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Bishopbriggs is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [1]

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A803 road

The A803 is a road in central Scotland.

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Abellio ScotRail

Abellio ScotRail, (Rèile na h-Alba), operating services under the name ScotRail, is the national train operating company of Scotland.

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Additional Member System

The additional member system (AMS), also known as mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) outside the United Kingdom, is a mixed electoral system with one tier of single-member district representatives, and another tier of "additional members" elected to make the overall election results more proportional.

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Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom

Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organisation in the United Kingdom set up in 1937 dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids.

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Alan Irvine (footballer, born 1958)

James Alan Irvine (born 12 July 1958) is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach.

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Alastair Kellock

Alastair 'Al' Kellock (born 14 June 1981) is a Scottish former rugby union player.

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Allan Glen's School

Allan Glen's School was, for most of its existence, a local authority, selective secondary school for boys in Glasgow, Scotland, charging nominal fees for tuition.

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Ambulatory care

Ambulatory care or outpatient care is medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services.

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Amy Macdonald

Amy Elizabeth Macdonald (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician.

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Antonine Wall

The Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as Vallum Antonini, was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde.

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Archbishop of Glasgow

The Archbishop of Glasgow is an archiepiscopal title that takes its name after the city of Glasgow in Scotland.

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Archdiocese of Glasgow

The Archdiocese of Glasgow was one of the thirteen (after 1633 fourteen) dioceses of the Scottish church.

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Asda

Asda Stores Ltd. trading as Asda, is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Auchinairn

Auchinairn (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh an Fheàrna) is a suburb (formerly a village) within East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and shares its southern boundary with the Springburn and Balornock districts within the City of Glasgow.

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Aviva

Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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B&Q

B&Q plc is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company, headquartered in Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc.

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Barrage balloon

A barrage balloon is a large kite balloon used to defend against aircraft attack by raising aloft cables which pose a collision risk, making the attacker's approach more difficult.

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Bascule bridge

A bascule bridge (sometimes referred to as a drawbridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or "leaf", throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Benno Schotz

Benno Schotz (28 August 1891 Arensburg – 11 October 1984 Glasgow) was an Estonian-born Scottish sculptor, and one of twentieth century Scotland's leading artists.

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Birmingham City F.C.

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England.

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Bishopbriggs Academy

Bishopbriggs Academy is a secondary school in the town of Bishopbriggs, Scotland, in the district of East Dunbartonshire.

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Bishopbriggs railway station

Bishopbriggs railway station is a railway station serving Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Blackie and Son

Blackie and Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England from 1890 to 1991.

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Botched (film)

Botched is a 2007 horror comedy film directed by Kit Ryan and starring Stephen Dorff.

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Brechin City F.C.

Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the townDespite the name of the football club, Brechin is not an official city.

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Bruce Report

The Bruce Report (or the Bruce Plan) is the name commonly given to the First Planning Report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of GlasgowRobert Bruce (1945), First Planning report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, Corporation of the City of Glasgow, Glasgow published in March 1945.

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Bungalow

A bungalow is a type of building, originally developed in the Bengal region in South Asia.

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Burgh

A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town, or toun in Scots.

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Burn (landform)

A burn is a watercourse (in size from a large stream to a small river).

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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Cadbury

Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.

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Cadder

Cadder (Scottish Gaelic: Coile Dobhair) is a district of the town of Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Carillion

Carillion plc was a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation, which began in January 2018.

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Carron Company

The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Catholic school

Catholic schools are parochial schools or education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premiership.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Clydebank Blitz

The Clydebank Blitz comprised two devastating Luftwaffe air raids on the shipbuilding town of Clydebank in Scotland which took place in March 1941.

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Colston

Colston is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow.

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Commuter town

A commuter town is a town whose residents normally work elsewhere but in which they live, eat and sleep.

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Corbeil-Essonnes

Corbeil-Essonnes on the River Seine is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Cotter (farmer)

Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish highlands for example).

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and lead singer/bassist Jack Bruce.

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Croy Line

The Croy Line is a suburban railway route linking Glasgow and Croy in Scotland.

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Cumbernauld Airport

Cumbernauld Airport is located northeast of Glasgow at Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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D'Hondt method

The D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats, and is thus a type of party-list proportional representation.

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Dalmuir

Dalmuir (Dail Mhoire) is an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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David Hamilton (architect)

David Hamilton (11 May 1768 – 5 December 1843) was a Scottish architect based in Glasgow.

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David Whitton

David Whitton (born 22 April 1952) is a Scottish journalist, Labour party politician and former MSP.

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Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor and writer.

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Distribution center

A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers, or directly to consumers.

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East Dunbartonshire

East Dunbartonshire (Aest Dunbartanshire; Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Dunbartonshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).

