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The WELS school system is the fourth largest private school system in the United States. [3] The WELS is in fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) and is a member of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC), a worldwide organization of Lutheran church bodies of the same beliefs.
Wales (Welsh: Cymru ⓘ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west.
Wels (German pronunciation: ⓘ; Central Bavarian: Wös) is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land , and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria .
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon, Wisconsin. The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.
The names "Wales" and "Welsh" are modern descendants of the Anglo-Saxon word wealh, a descendant of the Proto-Germanic word walhaz, which was derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the Roman Empire. [15]
Year Date Event c. 31,000 BC Earliest reliably-dated "modern human" burial with artefacts, first discovered in the 1820s on the Gower in Swansea.After the Red Lady of Paviland bones were recalibrated in 2009, [1] the (male) Homo sapiens bones were determined to be from 33,000 years ago.
The Wels was the subject of an episode in the first season of the documentary television show River Monsters. Host Jeremy Wade concluded that Wels catfish in the area were not large enough to consume adult human beings, but could easily swallow a child. Wade documented instances of Wels catfish being aggressive towards humans, including a Wels ...
The culture of Wales encompasses the Welsh language, customs, festivals, music, art, cuisine, mythology, history, and politics.Wales is primarily represented by the symbol of the red Welsh Dragon, but other national emblems include the leek and the daffodil.