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[Wikipedia:sco] Boucherville, Quebec
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Boucherville is a toun in the Canadian province o Quebec. It is a suburb o Montreal on the sooth baunk o the Saunt Lauwrence River.
As o 2001, thare wis 36,253 indwallers. In 1996, thare wis 34,989 (a chynge o +3.6%). The aurie o the toun is 27.61 square miles.
Aifter the 2002... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Anthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher (21 Augist, 1911 - 29 Aprile, 1968) wis a science feection & meesterie scriever, editor, an reviewer wi a Scots Forebeir (his grandfaither).
Boucher wis born William Anthony Parker White in Oakland, California, an gaed tae college at the Varsity o Soothren California. H... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Ido leid
Ido is a planned international leid, creatit in 1907 frae Esperanto. It is spoken bi aboot 100 - 200 fowk. The name "Ido" comes frae Esperantido, bairn o Esperanto.
Its vocabular is maistly taen frae Romance soorces, wi a simplifee'd gremmer an an agglutinative morphology that maks wird-creat... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Tang forest
Tang forests is a kynd o marine ecoseestem stablished aboot colonies o tang; thay conteen rich biodiversity. Tang can rax 2-30 meter or mair (till 60 m in Macrocystis pyrifera) fae thair ankers on the sea fluir tae the surface, providin a vertical infrastructur that is hame tae monie fish a... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Peter Bone
Peter Bone (born 19 October 1952) is an Inglis politeecian, an a member o the Unitit Kinrick pairlament at Wastmeinster, representin the Conservative Pairty. He wis representin the Wellingborough consteetuency in the Hoose o Commons, unteel his removal in 2023.
He wis pro-Brexit an oan the ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dentylion wine
Dentylion wine is a kynd o drink made fae dentylions speicially in midwast Americae.
Makkin daentylion wine
Ingredients:
* 1 gallon dentylion flouers
* 1 gallon het watter
* Juice o 1 leemon
* 3 orangers, pared an sliced
* 4 lbs o succar
* 1 cake o barm
Mell watter an flouers in a pig... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dentylion
The dentylion (Taraxacum officinale) an pairt o the Asteraceae faimily, is kent as the dandillie or witch gowan an aw. Acause o its diuretic naitur, the dentylion is aft cried pish-the-bed or pee-the-bed. The sap is cried witches' or deil's milk. It is aft said that the dentilion is an antido... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Douglas Carswell
John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 Mey 1971), kent as Douglas Carswell, is an Inglis politeecian, an wis a member o the Unitit Kinrick pairlament at Wastmeinster, representin the Conservative Pairty an UK Unthirldom Pairty. He representit the Clacton consteetuency in the Hoose o Comm... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Theresa May
Theresa Mary May (née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a Breetish politeecian wha served as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick an leader o the Conservative Pairty frae 2016 tae 2019. She haes been the Member o Pairlament (MP) for Maidenhead syne 1997. May identifies as a ane-naition conse... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sundial
A sundial meisurs solar time. It daes this acause the sun seems tae muive athort the lift. It merks the times o the day a shaidae is cuist on merkit pynts o the sundial. A body merks the sundial wi the time that the shaidae wis cuist. Ye can syne see the time. Thare's a few common sundial kynds... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Eternal Word Television Network
EWTN—or The Eternal Word Television Network—is a televeesion an radio operation that braidcasts Catholic religious programmin, via satellite, tradeetional braidcast televeesion, shortwave radio an the Internet.
EWTN began in 1981 an transmits 24 oor programmin tae 104 m... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Grammar
The grammar o a leid is a set o rules tae produce sentences in thon leid.
The term refers baith tae rules that descrives whit fowk actually says (descriptive grammar), an thaim that prescrives whit fowk shuid say (prescriptive grammar). The term grammar whan uised in schuils for ordinar refers... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Thou
Thou is the seicont person singular pronoun o the Inglis leid. Thou is the nominative case; the oblique/objective (functioning as baith accusative an dative) is thee, an the genitive is thy or thine.
