Caledonia is an old Latin name (given by the Roman Empire) for a northern area of the island of Great Britain. In some contexts it may mean the area north of Hadrian's Wall. In others it may mean the area north of the Antonine Wall. The border between modern Scotland and modern England is between the two walls and, in English and Scots, Caledonia has now romanitic or poetic usage as a name for Scotland. The name represents that of a Pictish tribe, the Caledonii, one amongst several in the Caledonia region, but perhaps the dominant tribe. Their name appears also in that of Dunkeld (Dùn Chailleann i ...

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CALEDONIA: The old Roman name for Scotland, still used poetically today.

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Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: /ˈaɫapə/) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu). The word ultimately comes from a Celtic word referring to the whole island of Great Britain, hence the early classical Albion. It was used by the Gaels to refer to the island as a whole until roughly the ninth or tenth centuries, when it came to be the name given to the kingdoms of the Picts and the Scots (Pictavia and Dalriada ...

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Caledonian is geographical term used to refer to places, species, or items in Scotland, or particulary the Scottish highlands. Examples include the Caledonian Canal, the Caledonian Forest, the Caledonian Railway, etc. There are many Caledonian Societies around the world that cater to Scots located away from home. e.g. The Caledonian Society of Norway. With the Highland Clearances and the migration of families from Scotland, Caledonian may also refer to Scottish institutions or societies in other geographical areas of the ...

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Brython and Brythonic are terms which refer to indigenous, pre-Roman, Celtic inhabitants of the most of the island of Great Britain, and their culture and language, the Brythonic languages. This ethnic group is also referred to as the British tribes, the ancient Britons, ethnic Britons, or simply Britons. These terms specifically refer to the culture of speakers of the P Celtic branch of the Celtic languages as against speakers of Q Celtic, who are usually referred to as Gaels or Goidelic Celts. ...

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An important invention for which William Murdoch's name is little known is Britain's first working model of a steam engine carriage, or locomotive in 1784. French engineer Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot had had already demonstrated from 1769 by building two full sized working steam vehicles, one of which could carry 4 tons, the utility of such a device. All that was needed was a more effective design. The earliest mention of Murdoch's thoughts and plans for this method of transport was in March 1784 when his colleague in Cornw ...

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In AD 83 or 84, led by Calgacus, the Caledonians' defeat at the hands of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at Mons Graupius is recorded by Tacitus. Tacitus avoids using terms such as king to describe Calgacus and it is uncertain as to whether the Caledonians had single leaders or whether they were more disparate and that Calgacus was an elected war leader only. In AD 180 they took part in an invasion of Britannia, breached Hadrian's Wall and were not brought under control for several years, eventually signing peace treaties with the governor Ulp ...

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Unlike Rupert's Land east of the Rockies (and south of the Mackenzie basin1), New Caledonia and its companion to the south, the Columbia Fur District, New Caledonia was not owned by the fur company, which only had a monopoly to trade with the Indians and no more. The boundary between the two was vague although Cariboo and sometimes the Thompson River were included in the meaning. In its proper sense New Caledonia was the lakes and hills of the northwestern Interior Plateau where the Peace, Stuart and Bulkley River systems verge in ...

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The Beaker People were the first documented cultural group in Britain. They were skilled at making ornaments from gold, and examples of these have been found in graves of the wealthy Wessex culture of southern Britain. Early Bronze Age Britons buried their dead in stone tombs beneath earth mounds known as barrows, often with beaker pottery alongside the body. Later in the period, cremation was adopted as a burial practice with cemeteries of urns containing cremated individuals appearing in the archaeological record. People of this period wer ...

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Scottish people, Scottish people - Clarifying the scope of this article, Scottish people - The indigenous ethnic groups of Scotland, Scottish people - A complex heritage, Scottish people - Return to Ireland, Scottish people - The Scottish diaspora, Scottish people - Anglicisation, Scottish people - Notes

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The extent of territory of the Brythons or Britons in pre-Roman times is unclear. The Pictish language is unknown and its study is based on very little information, mainly place and personal names. Probably a majority of those studying it favour it being a P Celtic (Brythonic) dialect, but other conjectures include a pre Celtic remnant language or a mixture of the two.^{See also:}

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Bennington is a town located in, and one of two shire towns of, Bennington County, Vermont. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 15,737. Bennington town Vermont - History. The history of the town of Bennington goes back to 1749, when New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth chartered the first town in the territory now known as Vermont, and named it after himself. The town is known primarily for the Battle of Bennington, fought during the Revolutionary War (the battle was actuall ...

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Britannia was originally the Latin name that the Roman Empire gave to the southern part of the island of Great Britain, and has become a national personification of the United Kingdom. Britannia - Roman period. At the height of Roman Britain, the Empire included all of Britannia (first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC), which was bordered by Hadrian's Wall, close to today's border between England and Scotland. To the Romans northern Britain was known as Caledonia. A southern part of what is now known as Sc ...

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6th century - Events. The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Iran by Khosrau I of Persia. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. Kevin Zen Buddhists enter Vietnam from China. Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Persian by order of the Zoroastrian king Khosrau. Buddhism introduced to Japan from Baek ...

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1. In common with the rest of the UK. 2. No official anthem. God Save the Queen is traditionally the UK national anthem. See national symbols below. Scotland (Alba in Gaelic) is a nation in northwest Europe and a constituent country of the United Kingdom. The country occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with England and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the ...

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The Antonine Wall is a stone and turf fortification, built by the Romans across what is now the central belt of Scotland. Construction of the Antonine Wall began in 142 CE during the reign of Antoninus Pius, and was completed in 144. The wall stretches 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Old Kirkpatrick in West Dunbartonshire on the Firth of Clyde to Bo'ness, Falkirk, on the Firth of Forth. The wall was intended to replace Hadrian's Wall 160 km (100 miles) to the south, as the frontier of Britannia, but while the Romans did es ...

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The various terms used to describe the different (and sometimes overlapping) geographical and political regions of the islands traditionally referred to collectively as the British Isles are often a source of confusion for people from other parts of the world, and even for the inhabitants of those islands themselves. The purpose of this article is to explain the meanings of and inter-relationships between those terms. The terms with technical meanings are: British Isles (as a geographical term) = an archipel ...

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• British Isles terminology - Rockall
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Sir William Johnstone Pulteney (October 1729 – 30 May 1805) was an eminent Scottish lawyer, Member of Parliament, and at one time reputedly the wealthiest man in Great Britain. He invested in lands in America, and in developments in the UK, including the Pulteney Bridge and other buildings in Bath, buildings on the sea-front at Weymouth in Dorset, and roads in his native Scotland. He was also a patron of architect Robert Adam and civil engineer Thomas Telford. William Johnstone Pulteney - Early life. Will ...

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• William Johnstone Pulteney - Patron of Thomas Telford
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from the U.S. state of Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a flair for public speaking before entering politics, first in the Ohio Senate (1899–1903) ...

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Windsor County is a county located in the state of Vermont. As of 2000, the population is 57,418. Its shire town is Woodstock6. Windsor County Vermont - Geography. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,527 km² (976 mi²). 2,515 km² (971 mi²) of it is land and 12 km² (5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.49% water. Windsor County Vermont - Adjacent counties. Grafton County, New Hampshire - northeast Orang ...

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