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  1. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    13: ...died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
  2. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    11: ...State. She is married to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to ...
    33: ...Philip Mountbatten before being created [[Duke of Edinburgh]] before their marriage. This marriage, although ...
    35: ...hild [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles of Edinburgh]]. Several weeks earlier [[letters patent]] had ...
    60: ... She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] in [[Norfolk,...
    70: ...Scotland]], angering some [[Scottish independence|Scottish nationalists]]. Her statement of praise for ...
  3. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    2: ...140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
    5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
    7: ...], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of ...
    9: ...whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
    12: ... on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
  4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    27: ... I of Scotland|Mary Stuart]], later Mary Queen of Scots. For the remainder of her reign, the staunchly ...
    43: ==Conflict with France and Scotland==
    44: ...der which French troops were to be withdrawn from Scotland. Though Mary vehemently refused to ratify t...
    46: ...f her husband Francis II, Mary Stuart returned to Scotland. In France, meanwhile, Catholic persecution ...
    51: ...y VIII's elder sister; it led to Mary I, Queen of Scots. The alternative line descended from Henry VIII...
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    27: ...]. The Whig Prime Minister, [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Lord Melbourne]], at once became a p...
    46: ...s|Foreign Secretary]], [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]], who often acted ...
    71: ...secret marriage have been alleged. One recently discovered diary records a supposed deathbed confession...
    73: ...ing secluded in her royal residences, Balmoral in Scotland or her residence at Osborne in the [[Isle of...
    85: ...f attempts on Victoria's life came in [[1882]]. A Scottish madman, [[Roderick Maclean]], fired a bullet...
  6. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    22: ...rst wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp]] (formerly The Honourable Frances ...
    38: ... she threw herself down a set of stairs and was discovered by her [[mother-in-law]]. It has been sugges...
    100: ...(Al-Fayed has repeatedly claimed that the Duke of Edinburgh controls SIS.)
    125: ...en removed, and its use as a Diana memorial has discontinued, though visitors visit and still leave mes...
    175: *[http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2379163 Incomplete chronol...
  7. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
    5: ...essors at [[St Andrews]] University, and at the [[Edinburgh]] Extra-Mural school. She had no less difficulty...
  8. Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
    43: ...ictoria]] herself [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/medicine/nightingale_01.shtml].
    63: ..., e.g. [[Royal Victoria Hospital]], [[Netley]]; [[Edinburgh Royal Infirmary]]; [[Cumberland Infirmary]]; [[Li...
    75: ... of [[information ecology]]. See [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/nightpiechart.htm Polar area ...
  9. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    55: ...hampionship Opponent in Final Score in Final
    77: ...hampionship Opponent in Final Score in Final
    158: ** Washington DC, Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, Edinburgh, Charlotte
  10. Apple (20408 bytes)
    34: ...n unique flavor and appearance are out there to discover; apple conservation campaigns have sprung up a...
    59: *'[[James Grieve apple|James Grieve]]': [[Edinburgh]] (1893)
    86: ...ard orchardists, throughout [[Minnesota]] and [[Wisconsin]]. Its most important introductions have incl...
  11. Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
    21: Source: [http://www.rbge.org.uk RBG, Edinburgh]
  12. Geology (12007 bytes)
    16: ...the [[1788]] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later called ''[[uniformitarianism]]''.
    20: ...''Theory of the Earth'' to the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. In his paper, he explained his theory that the...
    24: ...am Smith]]'s stratigraphic studies on England and Scotland.
    44: ...principle of geology advanced by the 18th century Scottish physician and geologist [[James Hutton]], is...
  13. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    48: *<small>[[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]]: ''An R쯧hachd Aonaichte na Breata...
    51: *<small>[[Scots language|Lowland Scots]]: ''Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northre...
    52: ...; and in [[Scotland]]: [[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]] since 2004 Act.<br><sup>5</sup> For...
    54: ...e ancient nations of [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] &mdash; are located on the island of [[Gre...
    58: ...rincipality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Kingdom of Ireland]] under a si...
  14. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    3: ...]&ndash;[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose i...
    5: He was born in [[Greenock]], [[Scotland]], and lived and worked in [[Birmingham]], [...
    8: * [[1736]]: Born in Greenock, Scotland
    36: ...', is named after him. So is, at least in part, [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Heriot-Watt University]].
    40: There are 4 colleges named after him in Scotland, James Watt College in Kilwinning (North Ayr...
  15. History of science (41710 bytes)
    4: ...ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
    46: The Renaissance was instigated by rediscovery of the works of ancient philosophers and an i...
    61: ...], the [[Spanish Inquisition]], but also the re-discovery of Aristotle in the twelfth and thirteenth ce...
    89: ...odic table of elements on the basis of Dalton's discoveries.
    100: ...the [[1788]] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later called ''[[uniformitarianism]]''.
  16. Castle (27805 bytes)
    21: ...astle had considerable judicial powers over his [[Scottish clan]] and the main hall of the castle serve...
    33: *[[Edinburgh Castle]]
    50: ...ents in [[Wales]], [[Ireland]] and the [[Scotland|Scottish]] lowlands. In later days a stone wall repla...
    53: ...ascon Castle.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Front of [[Tarascon]] Castle, [[France]]]]
    99: ...906; G. Neilson's "The Motes in Norman Scotland" (Scottish Review, lxiv., 1898); GH Orpen, "Motes and N...
  17. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (16156 bytes)
    8: ...s by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late [[20th century]] and appears transmis...
    11: ... form dense plaque fibers, which lead to the microscopic appearance of "holes" in the brain, degenerati...
    18: ...//www.cjd.ed.ac.uk UK CJD Surveillance Centre] in Edinburgh.
    21: ...ld a "biochemical signature" by which the newly discovered cattle strain appears different from the fam...
    31: ...griculture Secretary [[Ann Veneman]] called the discovery "a clear indication that our surveillance and...
  18. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    12: ...hased an [[ephemeris]] and books such as [[Sacrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmograph...
    33: ...ow that Tycho's star was a [[supernova]].) This discovery was decisive for his choice of astronomy as a...
    35: Tycho's discovery was the inspiration for [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s...
    38: ...h the naked eye, or even with the [[Telescope|telescopes]] of the next two hundred years, because even ...
    51: ...planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] enabled Kepler to discover the [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws o...
  19. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
    33: ...the invention of the [[microscope]] and the [[telescope]]. There was also an increasingly complex philo...
    70: ...osophy of science which could encompass the new discoveries would show its fundamental influence in bot...
    105: * [[James Boswell]] (1740-1795) ''Scottish''. Biographer of [[Samuel Johnson]], helped ...
    112: * [[David Hume]] ''Scottish''. Historian, philosopher and economist. Bes...
    138: *[[Arthur Herman]] ''How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of ho...
  20. Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] |
    10: ...of_death=[[Baddeck, Nova Scotia|Baddeck]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]]
    15: Born '''Alexander Bell''' in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], he later adopted the middle name Graham o...
    17: ...treatise on [[Visible Speech]], which appeared in Edinburgh in [[1868]]. In this he explains his method of i...
    19: ...hire College at [[Bath, England]]. While still in Scotland he is said to have turned his attention to t...

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