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105 relations: Archaeology, Borough, Boxing, Bristol Channel, British Science Association, Bronze Age, Cambrian Pottery, Cardiff, Castle, Census, Charter, Chartism, Cholera, City status, Coal, Coal mining, Cockfight, Cornwall, Cuba, Dante Alighieri, Deheubarth, Devon, Ferrous, Flux (metallurgy), Francis Kilvert, Gambling, Geography, George Borrow, Glamorgan Pottery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Gower Peninsula, Great Famine (Ireland), Hillfort, History of Wales, Industrial Revolution, Iron Age, Ironmaster, John de Braose, John Henry Vivian, Leisure centre, Limestone, List of copper ores, List of Scheduled Monuments in Swansea, Llansamlet, Maredudd ab Owain, Marina, McKinley Tariff, Merthyr Rising, Middle Ages, Militia, ..., Motte-and-bailey castle, Mumbles, Nazi Germany, Newport Rising, Non-ferrous metal, Norman conquest of England, Norman invasion of Wales, Operation Pluto, Oyster, Oystermouth Castle, Population, Pottery, Prehistory, Rail transport, Rebecca Riots, Red Lady of Paviland, Reginald de Braose, Rhiwbina, River Tawe, Roald Dahl Plass, Roman villa, Royal Institution of South Wales, Sabbath in Christianity, Scoria, Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, Slum clearance, Smelting, South Wales, South Wales Coalfield, South Wales Valleys, South West England, Staffordshire, Swansea, Swansea and Mumbles Railway, Swansea Bay, Swansea Museum, Swansea Vale Railway, Taff Vale Railway, Temperance movement, The Blitz, Tinplate, Toll road, Town, Tramway (industrial), Turnpike trusts, Vikings, Vivian & Sons, Wagonway, Wales, Welsh Marches, West Country, Wild Wales, William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose, World War II, Yellow fever. Expand index (55 more) »
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.
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Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.
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British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Cambrian Pottery
The Cambrian Pottery was founded in 1764 by William Coles in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
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Castle
A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
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Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.
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Chartism
Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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City status
City status is a symbolic and legal designation given by a national or subnational government.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Cockfight
A cockfight is a blood sport between two cocks, or gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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Deheubarth
Deheubarth (lit. "Right-hand Part", thus "the South") was a regional name for the realms of south Wales, particularly as opposed to Gwynedd (Latin: Venedotia).
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Devon
Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.
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Ferrous
In chemistry, ferrous (Fe2+), indicates a divalent iron compound (+2 oxidation state), as opposed to ferric, which indicates a trivalent iron compound (+3 oxidation state).
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Flux (metallurgy)
In metallurgy, a flux (derived from Latin fluxus meaning “flow”) is a chemical cleaning agent, flowing agent, or purifying agent.
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Francis Kilvert
Robert Francis Kilvert (3 December 184023 September 1879), always known as Francis, or Frank, was an English clergyman remembered for his diaries reflecting rural life in the 1870s, which were published over fifty years after his death.
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Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.
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Geography
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.
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George Borrow
George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel books based on his own experiences in Europe.
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Glamorgan Pottery
The Glamorgan Pottery was situated on the banks of the river Tawe,Swansea,Wales, from 1814 until 1838, producing various earthenware products.
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Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is the public art gallery of the City and County of Swansea, in South Wales.
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Gower Peninsula
Gower (Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South Wales.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
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Hillfort
A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.
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History of Wales
The history of Wales begins with the arrival of human beings in the region thousands of years ago.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Ironmaster
An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron.
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John de Braose
John de Braose (born 1197 or 1198 – 18 July 1232), known as Tadody to the Welsh, was the Lord of Bramber and Gower.
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John Henry Vivian
John Henry Vivian FRS (9 August 1785 – 10 February 1855) was a Welsh industrialist and politician of Cornish extraction.
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Leisure centre
A leisure centre in the UK, Ireland, Australia (also called aquatic centres) and Canada is a purpose built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where people go to keep fit or relax through using the facilities.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of copper ores
Following is a list of minerals that serve as copper ores in the copper mining process.
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List of Scheduled Monuments in Swansea
The city and county of Swansea covers, in addition to the port city of Swansea, areas of upland to the north, and the Gower peninsula to the west.
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Llansamlet
Llansamlet is a suburban district and community of Swansea, Wales, falling into the Llansamlet ward.
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Maredudd ab Owain
Maredudd ab Owain (died) was a 10th-century king in Wales of the High Middle Ages.
