#Anglesey events

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Mom's who use surrogates can Breast Feed

Harry & Meghan like to drop tidbits about Meg "breastfeeding" and crying, and crying and crying, but her lopsided beach ball belly remained swollen even after 4 months of "breastfeeding" as we saw in South Africa.

Breastfeeding (a baby that grew in the mother's womb) actually burns calories and shrinks the mom's belly. It is a gift to mom's who are able to breast feed because they get to exercise just through the act of nurturing their wee one.

Babies born by surrogate can be "breastfed" "skin to skin" by the adopting mother. It gives her the "skin to skin" experience Harry likes to reference.

The adopting mother will not burn the calories she consumed to appear bloated like her surrogate.

Catherine and Wills traveled to Wales to encourage the runners just 1 month after the birth of baby Prince George.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) makes her post-baby body debut in a surprise appearance at the Ring O'Fire Anglesey Coastal Ultra Marathon on Friday (August 30) in Holyhead, Wales.

The 31-year-old royal was joined at the event by her husband Prince William, who started the sounding bell to kick off the 135-mile race for the awaiting runners.

The appearance by Kate at the event was not scheduled! She was originally supposed to make her first public appearance with Prince William at the Tusk Trust awards on September 12th. Kate gave birth to the couple's first child, Royal Baby Prince George, back in July.

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D.U.D.E Bios: Angelica St John

Kirby's Life-Long Best Friend Angelica St John (2020)

A self-employed makeup artist, beautician, cosmetologist, hairstylist and photographer with a degree in nursing, Angelica is Kirby's life-long best friend, the two often treating each other like sisters, and the nurse for most C.R.C events.

"Whomst the fuck is you?!"

Name

Full Legal Name: Angelica Halo St John

First Name: Angelica

Meaning: Derived from Latin 'Angelicus' meaning 'Angelic', ultimately related to Greek 'Angelos' meaning 'Messenger'.

Pronunciation: an-JEHL-i-ka

Origin: English, Italian, Romanian

Middle Name: Halo

Meaning: From the English word 'Halo' meaning 'Luminous disc or ring', derived from Greek 'Halos'.

Pronunciation: HAY-lo

Origin: English

Surname: St John

Meaning: From a place named for Sain John, Saint John usually being John the Baptist.

Pronunciation: SIN-jin

Origin: English

Alias: The Angel of C.R.C

Reason: The way C.R.C's commentary team refers to her.

Nicknames: Angel, Angela, Angie

Titles: Miss

Characteristics

Age: 29

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Jamaican-Irish Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: Black

Birth Date: July 8th 1991

Symbols: None

Sexuality: Demisexual

Religion: Wiccan (Raised Christian)

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English, Irish, Welsh, Spanish, Japanese

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Cancer

Theme Song (Ringtone on Kirby's Phone): 'Murder She Wrote' - Chaka Demus & Pliers

Voice Actor: Freema Agyeman

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 5'3" / 160 cm

Weight: 130 lbs / 58 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Hair Dye: None. Wears Wigs

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 18

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Double, Both), Helix (Both)

Scars: Surgical scars on her legs

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Occasional Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: Phocomelia (missing her legs from the knees down), High-Functioning Autism, ADHD

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Kirby Rhydderch, Yoshi Nakagawa

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Kirby Rhydderch

Mentor: Oda Rhydderch, Lucille St John

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Hiram Sinclair (63, Father), Lucille St John (59, Mother)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: None

Siblings-In-Law: None

Nieces & Nephews: None

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Backstory: Born without her lower legs, and as a black girl in 1990s Ireland, Angelica has had it rough from the very beginning, she quickly met and became best friends with Kirby, both girls moving from Ireland to Wales by the end of the decade. Angelica has worked her hardest to get everything she has in life, being incredibly intelligent and hard-working. Angelica works as a nurse for C.R.C, but also as a licensed and self-employed beautician, makeup artist, hairstylist, cosmetologist and photographer.

