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[Wikipedia:sco] Scottish Football League The Scots Fitbaa League (Inglis: Scottish Football League) is a league o fitbaw teams in Scotland. It is dividit intae three diveesions ilkane o 10 clubs. These are the Scots First Diveesion, Scots Seicont Diveesion an Scots Thrid Diveesion. The league is kennt as the Irn-Bru S...
[Wikipedia:sco] Highland Football League The Hieland Fitbaa League is a league o fitbaw teams in Scotland. The league isna juist for teams in the Hielands. Maist o the teams is fae the North East neuk. It haes teams fae Aiberdeen in the east ower tae Fort William in the wast an up tae Wick in the north. The fifteen te...
[Wikipedia:sco] Rangers F.C. Rangers Football Club (or Glesga Rangers) is the seicont maist successfu fitbaw club in Scotland. Rangers pley in the Scots Premiership, whilk is the tap level o the Scots Professional Fitbaw League. The team pley thair hame gemmes at Ibrox Stadium in the sooth-west o Glesga. Honours Rang...
[Wikipedia:sco] Celtic F.C. Celtic Fitbaw Club (soondit or in Glesga Scots) is a Scots club that competes in the Scots Professional Fitbaw League, the heichest form o competition in Scotland. The club is based in the east end o the city o Glesga. The club is offeecially bynamed the Hoops. The team pley aw thir hame g...
[Wikipedia:sco] Dundee United F.C. Dundee United (or the Tangerines, Terrors, Arabs) are a Scots professional fitbaw club locatit in the city o Dundee. Formit in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club adoptit their current name in 1923. Thay pley thair hame gemmes at Tannadice Park in Dundee. The pairk is kens...
[Wikipedia:sco] Dunfaurlin Dunfaurlin (, ) is a city an umwhyl ryal burgh in Fife, Scotland. Eik-named "The Aul Grey Toun", it byds on heich grun 3 mile frae the shore o the Firth o Forth, nor'wast o Edinburgh. The toun is the historic caipital o Scotland an Robert the Bruce is buirit in Dunfaurlin Abbey. The toun is ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Fawkirk Fawkirk (Falkirk in Ingels; An Eaglais Bhreac in the Scots Gaelic) is a muckle toun in Stirlinshire, Scotland. Fawkirk itsel is hame til the Fawkirk Wheel amang ither things sic as the Callander Hoose an the Fawkirk Bairns Fitbaw team. It's a gey industrial an weel-populatit airt o the kintra. ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Kilmaurnock Kilmaurnock (Scots Gaelic: Cille Mheàrnaig) (forby kent as Killie anaw) is a mukkil burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, wi aboot 44,734 indwallers. It is aboot haufgate atwein Glesga an Ayr, an is the seicont mukkilest toun in Ayrshire. The River Irvine rins throu its eistren bit, an the Kilm...
[Wikipedia:sco] Motherwal Motherwal (, ) is a muckle toun an ae-time burgh o North Lanrikshire, Scotland, sooth-east o Glesga. The toun wis a burgh frae 1865 till it gaed thegither wi Wishae in 1920. Motherwal wis weel-kennt as a steel-producin toun in the mid-20th century an wis hame ti the Ravenscraig steelyaird, w...
[Wikipedia:sco] Falkirk F.C. Fawkirk F.C. (or the Bairns) pley thair gemmes at The Fawkirk Stadium in Fawkirk. The club pley in the Scots Premiership efter haein back tae back promotions, risin fae the Scots League Ane tae the Scots Premiership in twa yeir. History Fawkirk won the Scots Cup fur the first time in 1913...
[Wikipedia:sco] Motherwell F.C. Motherwal Fitbaw an Athletic Club (Inglis: Motherwell Football and Athletic Club), mare aften kennt as juist "Motherwell" or "the Well", is a professional fitbaw team frae Motherwal, Scotland. Thay compete in the Scots Premier League an play thair hame gemmes at Fir Pairk Stadium. Thay ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Dunfermline Athletic F.C. Dunfermline Athletic fitbaw Club are a Scots fitbaw team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly kent as just Dunfermline. They play at East End Park an are nicknamed The Pars. Achievements Honours * Scots First Diveesion Champions – 1989, 1996 * Scottish Seicont Diveesion Cham...
