They were also aware that, unlike steam and internal combustion engines, virtually no serious development work had been carried out on the Stirling engine for many years and asserted that modern materials and know-how should enable great improvements.

Statues of the Bruce also stand on the battleground at Bannockburn, outside Stirling Castle and Marischal College in Aberdeen.

By 1304, most of the other nobles of the country had also pledged their allegiance to Edward, and this year the English also managed to re-take Stirling Castle.

Stirling also ran another of his companies, Television International Enterprises, from the same offices as Watchguard International.

At the celebration of the centenary of gas lighting in 1892, a bust of Murdoch was unveiled by Lord Kelvin in the Wallace Monument, Stirling, and there is also a bust of him by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey at St. Mary's Church.

There were also several Sieges of Stirling Castle in the conflict, notably in 1304.

During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Battle of Stirling also took place in the centre of Stirling on 12 September 1648.

Stirling also had a higher proportion of non-Scottish born residents at 16. 5 %, compared to the Scottish average of 12. 8 %.

The City of Stirling is home to a large number of commuters, with 12, 000 residents commuting to work in other areas, with 13, 800 workers also travelling in to the city.

Stirling Wanderers Hockey Club have also moved to a brand new ( international standard ) pitch at Forthbank for season 2008 / 09.

Next to this pitch there is also the ground of Stirling County Cricket Club, whose pavilion captured an architectural award in June 2009, three years after its opening.

Stirling University also currently hosts the Scottish men's lacrosse champions.

Stirling is also home to part of the wider Forth Valley College which was formed on 1 August 2005 from the merger of Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannan colleges.

Stirling also has a Gaelic-medium unit situated in the city's Riverside Primary School which teaches pupils from across Stirling and Clackmannanshire through the medium of Scottish Gaelic.

On the day he fired Stirling, Milbury also announced that he would step down as general manager once a successor was found.

In September the Privy Council decided that she had also forfeited her rights to the supervision of her sons, whereupon in defiance she and her allies took the princes to Stirling Castle.

Stirling has also developed a considerable fine art collection since 1967, comprising over 300 works including ; paintings, tapestries and sculpture.

There are also other halls of residence located off-campus, within Stirling city centre, including ; Union Street and John Forty's Court.

As well as the main campus in Stirling, the University also has campuses in Inverness and Stornoway which specialise in Nursing and Midwifery.

Stirling University also has student-run media services.

Recently, ( 28 February 2011 ) there has been news that Digby has retired leaving Michael Stirling as the new editor of the Beano.

While humanizing and questioning him, Stirling gives credit to Bloch for helping to break through the monotonous methodological alternance between positivism and narrative history, creating a new, synthetic version of the historical practice that has since become so ingrained in the discipline that it is typically overlooked.

Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting from Antarctica, the land is extremely eroded and ancient, with no part of the state above 1, 245 metres ( 4, 085 ft ) AHD ( at Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara region ).

Its population in 2008 was 33, 710, for Stirling itself, the wider urban area including Bridge of Allan and Bannockburn has a population of 45, 750.

The city has been strategically significant since at least the Roman occupation of Britain, due to its naturally defensible crag and tail hill ( latterly the site of Stirling Castle ), and its commanding position at the foot of the Ochil Hills on the border between the Lowlands and Highlands, at the lowest crossing point of the River Forth.

The land surrounding Stirling has been most affected by glacial erosion and deposition.

However this has been augmented by out-of-town developments such as the Springkerse Retail Park on the city bypass to the east of Stirling, and the development of a large Sainsbury's in the Raploch.

In terms of tourism, the presence of such historical monuments as Stirling Castle, the National Wallace Monument and other nearby attractions like Blair Drummond Safari Park, the key role which Stirling has played in Scottish history, as well as the scenery of the area, has bolstered Stirling's position as an important tourist destination in Scotland.

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.

Stirling and its surrounding area has a number of 9-and 18-hole golf courses, the largest of which is the Stirling Golf Course, located in the Kings Park area of the city.

Newry, like Inverness and Stirling in Scotland, has no formal boundaries or city council.

The University of Stirling however has a relatively small student population, ranking 87th in the UK.

Since its inception, Stirling has offered modular degree programmes allowing greater flexibility and choice.

Philips was instrumental in the revival of the Stirling engine when, in the early 1930s, the management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would assist in expanding sales of its radios into parts of the world where mains electricity was unavailable and the supply of batteries uncertain.

Engineers at the company's research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable, citing its quiet operation ( both audibly and in terms of radio interference ) and ability to run on a variety of heat sources ( common lamp oil – " cheap and available everywhere " – was favoured ).

Stirling was of vital strategic importance and its loss would be a serious embarrassment to the English.

King Robert awaited its arrival south of Stirling near the Bannock Burn in Scotland.

The Bannockburn, over which the English army had to cross on the way to Stirling, and its sister streams flowed over the Carse of Stirling.

Worried that Britain was losing its power after the War, Stirling organised deals to sell British weapons and military personnel to other countries, like Saudi Arabia, for various privatised foreign policy operations.

A ford, and later bridge, of the River Forth at Stirling brought wealth and strategic influence, as did its port.

That said, the areas round Stirling Town Centre encounter significantly less snow in Winter than many of its very close neighbours such as Denny and Dunblane.

At the centre of a large rural agricultural hinterland that encompasses some of the flattest and most productive land in Scotland, Stirling principally functioned as a market town, symbolised by its Mercat cross, with farmers coming to sell their products and wares in the large agricultural market that was held in the town.

Today, agriculture still plays a part in the economic life of Stirling, given its focus at the heart of a large rural area, but to a much lesser extent than previously.

Knowledge related industries, research and development as well as life sciences have clustered around the university in the Stirling University Innovation Park, close to its main campus.

Despite promotion involving former Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss, the reaction upon its release was that the C5 was impractical in the British climate meaning it was only comfortably usable in southern England in the spring and summer, and possibly dangerous on busy roads.

Stirling was however the only completely new institution of its kind established in Scotland since the University of Edinburgh was founded in 1582.

Unlike the Ancient universities of Scotland, Stirling University's constitution is laid out in its Royal Charter, rather than the Universities ( Scotland ) Acts.

Sister city to Stirling, Scotland, Dunedin has maintained and embraced its Scottish roots.

The town derives its name from General William " Lord Stirling " Alexander, a Scottish expatriate, who served valiantly under Gen. George Washington in the New York and other campaigns.

In Scotland Blair Castle became a popular attraction on account of its landscaped gardens, as did Stirling Castle with its romantic connections.