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A performance was staged in the real Macbeth's home of Moray, produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, to take place at Elgin Cathedral.
In 1932 the Bannockburn Preservation Committee, under Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, presented lands to the National Trust for Scotland.
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Pulp subsequently undertook a tour of the National Parks in the UK, even playing a show as far North as Elgin in Scotland.
Originally named Jeffers and then Blaney, the town renamed itself Elgin after the Elgin National Watch Company relocated its manufacturing facility to the town from Elgin, Illinois in 1963.
The Elgin Commercial Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Elgin became a Texas Main Street city in 1990, and in 1999, 2000 and 2001 was selected as a National Main Street Community.
Such facilities include the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Georgia and the Elgin Center at Lion Country Safari in Florida.
His legacy in Canada was the subject of a 1959 National Film Board of Canada short docudrama, Lord Elgin: Voice of the People, directed by Julian Biggs.
The National Arts Centre ( NAC ) is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal.
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Even after 40 years of manufacturing improvements, in 1910, labor accounted for 80 % of the cost of watches made by the Elgin National Watch Company.
The Waltham Watch Company complied immediately with the requirements of Ball's guidelines, later followed by Elgin National Watch Company and most of the other American manufacturers: Aurora, Hamilton, Hampden, E. Howard & Co., Illinois, Seth Thomas, later on joined by some Swiss watch manufacturers: Audemars Piguet, Gallet, Longines, Record Watch, Vacheron Constantin.
In 1874, the company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.
In 1910, the company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches.
) Elgin American was a different company from Elgin National Watch Company ( see Allen Gellman ).
* NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor was named after the Elgin National Watch Company.
* Daniel Beard's sketches of an angel at the end of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court are based on the Elgin National Watch Company's logo.

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* August 1 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois.
* Father Time was the logo for the Elgin Watch Company.
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The Waltham Watch Company and the Elgin Watch Company were both used as early as the 1860s and 1870s as railroad standard watches.
Elgin-branded watches produced after 1968 have no connection to the Elgin Watch Company.

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It ended up being owned by the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company in 1924.
In January, 2011 the Elgin Theatre Company ( Elgin, IL ) performed the show under director Madeline Franklin.
On December 24, 2008, the STB approved CN's purchase for $ 300 million of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company ( EJ & E ) ( reporting mark EJE ) from US Steel Corp originally announced on September 27, 2007.
Lt. General Andrew Anderson, born in Elgin, also of the East India Company, died in 1824 and bequeathed £ 70, 000 to the town to found an institution for the welfare of the elderly poor and for the education of orphans.
Colonel James Brander of Pitgaveny, the proprietor of the site, with the assistance of the Trinity Lodge of Freemasons, and in presence of the Chairman and shareholders of the Harbour Company, and representatives of the burgh of Elgin.
This prompted the now renamed Elgin and Lossiemouth Harbour Company to build a new second basin at a cost of £ 18, 000.
Insull also owned significant portions of many railroads, mainly electric interurban streetcar lines, including the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, Chicago Rapid Transit Company, Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, and Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad.
John M. Murphy called at the offices of American Tower and Tank Company in Elgin, IL in the fall of 1911.
That started what has become the Elgin Sweeper Company.

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Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.
The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes and the Rosetta Stone are among the most disputed objects in its collections, and organisations have been formed demanding the return of these artefacts to their native countries of Greece, Nigeria and Egypt respectively.
Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today.
Elgin hosts several wine festivals throughout the year, most notably the St. Martin's Day festival and the Fall festival.
Between 1887 and 1908, the area around Elgin had 35 sawmills, most transportable water-driven whipsaws ( vertical reciprocating saws ).
Elgin rapidly became the most important agricultural center in Bastrop County.
* Suzette Haden Elgin the author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defence states that verbal self-defense defends against the eight most common types of verbal violence, and redirects and defuses potential verbal confrontations.
At this time the antiquarian world was much occupied with the vexed question of the merits of the Elgin marbles, and Flaxman was one of those whose evidence before the parliamentary commission had most weight in favour of the purchase which was ultimately effected in 1816.
In a recent study, Elgin was shown to be one of the most expensive towns in which to buy property in Scotland.
The 63 points Fulks scored on February 10, 1949, was the most in an NBA game ( then called the Basketball Association of America ) until Elgin Baylor scored 64 points on November 8, 1959.
The most famous Earl was the 7th Earl, who removed and transported to Britain the so-called Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon.
In 2005, based on discussions with the public, the committee changed its name from British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles to British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, as it was felt that out of all the arguments surrounding the Parthenon ( Elgin ) Marbles, that of reunifying two separated collections was perceived by many people as the most compelling.
In 1964 the company relocated most manufacturing operations to a brand new plant in Blaney, South Carolina, a town near Columbia, South Carolina which renamed itself Elgin, South Carolina.
Spartans most recent cup run sent them to Pollok, winning through a replay, Annan Athletic winning 2 – 1, Elgin City again winning 2 – 1 and finally being knocked out by Airdrie United in the fourth round.
They originally included founders ( Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and de Maisonneuve ), clerics ( de Laval, de Brébeuf, Marquette and Olier ), military men ( de Frontenac, Wolfe, de Montcalm and de Levis ), Amerindians, French governors ( D ' Argenson, de Tracy, de Callières, de Montmagny, d ' Aillesbout, de Vaudreuil ) and, in the words of Tâché, " some English governors the most sympathetic to our nationality " ( Murray, Dorchester, Prevost and Bagot ) and Lord Elgin, who was given a special place for he was seen as an important player in obtaining " responsible government ".
The Bull made Aberdeen one of the four suffragan sees of the Archbishopric of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and defined as its territory " the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, Banff, Elgin or Moray, Nairn, Ross ( except Lewis in the Hebrides ), Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and that portion of Inverness which lies to the north of a straight line drawn from the most northerly point of Loch Luing to the eastern boundary of the said county of Inverness, where the counties of Aberdeen and Banff join.

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