This is a terrific site for the Gomerite sleuths to glean clues.

http://www.balchdercymru.com/haveaplay.htm

Miscellaneous Welsh Connections

-These are pinched from the "Guild of Glyndwr" Website
http://www.guildofglyndwr.co.uk/index.htm
-The first country in the world to move from an agricultural economy to an
industrial economy.
-The first country in the world to move into the Iron Age in 1000 BC.
-By 1500 BC Welsh was the dominant language of all of northern Europe.

-St David's is the smallest city in Europe.
-Mount Everest was named after a Welshman (Sir George Everest from
Crickhowell - surveyor-general of India 1865).
-The Royal Mint (Llantrisant), according to the Guiness Book of Records, is
the world's oldest company.
-According to the lartst research, Jesus' grandmother (Mary's mother) was
Welsh!
-Alfred Russell Wallace, first wrote his theory of 'Natural Selection' ten
years before his friend and colleague Darwin (who's wife was also Welsh).
Due to the theory contradicting his religious beliefs would not publish
them.
-Mary Jones, from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, was the inspiration for The Bible
Society.

-The rude 'two-fingered' salute used today is a legacy from the Welsh
archers that won the battles of Agincourt, Crecy and Poitiers. They were so
hated by the French that, if caught, would have the first two fingers of
their 'draw' hand were cut off.
-Modern orthopedic surgery was founded by a Welshman.

-The Japanese call Wales 'the Land of Gentle Folk'.

-'Wonderland' (Lewis Caroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' was set in Llandudno -
'Alice' was Alice Liddell).
Antidisestablishmentarianism started in Wales

-Rupert Bear (his adventures were set in Beddgelert).
-Peter Rabbit's garden was in Tenby.

-Tudor architecture (the Tudors were Welsh).

-The 'Beefeaters' (started by Henry Tudor).

-Tenovus Cancer charity (Cardiff-based).

-First lawn tennis match (Monmouthshire).

-First steam engine journey - Merthyr (Richard Trevithick).
-The world's oldest narrow-guage railway.

-The world's first passenger train line (Swansea).
-A Welshman (David Hughes, born Corwen) first invented the microphone and
radio.
-A Welshman (Harry Grindell Mathews) first invented the portable phone,
talking pictures (modern movies) and the sky projector

-Leader of the Charge of the light brigade (Lord Tredegar) into "The Valley
of Death" against the Russians at Balaclava.

-Rorke's Drift (South Wales Boarders).
-The Welsh equivalent of St Valentine's Day is "St Dwynwen's Day" 25th
January.

-Jack Daniels Bourbon, Evan Williams Bourbon and Mathews Southern Comfort
were all first brewed by Welsh brewers who left Wales during the temperance
period of the Welsh non-conformist church. For example, Jack Daniels was
born in Ceredigion).
-The Welsh invented Whiskey and most corn-based liquor.
-The Welsh invented stout (including the recipe for what is now branded as
'Guinness').

-Captain (Henry) Morgan, the infamous Pirate and rum producer, was Welsh.
-The first recorded libel case. Captain Morgan set this legal precedent -
objecting to passages in Esquemeling's book on privateers.
-Welsh pirates were the most successful of all, apparently because most of
them didn't drink! Captain Morgan was the founder of Kingston, Jamaica as a
fortress etc. and the Welsh accent is credited as being the origin of the
Caribbean accent they have today.
-The 'Jolly Roger' (skull and crossbones) pirates' flag was developed by the
Pembrokeshire pirate Bartholomew Roberts, known as 'Black Barti'. Because
Barti wore a red coat, the French called him 'Le Joli Rouge', which was
corrupted to Jolly Roger by the English and eventually became synonymous
with the flag, rather than the person.

-Welshman Henry V (born Monmouthshire) was the first monarch to use English
as the official language and all official documents.

-Elizabeth Tudor (the Tudors were Welsh) was the first monarch to declare
themselves 'mere English' (mere meaning 'pure' at the time).

-Tutankhamun - Lord Caernarfon (discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun).

-30% of all UK volunteers in World War I were Welsh.
-The oldest castle in the UK; Chepstow castle.

T-he real Indiana Jones (the 19th century Govenor Jones of Indiana) was
Welsh.

-Kellogs (from the Welsh for chicken - hence the logo) was founded by a
Welsh family.

-World champion clay-pigeon shooting team.
-John Lewis (founder of the famous John Lewis's department store in London)
was Welsh.

-World's first co-operative was started by a Welshman.
-The world's largest camera obscura at Aberystwyth.
-The world's largest 'Orangery' (since 1787) - at Margam Abbey.
-The world's largest nickel mine - Swansea.
-World's first modern crematorium (Trefforest) was Welsh.
-World's first health service was started in Wales.

