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| | www.wakefield.gov.uk: Twin Towns |
 | | Belgorod has been twinned with Wakefield since 1991. | | | Herne has been twinned with Wakefield since 1956. | | | Koni has been twinned with Wakefield since 1996. |
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http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/TownTwinning/TwinTowns
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| | NPR : TWIN BORDER TOWNS |
| | All Things Considered, February 27, 1996 · NPR's John Burnett reports on the neighboring border towns of Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Mexico. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1042538
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| | Flensburg’s twin towns |
| | The twinning was established whilst the city was still part of the German Democratic Republic. | | | Since then, there have been numerous three-way meetings. | | | Along with an extensive mutual exchange of colleagues, amongst other things, three training courses for employees in New Brandenburg’s administrative offices were held in Flensburg. |
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http://www.flensburg.de/touristik/partnerstadt_en.html
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| | Twin Towns FAQs |
| | By the early 1990's, communities started to re-evaluate the content of their twinning relationships and this period saw a noticeable trend towards the economic and technical aspects of twinning of more multi-lateral relationships. | | | Originally, twinning links were set up in the aftermath of two World Wars in order to foster international peace and understanding. | | | Each year the International Section help find work placements for students with the twin towns who wish to add an international element to their C.V. We are also able to arrange work placements in Kirklees for students from the twin towns. |
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http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/answers/twintowns/twintowns.shtml
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| | BBC NEWS Wales South East Wales African and Welsh towns twin up |
| | Town council leader Byron Jones said: "It's about recognising what people in Uganda have achieved and moving away from the idea of just sending small amounts of aid." | | | The official launch of the twinning takes place on Wednesday at 1830 BST in Pontypridd and co-incides with the first day of the G8 summit in which world leaders are being urged to tackle global poverty through dropping third world debt, fair trade and better aid. | | | The town is in the foothills of Mount Elgon in Uganda |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/wales/south_east/4656065.stm
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| | Minet's Portrait Archive 4 - Twin Towns Characters |
| | His story is a long one, and his involvement in the founding of the Twin Towns is further described if you click here. | | | Celeniel Starshine was a relative newcomer to Pride, although her family had lived in the town since the founding. | | | Only 40 years old, an adolescent among elves, she had proven her mettle as a warrior very early, and her long, blond tresses covered a number of scars on her left shoulder, gained before she learned the best techniques for handling a shield. |
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http://www.lareau.org/minet3-4.html
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| | Twin Towns - Ataki & Soroca |
| | Village members traded among themselves and had connections with other towns in Bessarabia and in the Ukraine. | | | At the end of the century, the teachers in Soroka included the writers Noah Rosenblum, and Kadish-Isaac Abramowich-Ginzburg, who laid the foundations of a new system of Jewish education and culture among the Jews of the town on a secular and national basis. | | | Many of the Jews of Soroka engaged in agriculture, primarily growing tobacco, grapes, and other fruit. |
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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/o/Steven-T-Stoller/FILE/0005page.html
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| | www.wakefield.org.uk: Twin Towns |
| | Visit their website to find out more about Wakefield's twin town. | | | Wakefield is twinned with the German town of Herne. | | | the town has a large website which is in German. |
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http://www.wakefield.org.uk/LocalCommunities/TwinTowns
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| | Desoto Sun Herald - 02/18/05 |
| | Readers curious about the proposed twin city of Arcadia, Louisiana can go to its Web site at www.arcadialouisiana.org. | | | But Finkler did his homework, and he got the council to approve his proposal. | | | The other towns involved would, presumably, have to all agree to the relationship. |
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http://sun-herald.com/NewsArchive4/021805/tp6de6.htm?...&story=tp6de6.htm
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| | Twin towns get an electronic link Shropshire County Council |
