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[Wikipedia:sco] Inglis leid
Inglis () is a Wast Germanic leid that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kinricks o England an spread intae whit wis tae become sooth-east Scotland unner the influence o the Anglian medieval kinrick o Northumbrie. Follaein the economic, poleetical, military, scienteefic, cultural, an colonial influe... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots leid
Scots or Lawland Scots (Inglis: Scots or Lowland Scots; ) is a Wast Germanic leid o tha Anglic varietie that's spaken on tha Lawlands o Scotland an en tha stewartrie o Ulster en Ireland (whaur it's kent as "Ulster-Scots", "Scotch", or "Ullans"). En maist airts, it is spaken anent tha an Ingl... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Gaelic
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The Scots Gaelic leid () is a Goidelic, Celtic leid an ane o the hamelt leids o Scotland.
It is a Q-Celtic leid that's spak in Scotland (in muckler proportions in the northren pairt o Scotland (the Hielands an Islands), an abreed in Canadae (Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia). It is... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scotland
:For mair airticles adae wi fowk, steids an things in Scotland tak a keek at :category:Scotland.
Scotland (; ; , ) is a kintra in north wastren Europe, an is wan o the fower kintras that maks the Unitit Kinrick. It taks up the northren thurd o the Great Breetain. Sooth o Scotland is Ingland,... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Ulster Scots: Eedinburra, Scots Gaelic: Dùn Èideann; whiles cried Embra, Embro or Edinburrie an aw) is the caipital city o Scotland, an is the kintra's seicont mucklest city efter Glesga, that is 45 mile (72 km) tae the wast. It is the seivent mucklest city in the Unitit Kinrick. E... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Pairlament
The Scots Pairlament (Scottish Parliament in the Inglis; Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in the Gaelic) is the devolved legislatur o Scotland. The oreeginal Scots Pairlament, or Estatis of Scotland, wis elidit in 1707 bi the Act o Union, giein wey tae the new-foundit Pairlament o Great Breetain. T... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Glesga
Glesga (; ) is Scotland's lairgest ceetie an the third lairgest ceetie o the Unitit Kinrick. Glesga is fund on the River Clyde in the wast-mids o Scotland an is the thrid maist popular tourist destination in the UK ahint Lunnon an Edinburgh. It haes Britain's seicont maist muckle shoppin centre.... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Flouer o Scotland
(The) Flouer o Scotland (; ) is the unoffeecial naitional sang o Scotland. It wis written bi Roy Williamson o the fowk baund The Corries in the 1960s.
Scotland disna hae an offeecial naitional sang o its ain (offeecially the sang o the Unitit Kinrick, God Save the Queen, is uisit); h... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dundee
Dundee (Scots Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) is Scotland's fowert-biggest cietie, on the nor'eist coast. The Cietie o Dundee is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. Dundee is on the River Tay. The'r aboot 150,000 fowk bidin in o't. It's on the basaut plug o a slokken volcano cryed the Dundee Law.
Dundee ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Kirk
A Kirk is a curn o Christian fowk wi a common wey o wirshippin God. It is aft uised as the name o the biggin (see chaipel) that is uised for prayer an services an aa. Monie kirks haes howfs forby (lik the ane in the pictur on the richt).
The national kirk o Scotland is aft callit "the Kirk" as a... |
[Wikipedia:sco] The Kirk
The Kirk o Scotland is the naitional kirk in Scotland. It is Presbyterian, an asinder frae the Anglican Kirk o Ingland. It is a stablisht kirk, as it is the offeecial kirk in Scotland, but it is a free kirk forby — that is, it isna a state kirk (unlike the Kirk o Ingland i Ingland), an disna h... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Auld Inglis
The Auld Inglis leid is a wast Germanic leid that wis spak in Breetain atween aboot 425 an 1125. Hit is an early furm o Inglis an Scots, an is sib wi Auld Frisie an Auld Saxon. Wast Saxon wis the heidmaist mak o Auld Inglis in the auncient corpus, includin the epic poem Beowulf, as the Wast... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Monanday
The Monanday is the day o the week atween Sunday an Tysday. Its name comes fae Mona, the Saxon god o the muin.
