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Wales on Britannia - Contains links to Welsh timelines, history and rich cultural content.
The Castles of Wales - Information on over 400 different Welsh castles as well as profiles of the men responsible for their construction and the turbulent times in which they lived. Includes photographs.
Of Dragons and Daffodils - From 1000BC to the present, and everything in-between.
The Mynde, Caerleon - Hidden behind towering walls in Caerleon is an area known as the Mynde. Find out why John Jenkins walled himself in; discover Caerleon Castle and the Roman bath house ruins.
Caldicot Castle & Country Park - Includes history, events and activities, facilities and access, opening times, admission prices, map and directions.
The Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales - Includes details of quarries, working methods, geology, tramways, remains and relics, with photo galleries.
The History of the Traditional Welsh National Costume - Brief history with several pictures.
World Wide Wales - An interactive audio-visual journey through Welsh history and culture, using short informative flash movies.
The Owain Glyndwr Society - Formed to honour his contribution to the heritage of Wales and mark the six-hundredth anniversary of his revolt in 1400.
Archives Network Wales - An online searchable catalogue of document collections in record offices, universities, museums and libraries in Wales.
Voices of Agriculture - Details of a project which is investigating, via oral and pictorial sources, the development, influences and changes within Welsh agriculture since 1947.
Gathering the Jewels - Explore the cultural heritage of Wales through photographs, documents, artefacts and sound and moving image clips from libraries, museums and archives.
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) History Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince History The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) History The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh History Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso History You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" History In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln History People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere History I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha History "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper History My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 History blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov History A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) History Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton History A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman History Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright History I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. History If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) History "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life History May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous History The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w History Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin History
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