-Most microwave ovens per capita in the world!
-The 1877 Cardiff versus Newport rugby match was the first sporting event of
any kind ever to be played under flood lights. -The "Electric Light Game"
was scoreless and was not recognised as an official fixture.
-Welsh children regularly out-perform their English counterparts in 'A'
level results and Wales has a higher percentage of MENSA members than
England.
-Welsh inventions include: the condom, the femidom, Ronseal's 'paint &
grain', mail order, the Dyson valve, the BBC's time 'pips', Radar,
non-spillable baby's mug, the microphone, the mobile phone, the cell
battery, telegraph, concorde (Chairman of the design committee was Ryan
Morgan).
-We have no fewer than three National Parks, five Areas of Outstanding
Natural Beauty, more than 700 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, dozens
of Nature Reserves and seven RSPB Bird Sanctuaries - nowhere is the green,
green grass greener.
-Welsh is a P-Celtic language developed (along with Breton and Cornish) from
Brythonic, which was once spoken over most of Britain: it was the language
of the natives at the time of the Roman invasion. Gaulish, the language of
Asterix (which has now died out - Breton, as the name suggests, was brought
over from Britain) is also thought to have been P-Celtic (as distinct from
the Q-Celtic languages that developed into Gaelic).

Welsh-American Connections


-America was named after Richard Ameryk - a Welsh customs official. He was
rewarded because he was one of the chief investors in John Cabot's 1497
expedition to the new world.
5 of the first 6 American Presidents were of Welsh lineage.

-In all, 11 American Presidents are estimated to have had Welsh blood!

-18 people of Welsh descent were signatories The Declaration of
Independence!

-Thomas Jefferson was the chief author of The Declaration of Independence.
His family form Llanberis, Gwynedd.

-14 Generals in the American War of Independence were Welsh and one, Anthony
Wayne, went on to become commander in Chief of American forces.

-5 people of Welsh descent were signatories of the US Constitution.
-The gangster Owney Madden, owner of the famous New York 'Cotton Club', was
Welsh.

-The first American 'cowboys' and South American 'gouchos' were Welsh.
-Tying a yellow ribbon around a tree was originally a Welsh tradition from
the 18th century. Originally, Welsh settlers in America planted daffodils
outside their homes to welcome new arrivals from Wales, but later they used
a yellow ribbon tied around a tree instead. New immigrants would therefore
know where their fellow countrymen were living.

-The Alamo; the expression 'gringos' comes from the Mexicans listening to
the many Welsh soldiers at the Alamo singing; especially 'green grow
(gringo) the rushes oh'.
-A Welshman founded the famous Wells Fargo Stage-Coach Company.
-Jesse and Frank James, the world's first daylight bank robbers, were sons
of a Welsh baptist minister, William James, from Pembrokeshire. Between 1860
and 1881, the James Gang were the chief robbers in America, stealing over
$200,000.
-Brown's University (USA) was founded by the Welsh.
-Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia was named after Rowland Ellis' home.
(Born Bryn Mawr near Dolgellau 1640).

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lived with the Welsh settlers, breeding
horses in Patagonia.

-Patagonia was a Welsh settlement where Welsh is still the second language
today.

-Las Vegas was founded mostly by Welsh Mormons.
-Ellis Island (Manhattan, New York State) - the immigration Island where,
during the early 1700s to the late 1800s, all immigrants to America had to
embark and stay, was established by Samuel Ellis, born Wrexham 1892, died
1954).
-Jack Daniels Bourbon, Evan Williams Bourbon and Mathews Southern Comfort
were all first brewed by Welsh brewers who left Wales during the temperance
period of the Welsh non-conformist church. For example, Jack Daniels was
born in Ceredigion).

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Of Leeks & Daffodils

During the time of Gomerite expansion of the United States - Daffodils (the
Gomerite emblem) were planted at homes friendly to the Welsh - Gomerite Safe
Houses. The recent custom of tying yellow ribbons to a tree as a "welcome
home" gesture in America is said to have its origins in the "Daffodil
signal."

The RED DRAGON is the other.

Shakespeare (aka Francis Bacon) was instrumental in certifying that the Leek
and Daffodil entrenched as Gomerite symbolism on behalf of Henry V (Gomerite
Tudor Monarch).

The Gomerite inner sanctum must marvel at how prevalent their "signs" are -
right in your face, yet how secretive and cloaked the implications.

When you see the masses of daffodils prevalent throughout North America, you
are reading the Gomerite statement -

"This land is our land"

- for all the world to see.

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/l_d.htm

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Kent - this pretty much puts a lock on the Red Dragon symbol as being of
Gomerite origin. PS to cloak Wales, Wales is the only country on the Union
Jack (England-Scotland-Ireland) not represented - out of mind, out of sight?
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Despite its occasional use by other figures famous in Welsh history, the red
dragon became the symbol of the Welsh nation through its adoption by the
Tudor ancestors of king Henry VII. Edmund and Jasper Tudor had a dragon as
crest and supporter to the arms granted them by Henry VI. When Henry Tudor
faced king Richard III at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 his battle
standards numbered three. One of these carried the arms of St. George of
England, one the arms of the house of Beaufort and on one was a "Red ffyry
dragon peyntid upon white and Grene Sarcenet".  It is held that this dragon
banner represented Henry Tudor's claim to be a true representative of the
ancient kings of Britain and served as his tribute to the Welsh people who
had made his victory possible.

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/flag.htm