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    Wimereux (French: [vim(ə)ʁø]; West Flemish: Wimeruwe) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Wimereux is...
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    Wimille-Wimereux is a railway station serving the communes of Wimille and Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais department, northern France. It is on the Boulogne–Calais...
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    in a Montgolfier balloon. He later died when his balloon crashed near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais during an attempt to fly across the English Channel...
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    Boulogne-sur-Mer: around the fortifications. Villa in Wimereux. Villa in Wimereux. Wimereux: looking north. Le Portel: Notre Dame de Boulogne statue...
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  • Furyo Films (France). Principal photography began on 16 August 2022 in Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais), located in France's Côte d'Opale region, where the production...
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    General Hospital in Wimereux, France. He was buried the following day in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery, just a couple...
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    cities: Reims, France Esztergom, Hungary Saint-Omer, France, since 1995 Wimereux, France, since 1995 Certaldo, Italy, since 1997 Vladimir, Russia, since...
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    locations in the Lille historical city centre, Sallaumines, Tourcoing and Wimereux (Marine station). University Lille 1 is located on the same Cité Scientifique...
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    miles of cable spliced. 27 March 1899 First radio transmission across the Channel (from Wimereux to South Foreland Lighthouse) Guglielmo Marconi (Italy)...
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    Philip O'Connor and his son Félix, Wimereux, 1974....
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    Tankerton Slopes and Mersea Island. Locations in other countries include Wimereux, France, spectacular colorful picturesque in Cape Town, South Africa, Nesodden...
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    again in October and from that month to the end of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas. Until June 1918, the dead from...
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    cerebral meningitis. On January 28, 1918, he died at the military hospital in Wimereux and was buried there with full military honours. A book of his works, featuring...
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    Wicquinghem Widehem Wierre-au-Bois Wierre-Effroy Willeman Willencourt Willerval Wimereux Wimille Wingles Wirwignes Wismes Wisques Wissant Witternesse Wittes Wizernes...
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    guns of Battery Todt emplaced on Cap-Gris-Nez in the Pas de Calais near Wimereux and ordered a concrete casemate 3.5 m (11 ft) thick built over and around...
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  • World War I he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. Initially posted to Wimereux, near Boulogne, he acted as medical minder to a French-American dentist...
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    Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Sainte-Cécile-Plage Hardelot-Plage Équihen-Plage Wimereux Audresselles Ambleteuse Wissant Blériot-Plage Bray-Dunes From south to...
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    such Belgian cities as Nieuwpoort and Ostend. It can also be found in Wimereux, France. The species is considered to be Critically Endangered in Belgium...
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    Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion Romain become the first to die in an aviation accident at Wimereux, on the 15 June 1785....
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    transmission across the English Channel was accomplished on 27 March 1899, from Wimereux, France to South Foreland Lighthouse, England. Marconi set up an experimental...
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    fortifications and artillery batteries were at La Tresorerie, inland from Wimereux and 3 mi (4.8 km) north of the centre, at Mont Lambert, 2 mi (3.2 km) east...
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    the junction of the D233 and the D237 roads, on the banks of the river Wimereux. The river Slack forms the northern boundary of the commune. Junction 33...
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    did become an ambulance driver with the Australian Voluntary Hospital, Wimereux, France. He returned to Australia early in 1915 and, as an honorary vet...
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  • also includes campuses in Arras, Gravelines, Valenciennes, Outreau and Wimereux. It is the university campus dedicated to Science and Technology and located...
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    Institut industriel du Nord. In 1874 he founded a biological station at Wimereux in order to familiarize his students to marine and terrestrial organisms...
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    Wicquinghem Widehem Wierre-au-Bois Wierre-Effroy Willeman Willencourt Willerval Wimereux Wimille Wingles Wirwignes Wismes Wisques Wissant Witternesse Wittes Wizernes...
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  • Sorbonne. In 1919 he was named adjoint-director of the zoological station at Wimereux, and in 1921 became director of the laboratory at Roscoff. From 1921 onward...
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    Rochefort, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Fort Socoa), Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Toulon, Wimereux, Le Portel, and Cézembre Vauban 1633-1707. Langins 2004, p. 11. Pujo 1991...
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    architects. The British established a Camouflage Section in late 1916 at Wimereux, and the U.S. followed suit with the New York Camouflage Society in April...
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