HistoryWales

Interesting facts and quotes about Wales and the Welsh- from the landmark events to the minor details; moments that shaped the nation's unique character.

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Story of a Welsh miner who held (and still holds) the record for the longest career underground. 73 years! http://t.co/c0xRrioQ3Z

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'Perhaps there is no country which has been the scene of events more stirring and remarkable than those recorded in Wales' G. Borrow (1862)

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'This war, like the next war, is a war to end war'- David Lloyd George 1916

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Forgotten soldier of Rorke's Drift finally honoured- http://t.co/QgobzBrzdF

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'Somebody's boring me. I think it's me' - Dylan Thomas

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'Wales has not been a sovereign entity for 7 centuries but the national ethos has powerfully survived'- J. Morris of the Western Mail 1965

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"O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd'' / ''Oh Lord, here is iniquity''. - The supposed last words of Dic Penderyn, the Welsh martyr.

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In 1869, John Hughes from Merthyr Tydfil founded a town in Ukraine that he named Hughesovka. It is now known as Donetsk.

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The Kellog logo was created when Will Kellog realised the similarity between his surname and the Welsh word for Cockerel- Ceiliog

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HMS Cardiff, named in honour of the capital of Wales, shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the Falklands conflict.

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Did a Welshman discover America? http://t.co/OGJN90IKSs

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In the village of Llangernyw in North Wales stands a Yew tree that is said to be 4,000 to 5,000 years old- making it a Bronze Age tree.

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'Bread of heaven, breeeeaad of heaven!' Discover the history behind the hymn that inspired our boys yesterday.http://t.co/NVBZL5sWlT #Wales

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'His style is seldom authoritative, he has more often been a guerilla than a divisional commander'- J.Morris on the Welshman. W.Mail 1965

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'The Welshman has Celtic origins and he often looks like the popular conception of the Celt-dark dreamy and aloof'- J.Morris

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'One Welshman can usually tell another, and this is not because either looks Welsh, or acts Welsh but simply because both ARE Welsh'-JMorris

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The next few tweets are snippets of a description of the Welsh by James Morris of the Western Mail- 1965.

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'Its history is embedded in colourful myth and fancy- lost cities of the sea and magical decisions on mountain tops'- J Morris 1965 on Wales

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Welsh folklore says the Corgi is the preferred mount of fairy warriors! Learn more here- http://t.co/F46RWlyW3o

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'We had a Welsh club and a choir at the (prison) camp...we even played rugby internationals'- Tales of a Welsh P.O.W http://t.co/e5XuJ71rrO