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[Wikipedia:sco] Munster Munster (Erse: an Mhumhain) is a province in Ireland, alang wi Leinster, Connacht an Ulster. It's muckle maist ceity is Cork. History The name comes frae the Celtic goddess Muma. Munster wis spleet intae three kinricks, Thomond (North Munster), Desmond (South Munster), an Ormond (East Munster)...
[Wikipedia:sco] Cardiff Blues Cardiff Blues is a Welsh rugby union team, whit plays their gemmes in the Celtic League. Thay play at Cardiff Airms Pairk, an hae ne'er wan a cup. Current squad * Xavier Rush (Nummer 8) - New Zealand Internaitional - Captain * Rhys Williams (Full back/Wing) - Wales Internaitional * Ben ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Heineken Cup The Heineken Cup sponsored bi Heineken (kent as the H Cup in Fraunce acause o alcohol adverteesin laws) is an annual rugby union cup wi major club, regional an provincial teams frae the Sax Nations: England, Fraunce, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, an Italy. It is ane o the maist presteegious cu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Stirlin Stirlin (Inglis: Stirling, Gaelic: Sruighlea) is a ceitie an umwhyl auntient burgh in Scotland, an is at the hert o the wyder Stirlin cooncil aurie. The ceitie is gethert aboot a mukkil fortress (Stirlin Castil) an medieval auld-toun beside the River Forth. Historicalie it wis strategically imp...
[Wikipedia:sco] Mazurek Dąbrowskiego Mazurek Dąbrowskiego is the naitional sang o Poland. It wis written an componed bi Józef Wybicki. It wis written in 1797 in Rome. It is scribt in the Pols leid. Leerics Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła, Kiedy my żyjemy. Co nam obca przemoc wzięła, Szablą odbierzemy. Marsz, marsz Dąbrow...
[Wikipedia:sco] Pols Pairlament The Polish Pairlament is the legislatur o Poland. It is subordinate tae the Prime Meenister o Poland (Donald Tusk, since 2007), that in turn is subordinate tae the Preses o Poland (Lech Kaczyński). It is made up o the Senat an the Sejm. The Senat is the heicher hoose o pairlament. The S...
[Wikipedia:sco] Business A buisiness is a wey o organeesin wark, whaur ane or mair fowk offers tae sell gear or service tae ither fowk, for mair siller than it costs them tae mak or provide it. The differ gies siller tae pey the boss an his chiels, an likely tae keep a warkshop an ony byordinar gear needit. The nummer...
[Wikipedia:sco] Turkey Turkey (Turkis: Türkiye), kent offeecially as the Republic o Turkey (Turkis: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) is a muckle kintra in Eurasie. It haes laund mairches wi Greece an Bulgarie tae the wast an Georgie, Armenie, Azerbaijan (kent thegither as the "Caucasus" kintras), Iran, Iraq an Sirie tae the east ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Quebec Quebec (Québec in the French leid) is a province o Canadae. It is the mucklest province gaun bi area o Canadae. Quebec haes a population o 7,651,531 fowk. The offeecial leid o Quebec is French, an aboot 90% o the indwallers o Quebec speaks it (aside French, baith Inglis an Inuktuit are spoken). ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Leninism In Marxist philosophy, Leninism is the body o poleetical theory for the democratic organisation o a revolutionary vanguard pairty, an the achievement o a direct-democracy dictatorship o the proletariat, as poleetical prelude tae the establishment o socialism. Developit bi, an namit for, the Ro...
[Wikipedia:sco] Marxism Marxism is an economic an sociopoleetical warldview an method o socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation o history, a dialectical view o social chynge, an an analysis an critique o the development o caipitalism. Marxism wis pioneered in the early tae mid 19th century...
[Wikipedia:sco] Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي) wis a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer an geographer frae Persie. He is thocht tae be born in 780 AD an dee'd aboot 850. He wrate a beuk cried al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-mu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Hansel an Gretel Hansel an Gretel is a story for wee weans. It tells o twa weans that gaed for a wee daunder in the wids, drappin breid ahint them for tae find their wey back hame, but the birdies ate aw the bried an they forwandert. Syne they came ower a gibbery hoose - whaur it turnt oot that a carl...