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Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway

The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament on 4 July 1838.

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Emergency department

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

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Equipment rental

Equipment rental, also called plant hire in some countries (in the UK for instance), is a service industry providing machinery, equipment and tools of all kinds and sizes (from earthmoving to powered access, from power generation to hand-held tools, etc.) for a limited period of time to final users, mainly to construction contractors but also to industry and individual consumers.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (The Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Feu (land tenure)

Feu was previously the most common form of land tenure in Scotland, as conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by feudalism until the Scottish Parliament passed the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.

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First Glasgow

First Glasgow is the largest bus company serving the Greater Glasgow area in Scotland.

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Forth and Clyde Canal

The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Free Church of Scotland (since 1900)

The Free Church of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor) is an Evangelical and Reformed Presbyterian denomination in Scotland.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

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George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

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Gerry Britton

Gerard Joseph Britton (born 20 October 1970 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a striker.

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Gerry McLauchlan

Gerard Timothy McLauchlan (born 8 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender.

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Giffnock

Giffnock (Giffnock; Giofnag) is a suburban town in East Renfrewshire set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Gillespie, Kidd & Coia

Gillespie, Kidd & Coia were a Scottish architectural firm famous for their application of modernism in churches and universities, as well as at St Peter's Seminary in Cardross.

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Girder bridge

A girder bridge, in general, is a bridge that uses girders as the means of supporting the deck.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow Airport

Glasgow Airport, also unofficially Glasgow International Airport, formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland, located west of Glasgow city centre.

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Glasgow city centre

Glasgow city centre is the central business district of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council, the local government body of the city of Glasgow in Scotland, became one of the newly created single tier local authorities in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, with boundaries somewhat different from those of the City of Glasgow district of the Strathclyde region: parts of the Cambuslang and Halfway and Rutherglen and Fernhill areas were transferred from the city area to the new South Lanarkshire council area.

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Glasgow Citybus

Glasgow Citybus is a Scottish bus operator, operating 10 bus routes in Glasgow and Dunbartonshire under contract to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

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Glasgow Corporation Tramways

Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe.

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Glasgow Queen Street railway station

Glasgow Queen Street (Sràid na Banrighinn) is a city centre railway terminal in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) is a large teaching hospital, operated by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, With a capacity of around 1000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around, situated on the north-eastern edge of the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow Warriors

Glasgow Warriors are one of the two professional rugby union sides from Scotland.

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Gordon Chisholm

Gordon William Chisholm (born 8 April 1960 in Glasgow) is a Scottish professional football former player and manager.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Grangemouth

Grangemouth is a town in east Stirlingshire and is part of the Falkirk council area, Scotland.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

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Greater Glasgow

Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area (or conurbation).

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Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli (born 21 January 1969) is a British presenter of Sikh heritage who has appeared on radio and television.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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High Times

High Times is a New York–based monthly magazine founded in 1974 by Tom Forçade.

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HM Prison Low Moss

HMP Low Moss is located on the outskirts of Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire; near Glasgow, Scotland.

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Huntershill Village

Huntershill Village is located opposite Huntershill House at the top of Crowhill Road in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Infant formula

Infant formula, or baby formula, is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepared for bottle-feeding or cup-feeding from powder (mixed with water) or liquid (with or without additional water).

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Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included the guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and the drummer Ginger Baker.

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Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay MBE FRSE (born 9 November 1961) is a Scottish poet and novelist.

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James Braid (golfer)

James Braid (6 February 1870 – 27 November 1950) was a Scottish professional golfer and a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor.

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James McFadden

James Henry McFadden (born 14 April 1983) is a Scottish football player and coach, who played as a striker.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jean Turner

Jean McGivern Turner (born 23 December 1939) is a former Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Strathkelvin and Bearsden 2003–07 and medical doctor.

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Jenni Falconer

Jenni Falconer (born 12 February 1976) is a Scottish radio and television presenter best known for her roles on the ITV daytime show This Morning, where she is a regular travel reporter.

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Jo Swinson

Joanne Kate "Jo" Swinson (born 5 February 1980) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire.

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Jocelin of Glasgow

Jocelin (or Jocelyn) (died 1199) was a twelfth-century Cistercian monk and cleric who became the fourth Abbot of Melrose before becoming Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Joe McBride (footballer, born 1938)

Joe McBride (10 June 1938 – 11 July 2012) was a Scottish footballer who played for clubs including Celtic, Hibernian, Motherwell and Dunfermline Athletic.

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John Lindsay (footballer, born 1924)

John Lindsay (born 8 August 1924; died 1991) was a footballer who played for Rangers, Everton, Worcester City and Bury.

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Kelvin Scottish

Kelvin Scottish Omnibuses Ltd was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group based in Bishopbriggs, Strathclyde, Scotland.

