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Journal articles on the topic "Famous Scots"

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Anderson, Wendy. "‘Absolutely, totally, filled to the brim with the Famous Grouse’." English Today 22, no. 3 (2006): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078406003038.

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The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS for short) has been available online since November 2004. It currently contains over 2.3 million words of texts in varieties of Broad Scots and Scottish English. Regular additions are made to the textual content of the corpus and the integrated search and analysis software is continually undergoing improvement. Over the next year, the corpus will grow to around 4 million words, 20% of which will comprise spoken language in the form of conversations and interviews.
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Villius, Hans. "The Casket Letters: A Famous Case Reopened." Historical Journal 28, no. 3 (1985): 517–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00003289.

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The place where the University of Edinburgh now stands was once the site of the church of St Mary in the Fields or, as it is usually called, Kirk o'Field. On a February night in 1567, in the small house close to the church, there occurred what is certainly the most frequently discussed event in the history of Scotland, the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort to Mary Queen of Scots. Much discussed it has been, but since it is still not properly resolved it merits another look.
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Dumont, Stephen D. "The Propositio Famosa Scoti: Duns Scotus and Ockham on the Possibility of a Science of Theology." Dialogue 31, no. 3 (1992): 415–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300012063.

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Duns Scotus's famous proposition was first attacked in a short polemical treatise attributed to Thomas of Sutton. By the time of Ockham, the proposition was known as the propositio famosa, so called by Walter Chatton, Ockham's colleague at Oxford and London, who defended it against Ockham's lengthy critique. At Paris, during the same period, it was called the propositio vulgata and was used approvingly by Francis of Meyronnes, Peter of Navarre and Durandus St. Pourçain. This “famous proposition” was so controverted because on it depended the acceptance, with Duns Scotus, or the rejection, with Ockham, of theology as a strict, propter quid science. As its detractors and defenders must have realized, it also struck at the heart of the divergent philosophical outlooks of Duns Scotus and Ockham. For all of this, Duns Scotus's famous proposition and its history have all but escaped notice.
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Rose, Edward. "British pioneers of the geology of Gibraltar, Part 1: the artilleryman Thomas James (ca 1720-1782); infantryman Ninian Imrie of Denmuir (ca 1752-1820); and ex-militiaman James Smith of Jordanhill (1782-1867)." Earth Sciences History 32, no. 2 (2013): 252–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.32.2.y46w1v7758755766.

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The rocky peninsula of Gibraltar juts south from Spain at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Long famous as a landmark, it was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and progressively developed as a naval and military base. Thomas James, a Royal Artillery officer stationed on Gibraltar from 1749 to 1755, was the first member of the British garrison to publish geological observations on the Rock, within a book of 1771 completed in New York. His military career culminated after active service against revolutionary Americans, finally in the rank of major-general, but with no further known contributions to geology. The Scotsman Ninian Imrie of Denmuir, an officer of the First Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots), served on Gibraltar within the period 1784 to 1793, and was the first to publish an account specifically on its geology, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1798. A career soldier, he achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel before retiring to Scotland, and to amateur geological studies influenced by active membership of Edinburgh's Wernerian Natural History Society. James Smith of Jordanhill, near Glasgow, served in Great Britain in the Renfrewshire Militia during the Napoleonic Wars but, benefiting from a family fortune, later spent much time as a yachtsman and scholar of wide interests and influence. His studies on Gibraltar, published by the Geological Society of London in 1846, were the first to attempt a tectonic interpretation of the Rock's geological history, and to record local evidence for Quaternary sea level change.
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Wolski, Mariana M., Luciano de Paola, and Hélio A. G. Teive. "Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 75, no. 1 (2017): 66–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0004-282x20160167.

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ABSTRACT Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Baker, J. H. "Famous English Canon Lawyers: IX Stephen Lushington, D.C.L. († 1873)." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 4, no. 19 (1996): 556–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x00002556.

