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unusual facts about Tarn-Vedra



Albaret-le-Comtal

The plant was built between 1916 and 1919 to supply energy to the hydrometallurgic factory at nearby Saint-Chély-du-Tarn.

Anne Laperrouze

Anne Laperrouze (born 4 July 1956 in Puylaurens, Tarn) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France.

Azalais of Toulouse

She was born at the castle of Burlats (canton of Roquecourbe, Tarn) and is therefore called contessa de Burlatz (Countess of Burlats) in the vida of Arnaut de Mareuil.

Canal de Montech

A lock at Moissac also connects the Canal de Garonne to a lower section of the Tarn.

Canton of Montauban-1

The Canton of Montauban-1 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-2

The Canton of Montauban-2 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-4

The Canton of Montauban-4 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-5

The Canton of Montauban-5 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-6

The Canton of Montauban-6 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Château de Linardié

Château de Linardié is the name for a once active cultural center located in the South West area of France seven kilometres from Gaillac in the Tarn, France.

Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters

On 5 July 2008, on his visit to Taiwanese writer Koarn Hack Tarn's home, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou promised that he would not introduce the usage of Simplified Chinese into the territories just because of the local newly passed policy to let Mainland tourists visit Taiwan but to provide side-by-side translation so that Mainland visitors could appreciate the aesthetic nature of Traditional Chinese.

Dock Tarn

There is a tiny island in the tarn with a few small Rowan trees growing on it.

Dupuy

Saint-Julien-du-Puy a commune in the French département of Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées region

Durfort family

Durfort is a village of southwestern France, formerly in the province of Guienne, now in the département of Tarn-et-Garonne, 18 m.

Édouard Corbière

The Corbière family originated in Valès, a hamlet in the Haut-Languedoc (now part of the commune iof Le Bez, to the east of Castres, in the Tarn département).

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Jean-Marie Charles Abrial

Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (17 December 1879, Réalmont, Tarn - 19 December 1962, Dourgne) was a French Admiral and Naval Minister.

Jonte

Jonte River, a tributary of the Tarn River in Southern France

Le Truel

The Tarn has been dammed here and electricity generated by a two Kaplan turbines producing 27KW.

Lobsang Tengye Geshe

In France for over thirty years, it applies tirelessly to transmit the benefits of various teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni, he taught for many years in Buddhist Temple Linh Son of Joinville-le-Pont and for years at the Vajra yogini Institut in the Tarn where he currently resides.

Loughrigg Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn was a favoured place of William Wordsworth, who, in his Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont Bart, likened it to “Diana’s Looking-glass...round clear and bright as heaven", a reference to Lake Nemi, the mirror of Diana in Rome.

Lucien Fabre

Born near Carmaux in the Segala Tarn, he kept all his life a deep affection for country life that grounded his childhood.

Maurice de Guérin

Descended from a noble and rich family, he was born at the chateau of Le Cayla in Andillac, Tarn.

Maxime Jacob

Maxime Jacob, or Dom Clément Jacob, (13 January 1906, Bordeaux – 26 February 1977, Abbaye En-Calcat, Dourgne, Tarn) was a French composer and organist.

Nymphaea alba

The red variety which is in cultivation came from lake Fagertärn (Fair tarn) in the forest of Tiveden, Sweden, where they were discovered in the early 19th century.

Peter Rees Jones

Jones initially took a position with a draper in Hackney before moving on to apprenticeships with William Tarn in Newington and then Stagg & Mantle at Leicester Square.

Raymond Lafage

Raymond Lafage (1656, Lisle-sur-Tarn – 1684, near Lyon) was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings.

Route of Ages

When the Andromeda passed through the Route of Ages, she arrived on the planet Seefra (later revealed to be Tarn-Vedra), where captain Dylan Hunt finds out that he is the last of the Paradines, a highly evolved and human-like type of Vedran.

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Legend recounts that angels then descended from Heaven to collect the pieces and place them in a boat which, miraculously, floated downstream into the Garonne and on to where the Tarn flows into it; then up the Tarn to its confluence with the Aveyron and up through the Vallis Nobilis of the Aveyron Gorges to the confluence of the little Bonnette river at a point where the ancient lands and bishroprics of Rouergue, the Albigeois, and Quercy meet.

Saint-Juéry XIII

Saint-Juéry XIII, nicknamed the Scorpions, are a French Rugby League club based in Saint-Juéry, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Sporting Club Graulhetois

The Sporting club graulhetois, or SC Graulhet, is a rugby union French club based in Graulhet (Tarn).

Systems Commonwealth

After discovering the Slipstream, the Vedrans founded their Empire as they travelled from system to system subjugating other worlds.

The Enchantments

They used fairy names such as Gnome Tarn, Troll Sink, Naiad Lake (officially Temple Lake), Sprite and King Arthur legends in the Lower Enchantment Basin because "the lower basin was not as austere as the upper basin," according to Peg.

UA Gaillac

The club, founded in 1901, is based in the small town of Gaillac, in southwestern France, in the département of Tarn, some 70 km northeast of Toulouse.

Varen

Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne, a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, France

Virac

Virac, Tarn, a commune of the Tarn département, in France

WBGB

WHJX, a radio station (106.5 FM) licensed to serve Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States, which held the call sign WBGB from March 1998 to September 2006

William Woodthorpe Tarn

In fact, portrayals of Alexander in some high school and college world history text books still reflect Tarn more than anyone who has come after". Reames also saw Tarn's strong influence in Mary Renault's trilogy of historical novels about Alexander - though Renault's acknowledged Alexander's homo-erotic tendencies, while Tarn had regarded references to them in ancient sources as "defamations" which the Macedonian king had to be defended against.


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