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  • ...20, became the leading phrenological society of the U.K. and established [[Edinburgh]] as a major centre of [[phrenology]] in the 19th century. ...jpg|right|350px|Life mask of George Combe (1788- 1858). Combe founded the 'Edinburgh Phrenological Society' in 1820 and the 'Phrenological journal' in 1823.}}
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  • ...and educating the male children and grandchildren of decayed merchants in Edinburgh" - the first school became what is now George Watson's College.
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  • ...probe. It is named after Edward M. Southern who developed the technique at Edinburgh University in the 1970.
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  • ...k/public/professors/cullen.html Biography by W. P. Doyle] at University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry
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  • ...'' (1902-2002) was the first woman to be appointed to a medical Chair at [[Edinburgh University]] when she became its Professor of [[Physiology]] in 1966. ...culty. In 1977 she became a [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]].
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  • (d. 1736) Captain of the city guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736 when the city guard fired on the people; Porteous
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  • *I. Tolstoy, ''James Clerk Maxwell, a biography''. Edinburgh: Canongate; 1981.
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  • ...s parts of some others. The scene is usually set in Ambrose's Tavern in [[Edinburgh]], and the central characters are "Christopher North" (Wilson himself), "Ti *Wilson, John (1855) ''Noctes Ambrosianae'', edited by J F Ferrier. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons.
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  • ...received in lieu of a pension the nominal office of the writership of the Edinburgh Gazette, with a salary of £300.
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  • ...ain - Research on Language Policy and Language Planning] - [[University of Edinburgh]]-based research on language planning in [[Scotland]]; articles in [[Scotti
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  • * John Prebble, ''The King's Jaunt'' (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd,1988., 2000), ISBN 1-84158-068-6 * David Webster, ''Scottish Highland Games'' (Edinburgh, Scotland 1973)
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  • ...tions of the Heart, and a Description of the Human Lacteal Sac and Duct.'' Edinburgh 1726, 1732, 8vo. 6th edit. Corrected and enlarged. 1758. To the latter edi ...with considerable improvements and additions, by his son, and other hands. Edinburgh 1783.
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  • ...East Lothian) and later at Lady Yester's Kirk and [[Greyfriars Kirk]] in [[Edinburgh]]. A staunch [[Presbyterian]] and [[British Whig Party|Whig]], in 1745 he v ...history".<ref>Horn DB(1967, p.76) "''A Short History of the University of Edinburgh: 1556-1889''"</ref> In 1763, he became also [[Moderator of the General Ass
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  • ...929: the politics of five elections. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
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  • *Overbury, Steve (2008) ''Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers''. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84596-234-0 (OCLC 77013108)
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  • *Overbury, Steve (2008) ''Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers''. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84596-234-0 (OCLC 77013108)
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  • ...iversity. He graduated from there in 1825 and moved to the [[University of Edinburgh ]] where he taught mathematics. When Sir John Leslie, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University died in 1832, Russell was chosen to fill the vacancy pending the
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  • ...ay he may be said to have the credit of laying the foundation of the great Edinburgh school of medicine. ...ng to the instruction he had received from Dr Pitcairne. Pitcairne died in Edinburgh on the 20th of October 1713. He had been a great collector of books, and hi
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  • ...82 <ref>[http://www.ed.ac.uk/explore/history/ History of The University of Edinburgh]</ref>, the sixth university to be established in the British Isles, with a ...nis College") making it the first civic university. In the 18th century, [[Edinburgh]] was a leading centre of the European [[Enlightenment]] and the University
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  • ...past, present, and future]'' &mdash; Public lecture at the [[University of Edinburgh]]
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  • ...tween 1602 and about 1620 on land given by [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to the Edinburgh town council in 1562 for use as a burial ground. It is adjacent to the back ...ce in Scottish history. Opened in 1620, it was the first church built in [[Edinburgh]] after the Reformation;. In 1638 the [[National Covenant]], a protest agai
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  • |title = Teachings of the physician William Cullen of Edinburgh (1712-1790) transcribed by his student physician Louis Odier of Geneva (174 |title = Doctor William Cullen, physician, Edinburgh": a consultation practice in the eighteenth century
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  • ...exander Monro secundus, 1786, original in the library of the University of Edinburgh]] ...[[Alexander Monro primus]] as Professor of Anatomy at the [[University of Edinburgh]], and was in turn succeeded by his son, [[Alexander Monro tertius]]. He is
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  • ...ssors Sidarthan Chandran and Charles ffrench-constant of the University of Edinburgh on prospects for stem cell therapy to treat multiple sclerosis
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  • ...ternet/leisure/museums_and_galleries/CEC_museum_of_edinburgh The Museum of Edinburgh], formerly known as Huntly House, occupies 16th and 17th century buildings
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  • ...otland|Scottish]] portrait-painter of the [[Rococo]] Era. He was born in [[Edinburgh]], the eldest son of [[Allan Ramsay (1686&ndash;1758)|Allan Ramsay]], poet ...1739 he married Anne Bayne, the daughter of a professor of Scots law at [[Edinburgh University]], Alexander Bayne of Rires (c. 1684&ndash;1737). None of their
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  • ...llows the lives of a group of [[heroin]] addicts and their associates in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], centring on the trials of Mark Renton as he tries to move ...Most of the film was actually shot in neighbouring [[Glasgow]] rather than Edinburgh, but did feature a mostly-Scottish cast (the exception being [[Jonny Lee Mi
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  • :(Inscription on statue, Edinburgh) ...Greyfriars Kirkyard - the grounds of a notable [[Presbyterian]] church in Edinburgh's Old Town.
