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71 unusual facts about Nord


Aibert

Moved by a wandering minstrel singing a hymn of lament to Saint Theobald, Aibert began to live a life of asceticism with a Benedictine priest named John near the abbey in Crespin.

ANF Industrie

Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France was a French locomotive manufacturer, based at Crespin in the Arrondissement of Valenciennes, northern France.

Berndt Röder

Röder made calls to the privy councils of the state ministry of environment, and state ministry of interior, and to the municipal councillor of Hamburg-Nord borough, Röder complained about the city's negligence not clearing the street—where he resided—of glaze ice.

Brick House Ruins

1675 Chateau de la Haye d'Esquermes near Loos les Lille, France, evidence of the French influence in its architecture is seen through many stucco enrichments to the exterior and its high-pitched roof.

Canal de Bourbourg

In the village of Brouckerque, coming from Dunkerque, the canal can either turn right on its path to the Aa at Bourbourg, or continue straight to join the Canal de la Colme near the village of Lynck and continue on to the Aa River at Watten.

Cerfontaine

Cerfontaine, Nord, a commune of the Nord département in northern France

Christophe Cheval

Christophe Cheval (born 25 February 1971 in Somain, Nord) is a French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.

Dominic of Flanders

He was born Baudouin Lottin, in the north of France near what is today the Belgian border, in either Merville or Merris, a few kilometers away from Bailleul.

East Street Arts

Over Yonder explores the historical context of town/region twinning which started just after the Second World War (the first recorded modern twinning agreement was between Keighly, West Yorkshire and Poix-du-Nord, France) and witnesses strong links between cities and regions and its people.

Gau Westfalen-Nord

The Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Free State of Lippe, Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe and the northern half of the Prussian province of Westphalia between 1933 and 1945.

Giles de Coninck

Giles de Coninck (Aegidius; also called Regius) (b. 20 December 1571, at Bailleul in French Flanders; d. 31 May 1633, at Leuven) was a Flemish Jesuit theologian.

Grand Prix de Fourmies

The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France.

Grande-Rivière-du-Nord

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born there in 1758 on the Cormiers plantation.

Haestingas

It has been suggested that the Haestingas were of Frankish origin, based on Watt being a sub-king to the South Saxons and there being a place-name of Watten in north-east France.

Hans Juchem

He also took part in the Western Campaign in June 1940 and was involved in fighting at Vlissingen in the Netherlands, Cassel, the Marne and in Orléans in France where he was wounded for the first time and awarded the Wound Badge.

HiNT Station

The station gets its name from being located just beside the Nord-Trøndelag University College campus at Røstad as well as the Norwegian Food Safety Authority.

Hovenden Walker

By that time the whole fleet was heading for the “North Shore,” or more accurately, the coast to the westward; ships in the van were already plunging on the edge of the breakers.

Aided by an easterly wind, the fleet was gradually closing on the “North Shore,” which in the vicinity of Île-aux-Oeufs (Egg Island) runs almost north and south.

Humbert of Maroilles

In the year 652 he co-founded and became the first abbot of a monastery at Maroilles.

Illies

Illies, Nord, a commune in the Nord department in northern France

Industrial nature

The concept has it origins in Germany specifically at the Emscher Landscape Park in the Ruhr, Germany (of which the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord is the best known example) and has been applied at the Sudgelande Park in Berlin.

Ivar Ramstad

He worked as a farmer at the farm Nygjerdet, between Røra and Straumen, and also had a career in Gjensidige.

James O'Moran

Arriving at his post in April, O'Moran toured the strongholds placed under him (Cassel, Bergues, Dunkirk and Bailleul) to put them into a state of readiness and defence.

Jean Delsarte

Jean Frédéric Auguste Delsarte (October 19, 1903, Fourmies – November 28, 1968, Nancy) was a French mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis, in particular, for introducing mean-periodic functions and generalised shift operators.

Johan Valckenaer

The most important Patriots, such as Wybo Fijnje, H. W. Daendels, Adam Gerard Mappa and Valckenaer lived temporarily in a castle in Watten and formed a kind of commune, that jointly bought a billiards set, restored the rooms and grew its own vegetables.

