Famous Welsh People in the US?
Feb 28th 2005, 3:41 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by Franklin
... just more of CC's standard operating protocol ... CC seems to get into a lot of swearing and bad-girl antics around Cardiff's night scene, and its not an act to get publicity. *ponders ... where she will be in 10 years* She is a very common girl, "common" as in muck. Imho, CC is a bad ambassador for Wales and Cardiff.
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Feb 28th 2005, 4:49 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Near where I live there are whole communities of second and third generation Taffy Apples wandering about the place. It's actually quite nice to see a frikking huge Welsh flag painted in the side of a barn off the thuway at Utica NY. I'm an Englishman meself, but I lived in Wales for years, and my mother's entire family is Welsh so it's nice to see. But best of all is an Indian woman at my local Walmart who has the thickest Swansea Valley accent I've ever heard.
Feb 28th 2005, 6:01 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by tony_2003
It's just like American "football" but much tougher and you actually have to be an athlete to participate.
Oh no!
I'd hate to think what would become of American football if actual athletes participated. I mean, everyone knows that to be an American football player you can't be athletic in the slightest. In fact I think it's prohibited under league rules. 
Feb 28th 2005, 6:46 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by cuckoofrommars
It's actually quite nice to see a frikking huge Welsh flag painted in the side of a barn off the thuway at Utica NY.
Feb 28th 2005, 6:53 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by SeveredNeurons
Really, just outside of Utica? I'm moving there in March. I'll have to have a look for that. I also know of another Welsh flag in CNY in a town called Boonville. The family that live there are called Evans, I asked.
Mar 7th 2005, 2:44 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Sony names a native of Cardiff (Wales) and former President of CBS as new chief executive of Sony. It is pretty rare for Japanese giant to appoint a foreigner to such an exaulted postion.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=557249
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=557249
Mar 7th 2005, 2:49 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by Franklin
Sony names a native of Cardiff (Wales) and former President of CBS as new chief executive of Sony. It is pretty rare for Japanese giant to appoint a foreigner to such an exaulted postion.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=557249
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=557249
... and here's his biography-
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...nger%20Profile
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Apr 14th 2005, 5:46 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
I just got a package from the Wales Int. Center (located in the famous Chrysler Building in NYC), loads of stuff about US/Welsh connections ...
did anyone know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, likewise for Brown University ... and Hilary Clinton is of Welsh heritage, and at least 6 of the signers to the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh or recent Welsh descent.
Also, it seems Thomas Jefferson's family were from North Wales.
did anyone know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, likewise for Brown University ... and Hilary Clinton is of Welsh heritage, and at least 6 of the signers to the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh or recent Welsh descent.
Also, it seems Thomas Jefferson's family were from North Wales.
Last edited by Franklin; Apr 14th 2005 at 6:32 pm. Reason: adding info on Thomas Jefferson
Apr 14th 2005, 10:47 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by Franklin
I just got a package from the Wales Int. Center (located in the famous Chrysler Building in NYC), loads of stuff about US/Welsh connections ...
did anyone know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, likewise for Brown University ... and Hilary Clinton is of Welsh heritage, and at least 6 of the signers to the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh or recent Welsh descent.
Also, it seems Thomas Jefferson's family were from North Wales.
did anyone know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, likewise for Brown University ... and Hilary Clinton is of Welsh heritage, and at least 6 of the signers to the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh or recent Welsh descent.
Also, it seems Thomas Jefferson's family were from North Wales.
And North Wales does have the prettier accent
Apr 14th 2005, 10:50 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Tom Jones???
Apr 15th 2005, 1:26 am
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
I didn't know any of that...very interestin'
And North Wales does have the prettier accent
And North Wales does have the prettier accent
Apr 15th 2005, 6:52 am
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by Manc
not when they talk in that shite Lllllanguage..........
Apr 15th 2005, 12:35 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
I think Nanny Deb from Nanny911 is from Holyhead but lives in the US. Does she count as being famous?
Apr 20th 2005, 6:38 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
To tie in with Rete's thread, do you know of any famous Welsh people living/working in the US?
I can name one who's local to me. He's Grant Llewellyn, the NC Symphony's Music Director. He came on board some time last year (2004).
For details about him and his role, see-
http://www.ncsymphony.org/grant/index.cfm
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I can name one who's local to me. He's Grant Llewellyn, the NC Symphony's Music Director. He came on board some time last year (2004).
For details about him and his role, see-
http://www.ncsymphony.org/grant/index.cfm
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Apr 20th 2005, 6:51 pm
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Re: Famous Welsh People in the US?
Originally Posted by TaffyinOK
I'm Welsh and I did some voice-over work for a local radio station here in Oklahoma City - does that make me famous?
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