[Wikipedia:sco] Kilmarnock F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. (or the Killie) pley thair gemmes at Rugby Pairk in Kilmarnock. Thay war foondit in 1869. Thay won the league ance in 1965, an the Scots Cup three times, maist recent in 1997. Rugby Pairk haes 18128 seats. Honours Domestic * Scots Fitbaw League (tap tier): ** Winners (1...
[Wikipedia:sco] Aberdeen F.C. Aberdeen Football Club haes the byname "The Dons" an pley thir hame gemmes at Pittodrie Stadium in Aiberdeen. Thay are the third maist succesfu team in Scots Fitbaa an is the maist succesfu Scots team in Europe haein won the European Cup Winners Cup an the European Super Cup. A pennant (...
[Wikipedia:sco] Leivinstoun Leivinstoun or Leevinston (, ) or Livi is a toun in Wast Lowden, Scotland. It is the fowert eft-war new toun ti be biggit in Scotland, designated in 1962. It is aboot 15 mile (25 km) wast o Edinburgh an 30 mile (50 km) eist o Glesga. Leivinstoun is the mukkilest toun in Wast Lowden an the ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Airdrieonians F.C. Airdrieonians Football Club (forbye cried The Daimants) is a professional fitbaw club frae the toun o Airdrie in North Lanrikshire. It is a member o the Scots Professional Fitbaw League (SPFL) an is nou in the Scots Championship. History Birth Efter the Deith o Airdrieonians Airdri...
[Wikipedia:sco] Hamilton Academical F.C. Hamilton Academical is a fitbaw club frae Hamiltoun, Scotland. Thay war stairtit in 1874 frae Hamilton Academy. Kent locally as "The Accies" the team won promotion frae SFL Diveesion 2 tae SFL Diveesion 1 in the Diveesion Twa 2003-04 saison. The club haes played at New Douglas ...
[Wikipedia:sco] St Mirren F.C. St. Mirren Fitbaw Club are a Scots professional fitbaw club frae Paisley, Renfrewshire, foundit in 1877. The club play in the Scots Premiership, efter promotion frae the Scots Championship in 2017–18. The club haes twa nicknames, the "Buddies" an the "Saints". St. Mirren play thair hame ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Dundee F.C. Dundee fitbaw Club, foondit in 1893, are a fitbaw club based in the city o Dundee, Scotland. Thay are nicknamed The Dee or The Dark Blues an pley their hame matches at Dens Park. Their shirt colour is daurk blue. Dundee currently pley in the Scots Premiership, haein been promotit frae the S...
[Wikipedia:sco] Ayr United F.C. Ayr Unitit are a Scots fitbaw team that pley at Somerset Pairk in the toun o Ayr, wha compete in the Scots Championship. Foundit in 1910 fae a merger atween Ayr F.C. an Ayr Parkhouse F.C., thir byname is The Honest Men, fae a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter". History Ayr ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Gretna F.C. Gretna F.C. used tae be a Scots fitbaa team. In the 2007/08 they played in the Scots Preemier diveesion unner big Davie Irons and no sae big Mick Wadsworth. Manager Rowan Alexander wis in chairge o the club 2000 tae 2007; the club haed haed monie financial problems aerlie on whan he wis ma...
[Wikipedia:sco] Albion Rovers F.C. Albion Rovers F.C. (or the Wee Rovers) plays thair gemmes at Cliftonhill Pairk in Coatbrig. Thay ar currently playin in the Scots fitbaw League third division. Foondit in 1882 as the result o an amalgamation o twa ither teams, the club jynt the Scots fitbaw League initially in 1903 a...
[Wikipedia:sco] Arbroath F.C. Arbroath Football Club are a Scots fitbaw club currently playin in the Scottish League Two. The club wur foondit in 1878 an play hame matches at Gayfield Park. Thay play in maroon strips, an are elknamit "the Red Lichties" due tae the reid licht that uised tae guide fishin boats back frae...
