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[Wikipedia:sco] Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (in Laitin; German: Niklas Koppernigk, Pols Mikołaj Kopernik); 19 Februar, 1473 – 24 Mey, 1543) wis a Pols astronomer, mathematician an economist that cam up wi the heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory o the solar seestem in a form detailt eneuch tae mak it scientee... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Marie Curie
Marie Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, (7 November 1867 – 4 Julie 1934), (Dolega coat o airms) wis a Pols-born French chemist an pioneer i the airly field o radiology an a twafauld Nobel laureate. She foondit the Curie Institutes in Paris an in Warsaw.
Element 96 Curium (Cm) wis named i her mense... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (; 12 Februar 1809 – 19 Aprile 1882) wis an Inglis naituralist, geologist an biologist, kent best fir his theory a evolution. He wis thinkin aw species o life hae descendit ower time frae common ancestors. Ats now kent as richt, aun a foundational concept fur scien... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (; ; 14 Mairch 1879 – 18 Apryle 1955) wis a German-born theoretical physicist. He developpit the theory o relativity, ane o the twa pillars o modren physics (alangside quantum mechanics). Einstein's work is forby kent for its influence on the filosofie o science. Einstei... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (11 Februar, 1847 – 18 October, 1931) wis an American inventor an businessman that cleckit monie important luims. "The Wizard o Menlo Park" wis ane o the first inventors til applee the principles o mass production ti the process o invention. In 1880 Edison foondit the j... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) wis an Italian-American physicist an the creautor o the warld's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He haes been cried the "airchitect o the nuclear age" an the "airchitect o the atomic bomb". He wis ane o the verra few physicists ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Science fiction
Science feection is scrievin that for ordinar taks place in the futur, an is quite weel-likit. Thare's monie forms o it sic as "Cyberpunk", "Hard Science Fiction", an "Soft Science Fiction". Monie fowk threaps that the novelle Frankenstein wis the first science feection novelle, but awt... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Unitit States
The Unitit States o Americae (, USA), commonly referred tae as the Unitit States (, US, U.S.) or Americae (), is a constitutional federal republic componed o 50 federatit states, the federal destrict Washington D.C., five main sel-govrening territories, an ither possessions.
Forty-aicht o... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (11 Mey, 1918 – 15 Februar, 1988) (surname said FINE-man; in IPA) wis ane o the maist influential pheesicists o the 20t century, haein duin a deal o wark on the theory o quantum electrodynamics. As weel as bein an inspirin lecturer an amateur muisician, he holpi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Henry Ford
Henry Ford (30 Julie, 1863 – 7 Aprile, 1947) wis the foonder o the Ford Motor Company an is creditit wi holpin mak a middle cless in American society. He wis ane o the first til applee assembly line manufacturin ti the mass production o cheap caurs. This feat didna juist revolutionise indust... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Fantasie an Science Fiction
F&SF (first cried The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) is an American science feection an fantasie magazine furthset bi Spilogale press. It wis foondit in 1949 bi Anthony Boucher an J. Francis McComas.
It wis initially quarterly, than bi-monthly an finally monthly. ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Hippocrates
Hippocrates wis a Greek doctor. He wis probably born in 460 BC, an dee'd in 377 BC.
Hippocrates is cried the "Faither o medicine". He wis the first chiel ti scrieve o scientific raisons that fowk gat ill. Fowk uised ti believe that illness wis caused bi cantrips or mad gods.
