Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

To the north and west, the topography is mountainous ; this is the area of the five Angus Glens, is sparsely populated and the main industry is hill-farming.

In between lies Strathmore, a derivation of the Gaelic for the Great Valley, which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle.

George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

The first of these, in 938, is that of Dubacan, mormaer of Angus or son of the mormaer.

Unlike the report of 918, on this occasion the title mormaer is attached to a geographical area, but it is unknown whether the Angus of 938 was in any way similar to the later mormaerdom or earldom.

The first wedding is that of Angus ( Timothy Walker ) and Laura ( Sara Crowe ), at which Charles is the best man.

The character of the obsessed academic Rose Lorimer in Angus Wilson's 1956 novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is said to have been inspired in part by Murray and Frances Yates.

* 1995: In the movie Braveheart, Robert the Bruce is portrayed by Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen.

The most famous use of the McDuck Castle outside of the Barks / Rosa universe is an Angus / Vicar story titled The Sobbing Serpent.

Angus " Pothole " McDuck is Scrooge McDuck's uncle.

After the show's money is stolen by the Dalton Brothers, Angus rides out with Bill, Scrooge, P. T.

Angus ' exact date of death is unknown.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a principal character in the 2004 TV film, Spartacus, played by actor Angus Macfadyen.

It is also added to places, objects and names, as well as an interruption, e. g. in the Angus Prune ( OBE ) song.

For the literary critic Angus Ross, Defoe's point is that money has no intrinsic value and is only valuable insofar as it can be used in trade.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

Woolf has further demonstrated that by the time of Malcolm II, the leading cenela of Dal Riata had moved from the southwest of the region ( north of the Firths ) to the north, east, and northeast, with Cenel Loairn moving up the Great Glen to occupy Moray, the former and sometimes still Fortriu, one branch of Cenel nGabhrain occupying the district known as Gowrie and another the district of Fife, Cenel nOengusa giving its name to Circinn as Angus, Cenel Comgaill occupying Strathearn, and another lesser known kindred, Cenel Conaing, probably moving to Mar.

Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing.

The ranch is known for its reputation herd of Angus cattle and abundant wildlife, such as West Texas mule deer, Auodad sheep and Rio Grande wild turkey.

It is known for its herd of Black Angus cattle and its abundant wildlife.

It is known for its reputation herd of Black Angus cattle and its abundant wildlife.

It is known for its reputation herd of Black Angus cattle and its abundant wildlife.

They were developed from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeenshire and Angus in Scotland, and are known as Aberdeen Angus in most parts of the world.

Forfar is the county town of Angus, which was officially known as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1929, when the ancient name was reinstated, and today serves as the administrative centre for Angus Council.

In August 1582, in what became known as the Ruthven Raid, the Protestant earls of Gowrie and Angus lured James into Ruthven Castle, imprisoned him, and forced Lennox to leave Scotland.

Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse and was built on Bell Rock ( also known as Inchcape ) in the North Sea, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, east of the Firth of Tay.

They are raised for their meat and are known for their composite qualities when crossed with other breeds, most notably Angus and Hereford cattle.

Berneray is known as the birthplace of the giant Angus MacAskill and for its sandy beaches backed with sand dunes.

Angus is one of the oldest attested Mormaerdoms, with the earliest attested Mormaer, Dubacan of Angus, known to have lived in the early 10th century, as recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba.

Angus Lewis Macdonald, PC, QC ( August 10, 1890 – April 13, 1954 ), popularly known as ' Angus L .', was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician from Nova Scotia.

In cattle, hybrids between Black Angus and Hereford produce a hybrid known as a " Black Baldy ".

" The Ikon " ( as it is colloquially known ) was founded by Angus Skene and four artists from the Birmingham School of Art-David Prentice, Sylvani Merilion, Jesse Bruton and Robert Groves-after Skene bought Prentice's painting Kate and the Waterlilies in 1964, and the two started discussing the lack of support for contemporary artists provided by Birmingham's existing artistic institutions.

Alan Young ( born Angus Young 19 November 1919 ) is a British-born American actor best known for his role as Wilbur Post in the television series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games.

Hepburn did not retain Bothwell Castle for long, however, exchanging it with Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, known as " Bell-the-Cat ", in return for Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale.

The campaign seeks to gain World Heritage Status for the iconic Angus landmark that was the birthplace of one of Scotland's most significant documents, the Declaration of Arbroath.

* Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Jock Sutherland, coach for the Pittsburg Steelers 1946 – 1947.

* Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Alan Gilzean, who is a former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s and played for Scottish club Dundee, national side Scotland and English club Tottenham Hotspur.

* Charleston, Angus, near Dundee, Scotland

Lyell was born in Scotland about 15 miles north of Dundee in Kinnordy, near Kirriemuir in Forfarshire ( now in Angus ).

Comyn had been much more resolute in his opposition to the English ; he was the most powerful noble in Scotland and was related to many more powerful nobles both within Scotland and England including relatives that held the earldoms of Buchan, Mar, Ross, Fife, Angus, Dunbar and Strathearn.

In Scotland four shires have alternative names with the "- shire " suffix: Angus ( Forfarshire ), East Lothian ( Haddingtonshire ), Midlothian ( Edinburghshire ) and West Lothian ( Linlithgowshire ).

Angus McDuck was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1829 to Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard.

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Born in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, Watson-Watt was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine.

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

James Bowman Lindsay was born in Cotton of West Hills, Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland, son of John Lindsay, farm worker, and Elizabeth Bowman.

* they shared a grandmother in English princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England and the elder sister of Henry VIII ( Mary descending from Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland, Darnley from Margaret's marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus ), putting both Mary and Darnley high in the line of succession for the English throne ;

Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland, Countess of Angus, Lady Methven ( 28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541 ) was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII.

It was also at this time that she at last began to get the measure of Angus, who, with an eye on his own welfare, returned to Scotland to make peace with the Regent, " which much made Margaret to muse.

" I am sore troubled with my Lord of Angus since my last coming into Scotland, and every day more and more, so that we have not been together this half year … I am so minded that, an I may by law of God and to my honour, to part with him, for I wit well he loves me not, as he shows me daily.

Her situation was not eased when her brother allowed Angus to return to Scotland.

Weary of Scotland she may have been: she was now even more tired of Lord Methven, who was proving himself to be even worse than Angus in his desire both for other women and for his wife's money ; also, their only child, a daughter ( possibly called Dorothea Stewart ), died in infancy.

Arbroath or Aberbrothock ( ) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22, 785.

Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis () in Angus, Scotland.

Together with Wallace Thorneycroft, another Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Childe excavated two vitrified Iron Age forts in Scotland, that at Finavon, Angus ( 1933 – 34 ) and that at Rahoy, Argyllshire ( 1936 – 37 ).

* The Pictish / Early Medieval Camus Cross in Angus, Scotland

The Caledonian Steam Railway ( Brechin ) Ltd is a private limited company formed by a group of steam railway enthusiasts, the Brechin Railway Preservation Society, with the object of operating a railway service on the former Caledonian Railway line between Brechin and Montrose, Angus, Scotland.