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4 unusual facts about Fer


Fer

According to wine expert Oz Clarke, wine made from Fer is often characterized by its perfumed aromas of currants and red fruit, soft tannins, and concentration in fruit.

Résistance-Fer

The actions of Résistance-Fer were especially effective during the liberation of France.

Two-fer

Buy one, get one free, a discount sales promotion offering two items for the price of one

Twofer, a cabling device (a two-way splitter) used in theatrical stage lighting


Buffyverse role-playing games

His battle with the druid Fer Doirich continues into the modern age, where the adventure posits that the witches Willow and Tara are the reincarnations of his fosterers Bodhmall and Liath respectively.

Chemins de fer du Jura

The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.

Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris

The Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (Paris Metropolitan Railway Company), or CMP, was the forerunner of the RATP, the company managing the Parisian Underground.

Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer

The Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer (CFMCF) was a French manufacturer of rail equipment, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine, with a factory in Maubeuge.

Édouard Biot

Biot translated Charles Babbage's On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture into French and was the author of one of the earliest works on the railways, the Manuel du constructeur des chemins de fer (Manual of Railway Construction), published in 1834.

État 42-001 to 42-020

The last of the series were allocated to the St-Brieux depot and rented to the Société générale de chemins de fer et de transport automobile (CFTA) after Réseau Breton lines between Carhaix and Paimpol had been re-gauged from metre gauge to standard gauge.

Fernanda

Fernanda (pronounced fer-NAHN-dah) is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian feminine equivalent of Fernando, a male given name of Germanic origin, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey".

Gare de Saint-Denis-près-Martel

The station is also on the preserved railway of the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Haut Quercy (CFTHQ) which operates between Martel and Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, a distance of 7 km.

Giustiniani

Pompeo Giustiniani (1569–1616), a native of Corsica, who served in the Low Countries under Alessandro Farnese and Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, where he lost an arm, and, from the artificial substitute which he wore, came to be known by the sobriquet Bras de Fer.

Holywell Town F.C.

During those early days, Holywell played their football on a ground known as Ffordd Fer ('Short Way'), which was located where the local high school is now situated, and also wore red and white as their strip, just as the current team wears today in its home kit.

Jaffa Railway Station

The franchise for laying the railway was obtained from the Ottoman government by Joseph Navon, but due financial difficulties, he had to sell the franchise to a French company which was set up to build the line – the Société du Chemin de Fer Ottoman de Jaffa à Jérusalem et Prolongements.

La Rose de Fer

"La Rose de Fer" was released in 2012 by Kino Lorber in a five Blu-ray collection, along with Fascination, La Vampire Nue, Le Frisson des Vampires, and Lèvres de Sang.

Meet Nero Wolfe

Kimball dismisses the notion that his life is in danger until he is informed that his car has been wrecked and his chauffeur is dead — killed by a fer-de-lance, a South American snake that is probably the most poisonous in the world.

MIFERMA Class CC 01-21

They had been commissioned by the Societe Anonyme des Mines de Fer de Mauritanie (MIFERMA), then the owner of the Mauritania Railway, which, since its completion in 1963, has connected the iron ore mine in Zouerate with the port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

Monthey-Champéry-Morgins

The company amalgamated with the Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey (MCM) from 1 January 1946 and became part of the Transports Publics du Chablais in 2001.

Rhythm of Youth

This album was re-released on CD in Canada in 1997 by Oglio Records as part of a "two-fer" including Folk of the 80's (Part III).

Société Franco-Belge

The company originated in 1959 as the Belgian firm Compagnie Belge pour la Construction de Machines et de Matériels de Chemins de Fer founded by Charles Evrard; the company expanded its share capital in 1881 forming a new firm Société Anonyme Franco-Belge pour la Construction de Machines et de Matériel de Chemins de Fer and constructed a factory in Raismes (Valenciennes) in the Département Nord in France.

St. Anne Shell Chapel

As the chapel was being built, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte had the idea to line the walls with iridescent river shells from the nearby Wabash River.

Uic

International Union of Railways (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer), an international rail transport industry body.

Ung Thị

He gained his law degree and worked as administrator for the Compagnie des Chemin de Fer in Hanoi.


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