Hippocrates s... |
[Wikipedia:sco] French leid
French is the leid that's spak in Fraunce, Canadae (Quebec, New Brunswick), Soothren Belgium, Luxembourg (alang wi German and Letzebuergisch) an Wastren Swisserland (La suisse Romande). It wis spreid tae Africae, Sooth Aest Asie an pairts o the New Warld throu French colonisation. French is... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Leid
The concept o leid is maist aften uised thir days as a synonym o langage an can be exponed in twa weys in modren Scots:
* a wey o communicatin anent hings, acts an ideas, inspeciallie a national ane,
* in the Doric, it can mean a rame, i.e. a undevaulin or owerturnin owercome, or a lang randerin ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5t Mey 1818 in Trier, Germany – 14t Mairch 1883 in Lunnon, UK) wis a German philosopher and poleitical thinker that wrat aboot economics an politics. Ane o his first beuks wis the Communist Manifesto, written thegither wi Friedrich Engels in 1848. In this beuk thay set oot the idea... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (13t Februar 1901 - 7t Februar 1935), born James Leslie Mitchell wis a Scots owthor.
Born an fesst up in Aiberdeenshire, he stairtit wirkin as a jurnalist fur the Aberdeen Journal an the Scottish Farmer at the age o 16. In 1920 he listit wi the Ryal Air Force,... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Leeteratur
Leeteratur is leiterally "an acquent wi letters" (frae the Latin littera meanin "the ae written chairacter (letter)"). The term haes maistly come til identifee a collection o texts. The wird "leeteratur" as a common noon can refer til onie kin o writin, sic as essays; "Leeteratur" as a prope... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Places o Scotland
A leet o places athort the hale o Scotland.
Cooncil areas
*Ceetie o Aiberdeen
*Aiberdeenshire
*Angus
*Argyll an Bute
*Clackmannanshire
*Dumfries an Gallowa
*Ceetie o Dundee
*East Ayrshire
*East Dunbartonshire
*East Lowden
*East Renfrewshire
*Ceetie o Edinburgh
*Fawkirk
*Fife
*Ceetie ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Paris
Paris is the caipital an maist muckle city o Fraunce. It is situatit on the river Seine, in northren Fraunce, at the hert o the Île-de-France region (or Paris Region, ). The city o Paris, athin its admeenistrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), maistlins unchynged syne 1860, haes an estimatit p... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction begound its life as the digest-sized Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (or IASFM fae short) in 1977. Joel Davis o Davis Publications approached the weel-respectit author Isaac Asimov tae lend his name tae a new science feection magazine, efter the... |
[Wikipedia:sco] What Not to Wear (UK TV series)
What Not to Wear (Whit no tae Weir) is a reality makower televeesion shaw in baith Breetain an the Unitit States.
It stairtit in the UK on BBC Twa syne on BBC Ane; syne it wis braidcast in the US on BBC Americae. An American version gaes oot on TLC. The Breetish version... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 14 Mairch
The 14t o Mairch is the 73d day o the year (74t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 292 days ti come.
Events
: Aftermath o snawstorm in Brooklyn, New York Ceety]]
: The ceety o Pairth, Scotland]]
* 1800 - Pape Pius VII is electit.
* 1888 - A snawstorm in the Eastren Unitit States ki... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Zen gairden
A Zen gairden, a Japanese kynd o Karesansui 枯山水 stane gairden, is a shauld saundpit conteenin saund, grush, stanes, whiles girse or ither naitral elements. Thay are uised bi Japanese Zen monks in meditation.
Ryoan-ji Temple
The stane gairden wis addit for tae provide a place for the monks ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Haggis
Haggis is a tradeetional Scots dish. It is a wechtie pudden tradeetionally served wi chappit neeps an tatties.
Altho the'r monie recipes, some uisin deer emmledeug, for ordinar it's makkit wi the follaein ingredients: sheep's hert, liver, an lichts, minced wi ingan, aitmael, shuet, spices, an s... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scotch pie
A Scotch pie is a dooble-crust pie, oreiginally frae Scotland.