Monanday is whiles thocht on as the first day o the week. This is hou it is in the maist o Europe an Sooth Americae. In Asie, monie leids refers tae Monanday as "day ane". For exampl... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Tysday
The Tysday is the day o the week atween Monanday an Wadensday. Hit gits its name in Inglis, Scots, an the Scandinavian leids fae the Nordic god Tyr (in Auld Inglis, Tiw, Tew o Tiu).
The name for the day in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Ebreu an Portuguese is "thrid day". Quakers tradeition... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wadensday
The Wadensday is the day o the week atween Tysday an Fuirsday. Its name comes fae the Auld Inglis Ƿódnesdæȝ, meanin the day o Woden. The astrological sign o the warld Mercury represents Wadensday, an wis Dies Mercurii tae the Romans. In Scots, this becam Woden's Day acause the Roman god Mercu... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Socialist Pairty
The Scots Socialist Pairty (SSP) () is a left-wing poleetical pairty in Scotland. It staunds for socialist economics an Scots unthirldom. It haed sax MSPs electit tae the Scots Pairlament in 2003 but didna get onybody electit in the 2007 election.
History
The SSP wis estaiblisht... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots unthirldom
Scots unthirldom is the poleetical muivement that thinks Scotland shoud be wanthirlt.
Nouadays it means at Scotland wad poleetical sinder itsel frae the Unitit Kinrick, an become an unthirlt kintra wi ane govrenment an a sovereign pairlament. The main uphauders o this idea is the Scot... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
Ane Pleastant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis is a sateirical morality play wrate by Scots makar David Lyndsay an first pit on i 1552 i Lithgae, though no prentit until 1602. Ane o the Satyres disteinguishin features is is haein faircical comic, awmaist slapstick, interlud... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Europe
Europe is geologically an geographically a hauf-island, takkin up the wastrenmaist pairt o Eurasie. It is for ordinar conseedert a continent, that, in this case, is mair a cultural nor a geographic differ. It is bund in the north bi the Airctic Ocean, in the wast bi the Atlantic Ocean, in the so... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Cooncil areas o Scotland
A cooncil area in Scotland is an area made fur local govrenment. Thare is a o 32 cooncil areas in Scotland as a hale. Thay are aw govrened bi unitary authorities cawed "cooncils". The cooncil areas war creutit on 1 April 1996, unner the provisions o the Local Govrenment etc. (S... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Fife
Fife () is aen o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It liys atween the Firth o Tay an the Firth o Forth. It's a tradietional coontie o Scotland, an a lieutenancie area tui.
Fife wis aen o the Pectish kinriks an is ey kent as the Kinrik o Fife. Fife maistliyk taks its naem frae Fib or Fif, a 7t cent... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Januar
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Januar (or Jennewarie) is tha first month o tha yeir in tha Gregorian calendar, an ane o sievin Gregorian months wi 31 days.
Januar is named eftir Janus, Roman god o durs an yetts.
Januar begins (astrologicalie) wi tha sun in tha syn o Capricorn an ends in tha syn o Aquarius. Frae an astro... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Unitit Kinrick
The Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland (), commonly kent the Unitit Kinrick (; UK) or Breetain (), is a kintra in waster Europe. Lyin aff the north-wastren coast o the European mainlaund, the UK includes the isle o Great Breetain, the north-eastren pairt o the isle o Ire... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Auld Alliance
The Auld Alliance is the name gien til a series o treaties atween Scotland an Fraunce for mutual protection agin Ingland atween 1295 an 1560 (tho it shoud be merkit that Norawa wis involved in some o the earlier stents).
The terms wisna the same in ilka treaty that wis gree'd on, but for... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Aprile
Aprile is the fowert month o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, the fifth in the early Julian ane o fower month wi 30 days.
