The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* The Reverend H. Wheeler Robinson DD ( Edinburgh ), Old Testament scholar ; President and Acting President of the Society for Old Testament Studies

He then entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself as a Greek scholar.

Marie was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Henry Stopes, a brewer, engineer, architect and palaeontologist and the Shakespeare scholar and women's rights campaigner Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.

By 19 he had moved to Scotland to pursue his education at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied philosophy and Arabic with Islamic studies scholar W. Montgomery Watt.

After graduating, Schmechal and Abbey traveled together to Edinburgh, Scotland, where Abbey spent a year at Edinburgh University as a Fulbright scholar.

He received his first education at the Edinburgh Academy and at the Göttingen University and University of Edinburgh where he received first-class honors in Philosophy and as Gray scholar and Ferguson scholar in philosophy of the four Scottish Universities.

He was the son of Sir Daniel Sandford, politician and Greek scholar, the grandson of the Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh, the brother of Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania, and the first cousin of the Right Reverend Charles Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar.

Sir D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE ( 2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews ) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar.

Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 25 June 1684 ) was a Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662.

Hermann Pálsson, Icelandic scholar and translator: born Sauðanes á Ásum, a farm near Blönduós in Iceland on the 26th May 1921 ; Lecturer in Icelandic Studies, Edinburgh University 1950-82, Professor of Icelandic Studies 1982-88 ( Emeritus ); married 1953 Stella Þorvarðardóttir ( one daughter ); died Bourgas, Bulgaria 11 August 2002.

In addition, he has been a research fellow at Donaldson's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh, Scotland, an exchange scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and a visiting scholar and lecturer at schools in the French cities of Paris, Toulouse, and Marseille.

Dr Andrew Martin Fairbairn ( 4 November 1838 – 1912 ) was a Scottish theological scholar, born near Edinburgh.

The younger brother of Muslim scholar and academic, Timothy Winter Henry attended Westminster School and Edinburgh University.

Igor Štiks ( born 17 September 1977 in Sarajevo ) is a writer and scholar presently living in Edinburgh, UK.

* Ritchie, R. L. Graeme, The Normans in Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 1954

* Robert L. Morris ( 1942 – 2004 ), first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh

*" William Barclay, Professor of Law at Pont-a-Mousson and Angers " by Andrew F Stewart in Stair Society Miscellany V, ed H L MacQueen, Edinburgh 2006 ISBN 1-872517-18-8

Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and the Duke of Edinburgh were cast as the Magi while actors Hugh Grant, Samuel L. Jackson, and comedian Graham Norton were cast as shepherds.

of Edinburgh in 1884, D. C. L.

* Roberts, John L., Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, ( Edinburgh, 1997 )

& MacQueen, Hector L. ( eds ), Atlas of Scottish History to 1707, ( Edinburgh, 1996 )

* Ritchie R L G The Normans in Scotland ( Edinburgh, 1954 )( narrative of battle is p 256-70 )

* Roberts, John L., Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, ( Edinburgh, 1997 )

In 1834 Dr Chalmers was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in the same year he became corresponding member of the Institute of France ; in 1835 Oxford conferred on him the degree of D. C. L.

* Roberts, John L., Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, ( Edinburgh, 1997 ), pp. 53 – 4

Several of the founders of the University of London are directly associated with the founding of the school ; they include Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux ( who appears to be singled out as the ring leader in A tradition for Freedom ), Lord Auckland ( probably George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland ), William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Henry Hallam, Leonard Horner ( The Royal Society of Edinburgh has described UCS as his ' monument ' ), James Mill, Viscount Sandon ( probably either Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby or Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby ), James Lock, Stephen Lushington D. C. L.

* L Yeoman, Reportage Scotland, Edinburgh 2000, contains Russell ’ s account

He was understudy to Giuseppe Di Stefano at a performance of L ' elisir d ' amore at the Edinburgh Festival circa 1951.

In 1957, di Stefano made his British debut at the Edinburgh Festival as Nemorino in L ' elisir d ' amore and his Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut in 1961, as Cavaradossi in Tosca.

The collection started at e-flux's New York gallery and then traveled to the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany ; to Antwerp's MuHKA ( Museum of Contemporary Art ) in conjunction with NICC, an artist-run space ; to United Nations Plaza School in Berlin ; to the Institut National de L ' Histoire de L ' Art in Paris ; to Stills in Edinburgh ; and to the Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before being retired.

She has also conducted Pelléas et Mélisande ( Covent Garden, London ), Le Comte Ory ( Glyndebourne Festival ), Cosi fan tutte ( Opera North ), Chabrier's L ' étoile ( Edinburgh Festival ), Zaïde and Der Schauspieldirektor ( Bastille ), L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges ( Châtelet ), Boîeldieu's La Dame Blanche ( Opéra Comique, Paris ), Mitridate, La Donna del lago, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne ( Nice ), La Clemenza di Tito ( Orléans ), La Traviata ( Nancy ), Idomeneo and Cosi fan tutte ( Liège ), Maria Stuarda ( Torino ), La Cenerentola ( Rome ) and Les Oiseaux de passage ( Bologna ).

* Driver, G. R., trans., J. C. L. Gibson, ed., Canaanite Myths and Legends, ( Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark Ltd., 1977 ).

A notable interpreter of 20th century and contemporary opera, Caine's world premieres have included: Jezebel, presented by the Toronto Symphony ( title role ; oratorio by Robertson Davies and Derek Holman ); Playing Away, presented by Opera North ( role: L. A. Lola ; by Howard Brenton and Benedict Mason ); The Golden Ass, presented by the Canadian Opera Company ( role: Fotis ; by Robertson Davies and Randolph Peters ); Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, presented by Psappha ( 6 female roles ; by David Pountney and Peter Maxwell Davies ); Mathilde, a new musical by Conor Mitchell directed by Simon Callow ( Edinburgh Fringe Festival ); Intolerance, a one-woman opera by Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell presented by Tête-à-Tête.

* ' London to Edinburgh non-stop new L. N. E. R.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

Into various parts of the fabric were built relics and curiosities from historical structures, such as the doorway of the old Tolbooth in Edinburgh.

Into various parts of the fabric were built relics and curiosities from historical structures, such as the doorway of the old Tolbooth in Edinburgh.

* Edinburgh University wrote compilers for Algol60 ( later updated for Algol60M ) based on their Atlas Autocode compilers initially bootstrapped from the Atlas to the KDF-9.

The Edinburgh compilers generated code for the ICL1900, the ICL4 / 75 ( an IBM360 clone ), and the ICL2900.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.

Statue of Alexander on the west door of St. Giles, Edinburgh

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.

To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.

They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

At 23, he published his first poem, “ Hymns to the Gods .” Later work was printed in literary journals like Blackwood ’ s Edinburgh Magazine and local newspapers.

Anti-globalization protests in Edinburgh during the start of the 31st G8 summit.

* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, meta-level reasoning for guiding inductive proof, proof planning and recipient of 2007 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Herbrand Award, and 2003 Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.

Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.