[Wikipedia:sco] Catholic Kirk The Roman Catholic Kirk is the lairgest Christian denomination in aw the warld. Ane oot o ilka sax humans belangs this kirk. It is lead bi the Pape an it haes ower ae billion follaers un da auld t'eeder. Accordin tae Catholics, the verra first Pape wis St. Peter that wis made Pape bi Jesu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Politics Politics is the wey that groups maks deciesions. Aatho the term is for ordinar applee'd tae haivins athin guvernments, politics is obserred in aw human (an a wheen nae-human) group interactions, includin corporate, academic, an reliegious institutions. Politics o Scotland Scotland haes a whee...
[Wikipedia:sco] Prime Meenister o Poland Prime Meenister o Poland Thir pairties haes haed a Prime Meenister o Poland *Kingdom of Poland: (Preses of Councilor of Kingdom) **nae pairty *A Warsaw Princest (1807 - 1815): **nae pairty. * II Kingdom of Poland: (Preses of The National Government) **nae pairty * II Rzeczposp...
[Wikipedia:sco] Monotheism Monotheism (fae the Greek mono "single" an theos "god") is a releegious concept o thare bein juist the ae god as agin Polytheism (mony gods) an atheism (nae gods).The best kent three kenspeckle monotheistic releegions is Christianity, Islam an Judaism, awso ca'd "Abrahamic reeligions". Forby...
[Wikipedia:sco] Stade Toulousain Stade Toulousain is a rugby union coar fae Fraunce. Heineken Kemp winners (6): 1995-96, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2009-10, 2020-21, 2023-24 Top 14 winners (24): 1912, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1947, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2023,...
[Wikipedia:sco] Linux Linux (kent as GNU/Linux an aw) is ae Unix-like computer operatin seestem. It is ane o the maist kenspeckle examplars o open soorce development an free saftware; unlik proprietary operatin seestems sic as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, its unnerlyin soorce code is tae haunde for onybody tae uise,...
[Wikipedia:sco] Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt, in Frankfurt , is ae German fitbaw club, that's competin in the Fußball-Bundesliga the nou, the heichest form o competeition in Germany. The team plays aw thair hame gemmes at Deutsche Bank Park (whiles kent as Waldstadion). Honours Domestic * German Champions ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Hungary Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) is a kintra in Europe. It's bund bi Ukraine an Romanie tae the east, Serbie an Croatie tae the sooth, Austrick an Slovenie tae the wast, an Slovakie tae the north. Wi aboot 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state o the European Union. The...
[Wikipedia:sco] Shinty Shinty (Scots Gaelic: Camanachd or iomain) is a tradeetional stick an baw gemme o Scotland. The ruits o the gemme can be traced aw the wey back tae the times afore Jesus Christ. It is sib tae the Erse gemme o hurlin an ilka year the twa teams o Scotland an Ireland plays aff in the Shinty/Hurlin ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Erse leid The Erse leid (Airisch or Airish in Ulster-Scots; Erse: Gaeilge, Gaoluinn, Gaedhlag) is a Celtic leid frae Ireland. It is sib tae Manx Gaelic an Scots Gaelic, an is ane o the twa offeecial leids o the Republic o Ireland an ane o the thrie o Northren Ireland. Frae the 1st o Januar 2007, the Er...
[Wikipedia:sco] Ulstèr-Scotch leid , Coonty Doun]] Ulster Scots, ca'aed Ulstèr-Scotch an Ullans, ïs tha dialect o tha Scots leid spak ïn Ulster (Norlin Airlan an tha Republic o Airlan). Ït is maistly spak bae tha Ulster-Scots fowk yit mony wirds, lik glaikit an wee, hae been borraed intae the ilkaday speak o ither fo...
[Wikipedia:sco] Norlin Airlan Assemlie Tha Norlin Airlan Assemmlie (; Inglis: ) kent forby as Stormont (its location are tha Stormont Pairlament Biggins) is tha devolved govrenance o Norlin Airlan. Tha Assemmlie haes mair pooer than the Scots Pairlament anent sindèrie maitters fur Norlin Airlan whutch are nae reserved...