April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equiva... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Spellin Comatee
The Scots Spellin Comatee (1996–1998) attemptit tae estaiblish a mair staundart spellin system for the Scots. Thay wrocht the Report an Recommends o the Scots Spellin Comatee or RRSSC.
Members
Comatee members wis:
(Nov 1996 - August 1998)|
*Alasdair Allan
*Andy Eagle
*John Law (S... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Fuirsday
The Fuirsday is the day o the week atween Wadensday an Fryday. The name Fuirsday comes fae the Auld Inglis Þunresdæg, meanin the day o Þunor, forby kent in Inglis as Thor.
Bi some conventions (see ISO 8601), the Fuirsdays o a towmond determine the hantlin o the weeks: week 1 is the week at hi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Phoneme
In spoken leids, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit o soond that disteenguishes wirds (that is, bi chyngin a phoneme in ae
wird, the ootcome is anither wird that's meanin differs). The phoneme is a basic soond lith, that's lingueestic function is tae disteenguish
the morphemes o a wird. Pho... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Allophones
In phonetics, an allophone is ane amang mony seemilar phones that's ocht the same phoneme. A phone is a soond that's soond swaw haes a definite shape, altho a phoneme is a basic group o soonds that disteenguishes wirds (i.e. chynging ae phoneme in ae wird brings forrit anither wird); speaker... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots vouel lenth rule
The Scots Vouel-Lenth Rule, kent as Aitken's Law forby, efter Professor Jack Aitken, wha first pit it ower in a mensefu mainer, descrieves hou vouel lenth in Scots is condeetiont bi its environs. (Phonetics in IPA.)
The rule affects aw vouels in central dialects, tho in dialects ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Diphthong
In phonetics, a diphthong (Greek δίφθογγος,
"diphthongos", meanin wi twa soonds) is a the gaun-thegither o twa vouels, for ordinar wi a swith but sliddery muivement fae the tae
vouel tae the tither, aft interpret bi listeners as a single vouel soond or phoneme.
Altho "pure" vouels, or monopht... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Morpheme
In lingueestics, a morpheme is the wee-est pairt o a wird that cairies ocht that gies a semantic unnerstaundin. Morphemes is, for ordinar, a kenspeckle pittin thegither o phonemes (as the lowse furm haund or the bund form s in haunds) haein nae wee-er meaninfu members.
Scots example:
The wird... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Friday
Friday is the day o the week atween Fuirsday an Setturday. Its name comes fae the goddess Frige o Germanic mythologie.
In maist areas wi a five-day wirkin week, Friday is the hindmaist warkday afore the weekend an is tharefore seen as a cause for celebration or relief, leadin tae the sayin TGIF... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Seturday
Setturday is the day o the week atween Friday an Sunday. Its name is the anerly yin amang the names o days thit comes fae the Roman god Saturn, while the ither sax names is derived fae Saxon gods.
Bi tradeetion comin fae the auncient Jews, Setturday is the hindmaist day o the week. That conve... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Phone
: Phone is a hamelt term for telephone.
In phonetics an phonology, a phone is a speech soond conseedert as a pheesical event athoot regaird tae its place in the soond seestem semantics o a langage. A soond lith that haes kenspeckle acoustic properties. A pairteecular kythin o a speech soond lith... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Robert Burns
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Robert Burns (25 Januar 1759 in Allowa, Ayrshire – 21 Julie 1796 in Dumfries), cried Robbie or Rabbie Burns forby, is the naitional poet o Scotland. He scrieved in Scots, wi some Inglis influence whiles.
