Famous people Ewan McGregor-actor Alexander Graham Bell Sir Sean Connery Rod Stewart Gerard Butler Robert Carlyle-actor Sir Alexander Fleming- Robert Archibald-1st penicillin scottish NBA player Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Stephen Hendry-7 times writer World Champion James Watt Castles Balmoral Castle Braemar Castle Dunrobin Castle Fyvie Castle Facts Scotland is considered the home land of golf. Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire-brigade. It is well known for its whisky. The motto is "No one provokes me with impunity". Food and drinks Haggis, made from lamb lungs, liver and heart, mixed with onions, herbs and spices. Porridge, oatmeal, salt and water.
2012 Castle Muutke teksti laade Teine tase Kolmas tase Neljas tase Viies tase Location Balmoral Castle /bælmrl/ is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located near the village of Crathie, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Ballater and 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Braemar. Location Muutke teksti laade Teine tase Kolmas tase Neljas tase Viies tase History King Robert II of Scotland (13161390) had a hunting lodge in the area. A house at Balmoral was built by Sir William Drummond in 1390.[4] The estate is recorded in 1451 as
The The climate of Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. It is warmed by the Gulf Stream from the Atlantic, and as such has much milder winters (but cooler, wetter summers) than areas on similar latitudes, for example Copenhagen, Moscow, or the Kamchatka Peninsula on the opposite side of Eurasia. However, temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the UK, with the coldest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C (-16.96 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 11 February 1895. Winter maximums average 6 °C (42.8 °F) in the lowlands, with summer maximums averaging 18 °C (64.4 °F). The highest temperature recorded was 32.9 °C (91.22 °F) at Greycrook, Scottish Borders on 9 August 2003. In general, the west of Scotland is usually warmer than the east, owing to the influence of Atlantic ocean currents and the colder surface temperatures of the North Sea. Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, is one of the
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