In keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the " Kenilworth ", along with one named the " Abbotsford ".

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.

A Beltane Fire Festival has been held every year since 1988 during the night of 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended by up to 15, 000 people.

Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.

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.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

Source code for a Coral 66 compiler ( written in BCPL ) has been recovered and the " Official Definition of Coral 66 " document by HMSO has been scanned ; the Ministry of Defence patent office has issued a licence to the Edinburgh Computer History project to allow them to put both the code and the language reference online for non-commercial use.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Edinburgh Napier University has campuses in the south and west of the city, including the former Craiglockhart Hydropathic and Merchiston Tower.

The Scottish Agricultural College also has a campus in south Edinburgh.

The International Festival has since been overtaken in both size and popularity by the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Royal Lyceum Theatre has its own company, while the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and Edinburgh Playhouse stage large touring shows.

Edinburgh has a healthy popular music scene.

Edinburgh, along with the rest of Scotland, has completed the digital switchover for television.

Edinburgh has a large number of museums and libraries, many of which are national institutions.

Edinburgh has a long literary tradition, going back to the Scottish Enlightenment and in more recent years being declared the first UNESCO City of Literature in 2004.

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

Edinburgh has a large number of pubs, clubs and restaurants.

Edinburgh also has substantial retail developments outside the city centre.

By the 18th century there were five universities in Scotland, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and King's and Marischial Colleges in Aberdeen, compared with only two in England.

After some 25 years of work, his Theory of the Earth ; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe was read to meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend Joseph Black on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785.

LBC currently operates two services in London-LBC 97. 3, a newstalk station on FM ; and LBC News 1152, a rolling news station on AM ; also, Talk 107 in Edinburgh.

As a result, two of the ringleaders, burgesses of Edinburgh, were scheduled for trial on 24 October 1563.

The gold cross on the top of the church was paid for and donated by the City of Edinburgh as a mark of the bond between the two cities.

His huge James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra ( 1758, now Edinburgh ) elevates tourism to the heroic, with the two travellers wearing what look very like togas.

In Edinburgh Castle Ramsay saw two great French guns called ' curtalds ,' 10 falconets or little serpentines, and 30 iron breech loading ' cart guns ' with 16 close-carts or wagons for the munitions.

As Marie of Guise was shut up in Edinburgh fortress, the two men were forced to negotiate a peace disadvantageous for France.

First unveiled in 1809 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the moving panorama required a large canvas and two vertical rollers to be set up on a stage.

Plus two who visited and corresponded with Edinburgh scholars:

In Scotland tourist tours became increasingly popular during the 19th century, usually starting at Edinburgh complete with Edinburgh Castle, and then spending up to two weeks further north, taking advantage of the expanding rail and steamer network.

4AD gave the band an $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh, Scotland for two weeks in December 1989.

In July 2007, a hovercraft passenger service completed a two week trial between Portobello, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Three out of the eight original manuscripts are currently preserved by the British Library, two are in the possession of the Advocates ' Library in Edinburgh ; one, within the University of St Andrews Library ; another, within the confines of Wemyss Castle and the eighth, privately owned by Mister John Ferguson of Duns, Berwickshire.

In the two remaining years of his life he was engaged on a reduction or " abridgment " of this work, which is known as the Book of Cupar, and is preserved in the Advocates ' library, Edinburgh ( MS. 35.

A boatlifting device, the Falkirk Wheel, was built to connect the two canals and once more allow boats to travel from the Clyde or Glasgow to Edinburgh, with a new canal connection to the River Carron and hence the River Forth.

As the name suggests, the Royal Mile is approximately one Scots mile long, and runs between two foci of history in Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle at the top of the Castle Rock down to Holyrood Palace.

A mere two months after his return to England, Nasmyth patented the hammer, in June 1842, and began production of them in Edinburgh.

What is considered to be the earlier of the two engines, now known as " Puffing Billy " is conserved at the Science Museum in London ; the second Wylam Dilly is in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

The band played support to rising punk stars Generation X in Edinburgh two weeks later.

The airport was gaining popularity and in 2003 Aer Arann launched two more routes to Manchester and Edinburgh with two further routes to Birmingham and Lorient launched in 2004.

Soon afterwards, she appeared in repertory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996, she is cited as " the greatest actress of our time in any medium " by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival.

His grandson, also named Wilson Barrett, became an actor director with the Brandon-Thomas Company before starting his own repertory in 1939, the Wilson Barrett Company, which based itself in Edinburgh ` s Lyceum, Glasgow at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow and for a time in Aberdeen.

From there he took a position in repertory theatre and made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J.

In the 1970s Stoltz joined a repertory company that performed ten plays at the Edinburgh Festival.

Jackie became an actress and joined the Wilson Barrett repertory company in Edinburgh before moving to London in 1950.

After training at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, Coffey began a career in repertory at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh, then moved to the Palladium Theatre there.

She then joined various repertory companies, including Lincoln, Edinburgh, Salisbury, Cheltenham, Hornchurch, and Watford.