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots coonties Scotland wis laid oot as 34 coonties ower the coorse o the 18t, 19t an 20t centuries. They wis duin awa wi as offeecial bodies in 1975 bi the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, that replaced them wi airts o Scotland, island council airts an the lieutenancy airts o Scotland. Though th...
[Wikipedia:sco] Inverurie Loco Works F.C. Inverurie Loco Works F.C. are a senior fitbaw club that currently play in the Hieland League in Scotland. Staff The current managers are Kenny Coull and Scott Buchan. Assistit by Iain Alexander, Chris Ainslie and Craig Stratton. Senior Honours Highland Football League *runne...
[Wikipedia:sco] Anarchism Anarchism as a poleitical idea, is ane that gaes agin hierarchy. Monie fowk haes unalike conceits anent whit anarchism means. It's nae chaos, but it's nae sae orderly aither. Anarchists believes in evenlyness, an maist believes in solidarity an social juistice forby. In place o whit is kent a...
[Wikipedia:sco] Californie Californie is a state in the Unitit States o Americae, on the wast coast. Californie haes the maist indwallers o aa the States o the U.S., an is the third lairgest state bi aurie. The state is the maist physically, and ane of the maist demographically diverse forbye. If Californie wis an unt...
[Wikipedia:sco] Otto von Bismarck Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke o Lauenburg (1 Aprile, 1815 – 30 Julie, 1898) wis a weel-kent German aristocrat an statesman o the 19t century in Europe. As Prime Meenister o Proushie frae 1862 tae 1890, he wis maistlins responsible for unitin the monie unthi...
[Wikipedia:sco] Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (13 Aprile 1743 – 4 Julie 1826) wis ane o the foondin faithers o the Unitit States o Americae. He wrate the Unitit States Declaration o Unthirldom an wis efter the third Preses o the Unitit States. He wis a snar constructionist, meanin he believed the federal govrenmen...
[Wikipedia:sco] Indie Indie (, ), offeecially the Republic o Indie (, ; ), is a kintra in Sooth Asie. It is the seivent-lairgest kintra bi geographical aurie, the maist populous kintra wi ower 1.2 billion fowk, an the maist populous democracy in the warld. Mainland Indie is boondit bi the Indie Ocean on the sooth, the...
[Wikipedia:sco] Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 Mairch, 1475 - 18 Februar, 1564) wis an airtist, airchitect an writer. Ane o his best kent warks is the Dauvit. He bade in Italy in Renaissance times. He coud pent wi baith haunds. Whan the ae haund wis forfochen, he uised the tither haund. War...
[Wikipedia:sco] Vincent van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh ( 30 Mairch, 1853- 29 Julie 1890) wis a Dutch penter. Aifter failin a puckle jobs he decidit tae acome an airtist. He went tae bide in Paris wi his brither cried Theo, that wis an airt dealer, an met monie weel kent airtists that holpit an influenced him. He flitted t...
[Wikipedia:sco] Burgh A Burgh is an autonomous corporate entity, for ordinar a toun, an haes been in uiss in Scotland syne the 12t century. Recogneetion o burgh status houaniver haes little mair nor ceremonial vailie. The heid o a burgh is cried a Provost. Maist ryal burghs hauds the teetle for ceremonial purposes, w...
[Wikipedia:sco] Ryal burgh A Ryal Burgh is a kynd o burgh that's alanerly uised ceremonial purposes the day. A ryal burgh is a burgh that haes been foondit bi, or efter-haund been gien a ryal chairter. Maist ryal burghs wis sea ports, an ilkane wis aither creatit bi the croun, or upheized fae anither status, sic as ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Poland The Republic o Poland (Pols: Rzeczpospolita Polska), for ordinar kent juist as Poland (Polska), is a kintra in central/aestren Europe. It mairches ontae the Baltic Sea tae the north, alang wi the Kaliningrad Oblast o Roushie. Lithuanie mairches tae the nor-aest, Beloroushae tae the aest, Ukraine...
