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unusual facts about Glyndŵr's Way


Glyndŵr's Way

Running in a horse-shoe shape, it passes small market towns such as Llanidloes and quiet villages including Abbeycwmhir and Llanfyllin, traversing central Mid Wales to Machynlleth near the Dyfi estuary and back again across Wales via Lake Vyrnwy and the valley of the River Vyrnwy to Welshpool, close to the English border.


Alys

Alys ferch Owain Glyndŵr (15th century), daughter of Margaret Hanmer and Owain Glyndŵr

Alys ferch Owain Glyndŵr

Alys ferch Owain Glyndŵr was one of the daughters of Margaret Hanmer and Owain Glyndŵr, the disinherited prince of the old Welsh royal house of Powys Fadog who led a major revolt in Wales between 1400 and ca.

Anwyl of Tywyn Family

Robert, the elder brother and the ancestor of the Wynn of Gwydir family sided with Glyndwr but survived the war receiving a Royal Pardon from Henry IV and later by his son Henry V.

Beautiful Kate

Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg; this was the first novel by Thornburg used for a movie since Cutter's Way (1981).

Berney Arms railway station

The Weavers' Way and Wherryman's Way long distance footpaths both pass near the station.

Children's Way

Some notable members of the advisory board for Children's Way include 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Wrestler Rulon Gardner, entertainer and philanthropist Alan Osmond, and former U.S. Senator Jake Garn.

Clay's Way

John Rechy (City of Night) quoted the book as being a "gay Catcher in the Rye," Susanna Moore (In the Cut) called the book, "sexy, thrilling, terrifying, shrilling, milling, willing" and Thorn Hillsbery called the book, "Sick."

Derek Humphry

He is the author of Jean's Way and the best-seller Final Exit; he is also the president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization and advisor to the Final Exit Network.

Dig Circus

Ironically, several years after the band parted ways, its song "Wishing For a Sail" was chosen as the theme song for the Nickelodeon series Caitlin's Way.

East Harlem Purple Gang

In Carlito's Way the Purple Gang was referred to as the 'Pleasant Avenue Crew'.

Ford Island

Several motion pictures were filmed on Ford Island, including In Harm's Way starring John Wayne, Tora Tora Tora, and the 2001 Michael Bay picture Pearl Harbor.

Glyndwr Jones

Glyndwr is the son of Gwynoro Jones, the former Welsh Labour and SDP politician, who was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen from 1970 until October 1974.

Glyndwr Michael

A plaque commemorating Glyndwr Michael is now also on the war memorial in Aberbargoed.

Glyndyfrdwy

In the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall are artifacts associated with the man himself: a copy of the Pennal Letter to King Charles VI of France, a document of 1405 ratifying the terms of a 1404 treaty between Owain and the French, a letter confirming the appointments of Owain's Chancellor, Gruffydd Young and Owain's brother-in-law, John Hanmer as Ambassadors to the French Court, pictures of the Parliament house in Dolgellau, a portrait drawn from Owain's seal, and a replica of this seal.

Goodbye South, Goodbye

It was chosen along with The Bridges of Madison County and Carlito's Way as the best film of the 1990s by Cahiers du cinéma.

Great Wishford

The National Cycle Route 24 and the Monarch's Way long distance footpath pass close to the village.

Grosmont, Monmouthshire

They fell on them and defeated the Welsh, killing 800 to 1,000 men and capturing Owen ap Gruffydd ap Rhisiant, Glyndwr's Secretary and John Hanmer, Glyndwr's brother in law, who both survived the battle but were imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Gruffudd Fychan

Gruffudd Fychan II (c. 1330-1369), Lord of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith and father of Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales

Harmony Kendall

: Season 5 (2003–2004) - "Conviction"; "Just Rewards"; "Life of the Party"; "Destiny"; "Harm's Way"; "Soul Purpose"; "Damage"; "You're Welcome"; "Smile Time"; "Shells"

Hemlock Society

The original Hemlock was founded in 1980 by Derek Humphry in his garage in Santa Monica, California, when he received a huge response to his memoir Jean's Way, his account of helping his reportedly terminally ill wife take her own life in 1975.

Husband E. Kimmel

In the 1965 film In Harm's Way, Kimmel was portrayed as a victim of unfortunate circumstance by actor Franchot Tone.

John Patrick Lowrie

Lowrie has notably performed roles in video games such as The Suffering and The Suffering: Ties That Bind, Total Annihilation and its expansions, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way, and Valve games Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2.

Margaret Hanmer

The poet Iolo Goch praises Margaret and her generosity in his poem Llys Owain Glyndŵr yn Sycharth, one of three he composed in Owain's honour.

MOMA, Wales

Peter Prendergast (Early Winter, Nant Ffrancon Valley and Study for Early Winter, Nant Ffrancon Valley) received the Glyndŵr Award in 2004, while Shani Rhys James (Night Kitchen I) is the designated recipient for 2007.

Namidairo

In an interview with Excite on February 2008, she revealed the melody of the chorus was actually from her second single, Tomorrow's Way, but she only wrote it halfway.

Operation Pacific

Nearly fourteen years later, however, they worked together on In Harm's Way (1965) where she noted that he had mellowed a lot, possibly because he was seriously ill with lung cancer at the time.

Paramarines

Though never actually used as such in reality, the Paramarines were mentioned in both the 1944 RKO film Marine Raiders and the 1965 John Wayne movie In Harm's Way.

Peder Ludvig Møller

On 22 December 1845, Møller published an article critiquing Stages on Life's Way, a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard.

Robert Puleston

He was a witness in the Scrope v. Grosvenor Trial at Chester in 1386, alongside another witness Owain Glyndŵr.

He married Angharad, a daughter of Griffith Hanmer, of the same family as Owain Glyndŵr's wife, Margaret Hanmer.

Rowland's Castle

The village is crossed by three long-distance footpaths, the Monarch's Way, Sussex Border Path and Staunton Way.

Shannon's Way

Robert trains to be a doctor at the fictional Levenford Infirmary (Levenford is loosely based on Dumbarton), and falls in love with Jean Law, a young medical student belonging to the Plymouth Brethren who rejects him when she discovers that he has deceived her about his history and religion (he is a Roman Catholic).

It continues the story of Robert Shannon from Cronin's previous novel, The Green Years (1944).

Shyster

Carlito's Way (1993 crime film), Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is told by a police inspector inside District Attorney Norwalk's (James Rebhorn) office that his Jewish lawyer and friend Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) tried to set him up.

St Peter ad Vincula, Pennal

A copy of Glyndŵr's "Pennal Letter" of 1406, a letter to the King of France setting out his plans for an independent Wales, originated from Pennal.

Stonewall Jackson's Way

The title Stonewall Jackson's Way was used for Stonewall Jackson's Way, a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1992.

The King's Way

The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the centre of the crescent south of it called Aldwych.

It was built as part of a major plan to clear slum districts in the Holborn area - so the “sick and poor” of the area were a reality.

Tomorrow's Way

Hong Kong singer and actress Fiona Sit covered this song as "Dear Fiona", a Cantonese version.

Torgny Lindgren

The novel is considered to be one of Lindgren's greatest works, and was made into a film by Bo Widerberg in 1986.

Victoria's Way

Many of the sculptures include small motifs of modernity, such as a small pint of Guinness beside a Ganesha and a mobile telephone tucked into the back of a starving Buddha.

W.F.O.

The Wait/New High in Lows" sampled from the movie, Carlito's Way.

Welsh chronicles

The Annals of Owain Glyndwr give an account of the Glyndŵr Rising, covering the period of 1400 to 1422.


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