In modren Inglis thou continues tae be uised in some o the regional byleids o Ingland, some relee... |
[Wikipedia:sco] The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 film cawed bi Sam Peckinpah. It is foondit on the novelle scrieven bi Robert Ludlum.
Tagline: What would you do if a total stranger proved to you that your three closest friends were Soviet Agents?
Main cast
*Rutger Hauer - John Tanner
*John Hurt - ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Genie
Genie is the Scots an Inglis tairm for the Arabic "jinni". In pre-Islamic Arabian meethologie an in Islam, a jinni (also "djinni" or "djini") is a member o the jinn (or "djinn"), a race o speerits.
Ordinar idea o genies
In Wastern feection, efter the Aladdin yairn in the Wastern version o "The B... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Lääne Coonty
Lääne Coonty (), or Läänemaa (, ), is ane o 15 coonties o Estonie. It is locatit in wastren Estonie an borders Easter Seas tae the north, Harju Coonty tae the north-east, Rapla Coonty tae the east, Pärnu Coonty tae the sooth, an the island coonties o Saare an Hiiu tae the wast. 27,477 fowk... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Yuil
Yuil [, Central Scots , Mid Northren , Northren , ] is tha name o tha winter solstice, Christenmas an aw, acause tha orèginal Auld Inglis wird giuli (an tha Norse jól) meant a haithin halyday afore Christianity cam tae be.
Monie o tha sèmbols associate wi tha halyday Christenmas sic as tha burnin... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Messeldeu
Messeldeu is a name for monie sindry parasitic plants o the families Santalaceae (in the section o the familie aince spleet as Viscaceae) an Loranthaceae.
Uiss
Messeldeu is aft hingit owre a door-wey in throu the Christenmas tid sae fowk can kiss unner thaim - this comin fae auld Norse trade... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Schuil
A schuil (or skuil) is maistlin a steid designate for lair. The reinge o institutions kiver'd bi the tairm chynges fae kintra ti kintra.
In the Unitit Kinrick, the tairm "schuil" refers foremaist ti pre-varsitie institutions, an thir can be split intil primary schuils (an whyls e'en splitten in... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Airn
Airn is a chemical element in the periodic cairt that haes the symbol Fe (L.: Ferrum) an atomic nummer 26. Airn is a group 8 an period 4 Metal. Airn is kent for bein the last element made bi stellar nucleosynthesis, an sicweys the maist wechtie element that disna require a supernova or seemilar ca... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Thoum
In human anatomie, the thoum is the first deegit on a haund. The human thoum is full opposable tae the tips o the ither fingers, sae it micht poseetion itsel, an be fauldit in-weys, tae the lave o the haund an fingers. It birls roond at the carpometacarpal jynt an can dae delicate tasks like hynt... |
[Wikipedia:sco] The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator, "the Greit Dictator" in Scots, is a pictur directit bi an starrin Charlie Chaplin. First released in 15 October, 1940, it is a satire on fascism an in parteecular Adolf Hitler an Nazism. Chaplin's pictur is kenspeckle fae this pre-Warld Weir II period (1940) for i... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Maj Sjöwall
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Maj Sjöwall (born 25 September, 1935 in Stockholm; deed 29 Aprile 2020) wis a Swaddish owthor an trunchman, kent for the collaborative wirk wi her husband Per Wahlöö on a series o detective novelles setten furth atween 1965 an 1975. Thegither thay scrieved ten novelles aboot the splores ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (born 14 Mey, 1965, Wexford, Ireland) is an Erse owthor, kent for haein written the Artemis Fowl series an the novelle The Wish List alang wi The Supernaturalist.