The fillin is minced mutton, aften spiced wi pepper an ither ingredients. Ilka piemakker's preceise receipt, includin the kinds an amoonts o spice uised, is for ordinar keepit gey saicret, for fear o eimitations. It is bakkit in... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Irn-Bru
Irn-Bru (pronoonced "Airn Brew" or "Ayron Brew") is the tap kenmark o carbonatit saft drink in Scotland. A.G. Barr plc, o Glesga maks it. Barr's Irn-Bru is selt in the Unitit Kinrick, Republic o Ireland, Roushie, Canadae, Australie, an a puckle ither kintras in Europe. Its adverteesin slogan ui... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Butterie
This airticle is tae dae wi a kin of breid rowe. For the dairy product, see butter.
A butterie, kent as a rowie or Aiberdeen rowe an aw, is a savoury Scots breid rowe. Thay ar notit for thair flaky texture an buttery gust, whaur the name comes frae.
As the alternate name o Aiberdeen rowe sug... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series o fantasy novelles written bi Breetish author J. K. Rowling. The novelles chronicle the life o a young wizard, Harry Potter, an his friends Hermione Granger an Ron Weasley, aw o whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc con... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Alfred Kirke Ffrench
Alfred Kirke Ffrench wis a recipient o the Victoria Cross, the heichmaist an maist presteegious awaird for gallantry afore the fae that can be awairdit tae Breetish an Commonweel forces.
Ffrench wis twenty-twa year auld, an a Lieutenand in the 53d Regiment o Fit (later The Keeng's... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 21 December
The 21st o December is the 355t day o the year (356t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 10 days bidin.
Events
premiere o Snow White an the Seven Dwarfs]]
: Norawa's Rondane Naitional Pairk in Winter]]
* 69 - Vespasian becomes Roman Emperor.
* 1471 - The island o Sao Tomé off the ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 31 December
31st December is the 365t (366t in lowp years) an last day o the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
: Manhattan Brig]]
: Panama Canal zone]]
: Taipei 101 (at the stairt o 2008)]]
* 1600 - The Breetish East Indie Company gets a ryal chairter.
* 1703 - A yirdquauk an tsunami hit Tokyo, k... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Bridie
Ae bridie, or Farfar bridie, is ae Scots kin o maet pastry or pie, oreiginallie fae tha toun o Farfar, seimlar tae ae Cornish pastry. It's meakkit o minced beef, whiles wi ingans and spices, stappit intae pastry (aither shortcrust or puff) nickit intae ae hauf-muin shape; the hail thing is bakki... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Preses o the Scots Pairlament
The Preses (, ) is the bodie waled bi the Memmers o the Scots Pairlament tae preside ower thair convenes. Thay ar the heid o the corporate bodie o the Scots Pairlament an aa, an acause o this thay ar thocht o as a figurheid for the hail organisation. Twa depute preses is w... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Leet o poleetical pairties in Scotland
Ablo is a leet o aa poleetical pairties in Scotland.
Pairties wi representation at Halyruid
Scots brainches o UK pairties
* Scots Conservative an Unionist Pairty
* Scots Labour Pairty (includin the Co-operative Pairty)
* Scots Leiberal Democrats
Scots pairties
*... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 25 August
The 25t o August is the 237t day o the year (238t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 128 days bidin.
Events
: New Orleans]]
: Triglav, the heichest peak in Slovenie]]
: Banner o Uruguay]]
* 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope tae Venetian lawmakers.
* 1718 - The... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Arnhem
Arnhem (Law-Saxon: Ernem) is a ceity in the aest o the Netherlands, an the caipital o the province Gelderland. It haes aboot 141 600 indwallers (2005), an is ane o the 15 lairgest ceities in the Netherlands.
Arnhem wis grantit ceity-richts in 1233 bi Otto II, coont o Guelders that wis Coont o Z... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Barghest
is depictit on this howf sign]]
Barghest, Bargtjest or Bargest is the name gien in the north o Ingland, speicially in Yorkshire, tae a meethical monstrous boodie-dug wi great muckle teeth an cleuks.
