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ON October 10, 1809, Meriwether Lewis a dashing US army captain whose family had emigrated from Pembrokeshire, rode up to a log cabin inn called Grinder’s Stand in the Tennessee Mountains.
After taking a few drinks and saying “lovely evening ma’am” to a fellow customer, the 35-year-old American-Welsh frontiersman apparently blew his brains out with pistol.
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Born in Cardiff, Ivor Novello found fame as a writer of patriotic songs during the First World War such as Keep The Home Fires Burning.
His good looks helped him win acclaim as Britain's first movie idol, although he failed to make a break in Hollywood.
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ONE of the largest-ever groups of dolphins in British waters has been spotted off the Welsh coast.
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A 200-year-old aqueduct near Wrexham has been crowned as one of the heritage "wonders" of the world.
Pontcysyllte aqueduct was added to the list of World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
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Scott held a fund-raising dinner there in 1910 before he sailed from Cardiff on the Terra Nova for the South Pole.
The hotel is now famous for that oak-panelled dining room which was named after Robert Falcon Scott.
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A docks disaster 100 years ago that killed 39 men but saw the heroism of a teenage boy is being marked later.
A minute's silence at the port in Newport will be held to remember the moment when a new entrance lock to its North Dock collapsed on 2 July, 1909.
Tom Lewis, a 16-year-old newspaper boy, risked his life to enter the wreckage and to save a man trapped by timbers
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Dadorchuddio cofeb i Laura Ashley
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