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2 unusual facts about Tal-y-llyn, Gwynedd


Corris

Corris was formerly a part of the parish of Tal-y-llyn, but until recently the church shared its vicar with Pennal,

Graig Goch

The hill’s most notable feature is the large cliff which stretches the length of its northwestern face overlooking Tal-y-llyn, in part a major rock-slope failure.


Aberllefenni

The quarry reservoir, Llyn Cob, was once known as Llyn Owain Lawgoch, after the last male survivor of the princely house of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

Alon Tal

In 1998, Tal was a visiting scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he wrote Pollution in a Promised Land, a comprehensive history of Israel’s environment.

Ardudwy

Ardudwy is later associated with 9th Century chieftain Collwyn ap Tango the progenitor of the fifth of the Fifteen Noble Tribes of Gwynedd.

Bleddyn

Bleddyn Fardd (1258–1284), Welsh-language court poet from Gwynedd

Bleddyn ap Cynfyn

The south was restored to the Houses of Dinefwr and Morgan, but Powys and Gwynedd were given to Gruffydd's half-brothers Bleddyn and Rhiwallon.

Bronaber

There is also a lake in Bronaber called Llyn Llygain which is also referred as Llyn Pikes, this is because there were pikes in the lake that people used to fish, but several believe that most of them have gone.

Craig y Llyn

Craig y Llyn is a mountain situated in Rhigos on the west side of the upper Cynon Valley in South Wales; it is the highest point in the traditional county of Glamorgan and the highest in the South Wales Valleys.

Danny Mazo

In the city of Santa Marta at a very young age he started studying music, and at the age of 18 he recorded his first album entitled «Mi Razón De Vivir» (My Reason For Living) with the following singles «Dime Porqué» (Tell My Why), «Tal Vez» (Maybe) & «Por Tu Amor» (For Your Love).

Frenc Tal-Gharb

Francis Xavier Mercieca, known as Frenc tal-Gharb, was born in Għarb Gozo on the 3 December 1892.

Gennady Kuzmin

In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with Szabó, Tal and Timman), Baku 1977, Tallinn 1979, Kladovo 1980, Dortmund 1981 (with Speelman and Ftáčnik) and Bangalore 1981.

Gwriad ap Merfyn

Gwriad ap Merfyn or ap Rhodri was a 9th-century prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales.

Gwyrfai Rural District

Beddgelert and Clynnog were included in the district of Dwyfor, with the rest of the rural district becoming part of the Borough of Arfon, both in the new county of Gwynedd.

Israel Tal

Israel Tal's picture appears in the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with compatriot Moshe Peled, Americans George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

Istres

This air base was one of 3 utilized by NASA as a contingency landing site for the Space Shuttle in the case of a Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL).

Johnson T. Crawford

Johnson Tal Crawford was a district judge in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

Josef Tal

Josef Tal was born Josef Grünthal in the town of Pinne (now Pniewy), near Poznań, German Empire (present-day Poland).

King of Foxes

Now one of the secret society's most valuable agents, he gains entrance into the court of Duke Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal's village to the sword, by posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles.

La chanson de Fortunio

In 1979 the opera was revived in an English translation by Michael Geliot, by Welsh National Opera, who staged it at the Teatr y Werin in Aberystwyth, the Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, the Teatr Gwynedd in Bangor, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, the Astra Theatre in Llandudno, and the Playhouse Theatre in Cheltenham.

Lanitz-Hassel-Tal

It was formed by the merger of the previously independent municipalities Möllern and Taugwitz, on 1 July 2009.

Llanfairfechan

For ceremonial and electoral boundary purposes it was transferred from the preserved county of Gwynedd to that of Clwyd in 2003.

Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

Llanfihangel-y-Pennant is a small village and community, which includes Abergynolwyn, in the Meirionnydd area of Gwynedd in Wales.

Llyn Conwy

Llyn Conwy was at one time owned and looked after by Lord Penrhyn, who kept the lake well stocked.

Llywelyn ap Dafydd

A force of cavalry and infantry were deployed to escort Llywelyn and Owain out of Gwynedd via Acton Burnell in Shropshire to Bristol before the end of July 1283.

Llywelyn the Last

The life of Llywelyn the Last is the subject of Edith Pargeter's Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet: 'Sunrise in the West' (1974); 'The Dragon at Noonday' (1975); 'The Hounds of Sunset' (1976); and 'Afterglow and Nightfall' (1977).

