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A Dracoraptor fossil was first discovered in 2014 by Rob and Nick Hanigan and Sam Davies at the Blue Lias Formation on the South Wales coast. The genus name Dracoraptor is from Draco referring to the Welsh Dragon and raptor, meaning robber, a commonly employed suffix for theropod dinosaurs with the type species being Dracoraptor hanigani .
She first lived in England, then in Pontypridd in Wales and then moved to the West Midlands of England. [1] She attended Dudley College and worked at McDonald's in Birmingham. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the first person from her school to go to the University of Oxford , where she studied classical archaeology and ancient history at Lady Margaret Hall .
Robert published some of the most important books of his era including the first English language book on algebra which incidentally is where the equals symbol is first seen in use. From Tenby, West Wales. [37] Isaac Roberts Pioneered deep space photography at the end of the 19th century. Born in Groes near Denbigh in 1829. [38]
A story popularized in the 16th century claimed that the first European to see America was the Welsh prince Madoc in 1170. A son of Owain Gwynedd, prince of Gwynedd, he had supposedly fled his country during a succession crisis with a troop of colonists and sailed west.
Evans's map. John Thomas Evans (April 1770 – May 1799) was a Welsh explorer who produced an early map of the Missouri River.. Evans was born in Waunfawr, near Caernarfon.In the early 1790s there was an upsurge of interest in Wales in the story of Madog having discovered America, and there were persistent rumours in North America of the existence of a tribe of Welsh Indians, identified with ...
Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942. [1] Powys returned to Britain from the United States in 1934, with his lover Phyllis Playter, living first in Dorchester, where he began work on his novel Maiden Castle.
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The term Cool Cymru (Cymru is the Welsh name for Wales) derived as a Welsh alternative to Cool Britannia (itself a pun on the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!Cool Britannia described the revival of British art and culture in the 1990s centred on London (as celebrated in a 1996 Newsweek cover headlined "London Rules"), emphasised British culture and used British symbols such as The ...