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reardonsteel writes "All of the Drupal websites were offline for about two days because of a server meltdown at the organization's hosting provider. The main Drupal website is back up with a single temporary page and they've announced a fund-raising drive to raise US$3000 for a new server to be hosted at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University's server farm. Drupal is the leading open-source (written in PHP) content management system and is used to power tens of thousands of websites, blogs, community sites, etc." At this point, all they need is an actual server, too: the OSL has agreed to provide rack space, bandwidth, power, backup facilities and support.
Antwerp
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For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation).
The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old part of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and is home to a number of triptychs by the Belgian painter, Rubens. It remains the tallest building in the city.
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The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old part of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and is home to a number of triptychs by the Belgian painter, Rubens. It remains the tallest building in the city.
Antwerp (Dutch: Antwerpen, French: Anvers, Spanish: Amberes, Latin: Antverpia) is a city and a municipality in the province of Antwerp (and its capital), in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. As of January, 2005 Antwerp had a total population of around 457,729. The total area is 204.51 km which gives a population density of 2,238.17 inhabitants per km. The agglomeration has a population of circa 800,000 (municipality: 457,729 (2005), metropolitan area: about 1,225,000 (2004)).
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* 1 Overview
* 2 History
* 3 Historical population
* 4 Municipality
* 5 Sports
* 6 See also
* 7 External links
* 8 Reference
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Overview
Antwerp is one of the three primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with New York City's "diamond district", and South Africa), traditionally controlled by the city's Hassidic Jewish population, the largest outside of New York. Antwerp is also famous for its seaport with a lot of cargo shipping and oil refineries. Since the 1990s it has been recognized as an important city for fashion design, namely because of some graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine arts became internationally successful designers.
The river Scheldt passes through Antwerp. Antwerp is one of the largest ports in the world (only second to Rotterdam in Europe), linked to the North Sea by the Scheldt and the Westerschelde.
Antwerp Stadhuis (Town Hall) in Grote Markt
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Antwerp Stadhuis (Town Hall) in Grote Markt
Antwerp is also notable for its zoo, which is one of the oldest and most famous in the world. The Antwerp Zoo is located in the middle of the city and hosts more than 4,000 animals. The Royal Society for Zoology has been watching over the welfare of numerous animals and helping to protect threatened animals for more than 100 years.
Next to the Antwerp Zoo is the Centraal Station, the city's main railway station. Designed by architect Louis Delacenserie (1838-1909) and completed in 1905, the station's architecture features two monumental neo-baroque facades, topped by a large metal and glass dome (60m/197ft). The dome covers the train platforms which is typical for turn-of-the-century railway stations in Europe. Antwerp is the end of the oldest railway line in continental Europe (between Brussels and Antwerp through the city of Mechelen). Designed with all glit and marble, the interior has been called a Renaissance painters fantasy of what classical design should be. A few years ago, the Centraal Station was used in the British television series 'Hercule Poirot.' In the series, the famous 'Belgian' detective visited Brussels and many Belgians were surprised to see that, during the filming, the Antwerp station had changed its name to 'Gare de Bruxelles' (Brussels Station).
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History
The Brabantine city of Antwerp succeeded Bruges in Flanders as the major port city and center of the economy of northern Europe, but became, as Fernand Braudel pointed out "the center of the entire international economy--something Bruges had never been even at its height." (Braudel 1985 p. 143.) He dates the opening of the new order with the arrival of the first Portuguese ship laden with pepper and cinnamon in 1501. Antwerp's "Golden Age" is tightly linked to the "Age of Exploration"
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