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Dunbar () is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 28 miles ( 45 km ) east of Edinburgh and 28 miles ( 45 km ) from the English Border at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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An excellent example of a successful location of a new vocational high school is the Dunbar Vocational High School in Chicago.
Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).
The physical facilities at Dunbar are impressive, but more impressive is the attitude of the pupils.
* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
Cheerleader Nation is a 60 minute television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to nationals, of which they are the three time champions.
* Robin Dunbar, Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans ( pre-publication version ) " Analysis of a sample of human conversations shows that about 60 % of time is spent gossiping about relationships and personal experiences.
The Scottish poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, which is dated before 1520 ( the generally accepted date prior to the death of William Dunbar, one of the composers ), refers to ' haggeis '.
The Dunbar CB is nearest to Greencastle, which can be accessed via US 231 north, under the concrete railroad viaduct.
Dunbar Cave is also reported to have been mined for saltpeter during the Mexican War, but commercial development has erased any evidence of this mining.
Dunbar Cave is the centerpiece of Dunbar State Park, which encompasses approximately 110 acres and is one of the most visited units in the Tennessee State Park System.
There is little evidence to suggest that Dunbar was anything other than an action between two bodies of mounted men-at-arms ( armoured cavalry ).
According to one English source over ten thousand Scots died at the battle of Dunbar, however this is probably a confusion with the casualties incurred at the storming of Berwick.
In this he said, " The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt on everyone's lips that if Rommel had been in the British Army he would still have been a sergeant ... There is a man in the British Army who flung 150, 000 men across the Ebro in Spain, Michael Dunbar.
The town is home to the Grantham Village School ( opened 1981 ) and Dunbar Free Library ( opened 1903 ).
Dunbar and town
Colonel David Dunbar, governor of the Territory of Sagadahock, laid out a town in 1730 known as Townsend, and convinced about 40 families of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, largely from the north of Ireland, to settle here.
Before the town was officially founded there was a restaurant where a cook with the surname Dunbar worked.
Another notable waterfall, Twelve Foot Falls, is located in the town of Dunbar on the nearby Pike River.
A few important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin or are known by British names elsewhere: Bamburgh is called Din Guaire in the Historia Brittonum ; Dunbar ( where Saint Wilfrid was once imprisoned ) represents Dinbaer ; and the name of Coldingham is given by Bede as Coludi urbs (" town of Colud "), where Colud seems to represent the British form, possibly for the hill-fort of St Abb's Head.
Its strategic position gave rise to a history full of incident and strife but Dunbar has become a quiet dormitory town popular with workers in nearby Edinburgh, who find it an affordable alternative to the capital itself.
Although this will be guaranteed to boost the retail facilities and catchment area of Dunbar, attracting people from Berwick and Haddington to come, there is a fear it might bring congestion to the site and will lead to the decline of the present town centre shops especially the Co-op.
In 1730, Colonel David Dunbar, the superintendent and governor of the Territory of Sagadahock, laid out a new town, named Townsend after Viscount Townshend.
Berwick Rangers were officially formed on January 7th 1884 after a match was played in the town between a team of millworkers from Dunbar and a team of railway clerks from Newcastle.
The visiting manager, from the nearby town of Dunbar, was impressed by the throw, and he offered Quinn a contract.
Laing relates a charter of a Precept originally written in Norman-French by Patrick de Dunbar, Earl of March, to Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood, for heritable sasine of the reversion of the lands of Whitelaw within the Earldom of Dunbar, plus 10 livres yearly from the mill of Dunbar, and the farms and issues of the granter's said town (' ville ') of Dunbar, according to the terms of charters to the grantee.
The Scots reached Dunbar first and Leslie positioned his troops on Doon Hill on the eastern edge of the Lammermuir Hills, overlooking the town and the Berwick Road, which was Cromwell's land route back to England.
He also founded the town of Whitesboro in southern New Jersey as a planned community developed for African Americans, together with prominent investors such as Booker T. Washington, the educator, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet, along with two daughters of Judge Mifflin W. Gibbs: Ida Gibbs Hunt and Harriet Gibbs Marshall.
Dunbar and East
In April, the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in East Lothian and by July, Edward had forced John to abdicate.
Arran summoned some of the barons of East Lothian to meet her at Berwick, and the gentlemen of Selkirk, Jedburgh and Duns, Peebles and Lauder, Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick were summoned to meet her at Our Lady Kirk of Steill on 24 November 1551.
The grant included Dunbar and, it can be deduced, an extensive swath of East Lothian and Berwickshire or Merse ( hence March ).
Dunbar Golf Club: Laid out in 1857 and redesigned by Old Tom Morris around 1894, Dunbar East Links is situated on the estuary of the Firth of Forth.
Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his MA degree in 1743.
They included Simon Newcomb at Johns Hopkins, John Bates Clark at Columbia, James Laurence Laughlin at Chicago, Charles F Dunbar and Frank William Taussig at Harvard, Arthur T. Hadley and William Graham Sumner at Yale, and controlled the American university system in the East.
Torness nuclear power station is located approximately 30 miles east of the city of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland.
He was probably a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie where it is also hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar.
There is also a seasonal park-and-ride and local services to Haddington, Dunbar and attractions such as the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune.
The East Region was created by amalgamating the former East ( Lothians ), Fife and Tayside Regions and stretches from Montrose in the North to Dunbar in the South-East.
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