Trivia: Nothing of Note

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#OTD in Irish History | 10 July:

988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin. 1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, politician and author, is born in Dublin. 1794 – Birth of William Maginn, poet and author, in Co Cork. 1897 – Birth of Jack “Legs” Diamond, also…

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Okay, Discord buds got my drunken real-time rant about this, but it needs immortalising here for future me's sake.

Years ago, my dad bought a motorcycle trailer.

Or claims he did. I'd argue he bought a bit of scrap metal on wheels. Someone grabbed a fistful of box section and a bit of checkerplate and weld-bolted it all together into the most rickety piece of shit trailer-shaped rack you can possibly imagine.

It creaks if you even look at it. The floor plates don't line up properly; my dad has fallen off this trailer while loading it.

To further highlight the lunacy of keeping this thing, let me add that my dad's bike, the Triumph T160 he and my mum bought new decades ago, has appreciated wildly as a classic and is now worth over £10k. He is loading a £10k motorbike onto a trailer worth £3.50.

I have been ragging on this thing forever. Jim tries to be polite around my parents, but whenever he glimpses this trailer he has to do the turn away/headshake combo and then text me his complaints as 10-20 single-line messages sent over the next half-hour. It's law.

This is my dad revealing another foible of the trailer on the morning of The Event.

Yesterday, my dad drove from London to Anglesey. On sheer distance alone, this trip's worthy of an exacting check of your vehicle and trailer before you set off, but the tail end of the drive cuts through Eryri, the most mountainous bit of Wales, too. The area is remote and the roads are a little dangerous. You have to be prepared.

My dad, unprepared, sets off at around three. At half eight, I'm at home eating an omelette and having an important conversation with Jim about my mum-derived Clothes Trauma. It's taken a lot of gin to get me to this point. This is the most I've had to drink in months and I'm a little out of control, but it's cool, we needed this talk, I think it's putting my weird behaviour in context in a way that'll help him help me.

And then I get a call.

Jim's theory is that we've swapped roles with our parents. We're the dull ones with our full-time jobs and our eye on money and our strict preplanned schedules. Our parents are aimless and doing roughly whatever tf they want, and occasionally they need us to drop everything and bail them out.

This is an accurate take, the phone call reveals.

My dad's broken down short of Bangor. He's stuck on a high windswept road in the pissing rain without a rain jacket. It's a narrow road without a layby or any accessible hard shoulder; his car is parked in its lane with the hazards on, and everyone else has to detour around him. As this is Wales, the narrowness of the road means nothing: it's still a major trunk road and there are lorries blasting by. He is quite upset. He needs us to come rescue him.

We're on the far side of Eryri, 66 miles/an hour and a half away. I'm too drunk to drive, so Jim's roped in, even though he needs to be up for work at six tomorrow morning. My dad's mobile signal is appalling and he keeps dropping out of calls; I have to explain to him that he should use his phone's phone function instead of calling through WhatsApp before we even get the gist of what's gone wrong.

Which is this:

he left home without a jack

or the right socket to fit his wheelnuts

and a known slow puncture in one of the trailer's tyres.

His slow puncture has become a flat, and his planned method of pumping it up again hasn't worked. Thanks to the impeccable design of the trailer-shaped scrap, he can't get at the spare while he has a motorbike loaded up.

It's the most predictable and avoidable breakdown since that one time I forgot to fit a new split link when changing my motorbike chain and the whole thing poinged off outside Aldi. And at least my issue was memory and not a conscious decision to be an idiot.

Anyway, we set out. Important beats:

We lack the diesel to get there without a stop, which is always interesting in North Wales at night. The fuel station in Betws-y-Coed saves us. Thank you Shell. About halfway through the drive, my dad calls again to say he's found his 17mm socket at last and has successfully crawled under the trailer and retrieved the spare, but can't swap the wheels without a jack.

