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A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More.
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Afon Tryweryn
The Tryweryn is a river in the north of Wales which starts at Llyn Tryweryn in the Snowdonia National Park and after joins the river Dee at Bala.
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Albert Jenkin
Albert Mortimer Jenkin (14 September 1872 – 3 July 1961) was an English-born rugby union forward who played club rugby for Swansea, county rugby for Glamorgan and international rugby for Wales.
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 11 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.
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Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.
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April 18
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April 30
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Archbishop of Wales
The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England (of which the four Welsh dioceses had previously been part), and disestablished.
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Archdruid
Archdruid is the title used by the presiding official of the Gorsedd.
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Atlantic College
Atlantic College or the United World College of the Atlantic or UWC Atlantic College is an international IB Diploma Programme independent (private) residential Sixth Form College in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.
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August 18
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August 30
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August 8
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Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher.
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Bahá'í Faith
The Bahá'í Faith (بهائی) is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity and equality of all people.
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Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
Barry (Y Barri) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately south-southwest of Cardiff.
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BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year
The BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year is a televised sporting competition, broadcast on BBC Two every year; and the most prestigious annual sport award in Wales.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
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Bishop of Monmouth
The Bishop of Monmouth is the diocesan bishop of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth.
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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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Bryn Meredith
Brinley "Bryn" Victor Meredith (born 21 October 1930 in Abersychan) was a rugby union international.
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Caernarfonshire
Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), historically spelled as Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire in English, is one of the thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county of Wales.
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Capel Celyn
Capel Celyn was a rural community to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley.
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Caradog Prichard
Caradog Prichard (3 November 1904 – 25 February 1980) was a Welsh poet and novelist writing in Welsh.
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Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally Sir Gâr) is a unitary authority in the southwest of Wales and is the largest of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.
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Celtic League
The Celtic League is a pan-Celtic organisation, founded in 1961, that aims to promote modern Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man – referred to as the Celtic nations; it places particular emphasis on promoting the Celtic languages of those nations.
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Ceredigion
Ceredigion is a county in the Mid Wales area of Wales and previously was a minor kingdom.
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Charles Williams (priest)
Charles Stephen Conway Williams (5 July 1906- 30 April 1962) was a Welsh Anglican priest and university lecturer.
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Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Chepstow
Chepstow (Cas-gwent) is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England.
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Clifford Evans (actor)
Clifford George Evans (17 February 1912 – 9 June 1985) was a Welsh actor.
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Dannie Abse
Daniel Abse, CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician.
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Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Delyth Jane Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin (born 30 August 1961), is a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, having formerly sat as a Labour peer.
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Denbighshire
Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) is a county in north-east Wales, named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but with substantially different borders.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.
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Edgar Phillips
Edgar Phillips (8 October 1889 – 30 August 1962), known by the bardic name "Trefin", was a Welsh poet and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1960 until his death.
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Edwin Morris (bishop)
Alfred Edwin Morris (8 May 1894– 19 October 1971) was the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales in the middle of the 20th century.
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Edwin Thomas Maynard
Edwin Thomas Maynard (21 March 1878 – 20 November 1961) known as Edwin Thomas or "Beddoe" Thomas was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Newport RFC.
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Emlyn Williams
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.
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February 16
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February 17
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Gareth Jones (presenter)
Gareth Jones (born 5 July 1961), also known as "Gaz Top", is a Welsh television presenter.
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Gwynfor Evans
Gwynfor Richard Evans (1 September 1912 – 21 April 2005) was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author.
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Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye (Y Gelli Gandryll or just Y Gelli), often abbreviated to just "Hay", is a small market town and community in the historic county of Brecknockshire in Wales, currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys.
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Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, landowner and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
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Howard Winstone
Howard Winstone, MBE (15 April 1939 – 30 September 2000) was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
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Huw Edwards (journalist)
Huw Edwards (born 18 August 1961) is a Welsh journalist, presenter, and newsreader.
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Huw Menai
Huw Owen Williams (13 July 1886 – 28 June 1961), who wrote as Huw Menai, was a Welsh poet, a Welsh-language speaker who nevertheless wrote only in the English language.
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Ian Rush
Ian James Rush, (born 20 October 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward.
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Ifor ap Glyn
Ifor ap Glyn (born 1961) is a television presenter and Welsh-language poet.
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Islwyn Ffowc Elis
Islwyn Ffowc Elis (17 November 1924 – 22 January 2004) was one of Wales's most popular Welsh-language writers.
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January 24
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John Evans (Ogmore MP)
John Evans (10 September 1875 – 18 April 1961) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is a retired Australian politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 2010 to 2013.
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July 1
It is the first day of the second half of the year.
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July 3
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July 5
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July 7
The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.
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June 28
In common years it is always in ISO week 26.
