* In Allan Cole and Chris Bunch's Sten science fiction series, Book Two, The Wolf Worlds, the Scottish character Alex bemoans their predicament after crash landing ; ' A slackit way f ' r a mon ,' Alex mourned to himself.

* August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro, are beheaded in the Tower ( Lord Lovat was executed in 1747 ).

Two days later, in Upsettlington, the Guardians of the Realm and the leading Scottish nobles gathered to swear allegiance to King Edward I as Lord Paramount.

Two castles in the Scottish Borders are claimed to be the real resting place of James.

Two ferries operate on the route-a fast foot passenger only catamaran ferry called " Rathlin Express " and a larger ferry, owned by the Scottish Government, called " MV Canna " which carries both foot passengers and a small number of vehicles, weather permitting.

Two railways established termini at Cookstown-the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in their dressed stone station designed by Charles Lanyon ( now much altered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street ) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door ( now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club ).

Two in Otago were named after the Scottish independence heroes Wallace and Bruce.

BBC One Scotland has the greatest level of variation from the generic network, owing to BBC Scotland scheduling Scottish programming on the main BBC Scotland channel, rather than on BBC Two.

Two of the former platforms in the SSP both emerged from British Section of the Committee for a Workers ' International, following the " Open Turn " debate of the early 1990s, which was largely led by Scottish members.

Regular team was Connelly Sturgeon Curran, Dick Chisholm Caughey, Gilshan Burke McDonald Reid and Boylan. and Nicky House, Johnstone Burgh are a Scottish football club based in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and play in Central Division Two of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.

Among his best known musical performances were " The Welly Boot Song ", a parody of the Scottish folk song " The Wark O ' The Weavers ," which became his theme song for several years ; " In the Brownies ", a parody of the hit Village People song " In the Navy " ( for which Connolly filmed a music video ); " Two Little Boys in Blue ", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris ' " Two Little Boys "; and the ballad " I Wish I Was in Glasgow ," which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl ( which starred Rhea Perlman ).

Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in the West Region, Central Division Two.

Two junior football sides, Bishopmill United and New Elgin, both currently compete in the Scottish Junior Football North Division Two while Moray Social, Golden Pheasant F. C.

Two of the most prominent categories, derived from Scottish folklore, are the division into the Seely Court and the Unseely Court.

Scottish Gaelic programmes are also shown on BBC Two in Scotland – subject to approval from the BBC Trust, they will move to BBC Alba after digital switchover.

The deal also involved David Montgomery, chief executive of Mirror Group, and Two Flextech executives join the Scottish Television board, while Flectech committed to license more than 125 hours of drama and documentaries from Scottish Television, Within a month of the deal, the Mirror Group managed to increase its stake to 19. 93 %.

Ronald Balfour " Ronnie " Corbett, CBE ( born 4 December 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and comedian who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the television comedy series The Two Ronnies.

Two of the Cuillin are classified as Corbetts: Askival and Ainshval, ( Old Norse for " mountain of the ash trees " and " hill of the strongholds " respectively ) and Rùm is the smallest Scottish island to have a summit above.

Two of the main Scottish art galleries, the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland, are located at the foot of The Mound.

Two of Paul's sons were printers — Joseph at La Rochelle, and Antoine ( died 1674 ), who became " Printer to the King " in Paris in 1613.

Two large printers print the pages ( left ) and the cover ( right ) and feed them into the rest of the machine for collating and binding.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Two convicts, Henry and Susannah Kable, sought to sue Duncan Sinclair, the captain of Alexander, for stealing their possessions during the voyage.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

Some examples of these de facto rulers are Empress Dowager Cixi of China ( for son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu Emperors ), Prince Alexander Menshikov ( for his former lover Empress Catherine I of Russia ), Grigori Rasputin through Tsarina Alexandra ( for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ), Cardinal Richelieu of France ( for Louis XIII ), and Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily ( for her husband King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ).

Two captured British citizens, Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot, were tried and found guilty of inciting Indian raids and executed causing a diplomatic nightmare between the United States and England.

* The Dark Tower ( play ), a 1933 comedy by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott, adapted to film as The Man with Two Faces ( 1934 )

More recently, the identification in Recognitions of Nimrod with Ninus ( and also with Zoroaster, as in Homilies ) formed a major part of Alexander Hislop's thesis in the 19th century tract The Two Babylons.

Two Scotsmen, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company and opened a mine behind what later became Midland School.

In the 19th century, the idea of a pan-Mediterranean cult of the dying-and-rising demigod was used by Alexander Hislop in his anti-Roman Catholic treatise The Two Babylons.

Protestant minister Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons ( 1853 ) claims that Semiramis was an actual person in ancient Mesopotamia who invented polytheism and, with it, goddess worship.

Two theatrical entrepreneurs, Oscar Hammerstein ( Edwin Maxwell ) and Lew Dockstader ( John Alexander ), are in the audience.

" Two dramatic works from this decade remain well known, the music for Alexander Korda's 1936 film of H. G. Wells's Things to Come, and a ballet score to his own scenario based on a chess game.

Two days later Italy invaded Albania but Halifax met Sir Alexander Cadogan and " decided we can't do anything to stop it ".

Alexander, who suffered a brain aneurysm in November 2003, died after arriving home from the League Two match at Notts County.

Two years later, company founder Alexander MacRae died at the age of 50.

* Restoration Movements-Kevin Barney, " A Tale of Two Restorations ," Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research, a comparison of the LDS restoration movement and the Alexander Campbell restoration movement from a Mormon perspective.

Two of the era's most noted landscape architects, Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis, were instrumental in the layout of the cemetery grounds.

Two recent deans have chosen to retire before dying, while eight were elected Pope, Anastasius IV, Lucius III, Gregory IX, Alexander IV Alexander VI, Paul III, Paul IV and most recently Benedict XVI ( Joseph Ratzinger, elected Pope in 2005, the first Dean to be so elevated since Pope Paul IV in 1555 ).

Two Russian armies were in the immediate area, Pavel Rennenkampf's First Army east of the city of Königsberg, and Alexander Samsonov's Second Army to the south.

Two of Rüstow's younger brothers were distinguished Prussian soldiers, Alexander Rüstow and Caesar Rüstow.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons author Alexander Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.