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Cathays Park or Cardiff Civic Centre (Parc Cathays) is a civic centre area in the city centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens. [1]

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Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King Edward VII.

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Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Bute Building

The Bute Building is a Cardiff University building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, 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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Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff Central police station

Cardiff Central police station is a 20th-century police station located in Cathays Park in the centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff city centre

Cardiff city centre (Canol Dinas Caerdydd) is the city centre and central business district of Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff Crown Court

Cardiff Crown Court is a historic building situated in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff School of Law and Politics

Cardiff School of Law and Politics is part of Cardiff University and located in Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Cathays (electoral ward)

The Cathays electoral ward of Cardiff consists of some or all of the following areas: Blackweir, Cardiff city centre, Cathays, Cathays Park and Maindy in the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff Central.

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City Hall, Cardiff

City Hall is a civic building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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Civic center

A civic center or civic centre is a prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or center.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Crown Buildings, Cathays Park

The Crown Buildings (Adeiladau y Goron), which are also known as the Cathays Park Buildings, are the Welsh Government's main offices in Cardiff, Wales.

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David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and the final Liberal to serve as Prime Minister.

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Dhruva Mistry

Dhruva Mistry (born 1957) is an Indian sculptor.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Edwardian Baroque architecture

Edwardian Baroque is the Neo-Baroque architectural style of many public buildings built in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910).

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Edwardian era

The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long-term trends from the 1890s to the First World War.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany built extermination camps (also called death camps or killing centers) during the Holocaust in World War II, to systematically kill millions of Jews, Slavs, Communists, and others whom the Nazis considered "Untermenschen" ("subhumans").

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Formal garden

A formal garden is a garden with a clear structure, geometric shapes and in most cases a symmetrical layout.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Glamorgan Building

The Glamorgan Building is an Edwardian former county hall located in Cardiff, Wales.

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Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar

Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (28 April 1831 – 11 March 1913) was a British Army officer and peer.

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Gorsedd

A gorsedd plural gorseddau, is a community or meeting of modern-day bards.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (16 April 181525 February 1895) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council.

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Henry Poole (sculptor)

Henry Poole (28 January 1873 — 15 August 1928) was a British architectural sculptor.

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Henry Vaughan Lanchester

Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953) was a British architect working in London.

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International Brigades

The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were paramilitary units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

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John Cory

John Cory (18 March 1828 – 27 January 1910) was a British philanthropist, coal-owner, and ship-owner.

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John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (12 September 1847 – 9 October 1900) was a landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart (15 May 1883 – 2 October 1915) was a British Member of Parliament killed during the First World War.

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Marquess of Bute

Marquess of the County of Bute, shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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McKim, Mead & White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Methodist Central Hall, Westminster

The Methodist Central Hall (also known as Central Hall Westminster) is a multi-purpose venue and tourist attraction in City of Westminster, London.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.

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National Museum Cardiff

National Museum Cardiff (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Organ donation

Organ donation is when a person allows an organ of theirs to be removed, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or after death with the assent of the next of kin.

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Park House, Cardiff

Park House (Tŷ Parc), (formerly McConnochie House), 20 Park Place, Cardiff, Wales, is a nineteenth century town house.

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Paul Raphael Montford

Paul Raphael Montford (1 November 1868 – 15 January 1938) was an English-born sculptor, also active in Australia; winner of the gold medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1934.

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Pavilion

In architecture, a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (born 4 August 1912, death date unknown)He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed.

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Redwood Building

The Redwood Building is a building part of Cardiff University, situated in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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South African War Memorial, Cardiff

The South African War Memorial, also known as the Boer War Memorial, is a war memorial in Cardiff, Wales.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.

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Stone circle

A stone circle is an alignment of standing stones arranged in a circle.

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Temple of Peace and Health

The Welsh National Temple of Peace and Health, known as the Temple of Peace and Health, is a non-religious civic building in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, in the United Kingdom.

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The Welsh History Review

The Welsh History Review (Welsh: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of Wales.

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Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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University of Wales, Registry

The University of Wales Registry was the administrative headquarters of the University of Wales, located in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales.

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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 Government

The Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru) is the devolved government for Wales.

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Welsh National War Memorial

The Welsh National War Memorial is situated in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff.

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William Burges

William Burges (2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer.

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William Reardon Smith

Sir William Reardon Smith, 1st Baronet (7 August 1856 – 23 December 1935) was an English shipowner.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathays_Park

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