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, Doctors' Commons enjoyed a final flowering before its eradication in the 1860s, and its leading members once again achieved a reputation for scholarship and intellectual distinction. Lord Eldon's brother, William Scott (1745–1836), Lord Stowell, undoubtedly bears a considerable part of the credit for raising the public standing of the Civilian profession. Scott was a remarkable man, and his career was not a conventional one. Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford, at the age of nineteen—in the very year that his neighbour Blackstone across the High became Vinerian Professor—he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple the year after taking his D.C.L., and by 1794 was a bencher of his Inn and a distinguished ecclesiastical judge. Yet not only was Dr Scott a Civilian and a barrister, he also taught for several years at Oxford as Reader in Ancient History, and served as a member of Parliament. In law and politics, Stowell shared the conservative instincts of his brother. While professing to value the principle of religious toleration, he was strenuously opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation in Ireland, which he felt would be ‘setting fire to the country’, while in the Commons in 1815 he urged that sectarians should not be excused from contributing to the maintenance of the established Church. In a letter to Joseph Story in 1820 he explained his opposition to all manner of reform, including moderate reform; the latter he considered particularly dangerous, because a modest reform was easily made and then the violent reformers would rush into the breach.
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Harrison, Laura S. "‘That famous manifesto’: The Declaration of Arbroath, Declaration of Independence, and the power of language." Scottish Affairs 26, no. 4 (2017): 435–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2017.0209.

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In 2012 Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, told the Scottish Parliament: ‘The signing of the Declaration of Arbroath at the [Arbroath] Abbey and the American Declaration of Independence might be separated by more than 450 years, but the connection between those documents and therefore our two nations is beyond challenge.’ In order to promote American tourism in Scotland, Dey was calling to emphasise a popular notion that the idea of the sovereignty of the people, enshrined in the Declaration of Arbroath, heavily influenced the writing of the American Declaration of Independence. There is a significant amount of scholarship denying any link between these documents, yet this association is constantly referenced on both sides of the Atlantic. This article is not concerned with once again proving this association incorrect, but rather considering where it may have come from and why it continues to be propagated despite being categorically untrue. By examining the naming practices of the Declaration of Arbroath in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article will show that the connection between the documents likely stems from an issue of terminology.
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France, Peter. "Scott Moncrieff's First Translation." Translation and Literature 21, no. 3 (2012): 364–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2012.0088.

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C. K. Scott Moncrieff, famous as the translator of Proust, began his translating career in 1918 with La Chanson de Roland. Knowing nothing of Old French, he encountered this classic text while recovering from a war wound; the work of translation was a ‘solace’ in time of war, but also a homage to his friend Wilfred Owen and others who had ‘met their Rencesvals’ as the war drew to a close. Scott Moncrieff was no jingoist, but against the cynicism of Siegfried Sassoon's war poetry, he used the Old French epic to celebrate the positive values embodied in the idea of vassalage. Like his Proust, his Song of Roland sought to bring another world to life in English-speaking culture, in all its specific difference. Here this led him to adopt an archaizing and purportedly oral style, notably in the imitation of the assonanced laisses of the original.
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Zavattero, Irene. "The Collationes Oxonienses: a Famous Collection of Student Exercises Partially Attributable to Duns Scotus." Quaestio 17 (January 2017): 649–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.quaestio.5.115311.

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D’Ettore, Domenic. "Dominic of Flanders’ Critique of John Duns Scotus’ Primary Argument for the Univocity of Being." Vivarium 56, no. 1-2 (2018): 176–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341352.

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Abstract This article considers the attempt by a prominent fifteenth-century follower of Thomas Aquinas, Dominic of Flanders (a.k.a. Flandrensis, 1425-1479), to address John Duns Scotus’ most famous argument for the univocity of being. According to Scotus, the intellect must have a concept of being that is univocal to substantial and accidental being, and to finite and infinite being, on the grounds that an intellect cannot be both certain and doubtful through the same concept, but an intellect can be certain that something is a being while doubting whether it is a substance or accident, finite or infinite. The article shows how Flandrensis’ reply in defence of analogy of being hinges on a more fundamental disagreement with Scotus over the division of the logically one. It also shows how Flandrensis’ answer to this question commits him to a position on the unity of the concept of being that lies between the positions of Scotus and of Flandrensis’ earlier Thomistic sources.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Famous Scots"

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Barbone, Paul Joseph. ""We Were Recruited From the Warriors of Many Famous Nations," Cultural Preservation: U.S. Army Western Apache Scouts, 1871-1947." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193387.