Colfer deplores the compearin o his popular, pseudo sci-fi fairy tale tae the Harry Potter series bi J. K. Rowling.... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Simon Coveney
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Simon Coveney (born 16 Juin 1972) is a politeecian in the Republic o Ireland, an a member o the Irish pairlament in Dublin, representin the pairty Fine Gael. He represents the Sooth Central Cork consteetuency in Dáil Éireann. He wis a member o the European Pairlament frae 2004 tae 2007... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Margaret Wilson
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Margaret Wilson (born 20 Mey 1947 in Gisborne) is a New Zealand politeecian, an an umwhile member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Labour Pairty. She wis a leet member o the pairlament unner the proportional representation seestem frae 1999 tae 2008. She serrt... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Rod Donald
Rod Donald (born 1957, dee'd 2005) wis a New Zealand politeecian, an a memmer o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Green Pairty. He bade in Christchurch wi his partner Nicola Shirlaw, an thair three dauchters.
He wis a leet member o the pairlament unner the proportional ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Bill English
Simon William English (born 30 December 1961), kent as Bill English, is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Clutha-Southland... |
[Wikipedia:sco] John Key
John Phillip Key (born 9 August 1961) is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Helensville. He wis Prime meenister o New Zealand f... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Winston Peters
Winston Peters (born 11 Aprile 1945 in Whangarei) is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the pairty New Zealand First. He is a leet member o the pairlament unner the proportional representation seestem. He is the chief o his pairty ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Yoch
The letter yoch (ȝoch) (Ȝȝ; ; Mid English: ȝoch) wis uised in Mid English and Scots for the soond o y (/j/) and ither seemilar soonds. The chairacter yoch wis aften confuised wi a cursive z. Gin the yoch wisna available, writers wad uise the letter ‘z’. Sic-like, muckle Lallan Scots wirds haes a z... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Mayenne
Mayenne () is a depairtment in northwast Fraunce namit efter the Mayenne River.
History
Mayenne is ane o the oreeginal 83 depairtments creatit durin the French Revolution on 4 Mairch 1790. The northren twa thirds correspond tae the wastren pairt o the umwhile province o Maine. The soothren thi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Michael Matheson
Michael Matheson (born 1970 in Glesga), is a Scots politeecian, an a Commissioner tae the Scots Pairlament, representin the Scots National Pairty (SNP). In baith 1999 an 2003, he wis waled fae the Central Scotland regional leet, afore bein electit in Fawkirk Wast in 2007. Frae 2014 tae... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Richard Lochhead
Richard Lochhead (born 24 Mey 1969), is a Scots politeecian. Frae 1999 tae 2006, he wis a Commissioner tae the Scots Pairlament, representin the Scots National Pairty (SNP), waled fae the North-east Scotland regional leet. He demittit for tae staund in the Moray by-election tae the Sco... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Haaick
Hawick or Haaick (soondit "hoik" or, gey informalie, "heik"; Scots Gaelic: Hamhaig) is a toun in the Mairches in the sooth o Scotland. It's maist weil-kent for its yeirlie Common Ridin that celebrates the youth frae the toun's win ower an Inglis raidin pairtie in 1514 - weimin cudna ryd in it ti... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth (* 24 Aprile 1819 in Heide, Dithmarschen; † 1 Juin 1899) wis a writer kent for writin in Nether-Saxon (Laich German).
His main warks is "Quickborn" in plattdeutsche Gedichte Ditmarscher Mundart (1852; 25t ed. 1900; an in staundart German (Hochdeutsch/Hochdüütsch) translations, ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Isan
Isan (Isan/ ; an aa written as Isaan, Isarn, Issan, or Esarn; īśānya "northeast") is the northeast region o Thailand. It is locatit on the Khorat Plateau, an haes a mairch wi Laos alang the Mekong River tae the north an east, an a mairch wi Cambodie tae the sootheast an the Prachinburi mountains s... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Slang
Slang is the byordinar uiss o wirds in the leed o a parteecular social group, an whiles the cleckin o new wirds or the inbringin o wirds frae anither leed. It is a kin o neologism. Slang can be descrieved as deviatin awa frae the ordinar uiss o a leed. Slang functions in twa weys; the cleckin o n... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Berrick
Berrick (, Scots Gaelic: Bearaig-a-Deas) is a toun in the coonty o Northumberland an is the northmaist toun in Ingland, on the east coast at the mooth o the River Tweed. It is situatit 2.5 mile (4 km) sooth o the Scots border.
