After a first marriage to a Belgian diplomat brought her to New York, she married a businessman, Donald Pels, in 1965.
The plant's long history began in 1913, after a Belgian company brought the first mercury electrolysis equipment to process chlorosodium products.
In 2000, a group of Belgian taxpayers brought suit, demanding that the government rescind an agreement dating back to just after the battle under which the Duke of Wellington was given the rights to 2,600 acres around the battlefield.
Like other elements of the prep iconography, Belgian shoes, brought to this country from Belgium in 1955, were intended for times spent swirling swizzle sticks in Palm Beach and on Harbour Island.
He has had to develop his role this season following the sale of Cheikhou Kouyaté to West Ham in the summer; the dynamic Senegalese bore the lion's share of defensive duties last term but now Tielemans shoulders more, along with Steven Defour, the Belgian international brought back to his homeland from Porto in August.
Proclaiming himself a Belgian chauvinist, he brought up the tennis gold medal of Justine Henin-Hardenne.
They bought the rights to similar technology from Belgian scientists and brought them into the company.
The beach-adoring Belgian couple that brought the property in 2007 refurbished the homes into themed luxury cottages: two are sea-facing, one has a plunge pool, and the fourth has a private garden.
(Dave Kehr) The Dardenne Brothers (Friday through Monday) A seven-weekend retrospective devoted to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian brothers who brought a new flavor of realism to the movies with their concentrated, long-take style, begins appropriately with the 1996 "La Promesse," the film that brought them to international attention.
Ajax won the European club championship as recently as 1995, the same year that a decision in the European Court of Justice (the Bosman transfer ruling, named after the Belgian player who brought the case) gave players the power of free agency when their contracts end.
