Bodmin has a Non-League football club Bodmin Town F. C.

The Beast of Bodmin has been reported many times but never identified with certainty.

He has starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained ( about the raining of fish from the sky over Norfolk ) and Big Cats ( about the Beast of Bodmin Moor ).

It has an interchange with the national rail network at Bodmin Parkway railway station, the southern terminus of the line.

The early organisation and affiliations of the Church in Cornwall are unclear, but in the mid-9th century it was led by a Bishop Kenstec with his see at Dinurrin, a location which has sometimes been identified as Bodmin and sometimes as Gerrans.

Sadly his VC is now kept locked away in a vault after it was donated to Bodmin Town Council, it has not been shown in public for many years.

Since then it has visited the National Railway Museum, the North Norfolk Railway, the Dean Forest Railway, the Spa Valley Railway and the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.

Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.

Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles ( 20 km ) east of Bodmin.

Bodmin was in the administrative North Cornwall District until local government reorganisation in 2009 abolished the District ( see also Politics of Cornwall # Cornwall Council ).

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

Bodmin Moor is one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith ( see also Geology of Cornwall ).

Bossiney ( which included Trevena ) was held from the monks of Bodmin by the Earl of Cornwall: there was land for 6 ploughs and of pasture ( before the Conquest it had been held from the monks by Alfwy ).

The section of the Fowey Valley between Doublebois and Bodmin Parkway railway station is known as the Glynn Valley ( from Glynn House, Cardinham ).

There were important monasteries at Bodmin and Glastonbury ; and also Exeter where 5th century burials discovered near the cathedral probably represent the cemetery of the foundation attended by St. Boniface ( although whether this was Saxon or Brythonic is somewhat controversial ).

Born as Margaret Ann Brown, the daughter of a Royal Air Force officer, in Inverness, she attended Nairn Academy ; Bodmin County Grammar School ( closed in 1973 ); Bushey Grammar School and the Polytechnic of South Bank, London, where she was awarded a BSc in Sociology in 1967, and was elected vice president of the students ' union ).

The family is of great antiquity at Bodmin, having held the manor of Nanstallon in uninterrupted succession from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century ( 1817 ).

An archdeaconry is a territorial division of a diocese ; these vary in number according to the size of the diocese and in a few cases an assistant bishop in a diocese will also fulfil the duties of a archdeacon in part of it, as in the Archdeaconry of Bodmin 1953-62 ( the Archdeaconry of Bodmin is one of two archdeaconries in the Diocese of Truro ).

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum ( Bodmin, Cornwall, England ).

The Bodmin manumissions, two to three generations later, show that the ruling class of Cornwall quickly became " Anglicised ", most owners of slaves having Anglo-Saxon names ( not necessarily because they were of English descent ; some at least were Cornish nobles who changed their names ).

He served as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for a number of constituencies including Maldon ( 1601 – 1603 ), Midhurst ( in the parliament of 1604-1611 ), Essex ( in the Addled Parliament of 1614 ), Arundel ( 1622 ), Bossiney ( 1624 ), Callington ( 1625 ) and Bodmin ( 1626 ).

It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.

Great thought has been given to making life easier for the growing boating population of the country ; ;

The preferential mating of this particular population has been analyzed in a separate study.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

The population registration system still has important functions.

Hughes said, `` This is not a plan to conquer space -- but to conserve it '', pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each year since 1950.

-- A committee of experts has recommended that a country's population be considered in the distribution of professional posts at the United Nations.

Talking of the rapid population growth ( upwards of 12,000 babies born daily ) with an immigrant entering the United States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said `` our organization has not been keeping pace with this challenge ''.

The potato chip industry these days is growing, not only as a result of population increase and public acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination of circumstances that has led to growth by merger.

So obvious are these advantages that nearly 95 per cent of the population of New York State now has access to a system, and enthusiastic librarians foresee the day, not too distant, when all the libraries in the state will belong to a co-op.

Negro population in the U.S. has increased 25 per cent while the white population was growing by 18 per cent.

Throughout much of the world, food is still so scarce that half of the earth's population has trouble getting the 1,600 calories a day necessary to sustain life.

Costly signaling is pointless if everyone has the same traits, resources, and cooperative intentions but become a potentially more important signal if the population increasingly varies on these characteristics.

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

With a population of about 30 million, it has an area of, making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world.

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