[Wikipedia:sco] PIRA (Provos) Tha Provisional Irish Republican Army ((P)IRA), kent bi tha short foarm Provos an aw) wus a naitionalist parameelitar group frae Norlin Airlan. It cam oot o a spleet atween members o the Auld IRA. The Auld IRA brak intae the Offeecial IRA an the Provos. Members thinks o the PIRA as the o...
[Wikipedia:sco] Cornish leid Cornish (in Cornish: Kernowek) is the Celtic leid o Cornwall, south-wast Breetain. It is ae pairt o the Brythonic brainch o Celtic leids. It comes frae the leid o the auld Britons, an is gey an sib tae the Breton leid. Cornish dee'd oot as a mither tongue in the late 18t century (aiblins e...
[Wikipedia:sco] Welsh leid The Welsh leid () is a Celtic leid frae Wales. It is pairt o the Brythonic brainch o Celtic leids. It is maist sib wi Cornish an Breton. It is aiblins spak by as mony as 20% o the indwallers o Wales. The touns and clanchans whaur maist o the fowk spiks Welsh is i the wast, and thai are crie...
[Wikipedia:sco] Manx Gaelic leid Manx Gaelic leid (Gaelg) is a Celtic leid spak in the Isle o Man an is pairt o the Goidelic group. It dee'd oot as a mither tongue in the 1940s but haes syne been resurrectit bi scholars an is spak by mibbe as mony as 2,000 fowk. The leid is sib wi Erse leid an Scots Gaelic. It uises a...
[Wikipedia:sco] Isle o Man The Isle o Man (; ) or juist Mann (Manx: Mannin) is an iland in the Erse Sie. Awtho it isna pairt o the Unitit Kinrick it is a Croun Dependancie. The cultur o the iland is a mixtur o Celtic an Norse, tho the leid is Gaelic an sib til the Gaelic leid o Scotland an Ireland. It haes chynged hau...
[Wikipedia:sco] Albainie The Republict o Albainie (Albainien: Republika e Shqipërisë) is a Balkan kintra in sooth-eastren Europe. It haes a laund mairch wi Montenegro tae the north, the Republic o Kosovo in the nor'east, North Macedonie in the east an wi Greece in the sooth. It haes a coast on the Adriatic Sea tae the...
[Wikipedia:sco] Armeinie Armenie, offeecially the Republic o Armenie (Armenie: Հայաստան Hayastan, Հայք Haykh) is a muntainous kintra in Eurasie atween the Black Sea an the Caspian Sea. It haes laund mairches wi Turkey til the wast, Georgie tae the north, Azerbaijan tae the east an Iran tae the sooth. It uised tae be a...
[Wikipedia:sco] Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), offeecially the Republic o Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) is the lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie. Locatit at the crossroads o Eastren Europe an Wastren Asie, it is boondit bi the Caspian Sea tae the east, Roushie...
[Wikipedia:sco] Belgium The Kinrick o Belgium (Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique; German: Königreich Belgien) is a kintra in nor'wastren Europe that haes laund mairches wi the Netherlands, Fraunce, Luxembourg an Germany, Belgium proclaimed its unthirldom, an biway, its foondaition, in Juin 1831. It...
[Wikipedia:sco] Bulgarie Bulgarie (Bulgarie: България) or is it is offeecially kent, the Republic o Bulgarie (Bulgarie: Република България) is a kintra in sooth-eastren Europe. It is bund bi the Black Sea tae the east an haes a laund mairch wi Greece an Turkey tae the sooth, North Macedonie an Serbie tae the wast an R...
[Wikipedia:sco] Croatie Croatie ( ), offeecially the Republic o Croatie (, ), is a kintra at the mairch o Central an Sootheast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. Its caipital Zagreb forms ane o the kintra's primar subdiveesions, alang wi twenty coonties. Croatie haes an aurie o an a population o 4.28 million, maist o wham i...
[Wikipedia:sco] Cyprus Cyprus (Greek: Κύπρος, Kýpros; Turkish: Kıbrıs), offeecially the Republic o Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, Kypriakí Dhimokratía; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti) is a Eurasian island kintra in the eastren pairt o the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third maist muckle island in the Mediterranean. T...
