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Great Torrington is twinned with the French port town of Roscoff, situated in northern Brittany.
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* February 16 – First English Civil War – The Battle of Great Torrington, Devon, the last major battle of the conflict, is fought.
Great Torrington ( often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region ) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England.
The branch line to Bideford was extended to Great Torrington in July 1872, by the London and South Western Railway, which built a railway station and locomotive depot in the town.
* Waterloo Monument: A stone obelisk erected in 1818 by " the ladies of Great Torrington " to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.
Some residents feel that the existence of the common has protected Great Torrington from over development.
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Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.
He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.
Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.
So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.
Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.
Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.
In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.
For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.
Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.
However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.
Great and twinned
In 1996, the town was twinned with Lyme Regis, Dorset, Great Britain, the birthplace of Admiral Sir George Somers.
Lerici is also twinned with Horsham, in Great Britain, although the latter no longer records this as an ' active ' twinning on its official website.
Roscoff is twinned with the small North Devon ( England ) town of Great Torrington as well as Auxerre.
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