Swansea
About Swansea
Swansea is a port and coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea.
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A new image of Hatshepsut has been found in Swansea. It's been in storage for 40 years at Swansea University's Egypt Centre, and they were just having a standard teaching session going through a few of the images, and one of the professors discovered it.
from No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh, 2018-04-13 at 00:28:37 · read transcript
Other times Swansea came up
Whereas the train is on tracks, but it has its own complete space. Exactly. Yeah. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway actually was commissioned in 1804 and just carried goods and freight. Lots of kids used to hitch rides on it to get from Swansea to Mumbles. So they thought, well, maybe we should make this a passenger thing. So that became the first passenger one.
457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen
That was just a cover by Ian Fleming to protect the person it was based on. This is because a new thing came to light in 2018. A guy called Stephen Phillips from Swansea was looking into his grandfather's records and his grandfather's called James Bond. There were documents that had just been declassified that showed that his grandfather was an SOE, a special operations executive agent in World War II.
348: No Such Thing As Infinite Toilet Paper, 2020-11-20 · listen
There wasn't other options, or there weren't many other options. They took over from horse and carts, really. The first trams were horse drawn, of course. The first horse car was 1807, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Just to be clear on what a tram is, it's on tracks, but it shares space with the road at some points, whereas the train is on tracks, but it has its own complete space. Exactly.
No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen
Hi, Mr. Shriver, I'm here to deliver your wife's baby. Have you heard of Cyril the Swan? Is he from Swansea? Yes, mascot of Swansea City and an absolute thug by all accounts. In 2001, he got into a fight with Millwall's Zampa the Lion. tore off the lion's head and kicked it into the crowd before shouting, don't fuck with the swans at the headless lion. Wow. Find a thousand pounds for that.
No Such Thing As A Female Cereal Mascot, 2020-07-10 · listen
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No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh put 2 places on the map.
- Swansea University's · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.6167, -3.9500