He is weel-kent as the naitional makar o Scotland, an his wark is celebratit athor... |
[Wikipedia:sco] William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (, ; Norman French: ; 23 August 1305) wis the leader o the Scots airmy agin the Inglis fur the first pairt o the Scots Weirs for Unthirldom an wis the Gairdian o Scotland frae 1297 til 1298. Wallace wis born in Elderslie, Renfrewshire an wis eddicate at some time in ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Adam Smith
Adam Smith (bapteised 5 Juin 1723 – 17 Julie 1790) wis a Scots economist, philosopher an screiver o the Wealth of Nations an o the Theory of Moral Sentiments. Born in Kirkcaudy, he wis a muckle feegur o the Scots Enlichtment, an is kent as the "Faither o Economics" or the "Faither o Caipital... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Tony Blair
The Richt Honourable Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born on the 6t o Mey 1953 in Edinburrie), for ordinar kent as Tony Blair, wis the Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick frae 1997 tae 2007. He wis the first Prime Meenister frae the Labour Pairty tae hiv haed three consecutive terms in go... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 23 Juin
The 23rd o Juin is the 174t day o the year (175t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 191 days ti come.
Events
: Banff Naitional Pairk]]
: Results o the Unitit Kinrick European Union membership referendum, 2016]]
* 1314 - Stairt o the Battle o Bannockburn, sooth o Stirlin, Edward II o ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 26 Mairch
The 26t o Mairch is the 85t day o the year (86t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 280 days ti come.
Events
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* 1511 - A yirdquauk in the Balkans kills an estimatit 6,000 fowk.
* 1707 - The Acts o Union 1707 become law, makkin Ingland an Scotland unitit.
* 1812 - Caracas, Venezuel... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 1 Mey
The 1st o Mey is the 121st day o the year (122nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 244 days ti come.
Events
: Empire State Building]]
: New EU member states in yellae, exeestin anes in blue]]
* 1328 - Scots Weirs for Unthirldom end: Treaty o Edinburrie-Northampton – Ingland accepts Sc... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 25 Januar
The 25t o Januar is the 25t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 340 days ti come (341 in lowp years).
Events
: Banner o Ukraine]]
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* 1515 - Coronation o Francis I o Fraunce.
* 1554 - The ceety o Sao Paulo in present-day Brazil is foondit.
* 1576 - The ceety o Luanda in present-day... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 21 Julie
The 21st o Julie is the 202nt day o the year (203rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 163 days ti come.
Events
: Aswan Dam]]
: Vostok Station]]
: Space Shuttle Atlantis efter last landin]]
* 1298 - Battle o Fawkirk: Edward Longshanks defeats the Scots airmy o William Wallace.
* 179... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Juin
The 5t o Juin is the 156t day o the year (157t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 209 days ti come.
Events
: Unitit Kinrick referendum results]]
* 1224 - The Varsity o Naples is foondit.
* 1257 - Krakow receive its ceety richts.
* 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
* 19... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 17 Julie
The 17t o Julie is the 198t day o the year (199t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 167 days ti come.
Events
: Tomb o Nicholas II o Roushie an his faimily]]
: Disneyland in Californie]]
: Olympic Stadium in Montreal]]
: Humber Brig]]
*1402 – Zhu Di, better kent bi his era name as th... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 23 August
The 23rd o August is the 235t day o the year (236t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 130 days bidin.
Events
: Monument tae William Wallace near Stirlin]]
: State Banner o North Rhine-Westphalie]]
: State Banner o Schleswig-Holstein]]
: The Baltic Way in Lithuanie]]
* 1305 - Scots ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sunday
Sunday is the day o the week atween Setturday an Monanday, an the seicont day o the weekend in some culturs. It is thocht on as a haliday in kintras wi a Christian tradeetion, an is the day that Christians maist aften gangs tae the Kirk.
In the Gregorian calendar, nae century can stairt on a Su... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 30 November
The 30t o November is the 334t day (335t in lowp years) o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 31 days bidin.
Events
: Crystal Palace on fire]]
: Banner o Barbados]]
* 1700 - Charles XII o Swaden defeats Peter I o Roushie in the Battle o Narva.
* 1731 - A yirdquauk in Beijing kills thous... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Julie
The 5t o Julie is the 186t day o the year (187t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 179 days ti come.
Events
: Banner o Venezuela]]
: Banner o Algerie]]
: Banner o Cape Verde]]
: Dolly the Sheep]]
* 1295 - Scotland's Auld Alliance wi Fraunce is creatit.
