9.50 3.3 130 24 02/1915 – 12/1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition: United States: San Francisco: World Expo: Inauguration of the Panama Canal: Tower of Jewels Palace of Fine Arts: 19.00 25.8 254 32 05/1929 – 01/1930 Barcelona International Exposition: Spain: Barcelona: World Expo: Arts, Industry ...
Ghent City Museum. / 51.043486; 3.716970. The Ghent City Museum (in Dutch "Stadsmuseum Gent", " STAM " in short) is a museum in the Belgian city of Ghent. The museum exposes the city history and opened its doors on 9 October 2010. [1] With respect to the collection that is shown, the history of this museum goes back to 1833, the year in which ...
Map of wire center locations in the US Map of central office locations in the US The switch's place in the network. Telephone switches are a small component of a large network. A major part, in terms of expense, maintenance, and logistics of the telephone system is outside plant, which is the wiring outside the central office. While many ...
Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent ...