On the day in 1707 that the Treaty of Union was signed to merge the Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England and create the Kingdom of Great Britain, the carilloner in St. Giles rang the bells in the tune Why should I be so sad on my wedding day?

Kramer gave Giles his Walther P38 pistol and holster, a ceremonial dagger, and his swastika armband, in return asking for a signed original of Giles's work.

In, joined by his brother Marcus, signed as a free agent to be the starting second baseman, Giles batted. 271, but missed time with an injured knee.

On February 7, 2010, Giles signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers and received an invitation to spring training.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1940 – Johnny Giles, Irish footballer

After Preston coach ( and former Irish international goalkeeper ) Alan Kelly became aware of the young player's Irish connections ( and informed Irish international manager Johnny Giles ), Lawrenson's solid performances earned him a call-up to the Republic of Ireland national squad, winning the first of 39 international caps at the age of 19.

After appearing in the 1975 final, which Leeds lost 2 – 0 to Bayern Munich, Giles accepted an offer in June 1975 from West Bromwich Albion to become their player-manager, while still playing for and managing the Irish team.

When Giles was quizzed as to the differences between himself and another highly regarded former Irish player, Roy Keane, he said: " If forced to compare us, I'd say I was slightly more creative than him and he was a better ball-winner.

He arrived in Britain at age 17 and lived in St. Giles among a community of runaway slaves, Jamaican ex-servicemen, and other immigrant minorities including Jews, Lascars and Irish.

In July 1977, Irish international player-manager John Giles returned to Dublin to take up the same role at Rovers.

The next season saw another cup run for Rovers as they reached the final of the FAI Cup again and this time Shamrock Rovers, managed by Irish football legend Johnny Giles, were their opponents.

The former Leeds United and Irish player and manager Johnny Giles also originally hails from the area.

* Johnny Giles ( born 1940 ), Irish footballer, manager and television pundit

He hosted RTE highlights of the Ryder Cup in 2006 when it was at the K Club in Ireland and He continues to present coverage of Ireland's soccer internationals for RTÉ, along with regular panelists Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles and Liam Brady.

Subsequently, after repeated encouragement from childhood friend Eamon Dunphy, Giles would inadvertently enter the world of football punditry in 1986.

In 1978 he became RTE Soccer host alongside panellist Eamon Dunphy, in 1984 John Giles joined the panel and Liam Brady did in 1998.

From youth, Giles was expected to follow the family tradition and become a Watcher, though as a teenager and young adult he rebelled, dropping out of Oxford University to experiment in dark magic and the rock music scene, until a bereavement brought him to his senses.

Although the Scooby Gang later joked that he wore tweed diapers as a child, Giles was in fact a rebellious youth, rejecting his responsibility as a Watcher and dropping out of Oxford University, where he was studying history, when he was twenty-one.

Giles ashamedly admits to Buffy that he was responsible for summoning the demon in his youth, and is horrified when Jenny becomes possessed by Eyghon.

* The fact that Giles knows how to pick a door's lock is another hint about his tempestuous youth, as Cordelia noticed: " God, you really were the little youthful offender, weren't you?

* This is the first episode to establish details about Giles ' more " wild " youth, parts of which will occasionally return to haunt him throughout the series.

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

Such were the qualities of the Acting-President of the Seminary after the death of Miss Giles.

The raising of the $25,000 Improvement Fund two days before the time limit expired, and the spontaneous `` praise demonstration '' held afterward on the campus, were reported as events which had brought happiness to Miss Giles.

Miss Upton told the Trustees that the death of Miss Giles was `` the sorest grief '' the Seminary had ever been called upon to bear.

The removal of Miss Packard 18 years earlier had caused them great sorrow, but they still had Miss Giles.

Miss Giles always used to refer to her as `` Sister ''.

Statue of Alexander on the west door of St. Giles, Edinburgh

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

The Warren C. Giles Trophy, named for the president of the NL from 1951 to 1969, is awarded to the NLCS winner.

Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.

* Giles Milton.

* Giles, Herbert Allen.

* Giles, Herbert Allen.

His travel with Giles Hubert, an inspector for the Farm Security Administration, gave him access to certain situations and he photographed many aspects of rural life.

Another interpretation of Hume's view of the self has been argued for by James Giles.

Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.

* 1966 – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright ( b. 1918 )

The root Chinese word 道 " way, path " is romanized tao in the older Wade – Giles system and dào in the modern Pinyin system.

Compare these transcriptions of Chinese 道: Wade – Giles tao or tao < sup > 4 </ sup > ( marking 4th tone ), Legge romanization tâo, Latinxua Sin Wenz dau, Yale Romanization dàu, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II dau, Hanyu Pinyin dào, Tongyong Pinyin daˋo, Gwoyeu Romatzyh or National Romanization daw, Zhuyin fuhao ㄉㄠ, and Cyrillic Palliday system дао.

An inherent problem with the arcane Wade – Giles use of apostrophes to differentiate aspiration is that many English readers do not understand it, which has resulted in the frequent mispronunciation of Taoism as instead of.

Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.