* 1811 - Venezuela declares unt... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 August
The 5t o August is the 217t day o the year (218t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 148 days ti come.
Events
: Benz automobile]]
: Banner o Burkina Faso]]
: Andy Murray wins Olympic gowd in Lunnon]]
: The current Banner o Mauritanie]]
* 1100 - Coronation o Henry I o Ingland.
* 1305 ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 September
The 5t o September is the 248t day o the year (249t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 117 days bidin.
Events
: Neuschwanstein Castle]]
: Voyager 1 launches]]
* 1666 - The Great Fire o Lunnon is brocht unner control.
* 1698 - Roushie Tsar Peter the Great bans beards.
* 1800 - Gre... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 October
The 5t o October is the 278t day o the year (279t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 87 days bidin.
Events
: Foondin o the Portuguese republic]]
: The Foot seembol o Monty Python]]
* 1502 - Costa Rica is named bi Christopher Columbus.
* 1665 - The University o Kiel, in present-day ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 November
The 5t o November is the 309t day o the year (310t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 56 days bidin.
Events
: Guy Fawkes' and fellow conspirators' Gunpouder Plot is stoppit.]]
: Election results in the Unitit States.]]
* 1605 - Guy Fawkes ettles tae set aff the gunpouder for tae m... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 December
The 5t o December is the 339t day o the year (340t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 26 days bidin.
Events
: US Election]]
: Reichstag biggin]]
: Lenin icebreaker]]
*1492 - Christopher Columbus reaches the island o Hispaniola.
*1560 - Charles IX o Fraunce becomes King.
*1792 - Ge... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Januar
The 5t o Januar is the 5t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 360 days ti come (361 in lowp years).
Events
: Location o the Golden Gate Brig]]
* 1066 - Inglis King Edward the Confessor dies. This stairts a chain o events leadin tae the Norman Conquest o Ingland.
* 1769 - James Watt g... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Februar
The 5t o Februar is the 36t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 329 days ti come (330 in lowp years).
Events
: Alan Shepard on the Muin]]
* 62 - A strong yirdquauk hits Pompeii.
* 1811 - The future-King George IV o the Unitit Kinrick becomes Prince-Regent.
* 1885 - Leopold II o Belg... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Mairch
The 5t o Mairch is the 64t day o the year (65t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 301 days ti come.
Events
: The Britannia Brig in North Wales]]
: Spitfire aircraft]]
* 1770 - Boston Massacre: 5 Americans are kilt bi Breetish troops.
* 1850 - The Britannia Brig, ane o the main cross... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Aprile
The 5t o Aprile is the 95t day o the year (96t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 270 days ti come.
Events
: Ane o the statues on Easter Island]]
: Akashi-Kaikyo Brig]]
*1621 - The ship "Mayflower" sets sail frae Massachusetts back tae Ingland.
*1722 - Dutch sailor Jacob Roggeveen b... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 5 Mey
The 5t o Mey is the 125t day o the year (126t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 240 days ti come.
Events
: Coronation ceremony o Bhumibol Adulyadej]]
: Constituency vote map o Scots Pairlament election]]
* 1646 - Charles I of Ingland and Scotland gies himsel up tae the Scots Presbyter... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ingland
Ingland is a kintra that is pairt o the Unitit Kinrick.
Etymologie
The name "Ingland" cums fae the Auld Inglis name Engla (or Angla) land, whilka daes mein "laund o the Angles". The Angles a war ane o the Germanic tribes wha sattelt in Great Breetain in the Aerlie Middil Eilds. The Angles cam ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Lunnon
Lunnon (; , ) is the caipital an maist populous ceety o Ingland an the Unitit Kinrick. Staunin on the River Thames, Lunnon haes been a major dounset for twa millennia, its history that gangs back tae its foundin bi the Romans, wha named it Londinium. Lunnon's auncient core, the Ceety o Lunnon, l... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Norawa
The Kinrick o Norawa or Norrowey (whiles cried Norseland) is a Nordic kintra in the wastren pairt o the Scandinavian Hauf-island. Hit haes mairches wi Swaden, Finland an Roushie, an its watters meets the watters o Denmark an the Unitit Kinrick. It haes a sair streekit shape an a lang strand alan... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Canadae
Canadae (, ; ) is a kintra in North Americae, ane o the northmaist in the warld, an the mucklest kintra bi area efter Roushie. It mairches the Unitit States an its watters eiks northart intil the Arctic Ocean tae the Nor' Powl.