[Wikipedia:sco] Ffa Coffi Pawb Ffa Coffi Pawb is a muisic curn that's Welsh name leiterally means "Awbodie's Coffee Beans" but soonds lik "Fuck Off, Awbodie". Thay conseest o Gruff Rhys an Dafydd Ieuan the nou tho thare wis ance twa ither members in the curn. The ither members wis Gorky's Zygotic Mynci an Dewi Emlyn. ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand is the name o: * Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick, the heir presumptive tae the throne o Austrick. His assassination bi Gavrilo Princip on 28t Juin 1914 wis ane o the things that stairtit Warld Weir I. * Franz Ferdinand, a baund o indie rock muisicianers frae Glesca...
[Wikipedia:sco] Franz Ferdinand (baund) Franz Ferdinand is a Scots indie rock baund frae Glesca. The baund's début album, itsel cried Franz Ferdinand, cam oot in 2004 an débuted on the UK album chairts at nummer three, winnin the 2004 Mercury Muisic Prize. Up tae nou, the baund haes pit oot seeven singles; "Take Me Ou...
[Wikipedia:sco] Vladimir Lenin (Roushie: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), (22 Aprile (10t April A.S.), 1870 – 21 Januar, 1924) wis a Roushian revolutionary, the heid o the Bolshevik pairtie. Lenin wis a pen-name; he wis born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Улья́нов). He wis the first heid o the Soviet Union. He's kent as the foonde...
[Wikipedia:sco] Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg (18t December, 1863 - 28t Juin, 1914) wis the airchduke o Austrick an a heir o the Austrian Empire. He wis assassinatit in 1914 in Sarajevo bi Gavrilo Princip that wis a member o Black Haund, a group o Serbie naitionalists. This wis ane ...
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[Wikipedia:sco] Villeneuve-d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq () is a commune in the Nord depairtment in northren Fraunce. Wi mair nor 60,000 indwallers an 50,000 students, it is ane o the main ceeties o the European Metropolis o Lille an the lairgest in aurie (27,46 km²) efter Lille; it is also ane o the main ceeties o the Hau...
[Wikipedia:sco] Tattie A tattie is a plant that's scientific name is Solanum tuberosum. The tattie plant growes weel in mony different pairts o the warld. A tattie bi a wee clow wae blawdis kennit as chunnis. The crony fit fowk eat growis unnergrund. It for ordinar haes a broun or pink skin an is white or yellae on t...
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[Wikipedia:sco] Maureen Watt Maureen Watt is an umwhile Scots politeecian, an Memmer o the Scots Pairlament, representin the Scots National Pairty (SNP). She becam a Memmers o the Scots Pairlament MSP in 2006 frae the SNP's North East regional leet for tae replace Richard Lochhead. Doric Aith o Allegiance Watt teuk h...
[Wikipedia:sco] Mexico Mexico (Spainish: México ; ), offeecially the Unitit Mexican States (, ), is a federal republic in the soothrenmist portion o North Americae. It is mairchit tae the north bi the Unitit States; tae the sooth an wast bi the Paceefic Ocean; tae the sootheast bi Guatemala, Belize, an the Caribbean S...
[Wikipedia:sco] Republic o the Fowk o Cheena The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (FRC; Simplifee'd Cheenese: 中华人民共和国, Tradeetional Cheenese: 中華人民共和國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó , or Cheenae), is a sovereign state in East Asie. Wi a population o mair nor 1.3 billion fowk, the FRC is the maist populous kintra in the warld...
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[Wikipedia:sco] Bahá'í Faith The Bahá'í Faith is a releegion foondit bi Bahá'u'lláh in Persie (nou cried Iran) in the 19t century. The maist important Bahá'í teachins is: # Ae God # Releegions aw comes fae the same soorce # Equality o aw fowk # Equality atween men an weemen # An end tae aw prejudice # Warld peace # ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Gairdenin , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]] Gairdenin is the practice o growin an cultivatin plants as pairt o horticultur. In gardens, ornamental plants are eften grown for their flouers, foliage, or oweraw appearance; uiseful plants, such as ruit vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, an yerbs, are ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Wha Hae Scots Wha Hae is a poem/sang at wis written bi Robert Burns in 1793 tae mimic a speak gien bi Robert the Brus tae his airmy afore the Battle o Bannockburn in 1314. Tho Burns scrived the wirds, the muisic is gey auld (the tuin is Hey Tuttie Tattie that legend hauds wis played by the Scots ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Care Bears The Care Bears is a sucessfu playock franchise frae the 1980s. Mair nor fowerty million o thir stappit teddy beirs, makkit in a wheen sindry colours, wis selt frae 1983 tae 1987. Ilka beir haes a name, a job, an a seembol tied tae it. For ensaumple, "Bedtime Bear" helps fowk sleep, an haes a...