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  • * Donald R. Hill, ''Islamic Science and Engineering'' (Edinburgh University Press, 1994).
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  • '''Auld Reekie''' is a traditional nickname for [[Edinburgh]], the capital city of [[Scotland]]. ...of one of the [[Scots]] poems of [[Robert Fergusson]], who died insane in Edinburgh's Bedlam asylum, aged 24, but whose poems were an inspiration for Scotland'
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  • ...stle]] in June 1560, and the civil war ended soon after with the Treaty of Edinburgh (1560). Mary's body was taken to France and interred at the church in the C
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  • ...beth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II ]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and held the heir apparent's title [[Prince of Wales]] from 1958 until 2 ...s Royal|Princess Anne]] had followed her younger brother [[Edward, Duke of Edinburgh|Edward]].<ref name=Cnn2018-04-23/>
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  • ...| Skeleton of William Burke, in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Photo by Hugh Pastoll.}} ...| Life mask of William Hare, in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Photo by Hugh Pastoll.}}
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  • ...ity]], Ruddiman was appointed as an assistant in the Advocates' Library, [[Edinburgh]]. During his time there, he published editions of Florence Wilson's ''De A ...him to call for frequent censure, and a society of scholars was formed in Edinburgh to "vindicate that incomparably learned and pious author from the calumnies
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  • ...219&dq=james+hutton&output=text#c_top Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 1]</ref> ...68, with the farm established and successful, he let it and moved back to Edinburgh, where he lived for the rest of his life, unmarried, with his three sisters
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  • ...ting the first practical telephone. Bell was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at University College, London. In 1870, he emigrated to Canada with his
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  • ...[[John Knox]], a Protestant leader born between 1505 and 1515, who died at Edinburgh on 24 November, 1572. {{Image|John Knox's House Edinburgh.JPG|right|300px|John Knox House consists of two town houses (or "lands") w
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  • .... Charles Thompson, ''Scotland's Forged Tartans'', Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh, 1980. ISBN 0-904505-67-7.
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  • ...}}|Asian elephant skeleton in the Anatomical Museum of the [[University of Edinburgh]]. This elephant was most likely a female as suggested by the lack of tusks
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  • ...uctions, and a Critical Dissertation Upon the Eloquence of the Ancients'', Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 4 vol. (online: [http://books.google.ca/books?id=F
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  • ...n the Jacobite rebels defeated the English army. Carlyle was a part of the Edinburgh militia - on the side of the Union and the Government forces and fearful of ...y associated with [[William Robertson]], Principal of the [[University of Edinburgh]].
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  • ...between 1747 and 1772, and Marjorie Stuart. Dugald Stewart was educated in Edinburgh at the high school and the university, where he read mathematics and moral ...health failing, to take over his mathematical classes in the University of Edinburgh. In 1775, he was elected Professor of Mathematics jointly with him. Three y
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  • ...al political publications of the 19th century. His anonymous essays in the Edinburgh Review included two vituperative attacks on [[Thomas Young]] for his wave t
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  • ...’s medical ethics and the reform of medical practice in eighteenth-century Edinburgh] ''J R Coll Physicians Edinb'' 36:86–92</ref> ...qSearch=((text)='2206')&dsqPos=0 Papers of the Gregory family of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Oxford] GB 0231 Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and
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