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Scottish and brochs
In the mid-19th century Scottish antiquaries called brochs ' burgs ', after Old Norse borg, with the same meaning.

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He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.
The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.
In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party.
* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
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.
Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900, and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school.
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.
* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.
In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires were at one time established to warn of incursions by the English.
A side managed by Oxford University — supposedly the England rugby team, but actually including three Scottish players — toured Argentina at the time: the people of Argentina termed it the " Combined British ".
Even so, forces with inferior weapons have still emerged victorious at times, for example in the Wars of Scottish Independence and in the First Italo – Ethiopian War.
Edward Dwelly in Bealltuinn ( 1911 ) describes a 1 May custom of his day, practised in the Scottish Highlands, where young people met on the moors, lit a bonfire and made an oatmeal cake toasted at the embers.
Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).
The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".
In Scottish Mythology a similar creature is known as the Bean nighe or ban nigheachain ( little washerwoman ) or nigheag na h-àth ( little washer at the ford ).
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.
Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.
The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.
The French quickly defeated the Scottish at Baleine and established the first permanent settlements on Île Royale: present day Englishtown ( 1629 ) and St. Peter's ( 1630 ).
The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

Scottish and start
Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.
It is, however, normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of New Year's Day ( 1 January ) or, in some cases, 2 January which is a Scottish Bank Holiday.
Scottish historian Lord Kinross, in his The Seeds of Decline, sees the massive outlay for the fleet-rebuilding following the Battle of Lepanto as the start of the Empire's slow decay.
Whistles are a prevalent starting instrument in English traditional music, Scottish traditional music and Irish traditional music, since they are often cheap ( under US $ 10 ), relatively easy to start with ( no tricky embouchure such as found with the flute ), and the fingerings are nearly identical to those on the traditional six holed flute ( Irish flute, baroque flute ).
The gallery houses the Scottish national collection of fine art, including Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century.
Though an application for membership of the Scottish Premier League was rejected, an application to the Scottish Football League was successful with member clubs deciding to place Rangers in the bottom division, the Third, for the start of the 2012-13 season rather than the First Division as had been proposed.
Edward invaded in 1333, marking the start of the Second War of Scottish Independence, and the English forces reoccupied and refortified Edinburgh Castle in 1335, holding it until 1341.
He took up the problems of mind very much after the fashion of the Scottish Enlightenment, as then represented by Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart and Thomas Brown, but made a new start, due in part to David Hartley, and still more to his own independent thinking.
SnG has always declared itself ultranationalists in the sense that the Nationalist Revolution will start only when a sovereign Scottish Parliament is set up.
The Scottish Book of Common Prayer came into general use at start of the reign of William and Mary.
The most famous Scottish folk song, Auld Lang Syne, is well known throughout the English-speaking world, and is often sung to celebrate the start of the New Year, especially at Hogmanay in Edinburgh.
At the start of the season they were eliminated in the second round from the 2008 – 09 Scottish Cup by Edinburgh based East Of Scotland team Spartans F. C .. At the end of the season Pollok had a chance once again to retain their West Premier League championship but lost the last league game of the season away to Auchinleck Talbot by failing to defend a 1-0 lead in the last 8 minutes.
The Scottish system is the most flexible in the UK, however, as parents of children born between September and December can request a deferral for 1 year ( not automatic, requires to be approved ), whilst children born between January and February can opt to hold their child back a year and let them start school the following August.
Like many franchises within the ITV network, Scottish struggled through the late 1960s and early 1970s with a recession, increased transmitter rental fees, taxation on income ( rather than profits ), a decline in advertising revenue and the costs of converting equipment for the start of colour broadcasting-marked by the opening of the Gateway Theatre studios in Edinburgh.
On 2 March 2006, it was announced by SMG plc ( now STV Group plc ) that Scottish Television would revert back to the brand name of STV, that it used from the start of colour broadcasting in 1969 until 30 August 1985, and which the station was still informally known as in parts of Scotland.
He was also played as a substitute in two of the three Scottish Cup ties and was on from the start in five out of six League Cup games and scored once.
At the start of season 2003 – 2004 the league was due to consist of 11 clubs when Inverness City were elected to replace Alness United who had applied to join the Scottish Junior Football Association's North Region.
The cup's sponsor for 18 years, until the start of the 2006 – 07 season, was the OVD Demerara Rum company, replaced at the semi final stage of the 2006 – 07 competition by Scottish coach operator Citylink.
There was a period of revival for the team and some great results were achieved, but the poor start meant that Queen's finished bottom of the Third Division, and thus, bottom of Scottish football, for the first time in their history.
Scottish Legends Championship race start at Knockhill
After another play-off defeat ( losing 6-2 on aggregate in the promotion play-off final to Dumbarton at the end of 2011-12 season ) fate again dealt in Airdrie's favour as the liquidation of Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the subsequent decision amongst Scottish Football League members clubs that the newly-reformed Rangers should start in the Scottish Third Division meant that an additional team from each tier of Scottish football was promoted for the 2012-13 season.

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