The ghaist-hoond unner sindry names is weel-kent in fowklair:
* The Wirricowe o Tedworth, th... |
[Wikipedia:sco] BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a Breetish public service broadcaster. wis foondit in 1927 bi means o a Ryal Chairter. The BBC is the naitional publicly fundit braidcaster o the Unitit Kinrick. It maks programmes an braidcasts on televeesion, radio, an the Internet.
The BBC operates ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Lafayett Bunnell
Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (1824-1903), a noted explorer o Yosemite Valley, wis born in Homer, Minnesota. In 1851, Bunnell wis a member o the Mariposa Battalion that became the non-indigenous discoverers o the Yosemite Valley. Discovery wisna the main purpose o the vaige: the Battalion... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859
– 16 Aprile 1914) wis a Scots novellist, born at LIttle Duchrae, Galloway, grandson o Galloway tenant fermer William Crocket.
He wis brocht up on a Galloway ferm, won the Gallowa Bursary tae Edinburgh Varsity in 1876 an, efter ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 24 September
The 24t o September is the 267t day o the year (268t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 98 days bidin.
Events
: Medina]]
: Devil's Tower, Wyoming]]
: Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona]]
* 622 - The Prophet Muhammad, founder o Islam, completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) frae Mecca tae Me... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Catholicism
Catholicism haes twa main meanins, described in Webster's Dictionar as:
* 1) "the faith o the Roman Catholic Kirk, or adherence tharetil."
* 2) "the hail orthodox christian kirk, or adherence tharetil"; an the term comes frae the Greek adjective καθολικός-ή-όν (katholikos), meanin "general... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic releegion foondit oan the life an teachins o Jesus o Nazareth as pitten ower in the New Testament writins o his earlie follaers. It is the warld's lairgest releegion, jaloused tae huv 2.1 billion follaers, or aboot ae thrid o the warld's indwallers. It shares... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Buddhism
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Buddhism is a releegion an philosophy foondit on the teachins o the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a speeritual leader that leeved fae aboot 563 tae 483 BCE in whit's noo Nor-east India an Nepal. (Modren scholars cannae be shair aboot the dates, but mony pit them aboot a century later.)
Wi ab... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Telly
Telly, televeesion or TV, is a telecommunication medium uised for transmittin muivin eemages in monochrome (black an white), or in colour, an in twa or three dimensions an soond. The term can refer tae a telly itsel, a telly programme ("TV shaw"), or the medium o transmission for telly. The telly... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Stane (mass)
A stane or stane wecht () is a unit o mass in the Inglis and imperial system o wechts an measures uised in the Unitit Kinrick, Ireland. A stane uises the symbol st an is equal tae 14 pund avoirdupois (aboot 6.35 kg). In SI units it is equal tae 6.35 kilogram. The stane is aften uised in th... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wales
Wales ( ) is a kintra that is pairt o the Unitit Kinrick an the island o Great Breetain. It is mairchit bi Ingland tae the east, the Erse Sea tae the north an wast, an the Bristol Channel tae the sooth. It haed a population in 2011 o 3,063,456 an haes a tot aurie o . Wales haes ower o coastline a... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Eilean Donan
Eilean Donan is a smaw island in Loch Duich in the wast hielands o Scotland. It is situatit aboot 1/2 a mile (1 km) frae the clachan Dornie.
The kenspeckle Eilean Donan castle, dates frae the 13t hunneryear. It wis biggit bi Alexander II, an wis wrackit bi Inglis frigates in 1719, a month... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Nijmegen
Nijmegen (Zuid-Gelders: Nèhméége; Laich-Saxon: Nimwèèghen; ; ; ) is a ceety in the aest o the Netherlands, an ane o the lairgest ceeties o the stewartry Gelderland. It haes aboot 158 556 indwallers (2006), an is ane o the 10 lairgest ceeties in the Netherlands.
Nijmegen is on the left side o ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 22 Februar
The 22t o Februar is the 53t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 312 days ti come (313 in lowp years).
