The Scottish Deerhound, or simply the Deerhound, is a breed of hound ( a sighthound ), once bred to hunt the Red Deer by coursing.

In outward appearance, the Scottish Deerhound is similar to the Greyhound, but larger and more heavily boned.

Scottish Deerhound circa 1910

The Scottish Deerhound resembles a rough-coated Greyhound.

The Scottish Deerhound is gentle and extremely friendly.

The Scottish Deerhound.

How To Raise and Train A Scottish Deerhound.

A Most Perfect Creature of Heaven: The Scottish Deerhound.

( Available from the Scottish Deerhound Club of America and the Deerhound Club ( U. K .))

Your Scottish Deerhound Primer, Fern Hill, Ontario, 1989, 1999, 2005.

In 2011, at the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 5-year-old GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind became the first of her breed ( Scottish Deerhound ) to capture the Best in Show award.

( Lion was also mated to Lufra, a Scottish Deerhound, and their puppy Marquis appears in the pedigrees of both Deerhounds and Irish Wolfhounds.

The group includes the Afghan Hound, Azawakh, Basenji, Borzoi, Canaan Dog, Carolina Dog, Chart Polski ( Polish Greyhound ), Cirneco dell ' Etna, Greyhound, Hungarian Greyhound, Ibizan Hound, Irish Wolfhound, New Guinea Singing Dog, Pharaoh Hound, Portuguese Podengo, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Saluki, Scottish Deerhound, Sinhala Hound, Silken Windhound, Sloughi, Spanish Greyhound, Thai Ridgeback, Whippet, and Xoloitzcuintli.

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* Balmoral bonnet, an unbrimmed cap common in Highland dress, named for the Scottish village and castle

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

Within the Protestant tradition the Presbyterian Church ( which has its roots in Scottish Presbyterianism ) also has parishes named in honour of Columba.

** The Forth River, named after the Scottish River Forth ( see above.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

Macbeth is Shakespeare ’ s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

Maxwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, " On Physical Lines of Force ", which he published between 1861 and 1862.

The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murray's honour.

The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.

Strontium is named after the Scottish village of Strontian ( Gaelic Sron an t-Sithein ), having been discovered in the ores taken from the lead mines there.

The university's varsity sports teams are called the Simon Fraser Clan, and the mascot is a Scottish Terrier named McFogg the Dog.

If the Taylor series is centered at zero, then that series is also called a Maclaurin series, named after the Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin, who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.

It was named after the large Scottish sword by its inventor, Norman A. MacLeod.

In 2006, Logie Baird was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's ' Scottish Science Hall of Fame '.

This special angle of incidence is named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ).

In 1843 Peel was the target of a failed assassination attempt ; a criminally-insane Scottish woodsman named Daniel M ' Naghten stalked him for several days before accidentally killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond instead.

His father, an electrician and amateur footballer in the lower leagues, named him in honour of Scottish striker Denis Law.

The popular Scottish band Dananananaykroyd named themselves after Aykroyd.

The parasite was named in 1903 after the Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

This new effort resulted in the founding of Somerville Hall, named for the then recently deceased Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville.

* Castle Rock, Edinburgh, Scotland, the original Castle Rock after which the others were named by Scottish emigrants

Hickory is replacing ash as the wood of choice for Scottish shinty sticks ( also known as camans ).

* July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author ( The Wind In The Willows ) ( b. 1859 )

Entitled " Ewan and the Gold ", it was published on the album Back O ' The North Wind in 1991 and is the subject of McNeill's audio-visual presentation about the Scottish diaspora.

The concept of full independence, or less controversial home rule, did not re-enter the Scottish mainstream until the 1960s, with the famous Wind of Change speech by Harold Macmillan, which marked the high point of decolonisation and the decline of the British Empire, which had already suffered the humiliation of the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Gavin Maxwell, the Scottish naturalist, travelled with Thesiger through the marshes in 1956 and published an account of their travels in his 1957 book A Reed Shaken by the Wind ( later republished under the title People of the Reeds ).

He is known for maintaining close links with the fan community, for example by contributing to small press comics such as Solar Wind, despite a public persona he describes as " a grumpy Scottish git ".

The son of Sehoy, a Muscogee woman of the Wind Clan, and Lachlan McGillivray, a wealthy Scottish fur trader, Alexander McGillivray achieved influence both within the matrilineal tribe because of his mother's family, and among the Americans because of his father's position and wealth.

' But for the Scottish artist Jane Topping ( b. 1972 ), who referenced " The North Wind and the Sun " in her 2009 installation, the fable is to be interpreted in the context of subliminal persuasion via images.

Some fiddle songs popular in Appalachia, such as " Leather Britches ", " Wind and Rain ", and Pretty Polly, have Scottish roots.

The Achany Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund was launched in early 2010, provided by SSE, the wind farm's developer, and managed by the Scottish Community Foundation, a registered grant-making charity.