[Wikipedia:sco] Caitch Caitch is a gemme whaur raquettes an wechty baws is uised, it is played inby agin waws an sklentin ruifs. Caitch is kent as "real tennis" in Ingland. The warld's auldest caitchpule is at Fawkland in Fife, an wis biggit in 1539 bi James V in the Pailace gairden. History The gemme stertit wi Alex...
[Wikipedia:sco] Nepal Nepal ( Nepali: नेपाल ), offeecially the Federal Democratic Republic o Nepal, is a landlockt kintra in Sooth Asie. It is locatit in the Himalayas an bordered tae the north bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an tae the sooth, east, an wast bi the Republic o Indie. Wi an aurie o 147,181 square kilometr...
[Wikipedia:sco] North Sea The North Sea, umwhile kent as the German Ocean is a pairt o the Atlantic Ocean. The North Sea lies atween Norrowey an Denmark tae the east, Scotland an Ingland tae the wast, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium an Fraunce tae the sooth. Borders The Skagerrak jynes the North Sea tae the Baltic ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Martin O'Neill Martin O'Neill is a former Northern-Erse fitbaw player. Until resignin the post on 9 August 2010, he wis manager of Aston Villa. He maist famously played wi Nottingham Forest whaur he wan twa European Cup. As a manager he has managed Wycombe Wanders, Norwich Ceity, Leicester Ceity, Aston...
[Wikipedia:sco] Jock Stein Jock Stein wis a Scots fitbaa player an manager wha is maist famous fur managin Celtic tae the European Cup win o 1967. As player Jock wis a centre-hauf playin fur his local team Blantyre Vics afore muivin tae Coatbrig side Albion Rovers. He moved tae play wi Llaneli in Wales afore signing f...
[Wikipedia:sco] Auld Firm The Auld Firm is a term for the twa maist muckle fitbaw teams in Scotland, Celtic an the Rangers. The name cam in tae exeestance in aboot the early pairt o the 20t Century an refers tae the theory hauden tae bi ither clubs in Scotland that Celtic an the Reengers wis awmaist lik the ae company...
[Wikipedia:sco] Gleswegian The Glesga dialect, aften caud the Glesga patter or Gleswegian, is a form o Anglic at varies frae the local form o West Central Scots at ae end o a bipolar linguistic continuum, an Scottish English on the ither aen. The spaek o a lot o Glesga fowk is saed ti be on a continuum atween ful Scot...
[Wikipedia:sco] Willie Maley Willie Malley is a umwhile Erse borne Scots fitbaa player an manager. He wis pairt of the oreiginal Celtic team in 1888 alang wi his brither Tam Malley. In 1893 he wis appointit as Celtic's first manager a poseition wheilk he held tae 1940 makkin him Celtic's langest servin manager. In his...
[Wikipedia:sco] UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (uisually referred tae as simply the Champions League or historically as the European Cup) is an annual association fitbaa cup competition organised bi UEFA since 1955 for the top fitbaa clubs in Europe. The final o the competition is the maist watched an...
[Wikipedia:sco] Manchester United F.C. Manchester United Football Club is an Inglis fitbaw club. Thay play thair haime gemmes at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester, the maist muckle fitbaw stadium in the Unitit Kinrick. Thay ar the maist succesfu Inglis fitba team o the syne the beginin o the Inglis Premiership. Syne ...
[Wikipedia:sco] FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto () (), commonly kent as FC Porto, Porto, or FCP, is a Portuguese fitbaw team frae the ceety o Porto, in the northren region o the kintra. Foondit in Porto in 1893 bi Monteiro da Costa, it is ane o the Três Grandes, or Big Three, fitbaw clubs in Portugal, wi Sport Lisboa ...