| | “We realised there was no single source of information available on Shropshire’s twin towns and set about creating one, so that at the click of a button people can find out a huge amount of information on this important subject,” said Helen Audin, manager of ShropshireOnline. | | | Towns around Shropshire are twinned with no less than 14 towns on the Continent – and now the County Council's website has brought information about all of them together in one easily accessible place. | | | ShropshireOnline, the County Council’s website, has created a page which provides direct links to each Shropshire town with a site of its own and to its twin or twins abroad. |
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http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/shropshireccnews.nsf/open/4C9BC2E8E9EC9DCB80256D43003927CE
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| | ecademy twin towns... is there a Ljubljana ecademy? Minsk? Ghent? - Ecademy |
| | Think there are many reasons for twinning in the real world, e.g historic, similar industry etc. In ecad world could be similar? | | | The next question is, should they be the same as the "real world" twins or not. | | | Anyway part of the conversation with Huw was around running a local club, and gave me some food for thought. |
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http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=33787
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| | Twin Towns |
| | Yate has been twinned with Bad Salzdetfurth in Germany since 1985. | | | Every year there are two exchange visits between the towns - school(Brimsham Green) and family as well as the formal Town Council visits. | | | Over the years there have been many links at personal and group level - musicians, cub scouts, cyclists, footballers, etc. |
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http://www.yateonline.co.uk/heritage/twinning.htm
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| | Twin towns |
| | Get in touch with East Sussex twinning associations – contact details can be found on ESCIS. | | | Information about town twinning is available form the Local Government International Bureau. | | | The following towns and villages in East Sussex have twin towns: |
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http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/community/townsvillages/twinning
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| | BBC - Mid Wales Brecon Life - Twin Towns |
| | Have you ever been on a twinning exchange - and if so, what was it like? | | | The town of Brecon also has Ties of Friendship with Ulundi, Kwazulu. | | | In 1988, Brecon entered into a twinning association with Gouesnou, Brittany, France and again, as well as civic exchanges, exchanges with schools and football teams also take place. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/brecon_life/pages/twinning_towns.shtml
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| | Twin Towns and International Links |
| | Why does Chester become involved with international communities, what is the rationale? | | | Established in 1993 aims to help the people of Chester and the surrounding district to take charge of the links between the people of our community and those from communities all over the world. | | | Having welcomed visitors from all over the world for many decades Chester has made great strides over the last years, to consolidate its links with communities in other parts of the world. |
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http://www.chestercc.gov.uk/main.asp?page=457
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| | Twin Towns - Blyth Valley Borough Council |
| | Its web site (in German) can be accessed by clicking | | | Solingen became a twin town of Blyth Urban Distrcit Council in the early 1950's and vists to and from Solingen are a regular feature of both civic parties and members of the public. | | | A total of 165,000 people live in the Borough which comprises a number of towns including Grafrath, Hohschied, Ohligs, Wald, Berg as well as the principal town of Solingen. |
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http://www.blythvalley.gov.uk/page1100.htm
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| | Bromsgrove District Council - Twin Towns |
| | In addition, the Association has a web site which contains further details or visit the Gronau web site (in German) | | | There has been a twinning partnership between Bromsgrove and the town of Gronau in the North Rhine-Westphalia state in Germany since 1980. | | | Other trips are arranged by various groups and individuals who have established strong contacts over the years. |
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http://www.bromsgrove.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=134
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| | Twin towns Shropshire County Council |
| | This document is currently being prepared for the website. | | | You are here: Shropshire County Council \ leisure, sport and culture \ Places to visit and things to do » Twin towns | | | It will be available at a future date. |
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http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/placevisit.nsf/open/334C5096B49E70F280256DC80038AF20
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| | Town twinning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 09:08, 11 October 2005. | | | The practice of town twinning was developed in Europe after the Second World War as a way to bring European people into a closer understanding of each other and to promote cross-border projects of mutual benefit. | | | Within Europe, town twinning is now supported by the European Union. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns
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| | Rotherham Twin Towns |
| | The twin town of Wickersley since 1996 is Öhringen, Germany. | | | Whilst out and about I have noticed, on road signs, that various other parts of Rotherham are twinned with other towns. | | | I believe that the twin town of Wath upon Dearne is St. Jean de Bournay which is none too far from Lyon in the Rhone Valley, but there are many, many St Jeans and I could have got it wrong. |
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http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/thetown/twintowns.htm
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| | Twin Towns - Kostanai |
| | Most people also have plots of land on the outskirts of the town where they can grow fruit and vegetables, these are called dachas after the summerhouses built on the plots of land. | | | Although the town was only founded in 1879, it now has a population of 220,000. | | | Kostanai Town is the administrative, political, industrial and cultural centre of the Kostanai Oblast (Region). |
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| | Karlsruhe: Twin Towns - Krasnodar |
| | During the Second World War, the town was occupied by German troops and later on suffered large-scale destruction as the war took its toll. | | | Municipal affairs and all administration were in the hands of the town parliament, the Duma. | | | In 1992 an official treaty of friendship was drawn up between the two cities and since December 1997 they have been twinned. |
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http://www.karlsruhe.de/Magazin/Partnerstaedte/krasnodar.en.htm
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| | Watford's Twin Towns |
| | With a population of around 200,000 people, Novgorod is the largest of Watford's twins. | | | Historically, the town was founded by Swedish and Finnish settlers. | | | Watford is taking part with Mainz in the European Year against Racism, with the 'Art Action Project'. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kaland/watford/wattwin.htm
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| | Rushmoor Borough Council - Rushmoor's Twin Towns |
| | Rushmoor Borough Council is twinned with the towns of Meudon in France, Oberursel in Germany and Sulechów in Poland. | | | The Town Twinning Committee believes that it is only through friendship links that international peace and understanding can be secured. | | | Oberursel is Rushmoor’s twin town in Germany of over 10 years standing. |
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http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=33
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| | Learn more about Chelmsford, England in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Chelmsford (population 100,000) is a town and an administrative district in the county of Essex, in the United Kingdom. | | | The remains of an octagonal temple are located beneath the Odeon roundabout. | | | However there have been settlements nearby since ancient times. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/c/ch/chelmsford__england.html
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| | City of Bochum - Twin towns (Donezk) |
| | Bochum's twin town does not, however, have a long history. | | | Donetsk, since 1987 our twin town in the now independent Ukraine, is considerably larger than Bochum, both in area and population. | | | Because of its extraordinary show of flowers, Donetsk has been dubbed the "city of a million roses". |
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http://www.bochum.de/english/donezk.htm
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| | Twin towns |
| | Twinning of Courts of Appeal of Toulouse and of Kiev | | | In the aeronautical field - Transport - Culture of Israel |
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http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr/ANGLAIS/RelationsInternationales/IndexVillesJumelees.htm
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| | Södertälje kommun - In English - Twin Towns of Södertälje |
| | The town Bethlehem is one of their other Twin Towns and there is a Sarpsborg-Bethlehem association. | | | Like most of the Swedish towns, Södertälje has old relations with towns in the Nordic countries, i.e. | | | in France is a town with 260 000 inhabitants. |
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http://www.sodertalje.se/sodertalje/english/twintowns.htm
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| | List of twin towns and sister cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a list of "twin towns" or "sister cities" - that is, pairs of towns or cities in different countries which have town twinning arrangements. | | | Rzeszów - Nyíregyháza, Hungary; Buffalo, New York, USA twinning; Bielefeld, Germany, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lviv, and Lutsk, Ukraine; Klagenfurt, Austria; Košice, Slovakia; | | | For ease of reference and maintenance, the list is divided first by continent, then country, and in some cases (where there are a large number of twinnings to list) by an appropriate sub-division of the country (e.g. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities
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| | Discover Suresnes, Guided tour, Twin towns |