Canadae is a federation o ten provinces an three territories. It w... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy (: [kɪrˈkɔːdi], whyls spelt Kirkcaudy an kent as the Lang Toun anaw) (Scots Gaelic: Cathair Challdainn) is a toun in Fife wi aboot fiftie thousan indwallers.
Tradeitional industrie is dwynin but the makkin o linoleum yit gaes on.
Adam Smith, writer o The Wealth of Nations wis born... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach wis a German componer. He wis born on 21 Mairch 1685 in Eisenach, til a faimlie o muisicians. He wrat monie o his muisical warks for uiss in the kirk: Passions frae John an Matthew, oratorios an aboot 300 cantatas, monie o whilk canna be foond. Forbye he wrat... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II (21 Aprile 1926 – 8 September 2022) wis the Queen an heid o state o the Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland, an 15 ither kintras an thair dependencies. Thae kintras war Antigua an Barbuda, Australie, the Bahamas, Belize, Canadae, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zea... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Esperanto
Esperanto is the maist widely spoken constructit internaitional auxiliary leid. Its name derives frae Doktoro Esperanto (Dr. Hopeful), the pseudonym unner which L. L. Zamenhof publisht the first beuk detailin Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. Zamenhof's goal wis tae creaut an easy-tae-learn... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven wis a German componer and pianae player. He wis born in 1770 an dee'd on 26 Mairch 1827. He componed clessical muisic for the pianae an hale orchestras. His weel-kent warks is his fift an nint seemphonies an the pianae piece 'Für Elise' forby. He is conseidered... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 Mey 1813 in Leipzig – 13 Februar 1883 in Venice) wis an gey moyen German componer, muisic theorist, an essayist, maistlie kent for his grundbrakking symphonic-operas (or "music dramas"). His warks is byordinar for thair conteenous contrapuntal textur, rich harm... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Roushie: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliteratit as Piotr, Anglifee'd tae Peter Ilich), (7 Mey 1840 – 6 November 1893 (N.S.); 25 Aprile 1840 – 25 October 1893 (O.S.)) wis a Roushie componer o the Romantic era. Atho nae a member o the group o ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 18 Julie
The 18t o Julie is the 199t day o the year (200t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 166 days ti come.
Events
: Truce o Leulinghem]]
: Banner o Uruguay]]
: The Soufriere Hills volcanae on Montserrat]]
*1290 – Keeng Edward I o Ingland issues the Edict o Expulsion, expellin aw Jews fra... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 21 Mairch
The 21st o Mairch is the 80t day o the year (81st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 285 days ti come.
Events
: Preeson cells at Alcatraz]]
: Namibie]]
* 1684 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Saturn's muins Tethys an Dione.
* 1788 - Fire destroys much o the ceety o New Orleans... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 28 Julie
The 28t o Julie is the 209t day o the year (210t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 156 days ti come.
Events
: Banner o Peru.]]
: Banner o the Welsh colony in Argentinae]]
: Tangshan yirdquauk damage]]
* 1566 - A storm sinks mony ships o the Dens-Lubeck fleet aff Gotland, killin an ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 27 Januar
The 27t o Januar is the 27t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 338 days ti come (339 in lowp years).
Events
: Apollo 1 spacecraft efter the deadly fire]]
: Paris Peace Accords]]
* 1695 - Mustafa II becomes Ottoman Sultan.
* 1880 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for the incandescen... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 22 Mey
The 22nt o Mey is the 142nt day o the year (143rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 223 days ti come.
