The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

They stayed at Edinburgh, and at Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, the home of the Marquess of Breadalbane.

Stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh | St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle

* Edinburgh Castle

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

Pipers emerging from Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Lightshow at Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Running concurrently with the summer festivals, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo occupies the Castle Esplanade every night, with massed pipers and fireworks.

View from the royal apartments of the Stewart monarchs, Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce crowned King of Scots ; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle

In March 1314, James Douglas captured Roxburgh, and Randolph captured Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce statue at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle

A 1929 statue of Robert the Bruce is set in the wall of Edinburgh Castle at the entrance, along with one of William Wallace.

In 1818, Scott and a small team of military men unearthed the honours from the depths of Edinburgh Castle.

Statue of Wallace at Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle was her dowry.

The sudden death of Mary of Guise in Edinburgh Castle on 10 June 1560 paved the way for an end to hostilities, the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, and the withdrawal of French and English troops from Scotland.

On 30 April 1571, the controller of Edinburgh Castle, Kirkcaldy, ordered all enemies of the Queen to leave the city.

On 3 July 1996 it was announced in the House of Commons that the Stone would be returned to Scotland, and on 15 November 1996, after a handover ceremony at the border between representatives of the Home Office and of the Scottish Office, it was transported to Edinburgh Castle, arriving on 30 November 1996, where it remains along with the crown jewels of Scotland ( the Honours of Scotland ) in the Crown Room.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.

Eastern bongo at Edinburgh Zoo An international studbook is maintained to help manage animals held in captivity.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

His 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The Headmaster's Son is based on his time at The Kings of Wessex School, where his father Keith was the headmaster.

In Scotland is situated the Edinburgh Croquet Club.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the main public hospital for the city.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

The Royal Edinburgh Hospital specialises in mental health ; it is situated in Morningside.

Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a " nationalist shibboleth ", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum.

The Edinburgh Building on the main site of the Press

Edinburgh Castle is formally owned by the Scottish Government and most of the site is in the care of Historic Scotland.

Malcolm's youngest son, King David I ( ruled 1124 – 1153 ), developed Edinburgh as a site of royal power principally through his administrative reforms.

Royal High School ( 1578-1777 ) on site of Blackfriars Monastery, Edinburgh.

The first crossing at what is now the site of the bridge was established in the 11th century by Margaret, queen consort of King Malcolm III, who founded a ferry service to transport religious pilgrims from Edinburgh to Dunfermline Abbey and St Andrews.

It stands on the site of Dean House ( built 1614 ), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

This was under a new company name of the Edinburgh Crystal Company but stood on the same site in Leith ( ironically this company has never truly been in " Edinburgh ".

Hibs entered talks with Edinburgh District Council about sharing a new stadium with Hearts, but the proposed site of Ingliston was in the wrong part of the city for Hibs.

The scale and quality of Bedgebury National Pinetum's conifer collection have made it an ideal site to take part in the International Conifer Conservation Programme ( ICCP ), run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

The Old and New Town of Edinburgh is a notable Scottish World Heritage site.

The John Knox House is an historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland, reputed to have been owned and lived in by Protestant reformer John Knox during the 16th century, but known not to have been ( Knox's house was on Warriston Close, where a plaque correctly marks the site ).

The site of the manor made it an ideal military base for securing the supply routes between Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.

They chose the run down site of Sydney's first official European cemetery: on George Street, in the commercial heart of the city and organised for Sydney ’ s first royal visitor, HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to lay a foundation stone on 4 April 1868, even before colonial authorities on Macquarie Street had approved the plan.

Davidson ’ s successor ( Robert Lessell – minister, 1800 – 1853 ) was responsible for the building of the present building on the site, erected to the Glory of God and dedicated as such on 14 August 1842. Only a year later, in 1843, the first General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh.

New Parliament House, Edinburgh | New Parliament House, the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly

It was a powerful and efficient general purpose multi-user system which supplied all the computing needs of Edinburgh University and the University of Kent ( the only other site outside Edinburgh to adopt the operating system ).

The enclosure round the Norse church overlies a Pictish graveyard, and an important Pictish carved stone was found in pieces in this enclosure during site clearance ( also on display in Edinburgh: replica on site ).

Early Christian carved stones, which may date from as early as the 7th century AD, found at this site are on display in Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall and the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

* Profile of Kemp Smith on the Edinburgh University Philosophy Department site

The slopes of the hill have been the site where young girls in Edinburgh traditionally bathe their faces in the dew on May Day to make themselves more beautiful.