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4 days ago · NATO’s new HQ, which finally opened its doors in the spring of 2018, cost over €1 billion and represented one of the most innovative designs in recent European architecture. As if anticipating future rounds of enlargement, the building was double the size of the old, sprawling HQ on the other side of Boulevard Leopold III.
3 days ago · Recorded 1900. Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until ...
- 2 December 1848 – 21 November 1916
- Princess Sophie of Bavaria
2 days ago · Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and of Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father August was a brother of King Ferdinand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ...
- 5 October 1908 – 3 October 1918
- Princess Clémentine of Orléans
4 days ago · The War of the Austrian Succession [f] was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War, and the First and Second Silesian Wars .
- 16 December 1740 – 18 October 1748, (7 years, 10 months and 2 days)
3 days ago · Journalist, author and documentary-maker Esmeralda de Réthy – also known as Princess Esmeralda of Belgium – explains that removing the statues of her great-granduncle Leopold II is just a first step. Belgium must also apologise for its colonial atrocities, start teaching the true history of what it did in Congo, and begin a conversation ...
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1 day ago · Our Global Timezone Map displays the current time now around the world. The map also reflects the daylight, night and midnight in real-time. Customize the World Clock for setting up online conferences in different locations of the world and share the most convenient time to call.
4 days ago · Voyager 2. Altitude: -65.0° Azimuth: 124.5° Direction: South-East. Voyager 2 is an unmanned space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, just a few weeks before its sister craft Voyager 1. Its mission was to study the outer planets of our solar system, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It was the first and only spacecraft to ...