[Wikipedia:sco] UEFA Union o European Fitbaa Associations (UEFA, Inglis:Union of European Football Associations, French: L'Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is the controllin boady o fitbaw in Europe. It wis formit in 1954 atween the French, Italian an Belgian fitbaw associations. It's heid-quarters wis ...
[Wikipedia:sco] FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association or as its better kent FIFA is the organiser o fitbaa. Its heid-quarters is in Zurich, Swisserland. FIFA owersees rule chynges as weel as organising the FIFA Warld Cup, an ither turnaments. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) runs fi...
[Wikipedia:sco] Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better kent as Le Corbusier (6t October 1887– 27 Augist, 1965), wis a French Swiss-born airchitect, weel kent for his contreibutions tae whit is nou cryed modernism, or the International Style. He wis a pioneer in theoretical studies o modren design an wis d...
[Wikipedia:sco] Lingueestics Lingueestics is the studie o leids n langage. It is ae gey braid subject, encompassin: * phonetics — the studie o the soonds o peoples langage ** phonologie — the studie o whit soonds is in indiveedual leids, hou thir soonds is pitten thegather tae form permitable wairds in thae leids * ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Powmont Powmont (Inglis: Polmont; Scots Gaelic: Poll-Mhonaidh (Pool o the Hill)) is a clachan that lees fower mile (6.5 km) tae the aest o Fawkirk, Scotland. It lees close tae the M9 motorwey connectin Edinburgh an Glesca. Powmont railwey station is locate on the main Edinburgh tae Glesca railwey line....
[Wikipedia:sco] Germany Germany (, ), offeecially the Federal Republic o Germany (, ), is a federal pairlamentary republic in central-wastren Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area o , an haes a maistly temperate saisonal climate. Wi aboot 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the maist populous member...
[Wikipedia:sco] Judaism Judaism is ane o the first recordit monotheistic religious faiths an ane o the auldest releegious tradeetions that's aye follaed the day. The vailyies an history o the Jewish fowk is a muckle pairt o the foonds o ither Abrahamic releegions lik Christianity, Islam, Samaritanism an the Bahá'í Fai...
[Wikipedia:sco] Aerospace Aerospace concerns the atmosphere o the Yird an space inby it. Maistlins the wird is uised tae mean the industry that researches, designs, maks, rins, an maintains vehicles traivellin thro this air an space. Aerospace is a gey wide field, wi mony commercial, industrial an military uisses. Ae...
[Wikipedia:sco] Computer A computer is a device that can be instructit tae cairy oot arbitrar sequences o arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The abeelity o computers tae follae generalised sets o operations, cried programs, enables them tae perform an extremely wide range o tasks. Sic computers are used ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Declaration o Calton Hill The Declaration o Calton Hill is a ca for an unthirlt Scots republic biggit on the preenciples o leeberty, evenlyness, diversity an solidarity. It wis publisht bi the Scots Socialist Pairty. It wis first set furth on 9 November 2004, the day that Queen Elizabeth II opened the ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Fire ]] Fire (or fyr) is a phenomenon o combustion kyth'd in strang heat an licht in the furm o a lowe or flames. The wird fire whan uis'd wi an indefinit artikil is forordnar uis'd ti deskrive aither a fuel in a state o combustion (sic as a campfire or a fire in a brace or kitchen stove) or an insta...
[Wikipedia:sco] Zoology Zoologie is the brainch o biology whilk studies the ainimal kinrick, sic as the structur, embryology, evolution, clessification, habits, an distribution o aw ainimals, baith tae the fore an extinct, an hou thay interact wi thair ecoseestems. The wird is derived frae Auncient Greek ζῷον, zōion, ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Finland Finland (Finnish: Suomi), offeecially the Republic o Finland, (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta), is a Nordic kintra situatit in the Fennoscandie region o Northren Europe. Wastlins, it haes a mairch wi Swaden, norlins wi Norawa an eastlins wi Roushie, while Estonie lees soothlins athort the Gulf o Fin...
