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The Scottish population became extinct, but has been reintroduced from the Swedish population ; in Germany it is on the " Red list " as a species threatened by extinction, and is no longer found in the lower mountainous areas of Bavaria ; in the Bavarian Forest, the Black Forest and the Harz mountains numbers of surviving Western Capercaillie decline even under massive efforts to breed them in captivity and release them into the wild ; and in Switzerland, in the Swiss Alps and in the Jura.
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He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro ' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union, was " not the case, but rather the contrary ".
Previously mainly Scottish Gaelic-speaking, most of the population was evacuated to Mull on 20 June 1953, since when the island has been sparsely populated.
On Tristan da Cunha the population of 264 people share just seven surnames: Glass ( Scottish ), Green ( Dutch ), Hagan ( Irish ), Lavarello ( Italian, a typical Ligurian surname ), Repetto ( Italian, another typical Ligurian surname ), Rogers ( English ) and Swain ( English ).
In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).
Its population is a diverse mixture of nationalities which contributes to various Scottish, Acadian, African Canadian and eastern European cultural events being held throughout the year.
The population was also slightly younger than the Scottish average of 37 – the median age for males was 34 ; and the median age for females was 36, to the national average of 39.
A 2010 Scottish Government study of " public attitudes towards the Scots language " found that 64 % of respondents ( around 1, 000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population ) " don't really think of Scots as a language ", but it also found that " the most frequent speakers are least likely to agree that it is not a language ( 58 %) and those never speaking Scots most likely to do so ( 72 %)".
The original population of the colony also derived overwhelmingly from certain areas of north-west Europe ( the Scottish highlands, Ireland and the Basque country ) commonly linked in popular belief and tradition with a high level of supernatural abilities such as the second sight.
As of the 2010 American Community Survey, it was estimated that 22. 2 % of the population were of Irish, 16. 7 % French, 9. 6 % French Canadian, 14. 4 % English, 10. 4 % Italian, 8. 1 % German, 4. 8 % Polish, 3. 7 % Scottish, 3. 6 % American, and 2. 6 % Greek ancestry.
Approximately 80 % of the region ’ s population is of European lineage with the majority being of Scottish stock — the descendants of early Scottish settlers from the early 19th century.
Most of population descended from Scottish, English, and other western European immigrants.
The rest of the population is of English, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Scottish, Greek, French, Dutch, and other background.
People of German descent make up 20. 4 % of the population of the town, followed by Irish at 11. 2 %, English at 7. 3 %, Italian at 5. 4 %, Scotch-Irish at 3. 4 %, Polish at 2. 5 %, Scottish at 2. 4 %, Dutch at 2. 2 %, Danish at 1. 2 %, French at 1. 2 %, Swedish at 1. 1 %, Austrian at 0. 9 %, Portuguese at 0. 5 %, European at 0. 4 %, Russian at 0. 4 %, Welsh at 0. 4 %, British at 0. 3 %, Canadian at 0. 3 %, Croatian at 0. 2 %, Slovak at 0. 2 %, Subsaharan African at 0. 2 %, and French Canadian rounding out at at 0. 2 %.
Resulting in long-lasting division of the Scottish population, and conflict.
A larger but less socially prominent element of the Protestant Irish population were the immigrant French Huguenots and the English and Scottish dissidents who settled in Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries, many of whom later emigrated to the American colonies.
In the battle for " hearts and minds " in Iraq, the Saltire was again used by the British Army as a means of distinguishing troops belonging to Scottish regiments from other coalition forces, in the hope of fostering better relations with the civilian population in the area south west of Baghdad.
The South owes its unique heritage to a variety of sources, including Native Americans ; early European settlements of Spanish, English, German, French, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish ; importation of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans ; historic dependence on slave labor ; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population ; and the aftermath of the Confederacy after the Civil War.
The Irish and Western Scottish populations went through a massive decline around 4000 years ago which ultimately led to the extinction of the Irish population between 2, 000 and 1, 000 years ago.
Its current pledged membership is about 9 % of the Scottish population — though according to the 2001 national census, 42 % of the Scottish population claim some form of allegiance to it ( see Religion in Scotland ).
In Scotland, on the other hand, the population increased by some 16 percent between 1994 and 2006, according to surveys done by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Scottish Natural Heritage.
Local residents are predominantly English-speaking Roman Catholics, the population core having Highland Scottish ancestry ; MacDonalds / MacDonnells mostly.
Scottish and became
Johnson, of Irish and Scottish descent and born in poverty, became a master tailor.
In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.
However as Old Castilian became modern Spanish, the pronunciation of the sh sound changed, and came to be pronounced with a voiceless velar fricative sound like the Scottish or German ch and today the Spanish pronunciation of " Quixote " is.
The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.
Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.
When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.
After a year honing his inquisitorial skills, he joined the front bench in November 1980 as a Scottish affairs spokesman when Michael Foot became party leader.
They formed the Scottish Reformed Church of Elbląg and became Elbing citizens, aiding Lutheran Sweden in the Thirty Years ' War.
By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.
King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.
During the Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe.
To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate, for which he extracted legal recognition that the realm of Scotland was held as a feudal dependency to the throne of England before choosing John Balliol, the man with the strongest claim, who became king in 1292.
Encouraged and subsidised by the Board of Trustees so it could compete with German products, merchant entrepreneurs became dominant in all stages of linen manufacturing and built up the market share of Scottish linens, especially in the American colonial market.
Most of them became poorly paid teachers or ministers, and none became important figures in the Scottish Enlightenment or the Industrial Revolution.
The designation of individual clan tartans was largely defined in this period and became a major symbol of Scottish identity.
The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.
New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations and economics, with the Leaving Certificate being replaced by the Scottish Certificate of Education Ordinary Grade (' O-Grade ') and Higher Grade (' Higher ') qualifications in 1962, which became the basic entry qualification for university study.
This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.
The Scottish Gaelic language arrived via Ireland due to the growing influence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from the 6th century onwards and became the dominant language of the southern Hebrides at that time.
The use of Scots and English became prominent in recent times but the Hebrides still contain the largest concentration of Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
After becoming subject to suzerainty to Norway as part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, the Isle of Man later became a possession of the Scottish and then English crowns.
This began a process whereby the islands of the Clyde became Scottish in language and culture rather than Norse.
By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.
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