John Stuart, Count of Maida

He took part in the sieges and battles of the 1793 campaign, Valenciennes, Lincelles, Dunkirk and Lannoy.

Jøssund

Jøssund, Nord-Trøndelag, a village in Flatanger municipality, Nord-Trøndelag county

Karl-Heinz Prinz

During the Battle of France in the fighting near Armentières on the 29 May 1940, Prinz, especially distinguished himself when he and his platoon forced a breakthrough of the English positions and established a link-up with the formations located in Bailleul.

Kristofer Uppdal

Kristofer Oliver Uppdal (19 February 1878 – 26 December 1961), born Opdal, was a Norwegian poet and author, born in Beitstad, Nord-Trøndelag.

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

Peter Latz’s design was significant, as it attempted to preserve as much of the existing site as possible (Diedrich, 69).

Peter Latz gained his first important experiences in dealing with derelict industrial sites in 1985, when designing the "Harbour Island", a public park on a destroyed harbour site in Saarbrücken (Weilacher, 82).

It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner (Peter Latz), with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it.

Memory has re-emerged as an important aspect of design, and has been addressed by authors such as Sebastien Marot, Frances Yates, Robert Smithson, and Peter Latz himself.

Yates, Frances A. “Architecture and the Art of Memory.” Architectural Design 38 (December 1968): 573 – 578.

Richard Haag’s Gas Works Park in Seattle was an important predecessor to the Landschaftspark.

Peter Latz, takes these ideas and pushes them further as he uses materials on the site to show their transient nature as they change and decompose, transforming into something else.

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality was created in July 2010, replacing Basse-Côte-Nord, which was a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality.

Leval

Leval, Nord, a commune in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France

Libération-Nord

Libération-Nord was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War.

Limbe

Limbé, Nord, a municipality in the Limbé Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti

Louis de Sabran

After returning to France, Sabran was elected to be sent to Rome, Italy to the Vatican by the council of Watten in 1693.

Martin Grene

After passing twelve years on the mission he was recalled to Watten, near Saint-Omer, to take charge of the novices.

Maurice Ewens

He was admitted at Watten, near St. Omer, the same year, under the assumed name of Maurice Newport, by which he was known.

Michael Freytag

Freytag was from 1982 to 1991, a representative of the district assembly in Hamburg-Nord and was here from 1986 to 1991 Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

Minganie Regional County Municipality

In 2002, it lost all the coastal communities east of the Natashquan River when the Basse-Côte-Nord Territory was formed.

Nord-10

With NORD-TSS all users could simultaneously run any of the systems Fortran IV, BASIC, MAC Assembler, NODAL, NORD-PL, or QED.

Nord-Ostsee-Bahn

NOB operates two classes of diesel-electric locomotives, both on the section between Hamburg and Sylt: the Di 6 (DE 2700) and the Eurorunner (DE 2000).

Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec

In Ontario, the highway passes through the townships of Casey and Harris en route to the city of Temiskaming Shores.

Ojibwe dialects

Recognized Algonquin communities include: Amos (Pikogan), Cadillac, Grand Lac Victoria, Hunter's Point, Kipawa (Eagle Village), Notre Dame du Nord (Timiskaming), Rapid Lake (Barriere Lake), Rapid Sept, Lac Simon, Québec, Winneway (Long Point).

Okill Massey Learmonth

On 18 August 1917 east of Loos, France, during a determined counter-attack on our new positions, Major Learmonth, when his company was momentarily surprised, instantly charged and personally disposed of the attackers.

Ontario Highway 65

Rue Ontario ends at Route 101 in Notre-Dame-du-Nord, 2.6 kilometres (2 miles) east of the provincial border.

Pascal Delannoy

Delannoy then served in a parish in Roubaix for two years, after which he was made responsible for diocesan activities in independent sites (1991–1999), and in 1997 was also named the Dean of the urban district of Roubaix and of Bailleul.

Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–28

Zannekin won the neighboring towns of Roeselare, Poperinge, Nieuwpoort, Veurne, Dunkirk, Cassel, Bailleul for his cause as they opened their gates to him.

Petrus Dathenus

Pieter Datheen, Latin Petrus Dathenus (Cassel, Nord, c.1531 - Elbing, 17 March 1588) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian who translated the Heidelberg Catechism into Dutch.