[Wikipedia:sco] Czech Republic The Czech Republic (Czech: Česká republika), Czechie (Czech: Česko, o Czechland) is a laundlockit kintra in Central Europe an is a member o the European Union. It haes a laund mairch wi Poland in the Nor-East, Germany in the Nor-Wast, Austrick in the sooth an Slovakie in the east. Its ca...
[Wikipedia:sco] Denmark Denmark () is a Scandinavien kintra in Northren Europe. The kintras o Denmark an Greenland, forby the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kinrick o Denmark. It is the soothrenmaist o the Nordic kintras, soothwast o Swaden an sooth o Norawa, an bordered tae the sooth bi Germany. Denmark borders baith ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Greece Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα or Ελλάς), kent offeecially as the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία) is a kintra in sooth-eastren Europe, wi a population o approximately million as o . Athens is the naition's caipital an largest ceety, follaed bi Thessaloniki. Greece is locatit at the crossr...
[Wikipedia:sco] Iceland Iceland ( ) is a Nordic island kintra in the North Atlantic, wi a population o and an aurie o , makkin it the maist sparsely populatit kintra in Europe. The caipital an lairgest ceety is Reykjavík. Reykjavík an the surroondin auries in the soothwast o the kintra are hame tae ower twa-thirds o t...
[Wikipedia:sco] Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, alsae spellt Kazakstan or Khazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan. Roushie: Казахстан, Kazakhstán), kent offeecially as the Republic o Kazakhstan is a kintra that raxes ower a muckle amoont o laund in Northren an Central Eurasie. An wee bit o the kintra, Wast o the Ural River i...
[Wikipedia:sco] Liechtenstein The Principality o Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a wee laundlockit kintra in central Europe. It haes laund mairches wi Swisserland tae the Wast an wi Austrick tae the east. It haes monie muntains an is a guid place for winter sports. It isna heevily biggit up an haes...
[Wikipedia:sco] Barcelona Barcelona (, , ) is the caipital ceety o the autonomous commonty o Catalonie in Spain, an the seicont lairgest ceety in the kintra, wi a population o 1,620,943 athin its admeenistrative limits. The urban area o Barcelona extends ayont the admeenistrative ceety limits wi a population o aroond ...
[Wikipedia:sco] North Macedonie The Republic o North Macedonie (Macedonie: Република Северна Македонија, Republika Severna Makedonija), juist kent as North Macedonie an aw, is a laundlockit kintra in the Balkans region o Sooth-Wastren Europe. It is laund mairched wi Kosovo tae the North, Albanie tae the Wast, Greece t...
[Wikipedia:sco] Moldovae Moldovae (Romanie: Moldova) kent offeecially as the Republic o Moldovae (Romanie: Republica Moldova) is a wee laundlockit kintra in Eastren Europe atween the Ukraine tae the Sooth-East an Romanie tae the Wast. Historically it wis pairt o the Preencipality o Moldovae fae the 1300's, annexed bi ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Montenegro Montenegro (Montenegrin: Црна Гора or Crna Gora) is a kintra in Sooth-Eastren Europe. It haes a coast tae the sooth on the Adriatic Sea. It is laund mairched wi Croatie tae the Wast, Bosnie an Herzegovinae tae the North-Wast, Serbie tae the North-East an wi Albanie tae the Sooth-East. Its ca...
[Wikipedia:sco] Netherlands The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is pairt o the Kinrick o the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) alang wi the Aruba, Curaçao, an Sint Martin. It is locate in North-Wastren Europe an is laund mairched wi Germany an Belgium. It haes a coast line alang the German Ocean. It haes...
[Wikipedia:sco] Labour Pairty (UK) The Labour Pairty is ane o the muckle poleitical pairtys o the Unitit Kinrick. It is the opposition pairty in the Wastmeenster Pairlament o the Unitit Kinrick the nou. The heidsman is Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, Keir Starmer. He is efter Jeremy Corbyn, whae wis efter Ed Mil...
[Wikipedia:sco] Fenerbahçe S.K. Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, in Istanbul , is a Turkish sports club. Fitbaw Honours * Turkish League Chaimpionships: ** Winners (16): 1959, 1960-61, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1988-89, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05 ** Rinners-up (15...
