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Scottish and host
* 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist and television host
The sluagh sídhe — " the fairy host " — is sometimes depicted in Irish and Scottish lore as a crowd of airborne spirits, perhaps the cursed, evil or restless dead.
Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.
Buchan, a leader with an international reputation, commanded the large Scottish army but both he and Douglas fell at the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424 and the Scottish host routed.
The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.
A Scottish links-style course, Chambers Bay hosted the 2010 U. S. Amateur and will host the 2015 U. S. Open.
The town is host to a number of annual curling championships, including the Scottish Ladies Curling Championship and the World Juniors Curling Championship.
* Dominik Diamond, Scottish broadcaster, writer, radio presenter and former host of GamesMaster
The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm tanmay ( sluagh " army ", " host " + gairm " cry ").
Easter Road has sometimes played host to Scottish League Cup semi-final matches, such as in the 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2006 competitions.
" Maga ," as this magazine soon came to be called, was the organ of the Scottish Tory party, and round it gathered a host of able writers.
After a muster on the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh, the Scottish host moved to Ellemford, to the north of Duns, and camped to wait for Angus and Home.
After crossing the ford Mowbray climbed up the rising ground towards Gask, where he immediately attacked the slumbering Scottish camp followers, in the mistaken belief that he had encountered Mar's host.
Magdalene M. " Magda " Szubanski ( born 12 April 1956 ) is a British-Australian actress of Polish and Scottish descent, comedian, television presenter, radio host and author.
Forres has a host of various sporting activities within it including Forres Golf Course, which has held the Scottish Young Professionals championships a number of times.
In the spring of 1296, Andrew Moray, together with his father and uncle, joined the Scottish feudal host assembling in preparation for the impending conflict.
The Scottish army was overmatched by this English host.
Celtic Park, Ibrox and Hampden Park all competed with each other to host Scottish Cup Finals and Scotland matches, one of which could generate up to £ 1, 000 in revenue for the host club.
The Scottish Cup trophy was withheld as Hampden was not in a fit condition to host a second replay.
The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Premier League side, Dunfermline Athletic F. C.
The town is also host to a modern Scottish restaurant called Artisan, and also has a large number of independent takeaway restaurants and cafes, most of which are located in the main street.
The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Premier League club Motherwell and was the temporary home of Gretna for the 2007 – 08 SPL season.

Scottish and assembled
The Ian Hamilton Finlay archive assembled by Simon Cutts, provides a record, through letters, manuscripts and printed pieces, of the work of the Scottish concrete poet, garden designer and controversialist.
King Edward, who assembled a large army on the Anglo-Scottish border for the invasion of Scotland, was able to depend on the support of a faction of Scottish lords.
Nightcrawlers is a house music project, assembled by Scottish producer, DJ and vocalist John Reid ( born 6 September 1963 ) from Easterhouse in Glasgow, Scotland.
Scottish bricklayers arrived with a boatload of bricks from their homeland and assembled the coke ovens which were worked by the Japanese.

Scottish and near
Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.
* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
* 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
Friction with the provincial government rose notably when, in October 1771, Allen and a company of Boys drove off a group of Scottish settlers near Rupert.
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William.
The cairns and Megalithic monuments continued into the Bronze age, and hill forts started to appear, such as Eildon Hill near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, which goes back to around 1000 BC and which accommodated several hundred houses on a fortified hilltop.
Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.
William Hone speaks in The Every-Day Book ( 1838 ) of a later festive Lammas day sport common among Scottish farmers near Edinburgh.
Lutyens ' upturned herring buses near the foreshore provided the inspiration for Spanish architect Enric Miralles ' Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.
He returned to Scotland and, in September 1832, died ( under unexplained circumstances ) at Abbotsford, the home he had designed and had built, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 when John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldiers at Robroyston near Glasgow.
In August 1209 King John decided to flex the English muscles by marching a large army to Norham ( near Berwick ), in order to exploit the flagging leadership of the ageing Scottish monarch.
* Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi river, near Kalene Hill.
* July 27 – First Jacobite rising: Scottish Covenanter supporters of William and Mary ( under Hugh Mackay ) are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James II at the Battle of Killiecrankie near Pitlochry in Perthshire but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed.
Padthaway was the name of the original pastoral station which was established near here in 1847 by a successful Scottish businessman, Robert Lawson.
Telford also undertook highway works in the Scottish Lowlands, including of new roads and numerous bridges, ranging from a 112 ft ( 34 m ) span stone bridge across the Dee at Tongueland in Kirkcudbright ( 1805 – 1806 ) to the 129 ft ( 39 m ) tall Cartland Crags bridge near Lanark ( 1822 ).
The story is based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's supposed disappearance in the Scottish Highlands near the end of the Roman occupation.
Back of Keppoch ( Gaelic: Cùl na Ceapaich ) is a small coastal settlement in the north west Scottish Highlands, approximately 40 miles west of Fort William near to the A830 road to Mallaig.
The size of the region is shown by the fact that the northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall.
Historically it was strategically important as the " Gateway to the Highlands ", with its position near the boundary between the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, indeed, it has been described as the brooch which clasps the Highlands and the Lowlands together.
The Battle of the Boyne (, ) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thronesthe Catholic King James and the Protestant King William ( who had deposed James in 1688 ) across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland.
Also in 1642 Covenanter Campbell soldiers of the Argyll's Foot were encouraged by their commanding officer Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck to kill the local Catholic MacDonalds, near relatives of their arch Clan enemy in the Scottish Highlands Clan MacDonald.
During one voyage in 1830 he was wrecked on the Scottish coast near Leith, as a result of which he came into contact with Edinburgh architect James Gillespie Graham, who advised him to abandon seafaring for architecture.
** Eden Mouth ( estuary, near St Andrews ); Findhorn Bay, Montrose Basin ( estuary / lagoon with narrow entrance ); Tweed mouth ( estuary, very near Scottish border )

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