(Having since sobered up and had a good look at the photos, I wonder how the hell he got under there. The trailer sits incredibly low and he's pulled up against the kerb, so how did he get under there? Lying in the road?)

And so we find him, halfway up a mountain road in the rain and wind and dark.

The wind's so wild it almost ploughs my door into that stone wall. As we're putting out our emergency triangle and letting the Ranger's rear chevrons do some work, I am drunk but still struck by how dumb this really is. My dad confesses he got too cold at one point and had to shiver himself warm in the car with the engine on and the heated seats going. He is seventy-odd, for context.

With our jack, it takes approximately three minutes to fit the spare.

He heads off, we head home. The satnav suggests we'll be back by ten past midnight but it's more like twenty-five past.

There's not really a point to this whole rambling post. Carry a jack, obviously. That's not a lesson anyone should have to learn, which has been the running theme of 2023 so far: things go wrong and we learn nothing.

But on less of a down note, things go wrong, we learn nothing, and I get to spend an evening bopping in the car with my long-suffering yet still awesome partner, who, after a lot of gin and a lot of driving, now 100% grasps what my parents are like.

We also got to look very cool and patient and reliable in an emergency. I like it.

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Events 3.5

363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. 1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa. 1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. 1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala. 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake. 1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. 1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed. 1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. 1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war. 1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung. 1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft. 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR. 1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

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The Princess of Wales' Stats - Third Quarter

It's been summer and we've hit the annual low point in the year for Catherine engagements (I have to stop myself from writing Duchess of Cambridge engagements!). In the third three months of 2022, the Princess of Wales has completed 24 engagements, averaging around 8 engagements a month. Her busiest month was September, during which she completed 15 engagements. She undertook 7 engagements in July and 2 in August, where she was also spotted once. In September, Catherine appeared in one official photograph or video, and was spotted five times; September was also, notably, when the death of Queen Elizabeth II occured and some of these "spottings" were fairly major events, such as the Windsor walkabout with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. This means September also coincided with a 17 day period of mourning. While being a quiet August (as always), this was her fourth busiest July and her fourth busiest September of all time.

Of her 24 patronages, she has visited or completed work for 6, totalling 9 engagements in total. In July, Catherine completed six engagements on behalf of her patronages. 3 of those were Wimbledon engagements, meaning they counted as being for both the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and the Lawn Tennis Association. She also undertook one engagement for The 1851 Trust and two for Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In August, she undertook one engagements for SportsAid. In September, she completed two engagements on behalf of the Royal Foundation, which was renamed to the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Of her 24 engagements, 8 have been solo while another 8 were when she was accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, now the Prince of Wales. Three engagements took place with wider members of the (then-Cambridge) Wales family - one with her husband and Prince George, and two with her husband and Princess Charlotte. A number of engagements took place with a number of other British Royals in September, during the aftermath of the Queen's death, with the Queen's funeral taking place with members of both the British Royal Family and foreign royals.

Her engagements have all taken place in the UK, in England (21) and Wales (3). Of her UK-based engagements, 13* took place in London, while one was a video meeting. She also undertook engagements in Windsor, Plymouth, Birmingham, Norfolk, Swansea and Anglesey. NOTE: Two of her September engagements were meetings and could have taken place in either London or Windsor. As the Princess of Wales' official residence remains in London, I will be counting these as taking place there until informed otherwise.

Due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the majority of her engagements have been diplomatic in nature, with eight engagements falling in that area specifically. 6 of her engagements have focused on the military and another 6 on sport, while 3 engagements have been focused on her Early Years Initiative. Six of her engagements did not fit into the theme headings I have created.

Clotheswise, her most worn identified designer has been Alexander McQueen, followed by Catherine Walker, although she has worn two unidentifed looks. Her most carried bag designer was Mulberry, followed by Grace Han, then Stuart Weitzman. Her most-worn shoe designer is, again, Gianvito Rossi. In terms of jewellery, she has predominantly worn pieces borrowed from the late Queen, as well as pieces inherited from Diana, followed by Kiki McDonough with 5 wears, and Annoushka with 4. When it comes to hats, Catherine was seen in five hats, with both Henri Lloyd creating 2 of them. One of her hats is still currently unidentified.