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The Western Apache Scouts of the 1870s who assisted the United States Army in tracking down the Chiricahua Apaches that had escaped from the federal reservations in the Arizona Territory laid the foundation for what became seventy-six years of military service in the U.S. Army. Consolidated and reassigned to Ft. Huachuca, Arizona in 1922, these scouts continued to serve with distinction long after the Army needed their skills as trackers. In 1947, the final four scouts retired from United States military service, each having served for over twenty-five years. This thesis explores how these men used their military service in order to survive, serving with honor while maintaining their cultural traditions within a changing world.
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Books on the topic "Famous Scots"

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Gordon, Ian. Famous Scots. Shepheard-Walwyn, 1988.

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Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Famous Scots. Chambers, 1992.

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150 famous Scots. Waverly Books, 2009.

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Collins gem famous Scots. HarperCollins, 1995.

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Famous Scots and the supernatural. Black & White Publishing, 2012.

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Studio, Scottish Cartoon Art. Fizzers: Famous Scottish faces caricatured. Mercat, 2006.

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Fletcher, William W. Baxters book of famous Scots who changed the world. Lang Syne, 1995.

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Famous firsts of Scottish-Americans. Pelican Pub. Co., 1996.

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Scottish wit & wisdom: The meanings behind famous Scottish sayings. Crombie Jardine, 2005.

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Scottish wit & wisdom: The meanings behind famous Scottish sayings. Crombie Jardine, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Famous Scots"

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"Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome as an Inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgeraldʼs Fictional Character ʻBenjamin Buttonʼ." In The Medical Lives of History’s Famous People, edited by William James Maloney. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9781608059362114010004.

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Mee, Nicholas. "Rampant Rabbits." In Celestial Tapestry. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851950.003.0009.

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Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci (The Book of Calculation) is the most important book of mathematics from the Middle Ages. The book was dedicated to Michael Scott, a Scottish scholar who was the Imperial Astrologer to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. He was later described as a necromancer and was consigned to the eighth circle of Hell by Dante. Chapter 8 outlines the lives of Fibonacci and Michael Scott. Liber Abaci was key to the spread of Hindu–Arabic numerals through the Mediterranean and into Europe, and the book also includes a number of puzzles, the most famous of which is about breeding rabbits. The solution involves the number sequence now known as the Fibonacci sequence, which has many interesting properties that are still being studied.
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Sanders, Joe Sutliff. "Introduction." In The Comics of Hergé. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496807267.003.0001.

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Although Hergé is most famous for crystalizing and popularizing the “clear line” art style, the lines of his life and work are anything but clear. His lifelong gratitude to the Boy Scouts for their influence during his formative years notwithstanding, Hergé came under fire for both a lack of loyalty (to the resistance during occupation, to his first wife) as well as excessive loyalty (to the exiled king and his wartime friends). Scholarship on Hergé has explored the artist’s work as it blurs the lines between high art and low, biography and cultural history, psychoanalysis and gender.
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McComas, Alan J. "Groundwork." In Sherrington's Loom. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190936549.003.0005.

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This chapter lays down the groundwork for succeeding discussions by exploring the nervous system. It briefly traces the history of research into the structure of the nervous system and into the nature of the nerve impulse, the transitory event that enables neurons to communicate and upon which the brain—Sherrington’s “enchanted loom”—depends for all its transactions. This chapter also discusses the synaptic connections that determine the excitatory or inhibitory responses of the nerve cells to incoming impulses. In addition to these basic foundations, the chapter also turns to a brief look into the life and career of Charles Scott Sherrington, from whom this work was named after. Sherrington was a skilled anatomist and neuropathologist famous for his investigations into the nervous system.
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Marsh, John. "Purging the Rottenness from the System." In The Emotional Life of the Great Depression. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847731.003.0002.

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When the Great Depression descended on America, many people had no idea why and no idea about how long it would last. Others, however, experienced no such doubts. For them, the Depression reinforced their understanding of how the world worked and confirmed their most sacred beliefs. This chapter examines their righteous response to the Great Depression. It locates that righteousness in three admittedly far-flung spheres: the laissez-faire fundamentalism of classical economics like Joseph Schumpeter and then secretary of the treasury Andrew Mellon; the apocalyptic interpretations of the Great Depression on the part of many Christians, who believed the Depression signaled the beginning of the end times and the Second Coming of Christ; and one famous Depression short story, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited.” As far apart as these sources are, each nevertheless conveyed a sense that the Depression was a punishment for past misdeeds, whether economic, spiritual, or moral, and, therefore, was a punishment that had to be endured, even embraced, for the good life to resume.
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