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3 unusual facts about Chaulnes


Chaulnes

Each year, more than 500 fans turn up to see and listen to bands like Obituary, Sodom, Rage or Nashville Pussy.

Jesse Ramsden

He was the first to carry out in practice a method of reading off angles (first suggested in 1768 by the Duke of Chaulnes) by measuring the distance of the index from the nearest division line by means of a micrometer screw which moves one or two fine threads placed in the focus of a microscope.

William Roy Irwin

Irwin would not score again until 8 August 1918, when he destroyed a Fokker D.VII northeast of Chaulnes.


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Gare de Chaulnes

Formerly, the station was also connected to a railway line from Paris-Nord to Cambrai via Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, Montdidier, Chaulnes and Roisel.


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