[theaspieworld]

5 Traits Of Pathological Demand Avoidance YOU MISS! Here are 5 MUST SEE traits of Pathological Demand Avoidance! ⚠️ This condition is an atypical autism condition that is sometimes co-occurring with an autism diagnosis but can be independent. Here are 5 traits that you must see. 👀 1️⃣ Lability Of Mood. A person with PDA will have mood control issues and can be shown to change their mood moment to moment. 2️⃣ Comfortable in role play or pretend play. Because of the use of masking in social situations a person with PDA will be very comfortable in playing games of acting and pretended role play. 3️⃣ My have hyper moments and cry a lot. Due to mood and emotional control issues, a person of PDA may have hyper-active moments and similarly have moments of upset and crying. 4️⃣ May have selective mutism. A PDA person can sometimes display selective mutism in situations of social events or social environments. 5️⃣ Triggers may be hard to pin down. You may notice that a person with PDA can get triggered at random times, but you are not able to notice what the triggers are. I would love to know your thoughts on this topic as lots of people ask me about PDA and I think a conversation needs to happen. 💭 #autism #pathogicaldemandavoidance #pda #autismawareness (at Holy Island, Anglesey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIKFsJMyOv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A New Year’s Eve Wedding in Henblas Country Park, Bodorgan, Wales

After a year of meticulous planning, our Welsh couple finally tied the knot on New Year’s Eve 2023. This event marked our last wedding of 2023 and the first of 2024, filling us with immense excitement and joy.

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Despite the windy and rainy weather, fortune favoured us as the rain paused just in time for the outdoor activities. Upon our arrival, we were warmly greeted by the bride’s parents, their smiles setting a positive tone for the day. We began with capturing the bride and groom’s preparation shots, preserving those intimate pre-ceremony moments.

From there, we headed to Henblas Country Park, a hidden gem and perfect wedding venue in Wales. This purpose-built venue boasts guest rooms for the wedding party to stay overnight, adding convenience to its charm. The dedicated team of wedding planners had meticulously arranged the decorations, catering, and the event’s rundown. We were thoroughly impressed by the structure, layout, and facilities, all of which contributed to creating a memorable experience.

The climax of the evening was the fireworks display, perfectly timed with the countdown to 2024. As the clock struck midnight, the sky lit up with dazzling colors, marking both the start of the new year and the couple’s new journey together. It was a spectacular sight, and the perfect way to end the night on a high note.

Are you planning a new year’s eve wedding? Contact us, we are happy to capture the fun and unforgettable day!

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Wk 17, 27th of May, 2024 Research

Sacred Sites & Rituals in the Ancient Celtic Religion by Mark Cartwright

From the text: Sacred Sites & Rituals in the Ancient Celtic Religion by Mark Cartwright…

Chapter: Natural Sacred Sites

The Celts believed certain natural sites had spiritual importance; these sites included hills and mountain tops, impressive trees, and bodies of water such as springs, rivers, lakes, and bogs. Especially sacred were those points where movements of waters joined like estuaries and river confluences.

Such sites were considered meeting places between the physical and supernatural worlds as water was a conduit to the Otherworld.

The sources of major rivers were particularly attractive to the Celts and sanctuaries are attested at the sources of the Marne and Seine Rivers. Nearly 200 wooden sculptures were discovered at the latter sanctuary, known as Sequana (also the Celtic name for the Seine), located northwest of Dijon. The high number of precious artefacts recovered from the River Thames over the last few decades indicate that this, too, was a major destination for votive offerings deposited by British Celts. A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes. Such items are a feature of modern and ancient societies and are generally made to gain favor with supernatural forces.

