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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES - MUCH WENLOCK
Much Wenlock inspired the birth of the Modern Olympic Games. Dr William Penny Brookes set up the Wenlock Olympian Society in the Shropshire town in 1850, the society ran annual sporting competitions the Wenlock Olympian Games - open to all social classes. Brookes admired Greece's Athenian democratic ideals and its Olympic sporting games and ideals. In 1890 Brookes invited the French Baron, Pierre De Coubertin, to the Wenlock Olympian Games. De Coubertin went on to found the International Olympic Committee, and credited Dr William Penny Brookes with the rebirth of the Olympic Games. The London 2012 Olympic Games featured two mascots, one named Wenlock in recognition of the town's role in the creation of the Modern Olympic Games. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Birthplace_of_the_Modern_Olympic_Games_-_Much_Wenlock
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ROBERT OWEN, NEWTOWN, POWYS.
Robert Owen the Welsh social reformer that inspired the Co-Operative Movement. Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, having succeeded in business by running mills in Manchester, he then became a partner and manager in the New Lanark Mill on the River Clyde in Scotland. Owen apalled by the conditions in the mills of Manchester, created a model industrial community at the New Lanark Mill. The curriculum of the community's school influenced educational thinking. The village also had a shop selling goods that met quality standards which were sold at a fair price. The New Lanark Mill community was visited by people interested in the Owen's social reform project from all over the world, with even Russia's Tsar visiting it. It also inspired followers in Rochdale to establish the first Co-operative shop. Owen returned to Newtown late in life and is buried in the town. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robert_Owen To celebrate new Zealand's national Waitangi Day we have a legend from Rotoroa:
ROTOROA, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND Mokoia Island, in Lake Rotoroa, is sacred to the Te Arawa Tribe of the Maori people, and is the setting for the legend of Hinemoa and Tutenakai. The warrior Tutenakai lived on the tiny island and played music each night on his pipes with his friend Tiki. The music floated on the air across the lake and on its banks noble-born Hinemoa heard the notes the warrior played. Tutenakai visited Hinemoa's village and met her and they fell in love, but he had to return to his village on the island. He promise Hinemoa that he would play the music each night, so that she could follow the music and swim across the lake to the island to join him. Hinemoa heard the music and had selected six dry gourds to use as floats so that she could swim across the lake. She followed the music and made it to the island, gaining refreshment at the hot spring on the island, Waikimihia. By chance Tutenakai had sent his servant to collect water, and he reported back that there was a young woman by the spring. Tutenakai rushed down to greet Hinemoa, and they lived happily ever after. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Lake_Rotoroa,_Mokoia_Island AMELIA EARHART CROSSES THE ATLANTIC, BALLYARNETT, DERRY
In 1932 attempting to make a solo trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Paris to emulate the achievement of Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart did indeed cross the Atlantic and landed in a field in Derry/Londonderry. As her plane developed problems Amelia was forced to land as soon as she could, landing in a field in Ballyarnett Village. T he American Aviator had placed Derry/Londonderry in the history of aviation as the landing site of the first female non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Amelia_Earhart_crosses_the_Atlantic It's Super Bowl time in the USA, and arguably the running game of gridiron football was born across 'the Pond' with the development of rugby football, at Rugby school.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF RUGBY, RUGBY SCHOOL, RUGBY William Webb Ellis created the modern sport of Rugby or Rugby Football in 1823, when during a game of football at the Rugby Public School he picked up the ball and ran with it. The Rugby World Cup is named after William Webb Ellis. This founding story of the game has been questioned, with the possibility that another Rugby schoolboy, Jem Mackie, created the running and handling game around 1838, and may have been expelled for his exploits, with the Webb Ellis who became a clergyman being inserted into the story as someone who could not be tarnished by the story of breaking the rules. The running and handling style became popular in the 1850s and 1860s beyong Rugby School, and it evolved into Rugby Union and Rugby League, as well as Amercan Football in the USA and Canada. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Birthplace_of_Rugby_-_Rugby_School,_Rugby THE HOLY GRAIL & THE CASTLE OF THE CITY OF CROWS
Castell Dinas Bran above Llangollen has been speculated as a location for the Holy Grail, as well as other treasures such as a golden ox buried within the hill beneath the castle ruins. Norman Knight, Payn Peveril learns of the treasures, when he tries to stay overnight in the castle, after being told that none dares. In the night a storm brews, and the evil giant Gogmagog appears wielding a mace. Payn halts the blows upon his men with his shield and a cross, and manages to use his sword to pierce the giant. In his dying breaths the giant tells how King Bran built the castle to defeat him, but failed, and that in underground vaults lay a multitude of treasures. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Holy_Grail_&_The_Castle_of_the_City_of_Crows THE CREATION OF LOUGH NEAGH AND THE ISLE OF MAN
The warrior Fin McCool was chasing a Scottish giant across Ulster, unable to quite reach him he bent down and scooped out a huge divot and flung it at the disappearing giant. The throw was of such a range it overtook the giant, and carried on out into the Irish Sea, with a massive splash the Isle of Man was created in the Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland. Whilst, the hole in the ground where Fin McCool grabbed the divot of earth quickly filled with water creating Lough Neagh! See on the Map-olah map: www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Creation_of_Lough_Neagh_and_the_Isle_of_Man LLANGORSE LAKE - AFANC
15th Century poet Lewys Glyn Cothi wrote that the Afanc lived in what is now Llangorse Lake. Resembling a crocodile or a giant beaver the Afanc is said to prey upon those that swim in its lake, and its thrashings can kill those around it, and flood kingdoms. In Arthurian legend either Arthur or Peredur are said to have slain the Afanc. For Peredur the lake creature was invisible and able to fire poison darts, and only became visible when the Queen of Constantinople, dressed as a maiden, gave him an adder stone to carry into its cave. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Welsh_Lake_Monster_-_Afanc RING OF GULLION - CU CHULAINN
Here Cu Chulainn hero of the Ulster Cycle, aged 17, single-handedly defended Ulster from the invading army of Cannacht , led by its queen in a bid to seize a prized stud bull. The battle continues further south and Cu Chulainn with his battle chariot and battle frenzy ranged across the Muirthemne Plain. Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland has as its motto 'I gave birth to Cu Chulainn'. Cu Chulainn is also known of the 'Hound of Ulster' arising from his childhood slaying of a hound in self-defence and then being ready to take its place. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Ring_of_Gullion_-_Cu-Chulainn |
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