[Wikipedia:sco] Portugal Portugal, offeecially the Portuguese Republic ( ), is a sovereign state locatit maistly on the Iberian Peninsula in soothwastren Europe. It is the wastrenmaist kintra o mainland Europe, mairchit tae the wast an sooth bi the Atlantic Ocean an tae the north an east bi Spain. Its territory an aw ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Roumainie Romanie or Roumainie ( ) is a sovereign state locatit in Sootheastren Europe. It mairches the Black Sea, Bulgarie, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbie, an Moldovae. It haes an area o an a temperate-continental climate. Wi awmaist 20 million fowk, the kintra is the seivent maist populous member state o t...
[Wikipedia:sco] San Marino San Marino, kent offeecially as the Maist Serene Republic o San Marino (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino) is a wee kintra situatit on the eastren side o the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave, in Italy. Its size is juist ower 61 km2 (24 sq mi) wi an estimatit population o amai...
[Wikipedia:sco] Serbie Serbie (Serbie: Србија or Srbija) or is it is kent offeecially (Serbie: Република Србија or Republika Srbija) is ae laundlockit kintra in central an Sooth-Wastren Europe. It is pairt o the Balkans region an its caipital ceety is Belgrade (Serbie: Београд or Beograd). It haes laund mairches wi Hu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Slovakie Slovakie ( ), offeecially the Slovak Republic (, ), is a laundlocked kintra in Central Europe. It is mairchit bi Poland tae the north, Ukraine tae the east, the Czech Republic tae the wast, Hungary tae the sooth, an Austrick tae the soothwast. Slovakie's territory spans aboot an is maistly mou...
[Wikipedia:sco] Slovenie Slovenie, offeecially the Republic o Slovenie (Slovene: Republika Slovenija), is a coastal Alpine kintra in Soothren Central Europe. It is bund bi the Adriatic Sea tae the Soothwast, Italy tae the wast, Croatie tae the sootheast, Hungary tae the northeast an Austrick tae the north. It is a mem...
[Wikipedia:sco] Swisserland Swisserland (German: Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra, Laitin: Helvetia), kent offeecially the Swiss Confederation (German: Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, French: Confédération Suisse, Italian: Confederazione Svizzera an Romansh: Confederaziun Svizra, Laitin: C...
[Wikipedia:sco] Ukraine Ukraine ( ), whiles cried the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastren Europe, mairchit bi Roushie tae the east an northeast; Belaroushie tae the northwast; Poland, Hungary, an Slovakie tae the wast; Romanie an Moldovae tae the soothwast; an the Black Sea an Sea o Azov tae the sooth an sootheas...
[Wikipedia:sco] Spainish leid Spainish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is an Iberien Romance leid. It is spak bi 580 million fowk. It is the maist braid spak Romance leid. It is the naitional leid o Spain, Argentinae, Bolivie, Chile, Colombie, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equator...
[Wikipedia:sco] German leid German (, ) is a Wast Germanic leid, thus relatit tae an clessifee'd alangside Inglis an Dutch. It is ane o the warld's major leids an the maist widely spoken first leid in the European Union. Globally, German is spoken bi aboot 120 million hamespun speakers an aboot 80 million non-hamespun...
[Wikipedia:sco] Croatie leid Croatian or Croatie (hrvatski) is a Sooth Slavic leid that's tae the maist pairt uised bi Croats. It is spak bi juist ower 6.2 million fowk an as weel as bein the naitional leid o Croatie is an offeecial leid o Bosnie an Herzegovinae an aw. Image:Latin alphabet Aa.svg|(a) Image:Latin alp...
[Wikipedia:sco] The Lord of the Rings The Lord o the Rings is an epic hie fantasy novul written bi Inglis academic J. R. R. Tolkien. The story stairtit as a sequel tae Tolkien's previous fantasy beuk The Hobbit an becam a mair muckel story. It wis written in stages atween 1937 an 1949, wi a guid bit o it bein shaped d...
[Wikipedia:sco] Keeng Arthur King Arthur wis an important feegur in the meethology o Great Breetain, whaur he appears tae be the ideal o kingship baith in war an peace. He is the central chairacter in the cycle o legends kent as the Maiter o Breetain. Thare's an argiement aboot whither Arthur, or a model for him, iver...