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Marina
A marina (from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: marina, "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
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McKinley Tariff
The Tariff Act of 1890, commonly called the McKinley Tariff, was an act of the United States Congress framed by Representative William McKinley that became law on October 1, 1890.
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Merthyr Rising
The Merthyr Rising of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and the surrounding area.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Militia
A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).
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Motte-and-bailey castle
A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.
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Mumbles
Mumbles (Mwmbwls.) is a headland sited on the western edge of Swansea Bay on the southern coast of Wales.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Newport Rising
The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain, when, on 4 November 1839, almost 10,000 Chartist sympathisers, led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire.
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Non-ferrous metal
In metallurgy, a non-ferrous metal is a metal, including alloys, that does not contain iron (ferrite) in appreciable amounts.
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Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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Norman invasion of Wales
The Norman invasion of Wales began shortly after the Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror, who believed England to be his birthright.
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Operation Pluto
Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies, and the British Armed Forces; to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
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Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
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Oystermouth Castle
Oystermouth Castle (Castell Ystum Llwynarth) is a Norman stone castle in Wales, overlooking Swansea Bay on the east side of the Gower Peninsula near the village of the Mumbles.
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Population
In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
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Pottery
Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.
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Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Rebecca Riots
The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South and Mid Wales.
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Red Lady of Paviland
The Red Lady of Paviland is a male Upper Paleolithic partial skeleton dyed in red ochre and buried in Britain 33,000 BP.
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Reginald de Braose
Reginald de Braose (died June 1228) was one of the sons of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and Matilda, also known as Maud de St. Valery and Lady de la Haie.
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Rhiwbina
Rhiwbina (Rhiwbeina) is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
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River Tawe
The River Tawe (Welsh: Afon Tawe) is a river in the south of Wales.
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Roald Dahl Plass
Roald Dahl Plass is a public space in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales.
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Roman villa
A Roman villa was a country house built for the upper class in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, similar in form to the hacienda estates in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.
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Royal Institution of South Wales
The Royal Institution of South Wales is a Welsh learned society founded in Swansea in 1835 as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society with objectives: In 1838, the Society received its Royal charter as the Royal Institution.
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Sabbath in Christianity
Sabbath in Christianity is the inclusion or adoption in Christianity of a Sabbath day.
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Scoria
Scoria is a highly vesicular, dark colored volcanic rock that may or may not contain crystals (phenocrysts).
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Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet
Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet (15 July 1745 – 25 June 1819), was a British industrialist, active in copper-smelting and coal-mining in Swansea, South Wales.
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Slum clearance
Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.
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South Wales
South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.
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South Wales Coalfield
The South Wales Coalfield (Welsh: Maes glo De Cymru) is a large region of south Wales that is rich in coal deposits, especially the South Wales Valleys.
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South Wales Valleys
The South Wales Valleys (Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised valleys in South Wales.
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South West England
South West England is one of nine official regions of England.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.
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Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.
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Swansea and Mumbles Railway
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world's first passenger railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Swansea Bay
Swansea Bay (Bae Abertawe) is a bay on the southern coast of Wales.
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Swansea Museum
The Swansea Museum in Swansea, Wales, UK is the oldest museum in Wales.
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Swansea Vale Railway
The Swansea Vale Railway (SVR) was a railway line connecting the port of Swansea in South Wales to industries and coalfields along the River Tawe on the northern margin of Swansea, by taking over a tramroad in 1846.
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Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr, and to connect them with docks in Cardiff.
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Temperance movement
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
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Tinplate
Tinplate consists of sheets of steel, coated with a thin layer of tin.
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Toll road
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.
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Town
A town is a human settlement.
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Tramway (industrial)
Tramways (not to be confused with a system of passenger carrying trams) are lightly laid railways, sometimes worked without locomotives.
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Turnpike trusts
Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
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Vivian & Sons
Vivian & Sons was a British metallurgical and chemicals business based at Hafod, in the lower Swansea valley.
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Wagonway
Wagonways (or Waggonways) consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Welsh Marches
The Welsh Marches (Y Mers) is an imprecisely defined area along and around the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
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West Country
The West Country is a loosely defined area of south western England.
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Wild Wales
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862.
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William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose
William de Braose, (alias Breuse, Brewes, Brehuse, Briouze, Brewose etc.; c. 1224–1291) was the first Baron Braose, as well as Lord of Gower and Lord of Bramber.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
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