The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

* 1850: the first eisteddfod ( a Welsh musical and literary festival ) in America was held in Carbondale on Christmas Day, 1850.

" The Gentleman's Magazine " of October, 1792 reported on the revival of the eisteddfod tradition.

The Urdd organises activities for its members ranging from small-scale meetings to the Urdd eisteddfod which lasts for a week, is attended by tens of thousands of visitors ( over 100, 000 in 2005 ) and is televised on S4C.

In his essay on folklore, written originally for the national eisteddfod of 1887 and subsequently republished, he recorded a story from Denbighshire of a cow which was said to give milk to " any one [...] in want of milk " until a witch milked the cow dry.

He continued to attend Castle Street Baptist Chapel in London, and to preside over the national eisteddfod at its Thursday session each summer.

The Druidic rites held at Avebury are known as eisteddfod and involve participants invoking Awen ( a Druidic concept meaning inspiration ), with poems, songs and stories being publicly performed, and the Druid Prayer and Druid Vow are typically recited.

The village is home to an annual eisteddfod and a Celtic Music Society is based at the village's Black Lion Hotel.

He also began attempting to hold Druidic events, organising an eisteddfod at Pontypridd in 1844, but nobody turned up, and so, solitarily, he initiated his daughter as a bard at the event.

Either Nest and Gerald were present at an eisteddfod given, during a truce, by Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys ; or they were not present, and Nest and her husband were " visited " by Owain ap Cadwgan, one of Cadwgan's sons, or they were not visited by Owain, merely attacked by Owain and his men.

The usual tale is that Owain hears at the eisteddfod that Gerald is in the neighbourhood, that Gerald's wife is very beautiful, and so he goes to visit her " as his kinswoman ", but this is unlikely.

Other notable members include the poet and musician, Twm Morys ( who won the chair at the 2003 national eisteddfod ), Dr Simon Brooks, former editor of the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn, Judith Humphreys, a Welsh actress and Dr Jerry Hunter, an American Harvard graduate who moved to Wales to learn Welsh and has remained in Wales ever since, working in academic posts at the University of Wales.

Perhaps the most important being the decisions concerning patronage and poetic rank made at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1523.

The eisteddfod was brought to close by what has now become the traditional Sunday concert featuring Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra.

In 1789 there was an eisteddfod in Bala in order to raise the standard and status of eisteddfodau in Wales.

From this support the movement for provincial eisteddfodau developed and in 1819, he was very keen to establish such a provincial eisteddfod in Carmarthen.

The next recorded large-scale eisteddfod was held in Caerwys in 1568.

The first eisteddfod of the revival was held in Primrose Hill, London.

The town was also known as an eisteddfod site, and is the site of both the World Bog Snorkelling Championships and the annual Man versus Horse Marathon, as well as many other annual events.

He was one of the instigators of the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1523.

A bardic name is a pseudonym, used in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement.

In Wales the late 18th century saw the revival of the eisteddfod tradition, inspired by Iolo Morganwg.

Gerald could not have predicted the later perfection of cynghanedd, the complex system of sound correspondence that has characterized the strict-meter poetry of the Welsh for so many centuries and that is still practised today, especially in competitions for the eisteddfod chair.

The Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival-National Day of Wales is the largest annual event of its kind in the United States encompassing an eisteddfod, Celtic marketplace, classes, and a concert.

An eisteddfod (; plural eisteddfodau ) is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance.

As interest in the Welsh arts declined, the standard of the main eisteddfod deteriorated as well and they became more informal.

In 1789, Thomas Jones organised an eisteddfod in Corwen where for the first time the public were admitted.

Iolo Morganwg ( bardic name of Edward Williams ) founded " Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain " ( Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain ) in 1792 to restore and replace the ancient eisteddfod.

By the 1850s people began to talk of a national eisteddfod to showcase Wales's culture.

This eisteddfod also saw the first public appearance of John Ceiriog Hughes who won a prize for a love poem, Myfanwy Fychan of Dinas Brân, which became an instant hit.

The most important eisteddfod is the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the largest festival of competitive music and poetry in Europe.

In 1176 Lord Rhys instituted the first eisteddfod.

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To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

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In 403 BC, Athens took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H ( even though it still also had the / h / sound itself at that time ).

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

Even so, although the Foreign Legion distinguished itself, it also took a heavy toll during the war: constantly being deployed in operations, it even reached the point that whole units were annihilated in combat, in what was a traditional Foreign Legion battlefield.

A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.

This accounts for the fact that when the Bulgarians took Mesembria and Debeltos in 814, they captured 36 siphons and even quantities of the substance itself, but were unable to make any use of them.

Giulio of Cripple Bastards asserts that the name itself took some time to migrate from Britain, with the style being referred to as " death-thrashcore " for a time in Europe.

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The commemoration at UNESCO itself took place on 6 September 2007 ; UNESCO issued a medal in Rumi's name in the hope that it would prove an encouragement to those who are engaged in research on and dissemination of Rumi's ideas and ideals, which would, in turn, enhance the diffusion of the ideals of UNESCO.

Subsequent test series in 1958 ( Grapple Y and Z ) took place above or near Christmas Island itself.

On 19 February a group calling itself the Supreme Council for Restoration of Democracy ( CSRD ) stormed the presidential palace during a meeting and took the president Mamadou Tandja hostage.

Not only had they managed to get one of their own elected, but they also took part in the election itself.

The work of the IOC increasingly focused on the planning the 1896 Athens Games, and de Coubertin played a background role as Greek authorities took the lead in logistical organisation of the Games in Greece itself, offering technical advice such as a sketch of a design of a velodrome to be used in cycling competitions.

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The court took its name from the " Star Chamber " or " Starred Chamber " which was built in the reign of King Edward II specifically for the meetings of the King's Council, though the origins of the name of the room itself are unclear.

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The limitation originally took the form of a clause in the text of the constitutional amendment itself, such as " This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.