Events
: Location o Fishguard in Pembrokeshire]]
: Banner o Saunt Lucia]]
: The heavily damaged Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand]]
* 1371 - Robert II o Scotland becomes Keen... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 16 Aprile
The 16t o Aprile is the 106t day o the year (107t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 259 days ti come.
Events
: German annexation o Nauru]]
: Naitural Brigs Naitional Monument]]
: Apollo 16 launch]]
* 1705 - Isaac Newton becomes a "Sir".
* 1746 - Seicont Jacobite Uprisin: Battle o ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Supreme Court o Chile
The Supreme Coort o Chile is the heichest coort in Chile. It administrates the laicher coorts in the naition forby.
In the Chilean seestem, the coort wants the braider pouer o judeecial scowth—it canna set bindin precedent or invalidate laws. Insteid, it acts on a case-bi-case ba... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wertheim am Main
, 1822]]
Wertheim is a toun in soothwastern Germany, in the state o Baden-Württemberg wi 24,764 indwallers. It is situate on the confluence o the rivers Tauber an Main.
It is weel-kent for its wine, castle an medieval up-toun.
For monie years Wertheim wis hame tae Peden Barracks, a U... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 7 Mey
The 7t o Mey is the 127t day o the year (128t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 238 days ti come.
Events
: Pailace o Versailles seen frae the gairdens]]
: Crew o Space Shuttle Endeavour]]
* 1664 - Biggin work stairts on the Pailace o Versailles.
* 1778 - The ceety o New Orleans is foo... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 6 November
The 6t o November is the 310t day o the year (311t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 55 days bidin.
Events
election in the Unitit States.]]
election in the Unitit States.]]
* 1844 - The Dominican Republic adopts its Constitution.
* 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is electit Preses o the U... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 16 Julie
The 16t o Julie is the 197t day o the year (198t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 168 days ti come.
Events
: Apollo 11 launch]]
: Image o impact sites on Jupiter]]
*622 – Stairt o the Islamic Calendar.
*1212 – Battle o Las Navas de Tolosa in the Spaingie Reconquista.
*1377 – Coron... |
[Wikipedia:sco] 18 Juin
The 18t o Juin is the 169t day o the year (170t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 196 days bidin.
Events
: Scots cavalry charge at Waterloo]]
: Aletschhorn]]
* 1156 - Pape Adrian IV an William I o Sicily agree tae the Treaty o Benevento, in which the Pape recognises the Norman Kinri... |
[Wikipedia:sco] M32 motorwey
The M32 motorwey is the main artery road in Bristol, Ingland. Stairtin at Junction 19 o the M4, it runs sooth bi Filton, Frenchay, Horfield, Lockleaze, Aeston an St Pauls an intil the mids o Bristol. At aboot 5 mile lang, it is ane o Breetain's shortest motorweys, wi juist three junctions.... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Speed leemit
an rectangular signs show miles per oor.]]
s aroond the warld:
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A speed leemit is the maximum speed allout bi law for vehicles on a road.
Speed leemits are for ordinar merkit wi a traffec sign. Speed leemit signs are aften shawn naur poleetical mairchs an road intersections, an in som... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Jules Verne (crater)
Jules Verne is a lairge lunnar crater on the far side o the Muin. It is locatit tae the wast-soothwast o the Mare Ingenii, ane o the few lunnar mares on the hyne awa. Tae the soothaest o Jules Verne is the Lundmark crater, whilk Koch crater is locatit tae the sooth-soothaest. Tae t... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire is short for, "laissez-faire, laissez-passer," a French phrase meanin idiomatically "leave tae dae, leave tae pass" or mair accurate "lat things abee, lat thaim pass". First uised bi the aichteent century Physiocrats as an injunction agin govrenment interficherin wi tred an ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Parchtitz
Parchtitz is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen destrict, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Geografie an transport
Parchtitz is aboot 3 kilometres northwast o Bergen auf Rügen an lees on the Duwenbeek, the anerly lairge stream on Rügen. The stream's source is the loch o Nonnensee, whic... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Glattalp
The Glattalp lies in a Glen abuin Bisisthal in the Swiss Canton in the community o Muotathal.