[Wikipedia:sco] Norman leid Norman or Norman French (Mainland Norman: Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is aither a French byleid or a Romance leid an yin o the Oïl leids alang wi French, Picard, an Walloon. Historie Whan Vikings fae modren day Denmark, Norawa, Swaden, an Iceland w...
[Wikipedia:sco] Norman Finkelstein Norman Finkelstein is a Professor o Poleetical science an a gey controversial feegur in regairds tae the state o Israel. He hissel is the wean o Holocaust survivors, an haes statit on mair nor ain occasion hou serious he regards holocaust denial. Maugre o this, an bein Jewish, he hae...
[Wikipedia:sco] GNU Free Documentation License )]] The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or cutty GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed bi the Free Saftware Foondation (FSF) for the GNU project. It is the coonterpairt tae the GNU GPL that gies readers the same richts tae copy, caw aboot an modif...
[Wikipedia:sco] Stateestics Stateestics is a typ o mathematics that studies samples o data. It is unco important tae aa sciences for kennin the meanin o affcomes o experiments an observations. Relatit saftware * MATLAB * SAS Institute * SPSS (bi IBM) References Further readin * Barbara Illowsky; Susan Dean (2014). I...
[Wikipedia:sco] 11 September attacks The 11t September attacks, aften cried 9-11 juist, wis attacks on the Unitit States bi Islamic terrorists on 11t September 2001. Twa hijackit aeroplanes wis flewn intae the World Trade Center, collapsin its twa touers an causin the daiths o aboot 2500 fowk, forby the fowk on the ae...
[Wikipedia:sco] Unitarian Universalism Unitarian Universalism is a leeberal releegion. The Unitarian Universalist Association wis foondit in 1961 in the Unitit States o Americae. Baith Unitarianism an Universalism developit frae Christianity, but nou "UUism" haes nae creed. The 217,000 or mair follaers haes mony belie...
[Wikipedia:sco] Geology Geologie is the science or studie o the Yird, its chemical upmak, morphologie, development an historie. Petrologie (the studie o stanes), mineralogie (the studie o minerals), geophysics, paleontologie (the studie o auncient life), an planetarie geologie (the studie o ither planets) is jist sum ...
[Wikipedia:sco] J. K. Rowling Joanne "Jo" Rowling is the author o the series o novelles aboot Harry Potter. Whan she scrives, she uises the name J. K. Rowling. Joanne Rowling wis born in Yate, Sooth Gloucestershire, Ingland on 31 Julie, 1965, 12 mile noreast o Bristol. She bides in Edinburgh, Scotland the nou. In 20...
[Wikipedia:sco] Frankfurt Frankfurt is a ceety in Germany, an the biggest ceety in the state o Hesse. Frankfurt, thegither wi its suburbs, forms the Rhine-Main metropolitan aurie, wi a population jaloused tae be aboot 1.8 million (Frankfurt: 670,000 in 2008). Rhine-Main is ane o the lairgest metropolitan auries in Eu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, cried Leibnitz or von Leibniz as weel (1 Julie (21 Juin Auld Style) 1646 – 14 November 1716) wis a German scientist that scrieved maistly in French an Latin. He wis educate in law an philosophy. He wrocht as factotum tae twa muckle German noble hoos...
[Wikipedia:sco] Leet o leids Leids, faimlies o leids, an dialects *Germanic leids **Afrikaans **Dutch leid ***Fleems leid **Frisie leids ***Wast Frisie leid (Frysk) ***East Frisie leid ****Saterland Frisie leid) (Seeltersk) ***North Frisie leids ****Mainlaund North Frisie leid (Frasch) ****Islaund North Frisie leids ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Scots Pairlament election, 2007 The Scots pairlamentary walin, 2007, wis the thrid general election tae the devolved Scots Pairlament syne it wis creatit in 1999. It teuk place on Thuirsday 3 Mey. The Scots National Pairty bore the gree in the election, winnin the maist seats o onie pairty (47 seats, t...