Manaw Gododdin

In the Historia Brittonum, Nennius says that "the great king Mailcun reigned among the Britons, i.e., in Gwynedd".

Mathrafal

Mathrafal near Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales, was the seat of the Kings and Princes of Powys probably from the 9th century until its destruction in 1212 by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth of Gwynedd.

Me Gustas Tal Como Eres

"Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" (Spanish for "I like you just the way you are") is a song written Juan Carlos Calderón and Luis Gómez Escolar, produced by Calderón, and performed by Scottish singer Sheena Easton in a duet with Mexican singer Luis Miguel.

Moel Siabod

This valley, fenced in on two sides by the main ridge and the ridge running east from the summit, is at roughly 500 m above sea level and contains Llyn-y-foel (Welsh for lake of the mountain).

Möllern

Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the municipality Lanitz-Hassel-Tal.

Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal

Arar was born Mustafa Salih Mustafa Yousof Al-Tull in the city of Irbid, Ottoman Empire (now in Jordan).

Owain ap Gruffydd

Owain Goch ap Gruffydd (died c. 1282) Brother of Llywelyn the Last of Gwynedd

Pietà, Malta

Within the boundaries of Tal-Pietà is the hamlet of Gwardamanġa.

President of Malta

The Role of the President is detailed in a publication (in the Maltese language) called Il-Manwal tal-President tar-Repubblika written by former President Ugo Mifsud Bonnici.

Purple House Press

Its catalog also contains books such as The Mad Scientists' Club series by Bertrand R. Brinley, Pickle-Chiffon Pie and more by Jolly Roger Bradfield,Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom, by Paul Fenimore Cooper, and Mr. Bear Squash-You-All-Flat, by Morrell Gipson.

Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn

Following the 1063 invasion of Wales by Harold and Tostig Godwinson that overthrew Gruffydd, Rhiwallon and Bleddyn jointly received Powys and Gwynedd on condition of faithfully serving Edward the Confessor "everywhere by water and by land".

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 11th Baronet

His direct ancestors, the Williams family, were an important parliamentary and landowning family from Denbighshire, north Wales, who in the 17th Century married into the famous Wynn family of Gwydir, the direct patrilineal descendants of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd 1137–1170, and the only surviving branch of that dynasty.

Society of Radiographers

The 2012-2013 President is Jackie Hughes DCR(R), a diagnostic radiographer from Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Penrohosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd.

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn is a medieval church near Aberffraw in Anglesey, north Wales.

St. Julian's

The town is subdivided into informal districts which are Paceville, Ta' Ġiorni, Tal-Għoqod, St Andrew's, as well as the regions surrounding St George's Bay, Spinola Bay, Balluta Bay, and Il-Qaliet cliffs.

Syd Nicholls

In 1927 a film called The Kid Stakes was produced by Tal Ordell, featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector.

TAL effector

TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors (often referred to as TALEs but not to be confused with the three amino acid loop extension family of proteins) are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect various plant species.

Tal-Barrani

Tal-Barrani was the site of political violence on 30 November 1986, when Eddie Fenech Adami had permission to hold a mass meeting which resulted in violence.

In 1993, a punic temple was found in the area under the main road that passes through the outskirts of Żejtun, Tarxien, Santa Luċija, Għaxaq and Bir id-Deheb.

Thalweg

The German word Thalweg (nowadays spelt Talweg) is a compound noun that is built from the German elements Thal (since Duden's orthography reform of 1901 written Tal) meaning valley, and Weg, meaning way.

Wales in the High Middle Ages

Throughout the tenth century, Davies says, "ravagings went on," in Gwynedd, the south-east, in Dyfed, and often perpetrated by Mercian kings, all this despite courtly appearances of friendship.

Warder Cresson

Previous to his departure he had been engaged in agriculture at Gwynedd, a suburb of Philadelphia.

Wawffactor

Emma Walford was replaced by BBC Radio 1 DJ Bethan Elfyn for the second series, and Peredur ap Gwynedd was replaced by musician Huw Chiswell for the third series.

We Con the World

Caroline Glick, Noam Jacobson, Tal Gilad, Shlomo Blass, Elchanan Even-Chen, Karni Eldad, Ronit Avrahamof, Nachum Shteiner, and Yoram Schwartz participated in the video.

Winston Roddick

In November 2012, he sought election as the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales Police, beating Labour's Tal Michael on the second count.


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