Berik, the umwhile coonty toun o Berikshire, haed a population o 11... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 Mey, 1862 - 21 October, 1931) wis an Austrian writer an mediciner.
Selected works
Plays
* Anatol (1893), a series of seven acts revolving around a bourgeoisie playboy and his immature relationships.
* Flirtation (Liebelei - 1895), also known as The Reckoning, w... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Henery II, Duke o Guise
Henri o Lorraine, Duke o Guise (* 4 Aprile 1614; † 2 Juin 1664) wis the first Airchbeeshop o Reims.
Takin again the Naples familial pretentions, he teuk place tae Masaniello riot in 1647. He governs in this time the Royal Republic o Naiples, unner French protectorat, but the los... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wast Hieland White Tarrie
Wast Hieland White Terriers is a breed o dug kent for thair speeritit personality an glancy white coat; thair devotees aft juist cries thaim Wasties. Thay are cadgy, guid wi bairns, an thrives wi muckle tent. Like maist terriers, thay hae plenty o attitude (some micht say "spe... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Kelvinside Academy
Kelvinside Academy is a private schuil in the Ceety o Glesca, Scotland, foondit in 1878. As o 2004 it haes a capacity o 650 scholars an spans twa year o "Junior Stairt" (kindergarten), sax year o Junior Schuil (primary schuil), an seiven year o Senior Schuil (secondary schuil), compr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Buy Jupiter and other stories
Buy Jupiter and other stories is a forgaitherin o Isaac Asimov's stories first furthset in 1975 bi Crest Books (an airm o the "Consumer Publishing Division") wi the permeission o Doubleday and Company, Inc.
Stories
#Darwinian Pool Room
#Day of the Hunters
#Shah Guido G.
#... |
[Wikipedia:sco] James VII, King o Scots
King James VII an II (14 October 1633–16 September 1701) becam King o Ingland, Scots, an Ireland frae 6 Februar 1685. He wis the hindermaist Catholic ryal tae ring ower the Ingland, Scotland, or Ireland. His fowk daed mislippen his religious policies an said despotism, willin a ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), offeecially the Kinrick o Lesotho, is a landlocked kintra an enclave, completely surroondit bi its anly neighbourin kintra, Sooth Africae. It is juist ower in size an haes a population slichtly ower twa million. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Maseru. Lesotho is a member o the Co... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Paris in the 20th Century
Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXème siècle) is a novelle screiven bi Jules Verne in 1860 aboot a youthie man that bides in a time o gless skyscrapers, hie-speed trains, gas-pouered motors, calculators, an a warldwide communications netwark, yit canna find happiness, an c... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sheena Blackhall
Sheena Blackhall (b.1947, Aiberdeen) is a Nor' Aest scriever, illustrator, tradietional ballant sangster an shenachie. Ootthrou 1998−2003 she wis Creative Writing Fellow at Aiberdeen Varsity's Elphinstone Institute.
Career
Sheena Blackhall is a screiver, illustrator, tradietional ball... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Radio
Weirless or Radio is a communications invention uisin electromagnetic waws for tae get electronic information frae ae place tae anither athoot weirs. A transmitter sends the seegnals that's turnt intae soonds bi a receiver. The device is aften cried a "radio". It wis oreeginally uised for tae com... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Caribbean
The Caribbean (or Wast Indies) is a group o isles in the Caribbean Sea. The region is namit efter the Caribs that bade there afore Christopher Columbus cam ower it in 1492.