[Wikipedia:sco] Uniformitarianism The Preenciple o Uniformitarianism is that the naitral processes o the past is the same as the nou. This is aften cried, "The praisent is the key tae the bygane." James Hutton developit this idea, that is sae important in modren sciences sic as geology, palaeontology, an astronomy. I...
[Wikipedia:sco] Africae Africae is the warld's seicont mucklest an seicont maist-populous continent (the first bein Asie in baith categories). At aboot 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) includin adjacent islands, it cuivers 6% o Yird's tot surface aurie an 20.4% o its tot laund aurie. Wi billion fowk as o ,...
[Wikipedia:sco] Antarcticae cairt shawin whaur Antarcticae is]] Antarcticae Antarcticae is a continent at the dowp o the yird. The wather's gey cauld. Maist o Antarcticae is happit wi ice an snaw maist o the year. Gey few fowk stays there, cept in the smaw touns o McMurdo an Palmer neist the sea. There's a science ba...
[Wikipedia:sco] Aisie Asie is Yird's mucklest an maist populous continent, locatit primarily in the Eastren an Northren Hemispheres. It shares the continental laundmass o Eurasie wi the continent o Europe an the continental laundmass o Afro-Eurasie wi baith Europe an Africae. Asie covers an aurie o , aboot 30% o Yird'...
[Wikipedia:sco] North Americae cairt shawin whaur North Americae is]] North Americaes a continent in the northren hauf o the warld, locate tae the east o the Pacific Ocean, the wast o the Atlantic Ocean, the sooth o the Arctic Ocean, an the north o Sooth Americae. It's the northrenmaist pairt o the Americaes. Northre...
[Wikipedia:sco] Sooth Americae cairt shawin whaur Sooth Americae is]] Sooth Americaes the continent locatit tae the sooth o North Americae. The twa continents is sindert bi the Panama Canal. Tae the wast o Sooth Americae's the Pacific Ocean an tae the east is the Atlantic Ocean. A few important pairts o Sooth Americ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Middle East The Middle East or Soothwastren Asie is an aurie o laund an a group o kintras in Wastren Asie in the continent o Asie. The kintras is jyned acause thay share history an maist o the fowk o thir kintras is Muslims. Middle Eastren kintras includes: *Bahrain *Cyprus *Egyp *Iran *Iraq *Israel *...
[Wikipedia:sco] Laitin Americae Laitin Americae ( or ) is a region o Americae. Laitin Americae is in the Americaes. No aabody grees on whit kintras is in Laitin Americae. Some fowk cry Sooth Americae, Central Americae, an Mexico Laitin Americae. Ither fowk crie the Caribbean Islands Laitin Americae an aw. Ither fowk ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Alphabet An alphabet or ABC is a scrievin seestem, a series o seembols for scrievin. A seembol in an alphabet is for ordinar cried a "letter". In an alphabet, ilka digraph can be a seembol for a soond or morpheme. The name alphabet comes frae Alpha an Beta, the first twa letters in the Greek alphabet....
[Wikipedia:sco] Cheenese chairacter Cheenese chairacters is seembols uised for writin Cheenese an Japanese. Lang syne, Korean an Vietnamese uised them an aw. The stairt o thir chairacters wis at least 4000 year syne. Cheenese chairacters is ideograms — thay maistlins represent ideas insteid o soonds. Maist earlier Ch...
[Wikipedia:sco] Shiva Shiva is ane o the three main gods in Hinduism. Shiva's kent as the destroyer god acause he remuives aw ill frae the yird. His wife's the goddess Parvati. He's got a blae hause acause, gaun bi tae Hindu leegend, he swallaed a pushion for tae sauf the universe. He's got three een. The third ee's o...
[Wikipedia:sco] Vishnu Vishnu (; , ) is ane o the three maist important gods in Hinduism. Vishnu is the preserver god. That means he bields the yird frae bein malafoustert. He's came tae the yird in nine kynds (cawed avataras) sae faur, wi ane mair tae come. His maist weel-kent kynds is Rama an Krishna. Vishnu's wife ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Brahma Whit is Brahma Accordin tae Hinduism an Hindu mythology, Brahma is ane o the three maist important gods. The ither twa gods is Vishnu an Shiva. Brahma represents Brahman, a term an concept o Hinduism. The Hindu tradeetion says that Brahma haes five heids. Houaniver, the mythological story tell...
