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 * ... that David Davies was transported to Australia for his part in the Rebecca Riots, an uprising that saw the mob leaders cross-dressing as women?
 * ... that Valle Crucis Abbey, built by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor in 1201, is home to the only remaining monastic fishpond in Wales?
 * ... that Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp, once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid?
 * ... that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales, was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England?