Frae Sahli traivel tae the Glattalp bi cable caur, thare ye wad find yersel at ower 1850 m.ü.M., an naur the Glattalpsee. Thare ye will find a pouerstation kent as the Elektrizitätswerke des Reegion ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] St Pauls, Bristol
St Pauls is a destrict o Bristol, Ingland on the ootskirts o the ceity mids. St Pauls is famously kent ootthrou the UK as a aurie o heich wrang-daein (drog dealin an prostitiution). It is the mids o the ceity's African an Jamaican commonties, monie o whilk are secoint generation.
Arc... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Filton
Filton is a toun in Sooth Gloucestershire, Ingland, on the northren ootskirts o Bristol. Filton is fund on junction 1 o the M32 motorwey an junction 16 o the M5 motorwey. It haes a smaa Railwey Station an aw, no far frae Pairkwey. It is twinned wi St Vallier-sur-Rhône, Fraunce an Witzenhausen, G... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Easton, Bristol
Aeston (or Easton) is an inner ceety area o the ceity o Bristol in the Unitit Kinrick. Informally the area is conseederit tae stretch aest o Bristol ceity mids an the M32 motorwey, centred roond aboot Lawrence Munt. Its northern an aestern borders are less defined, mellin intil St Phill... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Horfield, Bristol
Horfield is a suburb o the ceity o Bristol, in soothwast Ingland. It lies on Bristol's northern edge, its border wi Filton merkin pairt o the mairch atween Bristol an Sooth Gloucestershire. Historically, the area haed a wird for bein a lawless place acause Horfield Wid wis the haunt o... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Bristol
Bristol is an Inglis ceity an coonty an ane o the twa admeenistrative centres o Sooth Wast Ingland (the ither bein Plymouth). Frae its earliest days, its sonse haes been linkit tae that o the Port o Bristol, the commercial port that origeenatit in the ceity centre, but that haes nou flittit tae... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Arboretum
An arboretum is a botanical gairden for ordinar gien ower tae trees an ither widdy plants, formin a leevin hatter o trees maistlins mynt for scienteefic study. An arboretum speicialisin in growin conifers is kent as a pinetum.
The term 'arboretum' wis first uised in Inglis bi J. C. Loudon in... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Traffec sign
sign showin 30 kilometres per oor (km/h).]]
Maist Kintras pits signs, kent as traffec signs or road signs, at the sides o roads for tae impairt information tae road uisers. Syne leid differs can create barriers tae understaundin, internaitional signs uisin seembols in steid o wirds haes be... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ascraeus Mons
Ascraeus Mons is the northernmaist o three volcanos (collectively kent as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bumfle naur the equator o the planet Maurs. Tae its sooth is Pavonis Mons, an sooth o that is Arsia Mons. The lairgest volcano in the solar seestem, Olympus Mons, is tae its northwast.... |
[Wikipedia:sco] John Maclean
John Maclean (1879-1923) wis born in Glesgae, Scotland intae a faimily o Hieland oreegin frae the Isle o Mull. Maclean becam a dominie an syne gaed tae the Varsity o Glesgae, graduatin wi a Maister o Airts degree (Maclean aye uised MA efter his name whan bein setten furth efterhaund). Macl... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Freedom Come Aa Ye
Freedom Come Aa Ye is a Scots sang componed bi Hamish Henderson in 1960. It is set tae the muisic o 'The Bloody Fields of Flanders'.
