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Wales
Questions related to Wales, the mountainous country in the west of the island of Britain, which is part of the United Kingdom. It is known as Cymru in the Welsh language.
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What is a Welsh mans nickname?
Some people have nicknamed Welsh men Taffy, probably derived from the river Taff, in Wales.
Or from "Dafydd" a common male Welsh name.
What are some places to go in Wales?
Wales is a beautiful country. There is a great contrast between noth & south, The Brecon Beacons & Snowdonia. The Black mountains are fine too. I walked the border with England when I was a young 'un. 168 miles from the Severn Bridge to Prestatyn. The Offas Dyke footpath....
Morgan is actually a Welsh name but has been used as the anglicized version of the native Irish name Murrough (Murchadh, sea-battler).
The Irish surnames Morahan and Murrigan were anglicized as Morgan as well.
Most popular surname in wales?
Supposedly it is Jones although strangely there is no letter J in the Welsh alphabet.
What is the small village called in wales were the terrible land slip was?
I was young myself then: It was at Aberfan, near Mountain Ash, in the Rhonnda valley.
How do you pronouce the welsh name eilwen?
ale-when ale as in the drink , when as in the question 'when are you going..?'
No one really discovered Wales! People have been living on the peninsula since prehistoric times like many places on Earth. Most noted for being enhabited by the Celtic civilization, like in Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany who spread from mid-europe and then inhabited most of the continent. After the Roman and Norman conquests though, in the end it became united as part of the United Kingdom.
Who was known as the Welsh Wizard?
David Lloyd George who was a Liberal politician born in 1863 died in 1945. Although he was not actually Welsh as he was born in a suburb of Manchester. He lived most of his life in North Wales a spoke Welsh and is buried in Llanystumdwy a small village near Crichieth in the county of Gwynedd.
# The weather. It rains all the time, and this more than anything defines Wales and the Welsh people. # Sheep. There aren't actually many of them left since the sheep industry was exported wholesale to New Zealand. But people still think of sheep when they think of Wales, so it counts as a "special feature". # The Welsh language. Nothing like English. Said to be the oldest language in Europe. Fiendishly difficult to learn. # Coal mines. There are actually none of them left working due to the success of the Thatcher government in crushing the entire industry, but you can visit a disused one in Blaenavon called Big Pit. # Catherine Zeta Jones. # Rugby. Contrary to popular misconceptions there never was a golden age when Wales was good at rugby, and nobody in Wales has actually played the game since the invention of the Playstation. # Suicide. A small town in South Wales became the teenage suicide capital of the world as a result of catastrophically poor ability among journalists to interpret and understand statistics. # Being next to England. Which became famous in the nineteenth century as home to the industrial revolution, which was fuelled in part by wood chopped down in, you guessed it, Wales. # Welsh rarebit (or "Welsh rabbit"). Basically cheese on toast. Nobody actually makes it any more because it's less bother to phone Dominos. # There probably is a 10 but I can't think what it might be at the moment.
Where can you buy baking soda in North Wales. Is this the same as Bi-carbonate of soda?
umm, a supermarket!
Where does the black boy inn get its name from?
If you're talking about the Black Boy Inn in North Wales(www.black-boy-inn.com). It is my understanding the name stems from a story from the 18th century. Where the Black Boy Inn is located today, it is said that there were two public houses there; the Fleur de Lys and King's Arms. One landlord bought the other one out and created the one Inn. He had a little black boy as a go-fer, working in the Inn. When the sailors came to Caernarfon on the ships, they would follow the little black boy to the Inn, and it thus became known as the Black Boy Inn. ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Boy_Inn
What type of money do people from Wales use?
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They use the Great British Pound [£] .. As they are a part of The United Kingdom which included Northern Ireland England Scotland & Wales..
Did baseball originate in South Wales in the UK?
"The game of Rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called Baseball. It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small hard leather cased ball with a round wooden or metal bat and then running around 4 bases in order to score" Source:
http://www.nra-rounders.co.UK/dyncat.cfm?catid=17177
So it appears that it was England as opposed to Wales where Baseball was invented. The British invented baseball as inactive children in England needed some mild exercise so the game was created as a result. In Commonwealth nations its played by many kids up to age 11.. while its very popular as a girls game with UK having organised nationwide Leagues.
Baseball/Rounders the British (England) invented as an activity for unfit small kids, pitch, bat and run around 4 bases. 200 + years later its still very popular today among British kids up to 5th Grade.. girls have formalised competitions. I have checked and its popular among this age group in Cardiff and Swansea, South Wales. Reference..Baseball comes from Britain...
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbaseball.htm
**People ask with Spalding guide of America in 1887 naming it 'World championship Series' attempting to entice other countries to play it of which it states Australia and Great Britain... why they don't play it, a major reason for this is the British invented Baseball aka Rounders and its historically been for children for whom it was intended.
How many people have the surname Reynolds?
There are over 200 thousand people in the United States that have the last name Reynolds. It is in the top 200 of popular last names.
What is Brazil's capital of Wales?
Brazil and Wales are two completely different places. There is no such thing as "Brazil's capital of Wales."
