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32 relations: Alasdair Gray, Andrew Drummond (author), Battle of Worcester, Charles I of England, Charles II of England, Clan Urquhart, Cromarty, Death from laughter, Epigram, Esperanto, François Rabelais, George Saintsbury, Inverness, James Crichton, John Napier, King's College, Aberdeen, Logarithm, Logopandecteision, Oliver Cromwell, Palace of Whitehall, Peter Anthony Motteux, Restoration (England), Scotland, Syllogism, Thomas Browne, Tower of London, Trigonometry, Turriff, Universal language, University of Aberdeen, Volapük, Windsor Castle.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist.
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Andrew Drummond (author)
Andrew Drummond is a Scottish translator and novelist.
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Battle of Worcester
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England, and was the final battle of the English Civil War.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Clan Urquhart
Urquhart is a Highland Scottish clan.
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Cromarty
Cromarty (Cromba) is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland.
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Death from laughter
Death from laughter is a rare form of death, usually resulting from cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, caused by a fit of laughter.
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Epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.
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Esperanto
Esperanto (or; Esperanto) is a constructed international auxiliary language.
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François Rabelais
François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
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George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.
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Inverness
Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.
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James Crichton
James Crichton, known as the Admirable Crichton (19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582), was a Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts, and sciences before he was murdered at the age of 21.
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John Napier
John Napier of Merchiston (1550 – 4 April 1617); also signed as Neper, Nepair; nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston) was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. His Latinized name was Ioannes Neper. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics. Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University. Napier died from the effects of gout at home at Merchiston Castle and his remains were buried in the kirkyard of St Giles. Following the loss of the kirkyard there to build Parliament House, he was memorialised at St Cuthbert's at the west side of Edinburgh.
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King's College, Aberdeen
King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, the full title of which is The University and King's College of Aberdeen (Collegium Regium Abredonense), is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and now an integral part of the University of Aberdeen.
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Logarithm
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.
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Logopandecteision
Logopandecteision is a 1653 book by Sir Thomas Urquhart, disingenuously detailing his plans for the creation of an artificial language by that name.
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.
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Palace of Whitehall
The Palace of Whitehall (or Palace of White Hall) at Westminster, Middlesex, was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, except for Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.
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Peter Anthony Motteux
Peter Anthony Motteux (25 February 1663 – 18 February 1718), born Pierre Antoine Motteux, was an English author, playwright, and translator.
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Restoration (England)
The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.
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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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Syllogism
A syllogism (συλλογισμός syllogismos, "conclusion, inference") is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.
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Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric.
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Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.
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Trigonometry
Trigonometry (from Greek trigōnon, "triangle" and metron, "measure") is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles.
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Turriff
Turriff is a town and civil parish in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
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Universal language
Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world's population.
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University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Volapük
Volapük (in English; in Volapük) is a constructed language, created in 1879 and 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany.
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Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Urquhart
