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Scotland's aviation industry has long been based in and around Prestwick and its international airport, and although aircraft manufacture ceased at the former British Aerospace plant in 1998, a significant number of aviation companies are still based on the Prestwick site.
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The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, in East Lothian.
Scotland's and industry
Linen was Scotland's premier industry in the 18th century and formed the basis for the later cotton, jute, and woollen industries.
Scotland's transformation into a rich leader of modern industry came suddenly and unexpectedly.
After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.
After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.
In the 18th century the area served as the cradle of Scotland's Industrial Revolution, becoming the earliest major centre of the iron-casting industry.
A skiing and winter sports industry is concentrated in the Cairngoms, with three of Scotland's five resorts situated here.
After a strike in 1837, the trade union's power deteriorated, and industrial progress could be introduced throughout Scotland's cotton industry.
It is Scotland's best known name in the motor industry.
Scotland's and has
Connery has been polled as " The Greatest Living Scot " and " Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure ".
Dunfermline Abbey, one of Scotland's most important cultural sites, has received more of Scotland ’ s royal dead than any other place in the kingdom, excepting Iona.
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.
The town has two museums: Tankerness House Museum, which is contained within one of Scotland's best-preserved sixteenth century town-houses, contains items of local historical interest.
Historic Scotland's role has not been without controversy.
The River Bladnoch can be fished for Atlantic salmon and has historically been well known as one of Scotland's finest rivers producing spring fish.
Oatmeal has a long history in Scottish culinary tradition because oats are better suited than wheat to Scotland's short, wet growing season.
Influence from England has meant that Scotland's current system is more common law than civilian, but there are areas which are still heavily based on Roman law, such as Scots property law.
Cargo traffic has also become another stronghold of Prestwick with the vast majority of Scotland's Boeing 747 Freighter traffic entering via the airport.
Although Benbecula Records has extended its purview to include musicians of all nationalities, its emphasis on promoting Scotland's domestic talent remains predominant.
His tomb has not survived, but that of Princess Marjorie Bruce ( 1296 – 1316 ), ancestor of the Stewarts, is one of Scotland's few royal monuments to survive the Reformation.
The Arran Distillery is a patron of the World Burns Federation and as such has created a Robert Burns Single Malt and Robert Burns Blended Whisky in honour of Scotland's National Poet.
Scottish Television ( now legally known as STV Central Ltd and referred to on-air as STV ) is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957.
Despite being Scotland's 5th largest former county in terms of area, it has a smaller population than a medium-size lowland Scottish town.
Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the well known Purves Puppets family.
The school has produced most of Scotland's leading contemporary artists including, since 2005, 30 % of Turner Prize nominees and three recent Turner Prize winners: Simon Starling in 2005, Richard Wright in 2009 and Martin Boyce in 2011.
Recently, BBC Scotland has increased the number of network programmes shown on the network services, timed in part with the move of BBC Scotland's headquarters to BBC Pacific Quay.
Tradition has it that it was at the foot of Arthur's Seat, covered by the forest of Drumselch, that Scotland's 12th-century king David I of Scotland encountered a stag while out hunting.
In Scotland, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, and the Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records control matters armorial within a strict legal framework not enjoyed by their fellow officers of arms in London, and the court which is a part of Scotland's criminal jurisdiction has its own prosecutor, the court's Procurator Fiscal, who is however not an officer of arms.
Leung has been named as Scotland's most stylish female and as the hottest Scotswoman by The Scotsman .< ref >
Flower of Scotland has been used since 1990 as Scotland's unofficial national anthem.
Because of the general ignorance of Gaelic amongst much of Scotland's literati and academia, and the lack of translations, this body of work has been little examined until recently.
Bruce Walker, an expert on Scottish vernacular buildings, has suggested that the relatively numerous and usually long ruined ice houses on country estates have led to Scotland's many legends of secret tunnels.
The television drama has been heavily criticised for its " liberty-taking ", particularly as Mackenzie, a co-founder of the Scottish National Party, was satirising the pretences of Scotland's thoroughly anglicised nobility.
Scotland's and long
Irn-Bru is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, for long advertised as " Scotland's other national drink " ( next to Scotch whisky ).
Scotland's and Northern Ireland's licensing laws have long been more flexible, allowing local authorities to set pub opening and closing times.
Bobby Shields ( Clydesdale Harriers ) and Duncan Watson ( Lochaber ) initiated the idea of racing over Scotland's most popular long distance footpath.
This arose because of Scotland's long tradition of state-funded education, which was spearheaded by the Church of Scotland from the seventeenth century, long before such education was common in England.
It is leased long term to Braemar Community Ltd, Scotland's only community operated castle.
The seventh hole, Killiecrankie, resembles the long narrow pass of Killiecrankie in the Highlands of Scotland – a wooded gorge that played a significant role in Scotland's history in 1689.
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In 2006, Logie Baird was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's ' Scottish Science Hall of Fame '.
He had been Scotland's longest-serving MP since the resignation of Bruce Millan in 1988.
Dumfries Saints Rugby Club is one of Scotland's oldest rugby clubs having been admitted to the Scottish Rugby Union in 1876 – 77 as " Dumfries Rangers ".
Highland cattle have been successfully established in many temperate countries and indeed in countries where winters are substantially colder than Scotland's such as central Europe and Canada.
Regeneration activities have been discussed for Kilmarnock town centre ; in early 2006, an application to Historic Scotland's Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme was successful, and as of July 2006 an application under the Heritage Lottery Fund's Townscape Heritage Initiative Scheme was pending.
In 1258 Jedburgh had also been the focus of royal attention, with negotiations between Scotland's Alexander III and England's Henry III over the heir to the Scottish throne, leaving the Comyn faction dominant.
Some Brutalist buildings have been granted listed status as historic and others, such as Gillespie, Kidd and Coia's St. Peter's Seminary, named by Prospect magazine's survey of architects as Scotland's greatest post-war building, have been the subject of conservation campaigns.
Busby had been appointed as Scotland's temporary manager and took charge of the team for two games later that year against Wales and Northern Ireland, giving Denis Law his first cap.
Scotland's traditional rival is England, whom they played annually from 1872 until 1989, but there have only been three senior level fixtures since then.
He was the intimate of William ; he had been the bearer of messages between the disaffected in Scotland and Holland ; and he was believed to be concerned with Sir James Steuart ( 1635-1715 ) in the authorship of a pamphlet An Account of Scotland's Grievances by reason of the D. of Lauderdale's Ministrie, humbly tendered to his Sacred Majesty.
The captain of the Manilus, known in the Victorian Shipping records as the " Plague ship ", would not receive his bounty as forty-five of the ship's 243 passengers had been lost to yellow fever during the journey from Scotland's shores.
Archers ' Hall is a Category B listed building, i. e. " buildings of regional or more than local importance, or major examples of some particular period, style or building type which may have been altered " in compliance with Scotland's Town and Country Planning ( Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas ) ( Scotland ) Act 1997.
Large quantities of oil were discovered in what would be Scotland's own territorial waters, had she not been a part of the UK.
Since that time, the name " Reporting Scotland " has also been used as the on-screen identity for all of BBC Scotland's television news bulletins.
The dish is said to have been invented in 1995 in the Haven Chip Bar ( now the Carron ) in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen on Scotland's northeast coast.
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