Kintras
* Antigua an Barbuda
* Aruba
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Grenada
* Haiti
* Ja... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Jesus Christ
Jesus (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33) or Jesus Christ, also refert to as Jesus o Nazareth among mony ither names and teetles, wis a 1st century Jewish prophet and releegious leader. In Christianity, he is the anly son o God an Mary is his mither. Jesus is kent as a prophet in Islam an aw. In ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Releegion
Releegion - whan uisit interchyngeabt wae faith ar belief seestem — bih fur ordinar definit beliefs adae wae ra supernaitural, saucrit, ar divine; an ra moral codets, practicets, vailets, institutionts an reetuals associate wae sic beliefs. In thir braid sense fowk hae definit hit ra hail tot... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Chad
Chad (, Tshād), offeecially kent as the Republic o Chad, is a landlocked kintra in central Africae. It is bordered bi Libie tae the north, Sudan tae the east, the Central African Republic tae the sooth, Cameroon an Nigerie tae the soothwast, an Niger tae the wast. Due tae its distance frae the sea... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Fraunce
Fraunce (, ), offeecially the French Republic (, ), is a kintra wi territory in wastren Europe an several owerseas regions an territories. The European, or metropolitan, aurie o Fraunce stends frae the Mediterranean Sea tae the Inglis Channel an the North Sea, an frae the Rhine tae the Atlantic... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Spainie
Spainie or Spain (Spainish: , ), offeecialy il the Kinrick o Spainie (), is a kintra maistly locatit on the Iberie Peninsula in Europe. The kintra's mainland is mairchit tae the sooth an east bi the Mediterranean Sea except for a smaw laund boondar wi Gibraltar; tae the north an northeast bi Fr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dromore, Coonty Doun
Dromore (frae Erse Droim Mór meinin "mukkil rig") is a wee toun in Coonty Doun, Northren Ireland. Hit byds 19 mile sooth-wast o Belfast, on the A1 Belfast ti Dublin road. Hit haed 4,968 indwallers at the tyd o the 2001 Census an is in the Bannbrig Destrict.
The toun's middil is ke... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Aquafina
Aquafina is a non-carbonatit bottelt watter made bi PepsiCo. First bein distributit in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, it is nou distributit athort the hail o the Unitit States, an haes syne 2003, become the Unitit States' tap-sellin bottelt watter kenmerk. The watter is maistlins gotten fae muneecip... |
[Wikipedia:sco] British Weights and Measures Association
British Weights and Measures Association is an organisation that ettles tae uphaud the auld Breetish or Imperial Meisurments agin the Metric Seestem. Thay aften threap that fowk can uise the metric seestem gin thay want but it shoudna be forced upo society.
Thi... |
[Wikipedia:sco] St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church
St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church is a church in Fawkirk, in the auld coonty o Stirlingshire in Scotland. It wis foondit bi Father Maclachlan. The auld church, lang syne demolisht, wis designt bi the Dunblane airchitect William Stirling, an consecrati... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Transformer
wi center-tapped seicontary windin uised tae provide 'split-phase' pouer for residential an licht commercial service, which in North Americae is typically ratit 120/240 volt.]]
A transformer is a static electrical device that transfers energy bi inductive couplin atween its windin circuits... |
[Wikipedia:sco] The Sacred Heart Church
The Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic kirk locatit in Wigtoun on Sooth Main Street. It is a kirk o the Roman Catholic Diocese o Gallowa.
A Gothic early Inglis style, brick kirk bi Edinburgh airchitect John Garden Brown biggit in 1879.
Cruciform wi a bellcote on the sooth gable... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Wigtoun
Wigtoun ( or - baith uised local) ( ) is a toun an umwhile ryal burgh in Wigtounshire, in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It wis the coonty toun o Wigtounshire. It lies east o Stranrawer an sooth o Newton Stewart. It is weel-kent nouadays as "Scotland's National Beuk Toun" wi a heich concentrati... |
[Wikipedia:sco] North Ayrshire
North Ayrshire () is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It ligs alang the coast o the Firth o Clyde an haes mairches wi East Ayrshire til the eist, Sooth Ayrshire til the sooth, Inverclyde til the north an Renfrewshire til the nor'eist. It is made-up o the Isle o Arran, the Cumbrae I... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Roushie
Roushie (/ˈruʃi/ or /ˈruʃe/; ; ipa: [rɐˈsʲijə]), offeecially kent as the Roushian Federation (Roushie: Российская Федерация, tr. rossiyskaya federatsiya; ipa: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]) is a kintra on the Asie an Europe continent. It is bund bi twa oceans (the Airctic an Paceefic), an, frae... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Cape o Guid Howp
The Cape o Guid Howp (, Dutch: , ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast o the Cape Peninsula, Sooth Africae.
