Wamin is a commune in the department of Pas de Calais in the Nord Pas de Calais region in France of France.

1558 After 200 years, the Kingdom of England loses Calais to France.

The following is a list of the 894 communes of the Pas de Calais department of France.

Toba Shahabi with a group of Afghan refugees in the Calais Jungle refugee camp in France.

With the fall of Calais to the French, in 1558, the staple moved again to Bruges.

The trade was dominated by the Merchants of the Staple who, from 1363, had been granted the exclusive right to trade raw wool in Calais.

Two years ago, a team of geophysicists led by Eric Calais of Purdue University predicted that the fault that produced the recent Haitian earthquake was at high risk of doing exactly what it did.

Toba Shahabi, an Afghan artist who has been paying visits to and raising funds for a number of refugee camps, shared on Facebook traumatic excerpts from conversations she had during her visit to the Calais Jungle refugee camp located in northern France.

In March 2004, Branson set a record by travelling from Dover to Calais in a Gibbs Aquada in 1 hour, 40 minutes and 6 seconds, the fastest crossing of the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle.

Perhaps the last and most famous example of this ended with the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, prior to which Henry V of England avoided combat while marching to Calais to resupply, allowing him to pick the battlefield.

Yet another damaging myth, perpetuated by shocking images of refugees swarming through border fences or attempting to climb onto trains in Calais, is that Fortress Europe is under assault by waves of barbarians. This is wrong on two levels.