[Wikipedia:sco] Sauna A sauna is a smaw chaumer or hoose designed as a place tae expairience dry or weet heat sessions, or an estaiblishment wi ane or mair o thir an auxiliar faceelities. Thir faceelities derives frae the Finnish sauna. Sauna micht be uised as a verb describin the act o uisin a sauna an aw, or metapho...
[Wikipedia:sco] Cryptozoologie Cryptozoologies the study o ainimals that's rumored or doutit ti exist, but for which concluisive pruif's yet missin. This includes baests that is consithert extinct but yet whiles reportit. Yon wha vizzie or sairch for sic ainimals is cried cryptozoologists, an the hypothetical craitur ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Scrooge McDuck ]] Scrooge McDuck is Disney's fictional Scots millionair that bides in Duckburg, Calisota. The chairacter wis first creatit bi Carl Barks, the maist kenspeckle Disney airtist, for tae be uised juist the ae time in "Christmas on Bear Mountain" in 1947, but nou he's ane o Disney's greatest...
[Wikipedia:sco] Kalevala Kalevala is an epic poem that wis pittin thegither frae Finnish fowklair bi Elias Lönnrot in the 19t century. For ordinar it is cried the naitional epic o Finland an is tradeetionaly thocht o as ane o the maist important warks in the hail o Finnish leeteratur. It is jaloused bi some that the s...
[Wikipedia:sco] Afrikaans leid Afrikaans is a Wast Germanic leid, mainly spoken in Sooth Africae and Namibie. It is a dochter leid o Dutch, oreeginatin in its 17t century dialects, collectively referred tae as Cape Dutch. Awtho Afrikaans borraed frae leids sic as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu leids or the Khoisan leids...
[Wikipedia:sco] Leet o papes This is a list o papes o the Catholic kirk. There a list o the 10 langest-ringin papes here. Mind: This list isna hail. Leet * Peter - c.64 AD * Linus c.67 AD tae c.76 AD * Anacletus * Clement I 92 AD tae 99 AD * Evaristus * Alexander I * Sixtus I * Telesphorus * Hyginus * Pius I * Anice...
[Wikipedia:sco] Homosexuality The wird homosexuality haes been uised tae mean mony different things ower the coorse o history. Ilka uiss o the wird is relatit tae the state o bein smitten wi fowk o the same sex or gender. It haes been uised tae mean thochts or actions in the airt o the same sex or gender regairdin ane...
[Wikipedia:sco] Hinduism Hinduism is a releegion or frae the Indie Subcontinent. It's mey be the auldest releegion in the warld. It's foondit on the fower beuks cried the Vedas, an a puckle mair beuks forby. The name Hinduism refers tae mony unlik schuils o thocht an mony unalike rituals an practices. Hinduism haes m...
[Wikipedia:sco] Curlin Curlin is a sport played on ice atween twa teams o fower players. It is maist popular in Scotland an Canadae. Ilka o the four players on any given team is assignit ane position. Thare is A skip, vice (or third), the second, an the lead. The game is playit on a sheet o ice wi twa "houses" at ilka...
[Wikipedia:sco] Helen Clark Helen Clark (born 26 Februar 1950 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand politeecian, an Prime meenister frae 1999 until 2008 o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Labour Pairty. In 2008, John Key wis electit Prime meenister. She wis a consteetuency member unner the p...
[Wikipedia:sco] Austrailie Australie or Austrailie, offeecially the Commonwalth o Australie (, , , ), is a kintra situatit in the Soothren Hemisphere conseestin o the mainland o the Australien continent (the weest in the warld), the island o Tasmanie an puckle wee islands in the Indien an Paceefic Oceans. Neebourin ki...
[Wikipedia:sco] Sydney Sydney is the lairgest an maist populous ceety in Australie an the state caipital o New Sooth Wales. Sydney is locatit on Australie's sooth-east coast o the Tasman Sea. Inhabitants o Sydney are cried Sydneysiders, comprisin a cosmopolitan an internaitional population o fowk frae numerous places ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Aristotle Aristotle (Aristoteles in auld griek) (384 BC – 7 Mairch 322 BC) wis an auncient Greek philosopher, a student o Plato an a teacher o Alexander the Great. He wrat beuks on mony subjects, sic as physics. Aristotle, alang wi Plato an Socrates, is aften thocht o as ane o the maist influential Gre...