Events
: Yirdquauk an tsunami damage in Chile]]
: Poster in the Republic o Ireland in favour o mairage equality]]
* 1370 - Several Jews are massacred in in Brussels.
* 1762 - Swaden ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 13 Februar
The 13t o Februar is the 44t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 321 days ti come (322 in lowp years).
Events
: Red areas highlight bombed areas o Dresden]]
* 1575 - Coronation o Henry III o Fraunce.
* 1689 - William III o England an Mary II, Queen o Scots become jynt monarchs.
* 1... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen (; 16 Julie 1872 – c. 18 Juin 1928) wis a Norse chiel that splored the Airctic an the Antairtic. Amundsen wis born on 16 Julie 1872 an dee'd on 18 Juin 1928.
Amundsen wis the first ti veisit the Sooth Pole. On 14 December 1911, he cam ti the Sooth Pole thegither wi his me... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Still Game
Still Game is a telly sitcom pitten oot bi the BBC, starrin Ford Kiernan an Greg Hemphill. The chief chairacters o the shaw is Jack an Victor, twa auld anes that bide in a Glesga hie touer. The programme is an affshoot o Kiernan an Hemphill's sketch shaw Chewin' the Fat, whaur thae twa chair... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Chewin' the Fat
Chewin' the Fat is a telly sketch shaw pit oot bi BBC Scotland, screived bi an featurin Ford Kiernan an Greg Hemphill.
It wis oreiginally pit oot on BBC Radio Scotland, an later muived tae the telly. The first twa series wis pit oot on BBC Scotland juist, but series three an fower wis ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Apologetic apostrophe
The apologetic apostrophe is the name gien tae a wey o writin Scots for tae mak the seemilarities atween Scots an Inglis gey appearent. It is the uiss o an apostrophe (') for tae shaw letters wantin frae Scots wirds but's aye tae the fore in Inglis, for tae gie the impression that... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (31 December, 1491 – 1 September, 1557) wis a French traider an splorer that is thocht o as ane o the major discoverers o Canadae, or mair speceificlie, the inner eastren region that wad acome the foremaist European-settlt pairt o that kintra.
He wis frae Saint-Malo, Fr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (; – 20 Mey 1506) wis an Italian explorer, navigator, coloniser, an ceetizen o the Republic o Genoa. Unner the auspices o the Catholic Monarchs o Spain, he haed duin fower voyages throu the Atlantic Ocean. Thae voyages an his efforts tae estaiblish permanent se... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Guido o Arezzo
Guido o Arezzo (kent as Guido Aretinus, Guido Aretino, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, Guido d'Arezzo, Guido Monaco Pomposiano, or Guy of Arezzo or Guy d'Arezzo an aw) (991/992 – efter 1033) wis a muisic theorist o Mediaeval times. He is thocht o as the inventor o modren muisical notation... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Willem Barentsz
Willem Barents (1550? − 20 Juin 1597, Dutch name Barentsz) wis a Dutch navigator an explorer, leader o aerlie expedeetions in far northren watters.
In 1594 he sailed frae Amsterdam wi twa gaileys for ti graip for the Northeast passage ti aestren Asie. He reached the wast coast o Novaya... |
[Wikipedia:sco] James Cook
James Cook ( – 14 Februar 1779) wis a Breetish explorer an a navigator. He was a cairt maker forbye. He made three voyages tae the Paceefic Ocean, chairtin its main shorelines.
Innin
James Cook was born in Marton in North Yorkshire on , naur whit is the day recognized as the town of Middles... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés (1485 - 2 December, 1547) wis a explorer an Sodger frae Spain. Atween 1519 an 1521 he conquered the Aztec empire o Emperor Montezuma.
Cortés wis born in Medellín, a toun in the Extremadura province o the Kinrik o Castile in Spain. He gaed tae the Varsity o Salamanca but dra... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 14 Februar
The 14t o Februar is the 45t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 320 days ti come (321 in lowp years).
Events
: Daith o James Cook]]
: Banner o Oregon]]
: Banner o Arizona]]
* 1779 - James Cook is killt bi locals in Hawaii.
