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    Bayeux station (French: Gare de Bayeux) is the train station for the town of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg...
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    Bayeux (French pronunciation: [bajø]) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry...
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    an intercity station many regional trains use the station. Typical services link Caen to Lisieux, Paris, Rouen, Saint-Lô, Granville, Bayeux and Cherbourg...
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    of the traffic. The 366 largest stations (12%) account for 85% of passenger activity, and the smallest 56% of stations take only 1.7% of traffic. Freight...
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    the stations sold to be converted to dwellings. Vierville station was burned down on 7 June 1944 during the D-Day landings. The lines from Bayeux closed...
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    station to connect passengers to nearby towns such as Bayeux, Carentan and Le Molay-Littry. The station has ticket machines for customers to buy tickets before...
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    Arromanches and establish contact with the American forces at Omaha, capture Bayeux and the small port at Port-en-Bessin, and to link up with the Canadian forces...
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    of the five landing sites on the first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands. Caen, a major objective, was not captured until...
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    excavations of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Roman Town), a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, finds relating to Reading Abbey and an art collection. Reading...
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  • Sulpitius I of Bourges the Severe (died 591) Sulpice de Bayeux [fr] 9th Century Bishop of Bayeux General Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice, who...
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    standard gauge railway ended whilst the 600 mm gauge line continued to Bayeux. 49°20′5″N 0°27′27″W / 49.33472°N 0.45750°W / 49.33472; -0.45750 v t...
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    1801 before being recreated and merged with that of Bayeux in 1855, under the new name of "Bayeux and Lisieux". The best-known of the Bishops of Lisieux...
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    palatine in 1067. Under the nominal rule of William's half-brother Odo of Bayeux, the county was granted similar powers to those granted in the areas bordering...
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    ISBN 978-81-208-1036-5. Pal, Pratapaditya; Canada, National Gallery of; Arts (Firm), Bayeux (1997). Divine Images, Human Visions: The Max Tanenbaum Collection of South...
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    Baltic region to western Europe, triggering the establishment of toll stations and conflicts over their control. In the post-Roman kingdoms, base metal...
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    Following the Norman Conquest, the manor of Peckham was granted to Odo of Bayeux and held by the Bishop of Lisieux. It was described as being a hamlet on...
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    Metropolis civitas Rotomagensium (Rouen), Civitas Baiocassium (Augustodorum, Bayeux), Civitas Abrincatum (Ingena, Avranches), Civitas Ebroicorum (Mediolanum...
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    largest broadcaster in the world. It operates numerous television and radio stations in the UK and abroad and its domestic services are funded by the television...
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    told. William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by the duke. The Bayeux Tapestry has been claimed to show Harold's death by an arrow to the eye...
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    Mont-Saint-Michel Bréauté – Étretat Bayeux – Colleville-sur-Mer – Arromanches-les-Bains Réseau Ferré de France List of SNCF stations in Normandy Plan du réseau...
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    Sidney Bates (category Burials at Bayeux war cemetery)
    during the Second World War. The grave of Sidney Bates can be found in the Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Calvados, France. (Reference...
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    This made the mount definitively part of Normandy, and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the Norman Conquest. Harold Godwinson is pictured...
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    French government exists". On 14 June 1944, he left Britain for the city of Bayeux, Normandy, which he proclaimed as the capital of Free France. Appointing...
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    on the western flank. The initial goal was to capture Carentan, Isigny, Bayeux, and Caen. The Americans, assigned to land at Utah and Omaha, were to cut...
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    railway station (French: Gare de Caen) to all parts of Normandy with lines to Paris, Vire, Flers, Cabourg, Houlgate, Deauville, Saint-Lô, Bayeux and Cherbourg...
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    shore up their defenses. In the 'Bayeux zone', 914th regiment was stationed in the west, 916th regiment was stationed in the east, while 915th regiment...
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  • the Purusarthas". In Lipner, Julius (ed.). The Fruits of Our Desiring. Bayeux. pp. 16–21. ISBN 978-1-896209-30-2. "Dharma" Archived 26 September 2016...
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    decoration of shields. Coats of arms did not yet exist at the time the Bayeux tapestry was embroidered, in the last third of the 11th century, since the...
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    our world of today in a manner using the same bold pictorial style as the Bayeux tapestries in France" - currently hang in Chartered Accountants' Hall. He...
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    15, 1944, the corps included: The 29th Infantry Division, located on the Bayeux road from La Luzerne to Saint-André-de-l'Épine and moving southwest into...
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