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[3] The poet David Richards (1751–1827), bardic name Dafydd Ionawr , was born at Glanyrafon near Bryncrug. Mary Jones , famous for walking to Bala at the age of sixteen to buy a Bible , lived in the village when older, and was buried in the village after her death in 1864.
The station is named after a nearby stream, the Nant Rhyd-yr-onnen (this stream is also known as the Nant Braich-y-Rhiw), which itself is named after the road's ford over it, just north of the station (now replaced with a bridge). [1] It is 2.15 miles (3.46 km) along the railway from Tywyn Wharf, [1] and was the first intermediate station to ...
Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi, CBE [3] (24 October 1868 – 13 April 1951), popularly known as Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, or Bhawanrao Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, was the ruler of the princely state of Aundh during the British Raj, from 1909 until 1947. [2]
The Bala Lake Railway, which runs on 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in)-gauge preserved rolling stock, is a member of the Great Little Trains of Wales. The railway now has the largest collection of historic narrow-gauge quarry locomotives built specifically for the slate industry in North Wales by the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds.
Llechwedd slate quarry has two hydro electric plants, the first opened in April 1904 at Pant yr Afon, and the second at Maenofferen in 1911. They both generate power today having been shut down in 1998 and equipped with new generators reopening in 2010, with surplus now going to the national grid.
Protesters in the movement have drawn parallels between Israel’s policy in Gaza — a tiny strip of land tucked between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to about 2.3 million Palestinians — to apartheid in South Africa. Israel imposed an indefinite blockade of Gaza after Hamas seized control of the strip in 2007.
Bala Pyan (Burmese: ဗလပြန်, pronounced [bəla̰ bjàɰ̃]; born Saw Nan Shwe; 27 June 1914 – 1987) was a 20th-century Burmese Aka Weizza (lit. ' dance expert ') [note 1] who invented the Sandawgyein Aka (lit. ' standard time dance '). [1] She was believed to be the reincarnation of Aung Bala, who was also a dancer. [2]
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