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Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch (Cair Cheann Tulaich) is a town and former royal burgh in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Siorrachd Lannraig, Lanrikshire) is a historic county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Lena Martell

Lena Martell (born Helen Thomson; 15 May 1940, Possilpark, Glasgow) is a Scottish singer, who had a number one UK single with "One Day at a Time" in 1979.

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Lennoxtown

Lennoxtown (Baile na Leamhnachd) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north.

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Lenzie

Lenzie is a small town by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland.

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Lewis MacLeod (actor)

Euan Lewis MacLeod (born 6 December 1970) is a Scottish actor and voice actor He voices various characters in Dead Ringers and Newzoids.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Lieutenancy areas of Scotland

The lieutenancy areas of Scotland (Lieutenancy auries o Scotland) are the areas used for the ceremonial lord-lieutenants, the monarch's representatives, in Scotland.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lisbon Lions

The Lisbon Lions is the nickname given to the Celtic team that won the European Cup at the Estádio Nacional near Lisbon, Portugal on 25 May 1967, defeating Inter Milan 2–1.

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List of diplomatic missions of the Kingdom of Denmark

This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004

The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 9) is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which provided, inter alia, for the election of councillors to the local authorities in Scotland by the single transferable vote system.

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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered local government in Scotland on 16 May 1975.

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Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

The Local Government etc.

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Local government in Scotland

Local government in Scotland is organised through 32 unitary authorities designated as Councils which consist of councillors elected every five years by registered voters in each of the council areas.

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Locharbriggs

Locharbriggs is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Lord Lyon King of Arms

The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry in that country, issuing new grants of arms, and serving as the judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon, the oldest heraldic court in the world that is still in daily operation.

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Lowland Clearances

The Lowland Clearances were one of the results of the Scottish Agricultural Revolution, which changed the traditional system of agriculture which had existed in Lowland Scotland in the seventeenth century.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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M80 motorway

The M80 is a motorway in Scotland's central belt, running between Glasgow and Stirling via Cumbernauld and Denny and linking the M8, M73 and M9 motorways.

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Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.

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Marginal seat

A marginal seat or swing seat is a constituency held with a small majority in a legislative election, generally one conducted under a single-winner voting system.

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Martin Millar

Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London.

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Maryhill

Maryhill (Maryhull, Cnoc Mhoire) is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland.

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Maxwell Macdonald baronets

The Maxwell, later Stirling-Maxwell, later Maxwell Macdonald Baronetcy, of Pollock in the County of Renfrew, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

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Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) (Ball Pàrlamaid na h-Alba (BPA) in Gaelic, Memmer o the Scots Pairliament (MSP) in Scots) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.

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Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn

Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, (3 July 1945 – 29 April 2018) was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005, and then for Glasgow North East until 2009.

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Milton, Glasgow

Milton is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow, situated north of the River Clyde.

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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Monkland Canal

The Monkland Canal was a canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland.

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Morrisons

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, trading as Morrisons, is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom.

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a NHS board in West Central Scotland, created from the amalgamation of NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde on 1 April 2006.

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Nieve Jennings

Nieve King (née Jennings, born 3 August 1987) is a Scottish model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Scotland 2007 and Miss United Kingdom 2007 and has also competed in the Miss World 2007 and Miss International 2008 pageants.

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Non-denominational

A non-denominational person or organization is not restricted to any particular or specific religious denomination.

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NRS social grade

The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom.

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Ordnance QF 25-pounder

The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply 25-pounder or 25-pdr, was the major British field gun and howitzer during the Second World War, possessing a 3.45-inch (87.6 mm) calibre.

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Paisley, Renfrewshire

Paisley (Pàislig, Paisley) is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Partick Thistle F.C.

Partick Thistle Football Club (nicknamed the Jags) are a professional football club from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Patient

A patient is any recipient of health care services.

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Patrick Abercrombie

Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (6 June 1879 – 23 March 1957) was an English town planner.

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Peter Capaldi

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director.

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Pitch (sports field)

A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports.

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Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Pro14

The PRO14 (known as the Guinness PRO14 for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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Public–private partnership

A public–private partnership (PPP, 3P or P3) is a cooperative arrangement between two or more public and private sectors, typically of a long-term nature.

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Queen of the South F.C.

Queen of the South Football Club are a Scottish professional football club formed in March 1919 and located in Dumfries.

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Radio Scotland

Radio Scotland was an offshore pirate radio station broadcasting on 1241 kHz mediumwave (242 metres), created by Tommy Shields in 1965.

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Rates (tax)

Rates are a type of property tax system in the United Kingdom, and in places with systems deriving from the British one, the proceeds of which are used to fund local government.

