• the Swaminarayan temple in Cardiff replaced a synagogue when it opened in 1982 and then an Irish club when it moved in 1993?
• the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium (pictured), Cardiff, "an icon of the modern Wales", is wholly owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, one of the governing bodies of sports in Wales?
• at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
• after running aground at Sharpness, SS Stancliffe was cut into two separate sections and then sailed to Cardiff, Wales, in 1947?

Facts on topics related to Cardiff

History of Cardiff

• the National Library of Wales was established in Aberystwyth instead of the capital, Cardiff, partly because its founder regarded Cardiff as having "a non-Welsh population"?

Newport

• on August 26, 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport, Wales?
• the Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport was the first building in Wales designed by Richard Rogers?

Edinburgh

• Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street?
• Gladstone's Land (pictured) is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile?
• Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
• Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?
• Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
• Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, chief of Clan Scott, survived the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1552?
• an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange (pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland?
• during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
• the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?
• the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson, bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital?

London

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• 16 tunnels, many for tube lines, run beneath London's River Thames?
• 19th century London song-writer Helen, Lady Dufferin was admired by Disraeli, compared with Helen of Troy in a poem by Browning, and had a village named after her?
• 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
• Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London?
• Albert Bridge in London (pictured) is the only significant surviving example of a bridge built using the 1858 Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle design?
• Alfred the Great's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum, the Viking ruler of East Anglia?
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington helped popularize the Portuguese wine Bucelas in London after he discovered it while fighting in the Peninsular War?
• Byron recorded seeing the "tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross?
• charcoal merchant Thomas Britton (pictured) ran a series of concerts in his loft at which the most famous musicians in London performed?

Manchester

• Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe?
• Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II?
• Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
• Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
• Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969?
• Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England?
• Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome?
• Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
• Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
• The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester has been in three different locations in its 458-year history?