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* Six utilities ( EDF Energy, Centrica, RWE npower, E. on, Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy ) share 99 % of the retail electricity market.
It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.
A strong economic division between later Scandinavian immigrant farmers and the earlier English and Scottish war veterans who retained control of the principal businesses of the city center, the banks, and the increasingly important Otter Tail Power Company persisted for decades until several generations of ethnic intermarriage and continuing inward and outward migration largely erased the initially strong divisions of class and power along ethnic lines.
Carroll is a member of the Board of Directors of other companies, including Boise Cascade, Vulcan Materials, American Express, Scottish Power, and Texas Medical Center.
* Scottish Power, PLC
He resigned from the party in 1942 following his failure to persuade the party to adopt a devolutionist stance rather than supporting all out Scottish independence and due to the victory of Douglas Young over his favoured candidate William Power for the chairmanship of the party.
In 1998 Demon was bought by Scottish Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the private utility company Scottish Power.
Thus plc fully demerged from Scottish Power in 2002.
* William Power ( Scottish politician ) ( 1873 – 1953 ), former leader of the Scottish National Party
Whereas in Fine Fare's Scottish and Teesside heartland, Yellow Packs had merely been a successful product launch, they acquired a semi-iconic status in Ireland, and were extended throughout Quinnsworth's affiliate chains within the Power supermarket group ( such as Stewarts and Crazy Prices in Northern Ireland and Crazy Prices in the Republic ).
* Power classification-British Railways and London, Midland and Scottish railway classification scheme
In early 2007, Jones slammed Scottish Power Manweb for its treatment of bereaved relatives of dead customers when the company continued to send bills to a deceased relative's home.
She stated in the Commons that " Scottish Power Manweb's policy is a blatant attempt to obtain money for electricity which has not been used.
Alexander oversaw the Scottish Executive ’ s response to the recommendations of the McIntosh Commission into the future of local government in Scotland, introducing a package of measures for local government including giving local authorities the lead role in developing Community Planning, creating a formal Power of Community Initiative ( later known as a power of well being ) and establishing the Renewing Local Democracy ( Kerley ) Working Party on electoral systems.
Local industry includes ClydeUnion Pumps, and Scottish Power.
In 1998 the system was first offered to British Gas plc customers wanting to pay their bills ; in 2000 it was also offered to Vodafone customers and in 2001 it was extended to Scottish Power, Manweb and Orange customers.
Steam locomotive repair sheds were opened in 1877 at the Newton Heath Motive Power Depot ( now Traction Maintenance Depot ), coded 26A by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
** 1989 Scottish Power Challenge-1st
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He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
He was a member of Harmony lodge, No. 12, AF & AM, Scottish Rite ; ;
Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).
His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).
Thomas Wallace was of Scottish ancestry.
On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.
He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.
Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.
Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.
Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.
Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.
This was a collaborative project involving The Scottish Parliament, International Teledemocracy Centre and the Bundestag ‘ Online Services Department ’.
The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.
Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.
In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

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The designation of individual clan tartans was largely defined in this period and became a major symbol of Scottish identity.
* 1969-1971: Scottish author Nigel Tranter wrote a trilogy, considered largely accurate, based on the life of King Robert: The Steps to the Empty Throne, The Path of the Hero King and The Price of the King's Peace.
Stirling is renowned as the Gateway to the Highlands and is generally regarded as occupying a strategic position at the point where the flatter, largely undulating Scottish Lowlands meet the rugged slopes of the Highlands along the Highland Boundary Fault.
It remained largely confined to this area until the thirteenth century, continuing in common use while Gaelic was the language of the Scottish court.
Instead there was a wave of building or adapting Calvinist " temples ", though in the end none of these were to remain in use by the following year, and their layouts, which seem to have echoed early Swiss and Scottish Calvinist designs, are now largely unknown.
Avogadro's insight together with other studies of gas behaviour provided a basis for later theoretical work by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell to explain the properties of gases as collections of small particles moving through largely empty space.
In the 19th century, Westville, was largely settled by Scottish and English people who had migrated from Vermont and other parts of New England.
The influx of immigrants from the British Isles led to the construction of several new buildings, including St. Vincent's church for the Roman Catholic congregation, St. Peter's for the Anglicans, the Presbyterian church for a largely Scottish congregation and several new churches for a variety of Welsh congregations.
A quote from ' Wiki Christchurch NZ ': " The river that flows through the centre of the city ( its banks now largely forming an urban park ) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers ' farm and flows into the Clyde ".
Although the term Home Rule has been largely superseded by ' devolution ', the Home Rule movement can be seen as the forerunner to the creation of the current devolved Scottish Parliament.
The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the Glorious Revolution the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response Presbyterian government was guaranteed by law, excluding what became the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Today the RSCDS numbers some 20. 000 members all over the world, served from the headquarters in Edinburgh, and the continuous well-being of the Scottish country dance scene is largely due to the efforts of the Society.
The geese are migratory, moving south or west in winter, but Scottish breeders, some other populations in northwestern Europe, and feral flocks are largely resident.
The second War of Scottish Independence saw the English in control of Stirling Castle by 1336, when Sir Thomas Rokeby was the commander, and extensive works were carried out, still largely in timber rather than stone.
Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, King's College was purged of its Roman Catholic staff but in other respects was largely resistant to change.
Two of the former platforms in the SSP both emerged from British Section of the Committee for a Workers ' International, following the " Open Turn " debate of the early 1990s, which was largely led by Scottish members.
In 1921, the Scots National League formed as a body primarily based in London seeking Scottish independence, largely influenced by Sinn Féin.
James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition largely became sidelined.
The other community is overwhelmingly Protestant and are known as unionists or loyalists and are largely descended from Scottish and English settlers who arrived in Ulster during the Plantations of Ireland.
* Scottish TV Series Rab C Nesbitt is set in Govan although the series is largely filmed outwith.
The eccentric chief of the company, Felix Happer ( Burt Lancaster ), chooses to send him ( largely because his surname sounds Scottish ) to Scotland to acquire the village of Ferness to make way for a refinery.
Although most modern Border pipes are closely modelled on similar historic instruments, the modern Scottish smallpipes are a modern reinvention, inspired by historic instruments but largely based on Northumbrian smallpipes in their construction.

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