The Scottish Deerhound, or simply the Deerhound, is a breed of hound ( a sighthound ), once bred to hunt the Red Deer by coursing.

In outward appearance, the Scottish Deerhound is similar to the Greyhound, but larger and more heavily boned.

Scottish Deerhound circa 1910

The Scottish Deerhound is gentle and extremely friendly.

A Scottish Deerhound named Foxcliffe Hickory Wind won Best In Show at the 2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show February 14-15, 2011.

The Scottish Deerhound.

How To Raise and Train A Scottish Deerhound.

A Most Perfect Creature of Heaven: The Scottish Deerhound.

( Available from the Scottish Deerhound Club of America and the Deerhound Club ( U. K .))

Your Scottish Deerhound Primer, Fern Hill, Ontario, 1989, 1999, 2005.

In 2011, at the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 5-year-old GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind became the first of her breed ( Scottish Deerhound ) to capture the Best in Show award.

( Lion was also mated to Lufra, a Scottish Deerhound, and their puppy Marquis appears in the pedigrees of both Deerhounds and Irish Wolfhounds.

The group includes the Afghan Hound, Azawakh, Basenji, Borzoi, Canaan Dog, Carolina Dog, Chart Polski ( Polish Greyhound ), Cirneco dell ' Etna, Greyhound, Hungarian Greyhound, Ibizan Hound, Irish Wolfhound, New Guinea Singing Dog, Pharaoh Hound, Portuguese Podengo, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Saluki, Scottish Deerhound, Sinhala Hound, Silken Windhound, Sloughi, Spanish Greyhound, Thai Ridgeback, Whippet, and Xoloitzcuintli.

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In the small Scottish village of Kinloch Rannoch, a local myth to this effect concerns a local hill that apparently resembles the head, shoulders, and torso of a man, and has therefore been termed ' the sleeping giant '.

The name resembles that of many other rivers in Britain ( e. g. Exe, Esk ), and is related to Scottish uisge (" water "), and therefore to " whisky ".

A new project to achieve a type of cattle that resembles the largest possible degree is TaurOs Project using primitive and hardy southern European breeds, Scottish Highland cattle and modern knowledge of DNA and animal breeding.

Two allies who gained their own solo spin-off series were Middenface McNulty, a Scottish mutant raised in a ghetto / concentration camp called ' Shytehill ' - presumably a reference to the Sighthill area of Glasgow-and whose head is covered with lumps ; and Durham Red, a female agent whose mutation resembles vampirism and who is thus feared and despised by other mutants.

As told by Davenport the story closely resembles the Scottish Freres of Berwick, which was printed in 1603.

Its two main characters are Cameron Colley, a journalist on a Scottish newspaper called The Caledonian, which resembles The Scotsman, and a serial murderer whose identity is a mystery.

Thus it became the second international TV series about a Scottish swashbuckler in France after the series Quentin Durward which had already been shot in back in 1970 and resembles many of Duncan McLeod's ( and Connor McLeod's ) historical flashbacks.

The environment in which they worked, the cool, often wet, and hilly Scottish Highland glens, contributed to the larger, rough-coated appearance of the breed.

From the colored rough-coated Fell Terriers of Cumbria and the Scottish Borders were developed several Kennel Club breeds, including the Lakeland Terrier, the Welsh Terrier, the Border Terrier and the Manchester Terrier.

The sambur buck, the jungle stag that is even more noble than the Scottish elk.

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.

Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.

More than 250 Scottish Rite Masons and guests gathered in their House of the Temple to pay tribute to their most prominent leader, Albert Pike, who headed the Scottish Rite from 1859 to 1891.

C. Wheeler Barnes of Denver, head of the Scottish Rite in Colorado, praised Pike as a historian, author, poet, journalist, lawyer, jurist, soldier and musician, who devoted most of his mature years to the strengthening of the Masonic Order.

About 1500 delegates are expected to register today for the biennial session of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

Frazer, a Scottish scholar with a broad knowledge of Classics, also concerned himself with religion, myth, and magic.

Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name.

The Church of Scotland separated from the Roman Catholic Church with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, and the split from it of the Scottish Episcopal Church began in 1582, in the reign of James VI of Scotland, over disagreements about the role of bishops.

After trouble with an incompetent Swiss French nursery helper Marcelle for toddler Rosalind, she decides " Scottish preferred .. good with the young.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1907 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral ( d. 1976 )

* 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish writer ( d. 1993 )

* 1318 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer ( d. 1622 )

* 1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1971 – Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer ( d. 2007 )