Archaeology has shown that the ancient Celts would make offerings to their pagan gods by sacrificing valuable metal items to bodies of water �� entire hoards of votive offerings have been excavated from rivers, including swords, torques, shields, and other items fashioned from metals like silver or bronze or even gold.

A group of 16 artefacts – found on Anglesey and all dating to the Iron Age and Roman period – were recently declared Treasure in Wales. They were found by Ian Porter in March 2020 while metal-detecting in a field under pasture in Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf Community.

From the text: A spring filled with votive offerings?- Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf Community, Anglesey...

It is not believed that these objects represent a coherent hoard – rather, as their findspot lies next to where a spring emerges in a boggy area of the modern field, it is thought that they may have been placed there as repeated religious offerings. The artefacts include Iron Age chariot fittings as well as Roman cavalry fittings, and all date to between AD 50 and AD 120, around the time of, or soon after, the Roman invasion of Anglesey in AD 60/61. Among the items are three bridle-bits, a terret (or rein-guide), a set of four harness discs known as phalerae, and a ram’s-head fitting, probably from a vehicle or staff, which is decorated in the late Celtic art-style. Also discovered was a large Roman copper ingot, weighing an impressive 20.5kg, which is thought to derive from copper mined at nearby Mynydd Parys; a decorated brooch; four coins (the latest of which dates to AD 364-378); and a lead pot repair.

In Celtic Wales, there certainly existed variations in religious practices across both time and space but there are notable points of commonality across Iron Age Europe.

The religious leaders in Celtic communities were the druids. Known for their great wisdom and knowledge of traditions, druids managed religious rituals, interpreted events of nature, divined the future, and made medicinal potions. Druids were repositories of the community's history and may also have been required to cast taboos (or, less accurately, spells) on people, ensuring compliance to the society's rules. Druids thus had the power to exclude individuals from religious rituals.

Individual trees were held as sacred by local communities and tribal gatherings were often held under their shade. A nemeton or sacred grove of trees was also the site of certain rituals. At what must have once been such sacred areas, votive plaques have been found dating to the Gallo-Roman period. Inscriptions on these plaques reveal they were dedicated to gods of specific types of trees like Fagus (beech), Robur (oak), and several others who have not yet been identified. 

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25th January

St Dynwen’s Day/ Burns Night

A Piper Piping in the Haggis at a Burns Night Supper. Source: Visit Scotland website

Today is St Dynwen’s Day. Dynwen, despite being celibate, became Wales’ patron saint of lovers. Apparently visiting her shrine at Llanddwyn Island on Anglesey is a must for all couples who want their love to proper.

Tonight is also Burns Night, on which the life and works of poet Robert Burns are celebrated all over Scotland today, his birthday. The first Burns Night was held in 1801, but at that stage it was a private gathering of the poet’s friends, wishing to celebrate Burns’ contribution to Scottish literature. By the 1860s, the day had become a Scottish cultural event with Burns’ Nights involving traditional the enjoyment of Scottish fare, pipers, traditional dancing and much whisky. Burns himself was a romantic influenced by the Classics, but also by Scottish rural life and Celtic myth and ghost stories. His songs and poems were often written and recited in the Scots dialect. Long before the advent of the SNP, Burns Nights provided the opportunity for expressions of Scottish cultural pride and nationalist sentiment.

Lake Semerwater. Source: Herriot Country website

On this day in rural North Yorkshire, St Paul manifested (today is also the feast day of his conversion) and went door to door in a nearby magnificent city, begging for alms, to see how Christian the Yorkshire folk were. Suffice it to say, they weren’t very, and poor Paul was sent packing from every house he visited, save one, a Quaker dwelling on the outskirts of the city. The good Quakers gave the saint room and board and overnight heard him calling on Simmerwater to rise, Simmerwater to sink. The next day the family found their guest was gone and so was the city, replaced by a huge lake - Lake Semerwater. When the weather is calm, the walls and roofs of the submerged town can be seen from the lakeside. Or so they say…

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Visitors to a winter lights event say they had a wasted journey, with children left in tears.

