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SCHOOLCHILDREN have urged respect for the Welsh language in a message to the Welsh Government. The pupils from Whitland s Ysgol Dyffryn Taf made the plea in their annual St David s Day message to the Senedd. For the first time this year, the ceremony was held online and attended by the chairman of Carmarthenshire County Council, Cllr Ieuan Davies. Students Morgan Lewis and Maddison Morris delivered the message in Welsh and then English, against the background of Whitland s Canolfan Hywel Dda - which celebrates the achievements of the Welsh law-maker and tenth century king, Hywel Dda, or Hywel the Good. The pupils endorsed hopes for Wales to have a million Welsh speakers and added:
10 More Historical Events That Sound Too Strange To Be True
Oh history, you do keep showing us you’re full of weirdness. Is it any wonder that today’s landscape of people who get famous for simply existing online, Japanese ‘girlfriend pillows’ and bacon-flavoured soda came into existence when our past was even more wacky?
10Those Who Live By The Sword… This entry might literally be ‘too strange to be true’, in that it may not be true. Charondas was an Hellenic lawgiver from Catania on the island of Sicily who lived at some time between 580 BC and 476 BC. So far, so normal. His contribution isn’t anything special either, but the example he set certainly is.