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  • Vernon Watkins (June 27, 1906 — October 8, 1967), was a Welsh poet, commonly known for his friendship with his fellow Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas ...
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  • with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. In Welsh, the sword is called Caledfwlch. The best known version of the story of the sword depicts ...
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  • Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was an Anglo-Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the most influential English ...
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  • antiquary John Leland believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholarship ... of the Arthur legend were preserved in Welsh folksongs and culture to ...
    10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
  • Alfred Ernest Jones (January 1, 1879 – February 11, 1958) was a ... In 1917, Jones married the Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen. She ...
    11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
  • history of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Welsh collection of anonymous tales ... . Others propose a derivation from Welsh arth (earlier art), meaning ...
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  • The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until ...
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  • Sir Henry Morgan (Hari Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – August 25, 1688) was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of ...
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  • 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a nineteenth-century Welsh-born journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David ...
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  • #039; business in 1856. Renamed the Royal Welsh Warehouse, the business flourished ... In addition to Pryce-Jones' Royal Welsh Warehouse, Littlewoods was ...
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  • at least 30 languages, including French, Spanish, Welsh, Afrikaans, Malay, and Hindu. Part of its popularity was due to the fact that it was the first ...
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  • of the throne by his father; reconcile the Welsh who had suffered under his ... The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower) started soon after ...
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  • of indigenous peoples and a small number of Welsh colonists. The first Welsh settlers arrived on July 27, 1865, when 153 people ...
    22 KB (3,265 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
  • him organize a mercenary army of Norman and Welsh soldiers, including Richard ... #039;s small force landed in Wexford with Welsh and Norman cavalry and took ...
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  • cy|Prydain Fawr (Welsh) gd|Breatainn Mhòr (Scottish Gaelic) ... languages, the Brythons were called Welsh, a term that came eventually ...
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  • "cromlech" derives from Welsh and "quoit" is commonly used in Cornwall. Anta is the term used in Portugal and dös in Sweden. ...
    13 KB (2,011 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
  • Badbury rings, Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon), the Britons ... Scots, Picts and (to a lesser extent) Welsh. Certainly in North Britain ...
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  • Raymond Henry Williams (August 31, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within ...
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  • Lothian, where he became the tutor of Jane Welsh, afterwards famous as wife ... Isabella Martin but fell in love with Jane Welsh. He tried to get out of his ...
    14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
  • ===Early references to Tristan and Mark in Welsh=== to March ap Meichion and Trystan in the Welsh Triads, some of the gnomic ...
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