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On this day in Wikipedia: Friday, 1st September

Welcome, Willkommen, नमस्ते, Välkommen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 1st September through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

1st September 2022 🗓️ : Death - Yang Yongsong Yang Yongsong, Chinese major general (b. 1919) "Yang Yongsong (simplified Chinese: 杨永松; traditional Chinese: 楊永松; pinyin: Yáng Yǒngsōng; July 1919 – 1 September 2022) was a Chinese military officer, who was a founding major general in the People's Liberation Army. Born in Baihou in Dabu County, Guangdong, he joined the Communist Youth League of..."

1st September 2018 🗓️ : Death - Randy Weston Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926) "Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.Weston's piano style owed much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, whom he cited in a 2018 video as among pianists he..."

Image licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0? by Bob Travis Casco, Maine, USA

1st September 2013 🗓️ : Death - Gordon Steege Gordon Steege, Australian soldier (b. 1917) "Air Commodore Gordon Henry Steege, DSO, DFC (31 October 1917 – 1 September 2013) was a senior officer and pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He became a fighter ace in World War II, credited with eight aerial victories, and led combat formations at squadron and wing level. Born in..."

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1st September 1973 🗓️ : Event - Irish Sea A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured). "The Irish Sea is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey, North Wales, is the largest island..."

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1st September 1923 🗓️ : Event - 1923 Great Kantō earthquake The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. "The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin; Kantō ō-jishin) struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive..."

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[ad_1] Duchess Kate is welcoming her 40s with a glamorous new picture shoot.Kensington Palace launched 3 new portraits of Kate the night prior to her fortieth birthday on Sunday, taken by means of photographer Paolo Roversi at Kew Gardens closing November. One sepia-tinted picture depicts her dressed in a sheer off-the-shoulder robe, tied to every arm with bows with trailing ribbons. Her hair is worn in free waves, and Princess Diana’s well-known sapphire engagement ring is visual on her left hand. She dons a white get dressed with a ruffled neckline for a close-up.Within the 3rd colour portrait, Kate wears a deep pink, one-shouldered robe with wallet and a dramatic poufy sleeve, worn with dangling diamond earrings. 'Christmas can also be laborious for many who have misplaced family members':Queen Elizabeth II provides tribute to Prince Philip in first vacation speech with out himThe footage are a departure from the extra informal pictures that experience normally been launched by means of Prince William, 39, and Kate to commemorate particular events within the royal circle of relatives. The couple marked their tenth anniversary closing April with casual footage that confirmed them wearing coordinating blue outfits and embracing out of doors Kensington Palace.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s professional social media accounts word that the brand new portraits of Kate will input the everlasting choice of the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London, of which the duchess has been the royal patron since 2012.The footage can be featured within the gallery's "Coming House" mission, an initiative wherein portraits of persons are despatched to places they’re intently related to. Kate’s portraits can be displayed in 3 puts the place she’s lived: Berkshire, the place she grew up; St. Andrews, the place she went to college and met William; and Anglesey, the place the couple lived early of their marriage, prior to transferring into Kensington Palace.Kate wowed royal watchers over the vacations by means of taking part in piano to accompany Scottish singer/songwriter Tom Walker on his vacation ballad "For The ones Who Cannot Be Right here" for “Royal Carols: In combination at Christmas,” a vacation live performance recorded at Westminster Abbey.Contributing: Maria Puente, Brian Truitt [ad_2] #glamorous

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Events 1.30 (before 1940)

1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. 1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London. 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1667 – The Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russian-Polish War of 1654-1667. 1703 – The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka. 1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long. 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself. 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California. 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling. 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London. 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Havana, Cuba. 1920 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company. 1925 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul. 1930 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions. 1933 – Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany. 1939 – During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a prediction about the end of the Jewish race in Europe if another world war were to occur.