[Wikipedia:sco] Volcanae in the Aleutian Islands o Alaska photographed frae the Internaitional Space Station, Mey 2006.|301x301px]] A volcanae is a muntain whaur lava (unco het, mowten rock) comes tae the surface o the yird. Maist volcanoes haes a crater at the tap. Volcanaes is made near tectonic plate boonds or abu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Theo Jörgensmann Theo Franz Jörgensmann (born 29 September 1948; deed 6 October 2025) wis a German clarinet player. He is weel-kent as ane o the cleckers o contemporar jazz-clarinet playin. Discography * Contact 4tett Loud Enough To Rock The Kraut (2015) * Oles Jörgensmann Oles Live in Poznan 2006 (20...
[Wikipedia:sco] Jean Redpath Jean Redpath, MBE, (b. 28 Apryle 1937 - d. 21 August 2014) wis a sangster o Scots muisic. She wis weel-kent as a folk sangster an recordit mony o the sangs o Robert Burns. Jean Redpath wis born in Edinburgh, an dee'd in Arizona in the Unitit States. She hid bided and sang wi sangster Bob ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Buckie :"Buckie" micht refer tae Buckfast Tonic Wine an aw. Buckie is a burgh o aboot 9,000 fowk on the Moray Firth coast o Scotland in the coonty o Moray. Ance a thrang fishin port, its industries haes dwyned. Fuid processin is aye tae the fore, wi muckle fish factories an smoke hooses situate about ...
[Wikipedia:sco] A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose is a Scots sang bi Robert Burns that he wrate in 1794, based on tradeetional soorces. Oreegins o the sang Burns wrocht for the hintmaist ten year o his life for tae uphaud tradeetional Scots sangs for times tae come. In aw, he haed a haund in hainin ower three hunder sa...
[Wikipedia:sco] Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 6 Julie 1940 in Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) is a politeecian an umwhile Preses o Kazakhstan. He wis First Secretar o the Communist Pairty o Kazakhstan frae 1989 tae 1991, while Kazakhstan wis aye a consteetuent republic o the Soviet Union. He bec...
[Wikipedia:sco] Istanbul Istanbul ( ), historically kent as Constantinople an Byzantium, is the maist populous ceety in Turkey an the kintra's economic, cultural, an historic centre. Istanbul is a transcontinental ceety in Eurasie, straddlin the Bosphorus strait (which separates Europe an Asie) atween the Sea o Marmar...
[Wikipedia:sco] The L Word The L Word is a televeesion programme aboot a group o lesbian an bisexual weemen that bide in the ceity o Los Angeles in Californie. It starns Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Laurel Holloman, Katherine Moennig, Rachel Shelley, Leisha Hailey an Daniela Sea. It stairtit bein braidcast on 14 Janu...
[Wikipedia:sco] Snaw s covered wi snaw]] ]] Snaw is gealt ice creestals o rain. Whan cloods is fou thay poor oot rain but in cauld wather ice creestals faws oot as wee saft flauchts cried snawflauchts. At a speceefic temperatur (cried the freezin pynt, 0° Celsius, 32° Fahrenheit), snaw melts awa an turns intae watt...
[Wikipedia:sco] Celebrity Big Brother 5 Celebrity Big Brother 2007 wis the celebrity version o the tv shaw cried Big Brother, in whit fowks maun bide thegither in a hoose an cairy oot tasks setten bi the chairacter kent tae them aw as Big Brother foondit on the teetle chairacter o the beuk Nineteen Eighty-Four bi the ...
[Wikipedia:sco] Jade Goody Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 Juin 1981 – 22 Mairch 2009) wis a Inglis reality-telly personality. She entered the public spotlicht in the third series o the then-Channel 4 programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led tae her awn TV programmes an the introduction o her products efte...
[Wikipedia:sco] Protactinium Protactinium is a chemical element in the periodic cairt that haes the seembol Pa, atomic nummer 91, an atomic mass 231.036. It is a siller-coloured metal an ane o the actinides. It readily reacts wi oxygen, watter vapor an inorganic acids. It forms sindry chemical compoonds whaur protacti...