* 1859 - Oregon becomes the 33rd State o the Unitit States... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 27 October
The 27t o October is the 300t day o the year (301t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 65 days bidin.
Events
: East an Wast Florida]]
: Banner o Saunt Vincent an the Grenadines]]
: Banner o Turkmenistan]]
* 939 - Edmund I o Ingland becomes King.
* 1275 - Tradeetional foondin o Amst... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 20 Mey
The 20t o Mey is the 140t day o the year (141t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 225 days ti come.
Events
: Vasco da Gama in soothren Indie]]
* 1498 - Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut in soothren Indie.
* 1503 - Afonso de Albuquerque discovers Ascension Island in the Sooth Atlantic Ocea... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 21 Aprile
The 21st o Aprile is the 111t day o the year (112t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 254 days ti come.
Events
: Romulus, Remus an the wolf - pairt o the legend o the foondin o Roum]]
: Brasilia, caipital o Brazil]]
* 753 BC - Legendary foondin date o Roum.
* 1509 - Henry VIII o In... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Francis Drake
Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 Januar, 1596) wis an Inglis privateer, navigator, naval pioneer, pirate, politeecian, an ceevil ingineer o the Elizabethan period. He wis the first Inglisman (an the first chiel on oniething ither than a Spaingie ship) ti gang aw the wey aboot ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Leif Ericsson
Leif Ericsson ( or ; Icelandic: Leifur Eiríksson; Norwegian: Leiv Eiriksson c. 970 – c. 1020) wis a Viking explorer frae Norawa. He wis the first European tae veesit North Americae in historical times. He splored the laund aboot the day's Newfundland, Canadae, cryin it Vinland. He wis the... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama (1469? − 24 December 1524) wis a Portuguese sailor. He wis the first European that gaed ti Indie aboot the Cape o Guid Howp, the sooth tip o Africae. He gaed ti Indie twice bi ship, atween 1497 an 1499.
On 8 Julie 1497, fower ships (the São Gabriel, the São Rafael, the Berr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 Julie 1919 – 11 Januar 2008) is a New Zealander, a muntaineer an a explorer, best kent for the first successfu clim o Munt Everest. He raxed the 29,035-fit (8850 m) tap on wi Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa. Aifter comin doun, legend haes it the chi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521; ; ) wis a Portuguese explorer. He wis born in Sabrosa, in northren Portugal, but later obtained Spaingie naitionality in order tae serve Keeng Charles I o Spain in sairch o a wastward route tae the "Spice Islands" (modren Maluku Islands in Indonesie).
... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Marco Polo
Marco Polo (1254 - 8 Januar 1324) wis an Venetian merchant. He gaed ti Cheenae durin the Mongol Dynasty. He wis weel kent acause Europeans foond the accoont o his traivels ti be gey interestin an unco. Westren fowk in thae days didna ken the Eastren world.
Antrin scholars thinks that Marco ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Moriori leid
Moriori is a Malayo-Polynesie leid sib wi the Maori leid. It is the mither tung o the Moriori, the indigenous fowk o the Chatham Islands.
The Moriori name for the Chathams is "Rekohu".
Fremmit Airtins
* Galbraith, Sarah: A Grammar o the Moriori leid.
* Clark, R. 1994. Moriori an Maori: T... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Archimedes
Archimedes (287 B.C. – 212 B.C.) wis a Greek philosopher, astronomer, pheesicist, ingineer an a fine mathemateecian born in the Greek seaport colonie o Syracuse. He is conseedert bi some maths historians tae be ane o history's bestest mathemateecians, alang wi the likes o Newton, Gauss, an E... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz (25 November 1844 – 4 Aprile 1929) wis a German mechanical engineer. He is widely kent as ane o the inventors (wi contemporary Gottlieb Daimler) o the petrol-pouered caur. He dee'd in 1929 in Ladenburg-on-Neckar, Germany.
Image:Werkstatt Carl Benz.png|Carl Benz‘ workshop... |
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