Thare is a misconception that the Cape o Guid Howp is the soothren tip o Africae, acause it wis ance believed tae be the dividin point atween the Atlantic an Indian Oceans.... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Draigon
A draigon is a lairge, serpent-lik leegendar craitur that appears in the fowklair o mony culturs aroond the warld. Beliefs aboot draigons vary drastically bi region, but draigons in wastren culturs syne the Heich Middle Ages hae eften been depictit as weenged, horned, fower-legged, an capable o... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Hivy (beer)
Hivy is the tradeitional thick, daurk, strang beer o Scotland. Waiker Scots ales is cryed licht, an isna as common.
Aatho it's richt sert at room temperatur, it's aften sert chilled the day, in bottles, cans, pints or hauf-pints. Hivy is a hertie beer, kin o sweet, less shairp nor some ith... |
[Wikipedia:sco] The Hop
St Margaret's Hup, kent locally as The Hop, is a clachan in the Orkney Islands, situate aff the north-aest coast o Scotland. It is Orkney's third maist muckle settlement, efter Kirkwa an Stromness. It haes a population o aboot 550, an is placed at the heid o a sheltered bey at the north end o S... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Tokyo
Tokyo (Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, "aestren caipital") is the hame tae the Japanese govrenment an the emperor, makkin it the Caipital o Japan. It is the naition's maist populous urban area an aw (12 million fowk, or aboot 10 percent o the kintra's population, bides in Tokyo), an ane o the 47 prefecturs ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Pape
The Bishop o Rome, whiles cried the Pape, is the heid o the Roman Catholic Kirk an sovereign o Vatican Ceety. The Bishop is waled by Cairdinals in whit is kent as a Papal Conclave. The current Bishop is His Haliness Pape Leo XIV, wha succeedit Pape Frauncis efter his daith in Aprile, 2025. The lin... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Pechts
The term Pechts (, modern , ) refers tae the tribes that Mediterranean clessical-era writers pit in Caledonie, whit itsel comprises the pairt o praisent-day Scotland north o the Forth an Clyde.
Pecht first kythes in a panegyric written bi Eumenius in AD 297. Tho Picti is for ordinar taen tae me... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Cruithne
The Cruithne or Cruthin wis historical fowk that dwalt in Ireland, in parteecular Ulster, in early medieval times.
