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welsh kilts
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I always preferred the elves, personally. There's just something about tall, lean guys with high cheekbones...Waitasecond... I'm sensing a pattern here.*rofl*Plus I'm sure the Welsh can identify with a people doing almost all the work to accomplish great things and getting none of the credit!
welsh kilts
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Actually, I heard that clan tartans wasn't even a Scottish thing either- it was started and enforced by the English so that they could identify any troublemaker's clans for punishment! Seems to me if that's true, why the heck are the Scots still doing it?I agree on the plain kilt or standard Welsh kilt, but the family ones? Nah.The Welsh Dragon, otoh, is one of the absolute coolest national symbols ever and should be prominently and frequently displayed to raise awareness of the awesomeness of Wales. (In my humble opinion, lol.)
TOP 10 HARDEST WELSHMEN
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------ Eeeek.....I know why prisoners would need anal exercises........there's lots of sodomy there!If he's that bad of a writer, it might have just been his very awkward way of referring to the glutes, the large muscles involved in a lot of lifting.You could probably get similar advice in other places, better presented and without the cringe-inducing adverts. For example, I'm told the U.S. Marines have very good exercise regimens that require little more than one's own body weight (although I have not personally tried it, so I cannot say for sure). I'm betting a quick net search could turn up some good possibilities.(Personally I have more respect for a Welshman whose exercise regime consists of going to work in the mines. Muscles from honest work are far more attractive than thug physiques, in my humble opinion.)
TOP 10 HARDEST WELSHMEN
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Queen Bodecia (sp) was Celtic, does that count?(I have a photo of her statue in London. It was so cool to see that.)
TOP 10 HARDEST WELSHMEN
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Oooh, I like her! Nice one, Gaabi! :-D
Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?
Promoting Wales in the USA
They could do the film in English but with subtitled scenes in Welsh.
Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?
Promoting Wales in the USA
Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about that book specifically.I got heavily into researching the Wars of the Roses, which led into me becoming a Ricardian, so most of what I've read was fact, or at least presented as such. Then I got the idea of writing the movie script, so I consciously avoiding any fiction dealing with Richard III so as not to mix up fact with fiction.
Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?
Promoting Wales in the USA
Not a saint, no, but he was a lot more loyal than most.And while people could argue forever whether he was capable of killing the princes, anyone who looks at the situation can see it would have been a stupid thing for him to do. He had the crown, gladly handed to him by Parliament. The boys were too young to make trouble, and their mother, the most likely one to actually lead trouble against Richard, had already made peace with Richard, even coming out of Sanctuary with all her children by Edward, putting her daughters' marriages in his hands, and writing to her oldest son (Edward's stepson), advising him to leave Henry Tudor's retinue and return to England under Richard's promise of safety.Killing his brother's kids when they were no threat to him would only make Richard look bad, and however violent he might have been, he wasn't stupid.Henry, on the other hand, gleefully killed at least a dozen other heirs of the House of York, because he knew they all had a better claim to the throne than he did.
Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?
Promoting Wales in the USA
What about it? I've studied that period quite a bit, and I can tell you her Richard III was more accurate than Shakespeare by a long shot.At least SKP doesn't claim to be writing anything but history-based fiction, which is more than can be said for Alison Weir. *eyeroll*
