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Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The museum's collection presents Belgian musical history (including Brussels' importance in the making of recorders and various obscure proto-synthesizers (Ondes Martenot, [7] Theremin, [8] etc.) in the 18th and 19th centuries and as the home of the instrument inventor Adolphe Sax in the 19th century), [9] European musical traditions, and non ...
The Boulevard Émile Jacqmain or Émile Jacqmainlaan is a central boulevard in Brussels, Belgium.It was created following the covering of the river Senne (1867–1871), and bears the name of Émile Jacqmain, a former Alderman for Public Education.
The Rue de la Loi (French, pronounced [ʁy d(ə) la lwa]) or Wetstraat (Dutch, pronounced [ˈʋɛtstraːt]), meaning "Law Street", is a major street running through central and eastern Brussels, Belgium, which is famous due to the presence of several notable Belgian and European Union (EU) governmental buildings.
It was created following the covering of the river Senne (1867–1871), and bears the name of Adolphe Max, a former mayor of the City of Brussels. The Boulevard Adolphe Max connects the Place de Brouckère/De Brouckèreplein to the Boulevard du Jardin botanique/Kruidtuinlaan and the Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein , in the extension of ...
The square was originally known as the Place des Nations / Natieplein ("Nations Square") or the Place de Cologne / Keulenplein ("Cologne Square"). In 1885, following the death of the liberal statesman and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Charles Rogier, it was renamed the Place Charles Rogier / Karel Rogierplein ("Charles Rogier Square") in his honour.
Saint-Gilles (French, pronounced [sɛ̃ ʒil] ⓘ) or Sint-Gillis (Dutch, pronounced [sɪntˈxɪlɪs] ⓘ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the southern part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels , Anderlecht , Forest and Ixelles .
The Solbosch campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking university, with about 20,000 students, is also situated on the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt. No. 52: Blomme House (1928), a modernist house designed by Adrien Blomme [ fr ] for his personal use (offices and apartments), whose entrance is flanked by two bas-reliefs ...