It is whiles proponed as a naitional sang for Scotland, maistlins bi fowk wi a inklin tae socialism (alang wi Robert Burns' 'A Man's A Man'). The sang... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (6 Mey 1856 – 23 September 1939) wis an Austrian Jewish psychotherapist an the foonder o the psychoanalytic schuil o psychotherapy a group that popularised the theory that unconscious motives taks chairge the feck o behaviour. He becam interestit in hypnotism an whit wey it ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (Pisa, 15 Februar 1564 – Arcetri, 8 Januar 1642) wis a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, an physicist that is closely associate wi the scienteefic revolution. He haed a haund in the betterment o the prospect, sindry astronomical observations, the first law o motion, an in ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Johann Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1398 – 3 Februar, 1468), a German metal-warker an inventor that's weel-kent for his contreibutions ti the technology o prentin in the 1450s, sic as a type metal alloy an ile-based inks, a mould for castin type accurate, an a new kind ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens (pronoonced in Scots (IPA): ; in Dutch: ) (14 April 1629 – 8 Julie 1695), wis a Dutch mathematician an pheesicist; born in The Hague as the son o Constantijn Huygens. He studied law at the Varsity o Leiden an the College o Orange in Breda afore turnin ti science. I... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Twin Peends
The Twin Peends are blate-sized munts approximately 100 fit heich, an tae the soothwast o the Maurs Pathfinder's laundin steid. Thay are juist ower a mile awa an can be seen frae orbeit.
The Maurs Pathfinder laundin steid is at the mooth o Ares Vallis, a lairge ootflowe lade 930 mile lang ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Maurs
Maurs (or Mairs; symbol: ) is the fowert planet frae the Sun in the Solar system. It is cried efter Maurs, the god o war in Roman mythology (the coonterpairt til Ares, the god o war in Greek mythology) acause o its reid licht as seen in the heivens at nicht. This featur forby wan it the name o "t... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sun
The Sun is the starn at the centre o the Solar Seestem. It is a geynear perfect sphere o het plasma, wi internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is bi faur the maist important soorce o energy for life on Yird. Its diameter is aboot 1.39 million kilometres,... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ma'adim Vallis
Ma'adim Vallis is ane o the lairgest canyons on Maurs, aboot 434 mile lang an a guid bit mair muckle not the Yirds's Grand Canyon. It is ower 12 mile braid an 1.24 mile deep in some places. It rins frae a region o soothren lawlands thocht tae hae ance conteent a lairge group o lochs nort... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner (17 Mey, 1749 - 26 Januar, 1823) wis an Inglis physeecian wirkin in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, weel-kent for his wark bringin on the Smawpox vaccine.
In Jenner's time, the smawpox inoculation wis duin aa ower England. Houaniver, it haed twa muckle drawbacks: it wis dangerou... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (27 December, 1571 – 15 November, 1630), a kenspeckle chiel in the scientific revolution, wis a German astronomer, mathematician an astrologer. He is best kent for his laws o planetary motion, pit furth in the twa beuks Astronomia nova an Harmonices Mundi.
Kepler wis a ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (pronoonced kānz / kAnze) (5 Juin, 1883 – 21 Aprile, 1946) wis an Inglish economist that's conceits haed a muckle impact on modren economic an poleitical theory as weel as on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He is minded in particlar ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus, kent as as Carl von Linné aifter his ennoblement an aw (), an him that wrat unner the Laitin name Carolus Linnaeus (23 Mey, 1707 – 10 Januar, 1778), wis a Swaddish botanist that laid the foonds for the modren scheme o taxonomy. He is conseidered ane o the faithers o modr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wikimedia Commons
The Wikimedia Commons (cried "Commons" or "Wikicommons" an aa) is a store o free content eimages, soond an ither multimedia files. It is a projeck o the Wikimedia Foondation. Files uploaded ti this store can be uised lik locally uploaded files on aa ither projecks on the Wikimedia ser... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Adirondack
Adirondack is the tae-name for Maurs Sploration Rinaboot Speerit's first target stane. Scientists chuist Adirondack tae be Speerit's first target stane raither than anither stane, cried Sashimi, that wad hae been a shorter, straucht-aheid drive. Speerit stravaiged the saundy maurtian terrain... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Socialism
Socialism is the name gien tae sindrie poleitical ideas. Socialists believes in evenlyness, solidarity, an social juistice. Monie fowk haes unalike conceits anent whit socialism means. Monie socialists thinks the guvrenment or the state shuid be aucht the "commandin hichts" o industry. Ithers... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Areographie
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Areography is the study o the featurs o the planet Maurs sic as laundfurms, climates, wather paitrens, relic areas hainin possible lifefurms or thair fossils, an the pheesical processes that creates an modifee's thae featurs an aw, an the spatial paitrens amang thaim forby. The ter... |
[Wikipedia:sco] European Union
The European Union (EU) is a group o 27 memmer states that are locatit primarily in Europe. The Union wis pitten thegither fir cultural an economic ettils. Monie kintras in the Union bruiks the same siller, the euro.