[Wikipedia:sco] Odessa Odessa or Odesa (, ), (), is the third lairgest ceety in Ukraine, wi a population o 1,000,000. At the beginnin o the 20t century it wis the biggest ceety o Ukraine an haed a special unthirlt jurisdiction. The ceety is a major seaport an transportation hub locatit on the northwastren shore o the ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Holocaust The Holocaust (frae the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "hailly" an kaustos, "brent"), kent as the (Ha)-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), or Porajmos (maist common wird uised bi Roma) wis the killin o mibbes twal million Jews, Roma, gay men, an ithers bi the Nazis an Hit...
[Wikipedia:sco] Międzyrzec Podlaski Międzyrzec Podlaski is a smaa toun in sooth-eastern Poland, locatit atween Biała Podlaska an Lublin. It is the caipital o a gmina athin Lublin Voivodship. It haes 17.100 indwallers, as o 2014. Photos Image:międzyrzec_podlaski_ul_lubelska.jpg|Lubelska street Image:międzyrzec_podlas...
[Wikipedia:sco] Pro12 The Pro12, umwhile the Celtic League, stairtit in 1999 an nou kent as the Magners League, is a rugby union competeetion wi teams fae the three Celtic kintras: Scotland, Ireland an Wales. History In 1999, the Welsh Premiership wis expandit tae include Glesca an Embro, an wis cried the Welsh-Scott...
[Wikipedia:sco] Glasgow Warriors The Glesca Warriors, ance Glesca Rugby, is ane o three professional rugby union coars in Scotland, the Embro Gunners and Mairch Reivers bein the ither twa. Tae Dizember 2005, the Warriors daffit at Hughenden (capacity 5,500), but thay hae syne flittit tae Firhill Stadium, hame o Partic...
[Wikipedia:sco] Hughenden Stadium Hughenden is a rugby pairk, the hame o Hillheid/Jordanhill an Glesca Rugby blaws a capacity o five an a hauf thoosand. It is in the Wast End o Glesca. Airts tae Hughenden fae Glesca ceety mids Laich-level trein tae Hyndland Gang caurie oot o the station up tae the tap o Novar Drive. ...
[Wikipedia:sco] ScotRail ScotRail rins aw hamelt railwey onwaitins in Scotland, an the ower-Mairch Caledonian Sleeper onwaitin tae Lunnon an aw. On 17t October, 2004, First teuk ower the onwaitin fae National Express, the first tid the franchise haen tae be renegotiatit syne the quatein o British Rail. Netwirk The h...
[Wikipedia:sco] Innerness Innerness (Inglis: Inverness; Scots Gaelic: Inbhir Nis) is the ae ceety in the Hielands. Fowk fae Innerness bytimes cry it Inversneckie. In 2001, there wis 46 640 tounfowk in the ceety. It is ane o the fastest-growin ceeties in the hale o Europe. It haes its ain airport. It is hame tae the E...
[Wikipedia:sco] Rugby union Rugby union (aften referred tae as rugby, union or fitba) is a variant o rugby fitbaw. Rugby union is aye played wi teams o 15 players, awtho thare's rugby sievens an aw, a swippert gemme wi 7 players on baith teams. The name comes fae the the gemme's foremaist owerseein body, the Rugby Foo...
[Wikipedia:sco] Leinster Rugby Leinster Rugby is ane o fower Erse rugby provinces, bidin at baith Donnybrook an Landsdowne Road. Leinster squad 2018/19 * Senior 15s internaitionally kaippit players in bauld. * Players qualified tae play for on dual naitionality or residency grunds*. * Erse Provinces are currently lee...
[Wikipedia:sco] Franchise Franchise aye means a richt or privilege. It mey refer tae: *Suffrage, the ceevil right tae vote *A franchise (i.e., a franchise outlet) operatit unner the business wey o franchising: the licensin o trademarks an weys o daein haunlin. This use o the term is maist common in North America *An ...