| | Suresnes has been twinned with cities around the world for more than 40 years: | | | Suresnes is involved in cooperation projects with the cities of Cap Haïtien (Haiti) and Marrakech (Morocco), and a partnership with the city of Lafayette (Louisiana). | | | • Discover the website of young people of our twin towns. |
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http://www.ville-suresnes.fr/fr/gb/5c_gb.htm
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| | Basildon's Twin Towns, Heiligenhaus & Meaux |
| | Basildon - twinned with Heiligenhaus in Germany and Meaux in France. | | | The Twin Towns Committee can help with French and German translation. | | | We offer continuous support for exchanges between the Twin Towns for sports events and the Railway Club and will help to support and arrange any exchange that can take place. |
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http://www.basildon.gov.uk/80256b7c004d0bcb/vweb/wpefen6abega
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| | The Twin Towns - Village Maps |
| | The Twin Towns - Maps - 597 PO In the spring of 541, the population of the area was 134: 69 felines, 52 humans, 5 elves, 3 catlings, 4 half-elves, and 1 dwarf. | | | By 597, the population has risen to about 700 citizens. |
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http://www.lareau.org/twtnmaps.html
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| | Herrenberg: Twin towns |
| | The partnership document was signed on 6 October 1989 in Fidenza. | | | A twinning arrangement has existed since October 1989 with the Italian town of Fidenza in Emilia Romagna (province of Parma). | | | In 1970, the district of Gültstein concluded a twinning agreement with the district of Amplepuis, which is about 15 km from Herrenberg's twin town of Tarare. |
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http://www.herrenberg.de/index.php?id=65&L=1
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| | Sister city |
| | Sister cities or twin towns are local school and/or chamber of commerce programs designed to foster international communication and cooperation. | | | Twin cities, an unrelated term that describes two geographically proximal cities which function much like a single larger city. | | | Twin towns, an idea that started in Europe. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/sister_city
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| | Twin Towns |
| | Also like Burgess Hill it is a largely modern town, having been heavily bombed in the last war. | | | Most visitors to the town are German but the local people are hospitable when they discover you are English and go out of their way to overcome any language barriers. | | | For further information regarding our Twin Towns including details of activities and visits organised by the Town Twinning Association, call in at the Help Point. |
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| | Archives: Story |
| | Badgley said the spray is being dropped on the Twin Towns by trained and licensed pilots. | | | The evening is prime time for this to take place, Kessel said. | | | Foxhome United Methodist Church has closed its doors, but it won't stop serving the public after the church's congregation donated the building to the Fergus Falls Habitat for Humanity. |
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http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/articles/2004/07/09/news/news02.txt
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| | City of Bochum - Bochum Facts and Figures |
| | Increasingly, the universities and the technology centres which evolve around them, are putting their stamp on the location. | | | The name Cofbuokheim is first officially mentioned in a document of the archbishops of Cologne. | | | The first underground link between two towns in the Federal Republic of Germany is inaugurated. |
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| | Boppard Online - Twin Towns |
| | This is where the composer Károly Goldmark was born on 19.05.1830. | | | 1642: During the Civil War, Truro supported the king and had to abdicate hegemony over Falmouth port to the rival town of Falmouth as punishment in1663. | | | Today, the multicultural town of Keszthely can offer any guest whatever cultural event his or her heart may desire. |
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http://www.boppard.de/2001/html/partners_engl.htm
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| | Königstein im Taunus - Partnerships and Twin Towns |
| | In the town on the river Elbe the relationship between the two Königsteins had already been officially confirmed the previous year, marking the high point of a process that goes back to the mid-Eighties. | | | Since 1972 Königsteinhas been twinned with the Le Cannet-Rocheville. | | | This partnership grew out of private contacts' and is now maintained by the two partnership associations in Königstein and Le Cannet-Rocheville. |
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http://www.koenigstein.de/sis/en/partnerships
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| | Cameo Singers - Wokingham's Chamber Choir |
| | Wokingham has been twinned with Erftstadt, near Cologne, in Germany since 1977 and with Viry Chatillon, near Paris, since 1988. | | | The river Erft gave its name to the new founded town that was established by the cooperation of Lechenich, Friesheim, Gymnich and Liblar which had previously been autonomous villages. | | | The Cameo Singers has been involved with Wokingham’s twin towns since May 1985 when the choir paid its first visit to Erftstadt in Germany, as the guests of their choir, the Chorgemeinschaft 1919. |