Pierre Droulers

Pierre Droulers (born 5 July 1951 in La Madeleine, France) is a French and Belgian choreographer and dancer.

Poperinge

Under the Romans a link was made to it from the road between Cassel and Aardenburg.

Prestwich by-election, October 1918

The seat had become vacant upon the death in action near Merville of the sitting Liberal MP, the Hon.

Roland Bondonny

Roland Bondonny (May 1932 – February 2005) was a wealthy vintner and conservative politician who lived in France, in Égletons in Corrèze and also in Fourmies in Nord.

Roucourt

Roucourt, Nord, a place in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region of France

Sascha Görres

Görres grew up playing in the youth system of German Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord-West (sixth tier) team ETSV Weiche, eventually graduating to play for the senior side in 1999 at the age of 19.

Sebastian Festner

Festner crashed behind the British lines, between Gavrelle and Bailleul.

Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality

Sept-Rivières (French for "Seven-Rivers") is a regional county municipality of Quebec, Canada, in the Côte-Nord region.

Société Franco-Belge

ANF Industrie, as of 2012 owned by Bombardier Inc., located nearby in Crespin, Arrondissement of Valenciennes, in the north of France

Somain

Somain, Nord, a commune of the Nord département, in northern France.

Steine

Steine, Nord-Trøndelag, village in Nærøy municipality, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Straumen

Straumen, Nord-Trøndelag, a village in Inderøy municipality, Nord-Trøndelag county

Sykehuset Levanger Station

Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality is considering re-routing one of the city buses to run from the station to the hospital, and perhaps having a free transfer service.

Thierry Toutain

Thierry Toutain (born February 14, 1962 in Fourmies) is a retired French race walker.

Thomas Percy Plowden

Thomas Percy Plowden (born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 September 1745) was an English Jesuit administrator.

Vassar Haiti Project

These art sales provide the primary means of funding for initiatives in education, health care, water access and purification, and reforestation in Chermaitre, Haiti, a mountain village in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.

Wybo Fijnje

The Fijnje family went to Antwerp, later to Brussels and finally to Watten (French-Flanders).


1926–27 Prima Divisione

L'organico dei tre gironi del Nord fu costituito dalla metà esatta dei partecipanti alla precedente edizione della Seconda Divisione, dalle sette perdenti gli spareggi per la salvezza di Prima Divisione, e dall'Anconitana prelevata dal raggruppamenti meridionali.

André Stil

Born in Hergnies, Nord, a small town in the coal-mining region of northern France, Stil was educated at the University of Lille, earning a degree in philosophy.

Åsa Solberg Iversen

Åsa Solberg Iversen (born 7 April 1929 in Overhalla, Nord-Trøndelag, died 3 February 2009 in Fredrikstad) was a Norwegian politician (Ap).

Basque Country

French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country (Ipar Euskal Herria or Iparralde in Basque; Pays Basque or Pays Basque Nord in French), the three (historic) northern provinces in France (shown in yellow on the map)

Bjarne Fiskum

Bjarne Ivar Fiskum (born 27 August 1939 in Harran, Grong, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway) is a Norwegian violinist, conductor and composer, and the son of the orchestra leader Ottar Fiskum.

Bodega Band

In this period the Bodega band also toured to Reykjavík (1978), performed at Moldejazz (1977) and at the "Festspillene i Nord-Norge" (1973).

Breton Canadian

The number of Canadian citizens of Breton descent cannot be determined through census statistics, however the Amicale des Parents d’Émigrés d’Amérique du Nord (Association of Relatives of Emigrants to North America), an organization headquartered in Gourin, Brittany, has estimated that around 45,000 Bretons immigrated to Canada between the years of 1870 and 1980 and that 8,000 Breton-Canadians live or work in the Montreal area.

Filmtecknarna

They are: Jonas Odell, Stig Bergqvist, Jonas Dahlbeck, Jessica Laurén, Johanna Andersson, Boris Nawratil, David Nord, Jory Hull, Lucas Zanotti, Jasmin Jodry, and a new director soon to be made public.

