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    The Borinage (French pronunciation: [bɔʁinaʒ]) is an area in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium. The name derives from the coal mines of the region...
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    second tier in Belgian football. The club is a continuation of Boussu Dour Borinage, which had matricule 167. Francs Borains, however, compete under matricule...
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  • club (Boussu Dour Borinage) to swap places. As a result, the club now carried matricule 167 (as 23 now belonged to Boussu Dour Borinage) and was able to...
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  • enfants du Borinage - Lettre a Henri Storck) is a 2000 documentary film by director Patric Jean about the former mining district Borinage in the Walloon...
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  • Misère au Borinage (French; lit. 'Poverty' or 'Penury in the Borinage'), also known as Borinage, is a 1934 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri...
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    Hainaut Province, along the river Haine (the etymology of Hainaut); the Borinage, the Centre and Charleroi along the river Sambre; Liège Province along...
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    au Borinage and the films like those of the Dardenne brothers (since 1979), there is Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre (1960) (also shot in the Borinage),...
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    industriel, "Especially in the Haine, Sambre and Meuse valleys, between the Borinage and Liège...there was a huge industrial development based on coal-mining...
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  • "books", titled based on the places Van Gogh lived: London (Prologue), the Borinage, Etten, The Hague, Paris, Arles, St. Remy, and Auvers. The novel was adapted...
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    of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam...
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    Adolf Hitler. Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) about the Belgian coal mining region. Luis Buñuel directed a "surrealist"...
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    suggests that Van Gogh returned to the Borinage and then back to Etten in this period. See Jan Hulsker's speech The Borinage Episode and the Misrepresentation...
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    (PCBML). The PCBML had some influence, mainly in the heavily industrialised Borinage region of Wallonia, but never managed to gather more support than the CPB...
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    region, a former coal mining area in the Sillon industriel, between the Borinage to the West and the Pays Noir to the East. The legend of a mother wolf...
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    heavy industry, which strongly influenced the culture and image of the Borinage region as a whole. It was to become an integral part of the sillon industriel...
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    he was followed during the 1880s by Joseph Dufrane [fr], writing in the Borinage dialect under the pen-name Bosquètia. In the 20th century there has been...
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    Belgium. Vincent van Gogh lived here from 1879 to 1880. Cuesmes is in the Borinage, at that time a coal-mining area; Vincent van Gogh came here in 1879 as...
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    from German units and terrorised the civilian population in parts of the Borinage. The Walloon Guard was a loose counterpart of the Flemish Guard (Vlaamsche...
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    Christophe (born 27 June 1987) is a French footballer who plays for Boussu Dour Borinage in Belgian Second Division. Christophe began his career at Ligue 1 club...
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    Papers, Sixty-Third Annual Meeting. Cordier, S (2017). De botten van de Borinage. De iguanodons van Bernissart van 125 miljoen voor Christus tot vandaag...
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    situated, the largest lake area of Belgium. A well-known region is the Borinage, the old coal mining region around the city of Mons. Also well-known is...
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    dismissed from the evangelical career he had hoped to continue in the Borinage, Belgium, he wrote to his brother Theo from Cuesmes in July 1880, and quoted...
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  • depth of mines was 220 meters (720 ft). By 1856, the average depth in the Borinage was 361 meters (1,184 ft), and in 1866, 437 meters (1,434 ft) and some...
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    Coalmine in the Borinage...
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  • (1872); he was followed during the 1880s by Joseph Dufrane, writing in the Borinage dialect under the pen-name Bosquètia. In the 20th century, Joseph Houziaux...
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    Wallonia's industrial backbone, it flows through the heavily industrialized Borinage region, notably the towns La Louvière, Mons and Saint-Ghislain. A few kilometres...
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    was born on 21 September 1981 in Brussels, Belgium and grew up in the Borinage. His paternal grandfather was a Polish immigrant to Belgium. He graduated...
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    in 1926 by Georges Cuvelier, originally a coal miner from the Belgian Borinage region. In the 1930s, it moved to its present location, an Art Nouveau...
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  • considerable linguistic deviation of Flemish workers with their families to the Borinage and the Liège industrial areas. This immigration took place from the 19th...
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    It runs across the region of Wallonia, passing from Dour, the region of Borinage, in the west, to Verviers in the east, passing along the way through Mons...
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