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http://www.claregarner.btinternet.co.uk/twinning.htm
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| | Leverkusen, Twin Towns |
| | Partnership was formed by the former town Opladen in 1973, 50.000 inhabitants. | | | Nazareth-Illit, Israel, in the near of the historic lake nazareth, since 1980 our twin town, 45.000 inhabitants. | | | Laibach/Ljubljana, capital of slowenia, since 1979 our twin town, 340.000 inhabitants. |
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http://www.leverkusen.com/uk_us/partner
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| | Karlsruhe: Twin towns |
| | Our connection with Nancy, which has been in existence since 1955, was one of the first twinning programmes ever undertaken between Germany and France. | | | Similarly we are delighted to see that now, after many years of friendship, our contacts with Krasnodar in the Caucasus and with Temeswar in Romania have recently been made official. | | | But now, following a trial period, links have been forged and we have all begun to savour partnership status. |
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http://www.karlsruhe.de/Magazin/Partnerstaedte/index.en.htm
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| | Twin Towns |
| | Villa Ghiotti was brought under council control in the 1980's and has been the seat of the town council since 2001 after attentive intervention restored the building to safety. | | | Bubry in Brittany has been twinned with Macroom for over twenty one years. | | | The present Town Council building was once the residence of the Ghiotti family from the XVIII century. |
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http://www.macroom.ie/udc/twinning.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Albury, Australia |
| | Despite this, the nearby town of Corowa was the site of several conferences pivotal in Australia's federation into a nation. | | | It is the only major town on the Hume Highway that remains to be bypassed, and a debate has ensued among locals since the 1960s as to whether any future bypass would go through or around the city. | | | The rail service still also runs through the town, and there is a local airport which has scheduled daily flights to Sydney and Melbourne. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Albury,-Australia
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| | Middelfart kommune - Middelfart's twin towns |
| | The cooperation with the Nordic twin towns is taking place according to a fixed schedule, where the towns take turns arranging twin town rallys every second year. | | | to strengthen and maintain the twin town cooperation by establishing and maintaining friendly liasons. | | | Contact to the various twin towns is arranged through Borgmesterkontoret - The Mayor's Office. |
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http://www.middelfart.dk/info.asp?infoId=1146492
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| | McCarthy-Kennicott, Alaska: Twin Towns |
| | The town of McCarthy, which has lost none of its liveliness, is a half-mile walk from the footbridge over the Kennicott River. | | | cCarthy and Kennicott are twin towns that grew up during the development of the copper mines. | | | McCarthy was a boisterous, noisy town that provided supplies and entertainment to the staid, no-nonsense community of Kennicott, which was full of well-regulated employees of the mines. |
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http://www.myalaskanvacation.com/communities/mccarthy/mccarthy3.html
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| | Schools in Hythe |
| | The Association was founded in 1978 by a group of forward thinking people who realised that our future was linked to Europe. | | | Our primary task is to be facilitators and enablers, encouraging groups and organisations particularly the young people to make contact with their counterparts in the twin towns. | | | To this end they looked at several towns in France, Belgium and Germany before they chose Poperinge and Berck. |
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http://www.hythe-kent.com/twintn01.htm
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| | Chesterfield Borough Council » Twin towns |
| | Chesterfield's fourth twinning link is with Tsumeb in Namibia. | | | Chesterfield second link was made in 1973 with Darmstadt’s French twin town, Troyes (Aube). | | | The Council's Twinning Officer Mary Stead is available to answer any enquiries on Twinning matters. |
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http://www.chesterfieldbc.gov.uk/site?CATID=64
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| | Telescopes, terrain, and technology units twin towns |
| | "This twin town agreement demonstrates how scientific cooperation often leads to cooperation in other areas also," said Dr. | | | As twin towns, Fort Davis and Sutherland will establish a working relationship between the Commissioners' Court of Jeff Davis County and the Council of Sutherland, with the goal of sharing experiences and potential economic benefits as "observatory towns." | | | Fort Davis is home to the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. |
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http://www.saao.ac.za/news/twintowns.html
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