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Naomi Watts (born 1968), English actress and film producer, lived in the town as a child. Taron Egerton (born 1989), Welsh actor, went to school in the town. Siobhan Owen (born 1993), soprano and harpist from Llanfairpwll who now lives in Adelaide, emigrated aged two. Elin Fflur (born 1984), Welsh singer-songwriter, television and radio presenter.
Formed in 1899 as Llanfair Rovers, they entered the North Wales Coast League and had a good season, playing 23 matches; winning 10, drawing 5 and losing 8.. They have been champions of the Welsh Alliance League in the 1987–88 season and the 2000–01 season.
Llanfairpwll railway station, also signposted as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, is a station on the North Wales Coast Line from Crewe to Holyhead, serving the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales.
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Goch (German: ⓘ; archaic spelling: Gog; Dutch: Gogh) is a town in the Kleve district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, close to the border with the Netherlands, 12 km (7 mi) south of Kleve and 27 km (17 mi) southeast of Nijmegen.
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Today, Bojayá is a ghost town and though plans have been made to rebuild it, it will not be on the exact location of the massacre. Gramalote, a town in Norte de Santander Department, was abandoned due to massive mudslides brought by flooding near the area. San Cayetano was permanently evacuated in 1999 as a result of a geological fault ...
Such is not the case for its original North-American Indian name. Might the '(Char)goggagogg' and 'gagogg' in the prefix be compared with (one of the variant spellings of) 'gogogoch' - in other words, where there Welsh jokers amongst the immigrants? Or was the longer version first recorded after the Welsh suffix had become world-famous?