The curious relationship between Holmes and Scotland Yard provides an important clue to the deeper significance of his eccentric behavior.

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Japp is an Inspector from Scotland Yard and appears in many of the stories trying to solve the cases Poirot is working on.

Examples include the episodes Mystery of the Broken Statues, A Ghost for Scotland Yard, The Man in the Lead Mask, and The Golden Vulture.

When Rohmer revived the series in the early 1930s, Smith ( who has been knighted ) is Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.

He also becomes good friends with Scotland Yard detective Charles Parker, a sergeant in 1921 who eventually rises to the rank of Commander.

A Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood, also dies laughing.

Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was promoting Proof of Life in London in February 2001.

New Scotland Yard, London

Scotland Yard ( officially New Scotland Yard, though an official Scotland Yard never has existed ) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London.

It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.

The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station.

The New York Times wrote in 1964 that, just as Wall Street gave its name to the New York financial world, Scotland Yard did the same for police activity in London.

The Metropolitan Police moved away from Scotland Yard in 1890, and the name " New Scotland Yard " was adopted for the new headquarters.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

Davidson also states that “ far from being ‘ peripheral ’ to the British economy, Scotland – or more precisely, the Lowlands – lay at its core ”.

Legislation against Sectarian hate in Scotland, which is aimed principally at football matches, does not criminalise jokes about peoples ’ beliefs, nor outlaw “ harsh ” comment about their religious faith.

Macbeth is Shakespeare ’ s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

Prince Malcolm, Duncan ’ s son, has succeeded in raising an army in England, and Macduff joins him as he rides to Scotland to challenge Macbeth ’ s forces.

It also suggests that, with Malcolm ’ s coronation, order will be restored to the Kingdom of Scotland.

" This provision prevents the existence of two ‘ grades ’ of whisky originating from Scotland, one “ Scotch whisky ” and the other, a “ whisky – product of Scotland ” that complies with the generic EU standard for whisky.

A man pours some whisky into a flask in this 1869 oil painting by Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. After the English Malt Tax of 1725, most of Scotland ’ s distillation was either shut down or forced underground.

At one point, it was estimated that over half of Scotland ’ s whisky output was illegal.

In 2010, the novelist Jack Whyte gave another fictionalized account of Wallace ’ s life, particularly his early life, in The Forest Laird, the first book in The Guardians of Scotland trilogy.

Then, in December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published the first preliminary reports by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh of a chromosome survey of 315 male patients at The State Hospital outside Carstairs, Lanarkshire — Scotland ’ s only special security hospital for the developmentally disabled — that found nine patients, ages 17 to 36, averaging almost 6 ft. in height ( avg.

Telford ’ s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as an engineer: he had published poetry between 1779 and 1784, and an account of a tour of Scotland with Southey.

In June 2005, the Scottish Executive announced their intention to create Scotland ’ s first coastal and marine national park.

In England, Ireland and Scotland people go to all sorts of dances at which some of the dances will be square dances, but they don ’ t say that they are “ square dancing ”.

Thus, upon marriage, the wife of The Prince of Wales assumes the styles and titles – Her Royal Highness The Princess ( husband ’ s Christian name ) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles and Princess of Scotland.

From the first moment of the marriage, Anne was under pressure to provide James and Scotland with an heir, but the passing of 1591 and 1592 with no sign of a pregnancy provoked renewed Presbyterian libels on the theme of James ’ s fondness for male company and whispers against Anne " for that she proves not with child.

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.

Sir Robert Douglas ’ s Peerage of Scotland.

The traditional district was eventually combined into the traditional county of Inverness-shire along with the traditional district of Inverness and parts of Lochaber and some island districts during reorganisation due to Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1889, this Act established a uniform system of county councils and town councils in Scotland and restructured many of Scotland ’ s counties.

The Invention of Scotland ( 2008 ) by Hugh Trevor-Roper conclusively follows the evolution of Macpherson's version ( s ) and the work's early support by some Scottish intellectuals.

Copper pot still s at Auchentoshan Distillery in Scotch Whisky | Scotland

Other shapes of sets include triangular sets ( three couples on the sides of a triangle, this is fairly rare ), square sets ( four couples on the sides of a square ) or square sets with extra couple ( s ) in the centre ; these are much less common though some of the most popular dances in Scotland use these formations.

The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1889 established a uniform system of county councils in Scotland and realigned the boundaries of many of Scotland ’ s counties.