Frescography

These wallpaper manufacturers used thousands of engraved woodblocks for the creation of the panorama sceneries, to create wall paper such as the 20 panel Sauvages de la Mer du Pacifique which Jean-Gabriel Charvet designed for Joseph Dufour et Cie or the “du Vue de l'Amérique Nord” designed in 1834 by Zuber et cie for the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, where it is still today.

Gare de Chepoix

The station was first opened in 1846 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord Railway Company) and served the small industrial village of Chepoix.

Gare de Rouen Martinville

Rouen Martainville or Gare du Nord was a large railway station serving the city of Rouen, in Normandy, northern France.

Gilbert Rist

(with Majid Rahnema and Gustavo Esteva), Le Nord perdu, Repères pour l’après-développement, coll.

Gustav Sjaastad

He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Nord-Trøndelag in 1958, and until 1959 his seat in parliament was taken by Hans Mikal Solsem.

Gütersloh Hauptbahnhof

At walking distance beyond the main post office and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße is the Gütersloh Nord station of the Teutoburg Forest Railway (Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn, TWE), which formerly ran passenger services towards Hövelhof and Ibbenbüren.

Halland-class destroyer

They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).

Ian Joy

Joy immediately became a fan favorite then won the Regionalliga Nord Championship with St. Pauli getting promotion to the German 2nd Bundesliga in his second season.

Isabelle Dinoire

The first partial face transplant surgery on a living human was performed on Dinoire on 27 November 2005 by Professor Bernard Devauchelle, assisted by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard at the Centre hospitalier Universitaire Nord in Amiens, France.

Jacques Mistral

Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of Economics at Université Paris-Nord; from 1974 to 1992, at ENSAE; from 1984 to 1994, at the École Polytechnique; and from 1982 to 1996, at Sciences Po.

Kernmünsterland

Kernmünsterland includes the city of Münster (less the northeast part) to the north, the district of Coesfeld (less the extreme west with Coesfeld and Billerbeck) to the west, the district of Warendorf (less the north with Sassenberg, Warendorf-Nord, Telgte and Ostbevern) to the east the centre of the historic Münsterland.

Lanke

Lånke, a former municipality in Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway

Lega Sud Ausonia

Similarly to Lega Nord's goal of establishing an independent Padania, Lega Sud wants to establish an independent Ausonia.

Les Clées

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Les Clées became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Lieu-Saint-Amand

It is the home of the Sevel Nord facility, an automobile factory which builds Fiat vehicles.

Lille Airport

Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department.

Loïc Lantoine

Loïc Lantoine is a French singer and songwriter born in Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Ludovic Depickère

Ludovic Depickère (born July 29, 1969 in Wattrelos, Nord) is a retired magician and freestyle swimmer from France, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.

Marius Dewilde

Dewilde, a railway guardian, lived in a house by the tracks close to the railway station at Quarouble, Nord, France.

Messerschmitt Bf 108

Bf 108s and postwar Nord 1000s, played the role of Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters in war movies, including The Longest Day, The Great Escape, 633 Squadron, and Von Ryan's Express.

Minganie Regional County Municipality

Minganie and the neighbouring Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010).

Northern Mariner

The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Canadian Nautical Research Society/Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique in association with the North American Society for Oceanic History.

Osterholz Geest

In the south of the Osterholz Geest there is a band of settlement from Schwanewede to Bremen-Nord, Ritterhude and Osterholz-Scharmbeck.

Quebec Route 385

The highway runs from the junction of Route 138 in Forestville and ends over 80 kilometers further north into large wooded areas which the main purpose of the road is for the wood industry in the Côte-Nord region.

Romainmôtier-Envy

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Romainmôtier-Envy became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

Stahl Brandenburg Rugby

The following year, in 1959, a rugby department was formed at the Thälmannwerft, a Shipbuilding company, as part of the BSG Motor Nord.

Tanganyika District

From July 11, 1962 to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government, and it was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government.

The Five Crosses

The Five Crosses (or commonly known as Les Cinq Croix) is a Christian monument of Calvary at Ploubezere, near Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, in Brittany, France.

Trams in Milan

178 Milan (Niguarda Parco Nord) ↔ Desio (Milan–Desio tramway) (from late 2011 discontinued)

Trones

Trones, Namsskogan, a village in Namsskogan municipality, Nord-Trøndelag county