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Keith Baxter (actor)
Keith Baxter (born 29 April 1933) is a Welsh theatre, film and television actor.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Llyn Celyn
Llyn Celyn is a large reservoir constructed between 1960 and 1965 in the valley of the River Tryweryn in Gwynedd, Wales.
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March 26
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May 7
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Merionethshire
Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.
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Miss World
Miss World is the oldest running international beauty pageant.
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Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn (Sir Drefaldwyn meaning "the Shire of Baldwin's town") is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales.
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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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November 19
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November 20
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November 25
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November 8
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November 9
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Nuccia Focile
Nuccia Focile (born November 25, 1961 in Militello in Val di Catania), is an Italian operatic soprano.
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October 1
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October 13
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October 20
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Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.
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Pennar Davies
William Thomas Pennar Davies (12 November 1911 – 29 December 1996) was a Welsh clergyman and author.
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Phil Campbell (musician)
Philip Anthony Campbell (born 7 May 1961), better known as Phil Campbell, is a Welsh rock musician.
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Pirates of Tortuga
Pirates of Tortuga is a 1961 American Swashbuckler film which invented an alternate history for the actual Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.
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Pontypridd
Pontypridd often colloquially known as Ponty, is both a community and the county town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and is situated 12 miles (19 km) north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
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Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.
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Princess of Wales
Princess of Wales (Tywysoges Cymru) is a British courtesy title held by the wife of the Prince of Wales, who is, since the 14th century, the heir apparent of the English or British monarch.
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Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic.
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Rhosllanerchrugog
Rhosllanerchrugog,Davies, Jenkins and Baines (eds) The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales, 2008, p.752 also spelt RhosllannerchrugogDavies, Jenkins and Baines (eds) The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales, 2008, p.752 is a large village and local government community, the lowest tier of local government, within Wrexham County Borough in Wales.
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Richard Booth
Richard George William Pitt Booth, MBE (born 12 September 1938), is a Welsh bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling.
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Richard Hughes (British writer)
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
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Ronald Lewis (actor)
Ronald Lewis (11 December 1928 – 11 January 1982), was a Welsh actor, best known for his appearances in British films of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Rosemarie Frankland
Rosemarie Frankland (1 February 1943 - 2 December 2000) was a Welsh actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1961, having previously finished as first runner-up at Miss Universe 1961.
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September 29
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Severn Bridge
The Severn Bridge (Pont Hafren), sometimes also called the Severn–Wye Bridge, is a motorway suspension bridge operated by Highways England that spans the River Severn and River Wye between Aust, South Gloucestershire in England, and Chepstow, Monmouthshire in South East Wales, via Beachley, Gloucestershire, which is a peninsula between the two rivers.
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Severn Estuary
The Severn Estuary (Môr Hafren) is the estuary of the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain.
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Severn Railway Bridge
The Severn Railway Bridge (historically called the Severn Bridge) was a bridge carrying the railway across the River Severn between Sharpness and Lydney, Gloucestershire.
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Sharpness
Sharpness is an English port in Gloucestershire, one of the most inland in Britain, and eighth largest in the South West.
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Simon Weston
Simon Weston CBE (born 8 August 1961) is a veteran of the British Army who known for his charity work and recovery from severe burn injuries suffered during the Falklands War.
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Songs of Praise
Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961.
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Spiritual Assembly
Spiritual Assembly is a term given by `Abdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Bahá'í Faith.
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St Donats
St Donats (Sain Dunwyd) is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, located just west of the small town of Llantwit Major.
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Steve Brace
Stephen "Steve" Brace (born 7 July 1961 in Bridgend) is a former long-distance runner from Wales, who represented Great Britain in the men's marathon at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
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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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Tabernacle Chapel, Cardiff
Tabernacle (Welsh: Y Tabernacl) is a Welsh-language Baptist chapel in The Hayes in the centre of Cardiff, Wales.
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Tarki Micallef
Constantinous "Tarki" Micallef (born 24 January 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known by his stage name the Edge (or just Edge),McCormick (2006), pp.
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Twm Morys
Twm Morys (born 1961) is a Welsh poet and musician.
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Un Nos Ola Leuad
Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) is a novel written by Welsh writer Caradog Prichard.
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Used book
A used book or secondhand book is a book which has been owned before by an owner other than the publisher or retailer, usually by an individual or library.
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Victor Spinetti
Vittorio Giorgio Andre "Victor" Spinetti (2 September 1929 – 18 June 2012) was a Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur.
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W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd)
William John Gruffydd (1916 – 21 April 2011), better known by his bardic name of Elerydd, was a Welsh Baptist minister and poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1984 and 1987.
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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 people
The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.
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William Hague
William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, (born 26 March 1961), is a British Conservative politician and life peer.
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1961 in Northern Ireland
Events during the year 1961 in Northern Ireland.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_Wales
