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unusual facts about Bayeux, Paraíba



Angu River

and it passes through the municipalities of Santo Antônio do Aventureiro and Além Paraíba to its mouth on the Paraiba do Sul near the city of Volta Grande

Anjou

In June 1138, with the aid of Robert of Gloucester, Geoffrey obtained the submission of Bayeux and Caen; in October he devastated the neighbourhood of Falaise; and finally, in March 1141, on hearing of his wife's success in England, he again entered Normandy, when he made a triumphal procession through the country.

Anna Eliza Bray

Her last years were embittered by a report that during a visit to Bayeux in 1816, she stole a piece of that city's famous tapestry.

Arara

Arara, Paraíba, a municipality in the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil

Associação Desportiva Guarabira

Associação Desportiva Guarabira, commonly known as Desportiva Guarabira, is a Brazilian football club based in Guarabira, Paraíba state.

Atlético Cajazeirense de Desportos

Atlético Cajazeirense de Desportos, commonly known as Atlético, is a Brazilian football club based in Cajazeiras, Paraíba state.

Baldassare Castiglione

Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, as in his correspondence with his friend and kinsman, Ludovico da Canossa (later Bishop of Bayeux).

Barauna

Baraúna, a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil

Battle of Varaville

In August 1057, King Henry and Count Geoffrey invaded Normandy on a campaign that was aimed at Bayeux and Caen.

Bayeux, Paraíba

The municipality was called Barreiros until 1944, when the name was changed to celebrate the first city of the Battle of Normandy to be liberated, Bayeux, France, during the Second World War.

Bow, Devon

The name Tracey comes from the 'de Tracey' family - from Tracy-sur-Mer near Bayeux - which settled in the area after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Campina Grande Airport

It is named after João Urbano Pessoa de Vasconcelos Suaçuna (1886-1930), President of the State of Paraíba (at the time in Brazil, State Governors had the title of President) from 1924 to 1928.

Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

The species was discovered and first described in 1917 in the vicinities of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, from where it is endemic.

Confiança Esporte Clube

Confiança Esporte Clube, commonly known as Confiança, was a Brazilian football club based in Sapé, Paraíba state.

Curral Velho, Paraíba

Curral Velho is a small city in the micro-region of Itaporanga in the Brazilian state of Paraíba.

Democracy and Desire

Within the framework of the Nordic festival Les Boréales in Normandy in France, Per Hüttner showed a new incarnation of the project at Le Radar in Bayeux.

Dudu Paraíba

Dudu Paraíba real name Carlos Eduardo de Souza Tomé (born 11 March 1985 in Mari, Paraiba) is a Brazilian footballer, who currently plays for WKS Śląsk Wrocław.

East Meon

In 1986, the 900th anniversary of the "Domesday Book", East Meon was chosen as "The Domesday Village", with a model in Winchester's Great Hall depicting the village as it was then - the model can still be seen alongside the famous tapestry at Bayeux in Normandy.

Edinanci Silva

Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 1976 in Sousa, Paraíba) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games.

Exuperius of Bayeux

In the times of the invasion of the Vikings Exuperius’ relics were translated from Bayeux, and eventually were deposited at Corbeil; the Saint-Spire cathedral in Corbeil-Essonnes is dedicated to him.

Guy Gaucher

A few months later, 7 May 1987, he was named auxiliary bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in residence at Lisieux.

Hottot-les-Bagues

Within the surrounding district, there was much heavy fighting through June and July 1944 as Commonwealth forces tried to press on from Bayeux in an encircling movement to the south of Caen.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Jacu

Jacu River, in the Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba states in eastern Brazil

Lasiodora parahybana

The species was discovered and first described in 1917 by zoologist Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in the vicinities of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, where it is endemic.

Le Molay-Littry

Le Molay-Littry has good travel links with neighbouring towns such as Isigny, Bayeux, St-Lo, and Balleroy, which served it well in the early 17th century.

Marguerite Georges

Marguerite Georges was born Marguerite-Josephine Weimer in Bayeux, the daughter of a German employed in the theatre orchestra in Amiens.

Massaranduba

Massaranduba, Paraíba - a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Miramar Esporte Clube

Miramar Esporte Clube, commonly known as Miramar, is a Brazilian football club based in Cabedelo, Paraíba state.

New Jersey Folk Festival

In the Bayeux Tapestry of the 1070s, originally of the Bayeux Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux) and now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, there is a depiction of a man installing a cock on Westminster Abbey.

Northeast Region, Brazil

The festival of São João (Saint John), one of the festas juninas, is especially popular in the Northeast, particularly in Caruaru in the state of Pernambuco and Campina Grande in the state of Paraíba.

Odo, Earl of Kent

More certain is his development of the cathedral school in Bayeux, and his patronage of a number of younger men who later became prominent prelates.

Paraíba Esporte Clube

Paraíba Esporte Clube, commonly known as Paraíba, is a Brazilian football club based in Cajazeiras, Paraíba state.

Philippe de Culant

He accompanied the heir to the throne, the future King Louis XI of France, on campaign in Germany in 1444 and served in many of the successful sieges which brought the Hundred Years' War to an end, including those of Taillebourg, Le Mans, Château Gaillard, Rouen, Bayeux, Caen, Cherbourg, and Bergerac.

Saint Vigor

In Bayeux itself, he destroyed a pagan temple, then still frequented, and built a church over it.

Sérgio Lopes

Born on October 27, 1965 in Paraíba, while still in basic education (old primary school), got involved with theater at Colégio Estadual da Liberdade, in Campina Grande, when he knew a friend called Afrânio, with which he shared his own poems or findings from poets such as Augusto dos Anjos and Gonçalves Dias.

Sivuca

Severino (Sivuca) Dias de Oliveira (26 March 1930, Itabaiana, Brazil – 14 December 2006, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) was a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist.

Sousa Esporte Clube

Sousa Esporte Clube, commonly known as Sousa, is a Brazilian football team based in Sousa, Paraíba state.

Taubateia paraiba

The species name paraiba comes from the name of the river Paraíba do Sul.

Treze Futebol Clube

Treze Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team from Campina Grande in Paraíba, founded on September 7, 1925.

Wallace McIntosh

On 7 June 1944, he joined a raid of 112 Lancaster bombers in support of the D-Day landings the previous day, attacking a concentration of German tanks in woods near Cerisy-la-Forêt, between Bayeux and St Lô in Normandy.

Walter Carvalho

Walter Carvalho (born 1947 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) is a critically and internationally acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer.

Willem Sassen

On 6 June 1944 (D-Day), Kriegsberichter Sassen was at the front in Normandy reporting the battles around Caen, Bayeux, Saint-Lô, Avranches, Falaise and Lisieux.


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