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Retail park

A retail park or power center is an unenclosed shopping center with a typical range of to of gross leasable area that usually contains three or more big box retailers and various smaller retailers (usually located in strip plazas) with a common parking area shared among the retailers.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.

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River Forth

The River Forth is a major river, long, whose drainage basin covers much of Stirlingshire in Scotland's Central Belt.

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Robroyston

Robroyston (Baile Raibeart Ruadh) is a northeastern suburb of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Rona Mackay

Rona Mackay is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Strathkelvin and Bearsden since the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2016.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Run rig

Run rig, or runrig, also known as rig-a-rendal, was a system of land tenure practised in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and islands.

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Safeway (UK)

Safeway was a chain of supermarkets and convenience shops in the United Kingdom.

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Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev Singh Kohli (born 30 November 1971) is a British Indian comedian, writer and actor.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scotland (European Parliament constituency)

Scotland constitutes a single constituency of the European Parliament.

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Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

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Scottish Conservatives

The Scottish Conservatives (Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba), officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, is the part of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that operates in Scotland.

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Scottish Episcopal Church

The seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba) make up the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Scotland.

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Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party (Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, Scots Labour Pairty; branded Scottish Labour) is the devolved Scotland section of the United Kingdom Labour Party.

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Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party (SNP; Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Scots Naitional Pairtie) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland.

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Shires of Scotland

The counties or shires of Scotland (Siorrachdan na h-Alba) are geographic subdivisions of Scotland established in the Middle Ages.

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Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet

Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet, of Pollok, KT DL FRSE HRSA HRIBA HRWS HRSW LLD (6 June 1866 – 30 May 1956) was a Scottish Tory politician and philanthropist.

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Sister Lauras Food Supplement

In the early 1900s Sister Laura Marian Smith, a nurse at the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, noted the high levels of malnutrition in children at the time, and is credited with promoting the use of a Casein inhibitor to make cows milk more beneficial to those who had extreme difficulty in digesting it.

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Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)

The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament.

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Springburn

Springburn (Allt an Fhuairainn) is an inner city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow, made up of generally working and middle-class households.

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Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player.

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Steve Valentine

Steve Valentine (born 26 October 1966) is a Scottish-American actor, musician, and magician who has performed on stage and screen but who is best known for his role as the eccentric Nigel Townsend on NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan and as Harry Flynn in the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as well as the voice of Alistair in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise.

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Stevie Chalmers

Thomas Stephen Chalmers (born 26 December 1935) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a centre-forward.

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Still Game

Still Game is a BAFTA award-winning Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland.

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Stirling

Stirling (Stirlin; Sruighlea) is a city in central Scotland.

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Stobhill Hospital

Stobhill Hospital is an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Hospital, located in the district of Springburn in the north of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Storm Huntley

Storm Huntley (born 24 February 1987) is a Scottish television presenter.

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Stranraer F.C.

Stranraer Football Club is a Scottish semi-professional football club based in the town of Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway.

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Strathclyde

Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning "strath (valley) of the River Clyde") was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Strathkelvin

Strathkelvin (Srath Chealbhainn in Gaelic) is the strath of the River Kelvin in west central Scotland, close to the city of Glasgow.

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Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Strathkelvin and Bearsden is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Swing vote

A swing vote is a vote that is seen as potentially going to any of a number of candidates in an election, or, in a two-party system, may go to either of the two dominant political parties.

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Teind

In Scotland a teind was a tithe derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy.

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The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile were a musical group from Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Calcium Kid

The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004.

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Thomas Muir of Huntershill

Thomas Muir (24 August 1765 – 26 January 1799), often known as Thomas Muir the Younger of Huntershill, was a Scottish political reformer.

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Town centre

A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.

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Townhead

Townhead (Ceann a' Baile, Tounheid) is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Turnbull High School

Turnbull High School is a co-educational comprehensive Secondary School located in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland.

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Union Canal (Scotland)

The Union Canal, full name the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal is a canal in Scotland, running from Falkirk to Edinburgh, constructed to bring minerals, especially coal, to the capital.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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Villa

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.

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West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.

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West of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

West of Scotland was one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament that were created in 1999.

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West Regional League (rugby union)

The West Regional League (currently named the BT West League for sponsorship reasons) is one of three Regional Leagues operated by the Scottish Rugby Union, which play at a level below that of the National League structure.

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William Beardmore and Company

William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area.

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William the Lion

William the Lion (Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric (i.e. William, son of Henry); Modern Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig), sometimes styled William I, also known by the nickname Garbh, "the Rough",Uilleam Garbh; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yoichi, Hokkaido

is a town located in the Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Young offender

A young offender is a young person who has been convicted or cautioned for a criminal offense.

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1967 European Cup Final

The 1967 European Cup Final was a football match between Italian team Internazionale and Scottish team Celtic.

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