The story of immigration on Staten Island | From the editor
For more than 400 years, immigrants have been coming to Staten Island to seek refuge from religious or political persecution ...
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En Suède, on vénère des héros wallons
At least those who arrived between 1620 and 1650. Several thousand Walloons fled the Catholic persecution of the Spanish ...
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Walloons | Financial Post
Who are the Walloons and why do they hate CETA? Here are five things at the heart of Wallonia's discontent over the Canada and European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement This ...
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Experiences of immigrants in the Early Modern era, 1500-1750 - OCR A
French Protestant Huguenot refugees arriving in England, 1685. Walloons and Huguenots settled mainly in London and the south-east of England, often setting up communities in distinct areas such as ...
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These 3 Under-The-Radar European Cities Will Soon Be Linked By A New Train Route
Liège lies in an area of Belgium populated by Walloons, a French-speaking people with diasporas in Brazil, the US and Argentina. You can learn more about their history at the Musée de la Vie ...
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Best Regional Foods in the U.S.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the dish can be traced to the migration of Walloons — French-speaking Belgians — during the mid-1800s. It is typically made in giant batches and frequently ...
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Why Belgian struggle for identity could tear country apart
Brussels was then part of the Netherlands, and seething resentfully under a monarch who alienated Dutch-speaking Catholics with his vigorous Protestantism and French-speaking Walloons with his ...
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Language Conflict and Language Rights
Walloons in Belgium and French vs. English in Canada. Carefully planned, well researched and reader-friendly, this textbook will be used profitably on any continent where university courses are ...
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Migrants to Britain c1250 to present
The Huguenots and other Protestant refugees, 1500-1750 - OCR B Walloons and Huguenots were mostly welcomed and had a significant, lasting impact. Destitute Rhineland Palatines were less welcome ...
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George Vassiliou: the years of lost opportunities
The Walloons and the Flemish have disagreed between them but Belgium has not collapsed. CM: Our political system affords small parties the power to control the political scene and to impose their ...
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Belgium’s far right struggles to break through media ban
"Reporters don't hold out their microphones to them, which prevents the extreme-right parties from being heard in prime time and becoming known to the majority of the Walloons," said Francois ...