The EU traces its origins frae the European Coal an Steel Community (E... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Anton Raphael Mengs
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Anton Raphael Mengs (22 Mairch 1728 - 29 Juin 1779) wis a German penter.
Mengs wis born in 1728 at Usti (Aussig) in Bohemia, but his faither, Ismael Mengs, a Dens penter, estaiblisht hissel finally at Dresden, whance in 1741 he teuk his son tae Rome. The appyntment o Mengs in 17... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Chemistrie
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Chemistrie (frae Greek: χημεία) is the scienteefic discipline o matter an its interactions wi energie an wi itsel. Acause o the diversitie o maiter, that is maistlins in the form o atoms, chemists aften studies the wey atoms o differin chemi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ecologie
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Ecologie, or ecological science, is the scienteific study o the deistribution an rowth o leivin organisms an the wey that thir properties is affectit bi interactions atween the organisms an thair environs. The environs o an organism includes baith the pheesical properties, them that can b... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Airt
s bi prentin, normally on paper. (36 Views o Moont Fuji widcut frae Hokusai.]]
Airt, in its braidmaist meanin, is the kythe o creativity or imaigination, else baith.
Aa thro the scrievit historie o man, monie biggins haes been applee'd upan the braid conceit. The maist feck kens the things that... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Maurs Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's Maurs Reconnaissance Orbiter (acronym: MRO) is a multipurpose spacevaiger, lenched Augist 12t, 2005 for tae fordle human unnerstaundin o Maurs bi detailed observation, tae vizzie potential laundin steids for futur surface meessions an tae fend a heich-data-rate commu... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dance
Dance (frae auld French danser, faurder history isna kent) for ordinar refers tae human muivement aither uised as a furm o expression or presentit in a social, speeritual or performance settin.
Dance is uised tae descrive methods o nane-verbal communication atween humans or ainimals an aw (bee d... |
[Wikipedia:sco] James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 Juin 1831 – 5 November 1879) wis a Scots physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developit a set o equations expressin the basic laws o eletric an magnetism as weel as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory o gases.
He wis the last member o a cadet bra... |
[Wikipedia:sco] First Meenister o Scotland
The First Meenister o Scotland (, ) is the heid o the Scots Govrenment. The post wis estaiblisht in 1999 alangside the Scots Pairlament an the praisent First Meenister is John Swinney, he haes haudit the post syne 8 Mey 2024.
The First Meenister is chuised bi a vote o the Sc... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Depute First Meenister o Scotland
The Depute First Meenister o Scotland (Scots Gaelic: Leas-Phrìomh Mhinistear) is the Depute tae the First Meenister o Scotland. The post is hauden bi John Swinney syne 2014. Syne the May 2021 election, he is baith Deputy First Meenister an Cabinet Secretar fir Covid Re... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Pairlament election, 2003
The saicont Scots Pairlament walin wis hauden on Mey 1, 2003. The ootcome wis charactereised bi the heeze in support for the Scots Greens an the Scots Socialist Pairty — baith pairties ootwi the "big fower" — an a dwyne in support for baith the Scots Labour Pairty an the... |
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