Gaun by T. F. O'Rahilly's historical model, the Cruithne wis the descendants o the Priteni, that O'Rahilly argies wis the first Celtic group tae dwall in the Breetish Isles, an i... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Nether-Saxon
Nether-Saxon (For ordinar cryed Nedersaksisch in the Netherlands, Plattdüütsch, Nedderdüütsch or Neddersassisch in Germany an Plautdietsch by the Roushie Mennonite), is a name for the regional leid varieties o the Laich Germanic leids that's tae the maist pairt spak in the north o Germany,... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Republic o Ireland
Ireland or Airlann (Erse: Éire), deskrived as the Republic o Ireland (or Republick o Airlann in Ulstèr-Scotch) (Erse: Poblacht na hÉireann), is a kintra in wastren Europe, wi a population o mair nor 4 million. It maks up maist o the iland o Ireland, an haes a mairch wi Northren Irela... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Charles Kennedy
The Richt Honourable Charles Peter Kennedy CP (25 November 1959 – 1 Juin 2015) wis a Scots politeecian. He wis the leader o the Leeberal Democrats frae 1999 tae 2006. He demittit frae office aifter admittin he haed been battlin agin a drink problem, efter which Menzies Campbell wis elec... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Aiple
The aiple tree (Malus pumila, commonly an erroneously cried Malus domestica) is a deciduous tree in the rose faimily best kent for its sweet, pomaceous fruit, the aiple. It is cultivatit warldwide as a fruit tree, an is the maist widely growed species in the genus Malus. The tree originatit in Ce... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Trowe
A trowe is a meethical craitur fae the Orkneys an ither airts. Its sib tae the Scandinavie troll. Trowes is thocht tae be be wee, scunnersome beasties that bides in tummocks an krivocks. Sea trowes bides aneath the watter an is gey an slouth. They are thocht tae be nocturnal, an e'en whan they co... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism is a releegion fae Iran, forbye mony follaers bide in Indie (whaur they're kent as Parsis) an ither pairts o the warld. The releegion's based on the teachins o the prophet Zarathushtra (kent as Zoroaster an Zartosht an aa), an haes atween 100,000 an 200,000 follaers. Zoroa... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Eda-Ines Etti
Eda-Ines Etti, born 26 Mey 1981, is a Estonie sangster frae Haapsalu. She representit her hame kintra at the Euroveesion Sang Contest 2000 wi the sang Once in a Lifetime, an feenished in fowert poseetion. In 2006, she is again enterin Eurolaul, the Estonian naitional walin for Euroveesion... |
[Wikipedia:sco] New Zealand
New Zealand (; ) is a sovereign island kintra in the soothwastren Paceefic Ocean. The kintra geografically comprises twa main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), an the Sooth Island (Te Waipounamu)—an aroond 600 wee islands. New Zealand is situatit some east o Australie athort the ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Hogmanay
Hogmanay is a Scottish haliday that faws on 31 December, the hindermaist day o the year. The nicht o Hogmanay stairts the lang celebration o the new year o the Gregorian calender, wi twa baunk halidays follaein, for ordinar on 1 an 2 Januar.
The oreegins o Hogmanay ar unclear but it micht der... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Shirley Clamp
Shirley Natasja Clamp, born 17 Februar 1973, is a Swadish sangster fae Borås. She haes ettlet monie times tae represent her hame kintra at the Eurovision Sang Contest bi enterin sangs intae the Melodifestivalen, the naitional walin for Eurovision, but her heichest poseetion up til nou wis... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sahlene
Anna Sahlin, maist aften kent as Sahlene or Anna Sahlene, is a Swadish singer fae Söderhamn. As a backin singer for Charlotte Nilsson, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for her hame kintra wi the sang Take Me to Your Heaven. In 2002, she gaed back til the Eurovision, but nou representin ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Economics
Economics is "a social science concerned chiefly wi description an analysis o the production, distribution, an consumption o guids an services".
Economics focuses on the behaviour an interactions o economic augents an hou economies wirk. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy,... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Transport
Thare are mony furms o transport reengin frae traivelin on the grund tae ower watter or throu the air. Transport is a term remittin tae the muivement o, mainly, fowk an guids. Housomeiver, it remitts tae the muivement o information an aw, for ensaumple, the wab. The term comes frae the Laitin... |
[Wikipedia:sco] No pruiven
No Pruiven (Not proven in Inglis) is a verdict that can be gien bi a coort in Scotland. Unner Scots law, juries decidin creeminal trials haes three verdicts that thay can retour; Guilty, No guilty an No Pruiven.
The No Pruiven verdict states that the coort hauds the procurator didna pit for... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Address to the Haggis
The haggis is a traditional Scots dish memorialised as the national dish o Scotland bi Robert Burns' poem Address to a Haggis in 1786. It is recited afore mony a Burns supper. Durin Burns Nicht, abody staunds as the haggis is brocht in, fur usual on a muckle dish bi the chef while... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Dominica
Dominica, ( ) offeecially the Commonweel o Dominica, is an island naition in the Caribbean Sea. Tae the north-northwast lies Guadeloupe, tae the sootheast Martinique. Its size is 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) an the heichest pynt in the kintra is Morne Diablotins, which haes an elevation o... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys is a fowersome indie rock baund frae High Green, a suburb o Sheffield. Thair debut single, "I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor", an the follae-up "When The Sun Goes Down", gaed richt tae nummer ane in the UK Singles Chairt. The baund's debut album, Whatever People Say I... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Islam
, a common seembol o Islam.]]
