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  • 31Mistar Urdd — The Urdd logo Mistar Urdd (Mr Urdd) is the personification of the triangular red, white and green logo of the Welsh youth movement, Urdd Gobaith Cymru (The Welsh League of Youth). Created in September 1976 by Wynne Melville Jones, a marketing… …

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  • 32William John Edwards — (1898 January 11, 1978), was a leading exponent and teacher of the Welsh singing medium of Cerdd Dant (Free verse singing). Cerdd Dant is sung to a particular tune selected for the verse and the singer is accompanied by a harpist playing a… …

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  • 33Siân James (musician) — Siân James is a Welsh traditional folk singer and harpist who has recorded for Sain and BBC Records as well as her own label, Bos.A native of the Mid Wales village of Llanerfyl in Powys, Siân James participated, from an early age, in local… …

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  • 34Gorsedd stones — are groups of standing stones constructed for the National Eisteddfod of Wales. They form an integral part of the druidic Gorsedd ceremonies of the Eisteddfod. The stones can be found as commemorative structures throughout Wales and are the… …

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  • 35John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) — John Jones (1836 ndash; July 27 1921), better known under his nom de plume Myrddin Fardd, was a Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar born in Llangїan, Caernarfonshire.He attended Foel gron School in Mynytho, after which he was apprenticed to a… …

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  • 36Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir — The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir (Welsh: Côr Meibion Froncysyllte ), also known as the Fron Choir (Welsh: Côr Fron ), is an award winning amateur male voice choir based in the village of Froncysyllte, near Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales.… …

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  • 37Donald Evans (Welsh poet) — Donald Evans (born 1940) is a Welsh poet, who writes in the Welsh language. Evans comes from Talgarreg in Ceredigion. Between 1966 and 1972 he produced the periodical Y Cardi. He won the double of crown and chair twice, once at the 1977 National… …

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  • 38David Lloyd (tenor) — David George Lloyd (6 April 1912 – 27 March 1969) was a Welsh singer. Lloyd, a tenor, was noted for being one of the first Welsh solo singers to seek a broader audience beyond Wales, in the concert halls and recording studios of England, mainland …

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  • 39Owen Wynne Jones — (March 4, 1828 – April 4, 1870), often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman and author. Owen Wynne Jones was born at a house called Ty n y ffrwd, in the village of Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon. At the age of ten, he was sent …

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  • 40Robert Jones Derfel — poet and political writer.He was born Robert Jones on a farm in Merionethshire and became a travelling salesman employed by a Manchester firm. He also became a Baptist preacher. With John Ceiriog Hughes and two other Welshmen, he formed a… …

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