At 23, he published his first poem, “ Hymns to the Gods .” Later work was printed in literary journals like Blackwood ’ s Edinburgh Magazine and local newspapers.

At the age of 12, David was sent to the University of Edinburgh ( graduating MA in 1800 ), being intended for the clergy.

At the outset he was successful, taking Edinburgh and then defeating the only government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans.

) At its greatest the kingdom extended at least from just south of the Humber, to the River Mersey and to the Forth ( roughly, Sheffield to Runcorn to Edinburgh ) — and there is some evidence that it may have been much greater ( see map ).

At the end of July 1572, after a truce was called, he returned to Edinburgh.

At the same time it was announced that only HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh would receive civil list payments.

At the heart of Scotland's Central Belt, Stirling has direct road connections to the major cities of Glasgow, via the M80 motorway, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway, as well as inter-city rail links from Stirling Railway Station.

At a meadow a mile from Edinburgh, there was a pavilion where Sir Patrick Hamilton and Patrick Sinclair played and fought in the guise of knights defending their ladies.

At one point she ran away toward the border, only to be intercepted and brought back to Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh University, Childe spent much of his time focusing on his own research, and although he was reportedly very kind towards his students, never interacted much with them, to whom he remained largely distant.

* Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847-1914, Edinburgh At the University Press ( 1968 )

At this time, border changes saw several villages on the outskirts of Edinburgh ( e. g. Whitecraig ) become part of East Lothian.

At this time the mail had to be carried from the Dundee post office, six miles east of Edinburgh.

At a parliament in Edinburgh on 19 January 1450, Alexander Livingstone, a son of Sir Alexander, and Robert Livingstone of Linlithgow were tried and executed on the Castle Hill.

At this point formerly stood the Netherbow Port, a fortified gateway between Edinburgh and the Canongate ( until 1856 a separate burgh ), which was removed in 1746 to improve traffic flow.

At this juncture in his career he was still billed as " John Halliley " and he made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J.

At the time his brother John was secretary ; after John spoke at a rally in favour of the eight-hour day, however, he was fired from his job with the Edinburgh Corporation, so while he looked for work, James took over as secretary.

At the age of 81, he died in Edinburgh after a fall.

At a national level, the work of the Church of Scotland is chiefly carried out by " Councils ", each supported by full-time staff mostly based at the Church of Scotland Offices in Edinburgh.

At the Edinburgh Festival in 2012, Paul took to the stage as magician, compare and comedian for La Clique Royale's run at The Famous Spiegeltent on George Street.

At age 15, McCoy traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland for an apprenticeship and study.

At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a firm of booksellers in Edinburgh, and he followed his calling also in Glasgow and London for several years.

At the 2011 Touch Football World Cup in Edinburgh, England finished 4th in the Open category & 2nd in the Senior category.

At Edinburgh 2012 he reprised his 2002 show Talking Cock at the Udderbelly and did a second run of his Edinburgh Fringe Podcasts at Stand 1 with guests including Janet Ellis, Sarah Millican and Mick Foley.

At the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode " My Musical " was nominated for five awards in four categories: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series ( Will Mackenzie ), Outstanding Music Direction ( Jan Stevens ) and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (" Everything Comes Down to Poo " and " Guy Love "); while sharing the award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series ( Half-Hour ) And Animation ( Joe Foglia, Peter J. Nusbaum, and John W. Cook II ) with Entourage.

At school, he dated Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, an ex-girlfriend of Blair's, immediately after that relationship.

At St. Andrew's, he opposed the church-state connection, leading to a four-year battle within the congregation which ended with the departure of both Mackenzie and the congregation's minister, William Rintoul.

) At a meeting on December 2 in Stoufferville, Mackenzie set forth his plan for rebellion in greatest detail: British troops occupied in Lower Canada would be unable to do anything as Reformers from the country marched on Toronto ; once there they would join up with Rolph, Morrison, and important men such as Peter Robinson, George Herchmer Markland, and John Henry Dunn ( who were not Reformers, but who had resigned from the Executive Council in protest of Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions ).

At, the Mackenzie River's watershed or drainage basin is the largest in Canada, encompassing nearly 20 % of the country.

At age 66, St. Laurent was only seven years younger than Mackenzie King, but was nevertheless seen as a breath of fresh air — except at Cabinet meetings, where he reversed Mackenzie King's smoking ban.

At the time, only one other governing party had lost more seats in an election ; Progressive Conservative, Arthur Meighen, was defeated by Mackenzie King's Liberals in the 1921 election and lost 104 seats in the process.

At the time, the Academy was overshadowed by its younger rival, the Royal College of Music, and Mackenzie set about reviving its reputation.

At other times, the Liberal Party, particularly under William Lyon Mackenzie King would try to co-opt the trade union vote by running Liberal supporters as Labour or Liberal-Labour candidates.

At the first Philharmonic concert at the Queen's Hall, Alexander Mackenzie conducted the first performance in England of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony, which was so well received that it was repeated, by popular acclaim, at the next concert.

* 1940: The March of Time newsreel episode " Canada At War " was banned until the 1940 federal election was completed, as Premier Mitchell Hepburn charged that the production was " pure political propaganda for the Mackenzie King Government ".

At the same time, the commission saw no significant environmental risk further south through the Mackenzie Valley.

At a meeting of the Ottawa Canadian Club in January 1946 at which World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower was a guest speaker, Prime Minister Mackenzie King renamed Castle Mountain in his honour.

:" At one early cabinet meeting, for instance, Mackenzie had just finished delivering a passionate plea for aid to jobless Steelworkers in the hard-hit uranium-mining town of Elliot Lake.

At Paris 1878 Winawer tied for first place (+ 14 − 3 = 5 ) with Zukertort, ahead of Blackburne and Mackenzie, but took second prize after the play-off.

At the last moment, however, he persuaded the publishers to cancel the agreement, and to accept in its place the great work on Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace.

At her house on Castle-hill, and afterwards in Crichton Street, she received many illustrious friends, among whom were Mackenzie, Robertson, Hume, Home, Monboddo, the Keiths of Ravelston, the Balcarres family and Lady Anne Barnard, the authoress of " Auld Robin Gray.