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oudica or Boudicca (/ˈbuːdɪkə, boʊˈdɪkə/, from Brythonic *boudi victory, win + *-ka having suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug (Welsh pronunciation: [bɨðɨɡ])), was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.

Boudica

Queen of the Iceni

Opie's painting of Boudica

John Opie's Boadicea Haranguing the Britons

Born

British Isles

Died

60/61

Spouse

Prasutagus

Issue

2 daughters

Boudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two daughters, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome. He left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. When he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons.

In 60/61, Boudica led the Iceni and other British tribes in revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (modern Colchester), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but at that time a colonia for discharged Roman soldiers. Upon hearing of the revolt, the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus hurried from the island of Mona (modern Anglesey) to Londinium, the 20-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. Unable to defend the settlement, he evacuated and abandoned it. Boudica's army defeated a detachment of the Legio IX Hispana, and burnt both Londinium and Verulamium. In all, an estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and Britons were killed by Boudica's followers. Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces, possibly in the West Midlands, and despite being heavily outnumbered, he decisively defeated the Britons. Boudica died, by suicide or illness, shortly afterwards. The crisis of 60/61 caused Nero to consider withdrawing all his imperial forces from Britain, but Suetonius's victory over Boudica confirmed Roman control of the province.

Interest in these events was revived in the English Renaissance and led to Boudica's fame in the Victorian era and as a cultural symbol in Britain.

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Kate Middleton wants to show her three children where she and Prince William began their married life together.

The Prince and Princess of Wales stepped out to honour the Welsh Guards on St. David's Day, a national day of celebration for the U.K. nation. The couple took part in the tradition of handing out symbolic leeks to the officers and guardsmen of the regiment — and Kate reminisced about living in North Wales as a newlywed while Prince William trained to become a helicopter pilot with the Royal Air Force's Search and Rescue Force and worked as an air, sea rescue pilot for the RAF.

Krystal Cunningham, who attended Wednesday's event and shares Kate's love for the island of Anglesey, tells PEOPLE that Kate "said she missed it" — and wanted to bring Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4, for a visit.

Krystal adds, "She's hoping to take her children there and show them the beautiful beaches."

After Prince William, 40, and Princess Kate, 41, wed in April 2011, Wales was the setting for their life as newlyweds. It was also where the couple spent their first months as parents — they welcomed Prince George in July 2013.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte visited the Welsh capital of Cardiff in June, accompanying Prince William and Kate during Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Krystal — who was at the parade to watch her husband, Warrant Officer Class 2 Ash Cunningham, along with their daughter Elsi, 7 — also witnessed when Kate to a standing backflip from 9-year-old Thomas Lucas.

"My heart sank a little when it happened — but that's Thomas all over," Krystal says. She explains that Thomas, the son of a Welsh Guard on parade, does Parkour, where athletes cross terrain, buildings and other obstacles with high agility.

Kate asked if little Elsi was learning the Welsh national anthem, as her parents were teaching her the language before they return to live there. They impressed the Cunninghams that the Prince and Princess of Wales knew the words, singing the anthem heartily when the band played towards the end of the parade.

"He was getting it right," Krystal adds of Prince William, who sported the Welsh Guards' grey Home Service Clothing (Winter Order) uniform.

In a quick speech, the Prince of Wales said he was "honoured and delighted" to be their new colonel, taking over the role of his father, King Charles III.

"I'm sorry that my father couldn't be here with us here today to say farewell, but I know he would talk of his fierce pride and admiration for you all, and of his own sadness to be moving on from an appointment he held so dear since 1975," William said.

Krystal says, "It was nice how the Prince mentioned his father's name and his association with the regiment — and now he's assumed the role [of colonel] too, as he's become Prince of Wales."

The event, at Combermere Barracks in Windsor, was part of a busy Wales-themed week for the royal couple. On Tuesday, Prince William and Princess Kate spent the day in the country, which followed a visit to Cardiff on Saturday to watch Wales play rivals England in rugby.