Islam (Arabic: الإسلام or al-islām, "submission") is a monotheistic Abrahamic releegion foondit on the life an teachins o Mohammad in the saxth century, in Arabie. The fowk that follaes this releegion is cawed "Muslims". Muslims caw God "Allah", bat hae 99 different ... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Cheenae (region)
:This airticle is adae wi the hail Cheenae civilisation. For the twa states that crys thairsels Cheenae, see Fowkrepublic o Cheenae an Republic o Cheenae.
Cheenae is a muckle kintra in Asie. Syne the Cheenese Ceevil War, Cheenae haes been splitten intae the mair muckle Communist Fowkr... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Atom
An atom is the smawest consteetuent unit o ordinary matter that haes the properties o a chemical element. Ivery solit, liquid, gas, an plasma is componed o neutral or ionised atoms. Atoms are very smaw; teepical sizes are aroond 100 picometres (a ten-billiont o a metre, in the short scale).
Atoms... |
[Wikipedia:sco] True Jesus Kirk
The True Jesus Kirk is an independent indeeginous Kirk that stairtit oot in Beijing, Cheenae an it wis foondit bi Paul Wei in 1917. Its current Preses is Yung-Ji Lin. The kirk haes aboot atween 1.5 tae fower million follaers in fowerty kintras aa ower the warld an is conseidered a Cheen... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Muisic
. Frae left tae richt:Tapmaist row: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven;seicont row: Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi;third row: Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Geor... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Internaitional Mither Tongue Day
, Bangladesh, commemorates the sacrifice for the Bangla leid on 21st Februar, 1952]]
The 21st o Februar wis proclaimt Internaitional Mither Tongue Day bi UNESCO in November 1999.
The Internaitional Mither Tongue Day is obserred ilka year in UNESCO memmer states an at i... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Makar
A makar in Scots leeteratur is a poet or bard, aften pairt o the ryal coort. The wird makar refers tae the craft o writin poetry (keek at scop forby). The wird can forby be uised fur ither forms o creaution.
For ordinar the Scots Makars refers til a Scots leid leeterar genre o the late Middle Ag... |
[Wikipedia:sco] William Dunbar
William Dunbar (c. 1460 − c. 1520), Scots makar, wis maist likely hameborn til East Lowden.
Life
Dunbar's name kythes in 1477 in the Register o the Faculty o Airts at the Varsity o Saunt Aundraes amang the Determinants or Bachelors o Airts, an in 1479 amang the maisters o the varsity. S... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Sport in Scotland
Scotland haes mony naitional sportin associes, sic as the Scots Fitbaa Association (SFA) or the Scots Rugby Union (SRU). This gies the kintra its ain representation at mony internaitional sportin events sic as the Fitbaa Warld Cup. Scotland canna compete in the Olympic Gemmes itsel th... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Fitba
Fitba (itherwise spelt fitbaw or fitbaa) (, or in North Americae), is a gemme or sport played by twa teams on a rectangular pairk (aboot 110 by 70 yaird) wi dales (24 by 8 feet) at the twa ends. The twa teams haes 11 players. 10 o the players rins aw ower the park an tries tae kick or heid the ba... |
[Wikipedia:sco] Scottish Premier League
The Scots Premier League (Inglis: Scottish Premier League), kennt as the Clydesdale Bank Premier League for sponsorship reasons, wis a league o fitbaw teams in Scotland. It on the heichmaist level o the Scots fitbaw league system an is made up o twal teams. It wis abolished in 2... |
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