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  • ...e army, he was employed in 1715 to drill the city guard for the defence of Edinburgh in anticipation of a [[Jacobite]] rising, and was promoted later to the com ...prieved on 2nd September. The reprieve was hotly resented by the people of Edinburgh, and on the night of 7th September 1736 an armed body of men in disguise br
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  • ...y of Schehallion," 1811) and in the ''Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh'' ("On the Causes which affect the Accuracy of Barometrical Measurements,"
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  • Nineteenth-century [[Syke Terrier]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland who became famous for keeping vigil by his master's grave ever
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  • :''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'' (monthly) :''Edinburgh Review'' (quarterly)
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  • ...s in ''Dissertationes medicae'' (1701) and founding the medical faculty at Edinburgh.
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  • {{rpl|Edward, Duke of Edinburgh}} {{rpl|Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh}}
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  • ...onservation Trust] ("a silver thread in a ribbon of green' flowing through Edinburgh")
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  • {{r|Edinburgh}} {{r|Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh}}
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  • ...inally edited by Robert Chambers, published by Blackie and Son of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London in 1856.
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  • ...2006); her best-known novel ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' is set in an Edinburgh girls' school - the central character is a progressive feminist who admires
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  • (1745 – 1815) Publisher of the first Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' poems; member of the jury in Deacon Brodie's trial
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  • * [http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments]
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  • (1718 – 1800) Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the [[University of Edinburgh]], and [[Presbyterian]] preacher whose sermons and writings made a major co
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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.
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  • | location = Edinburgh ;;New York ;[Berkeley Calif.?]
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  • ...al, third edition, corrected, with additions, 1 volume (London, A. Millar, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid, 1748). ...d in a Book Lately Publish's Intitled, A Treatise of Human Nature, etc.'' (Edinburgh, 1745).
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  • ...uate/field/holyrood/history.html Formation of Arthur's Seat] University of Edinburgh Undergraduate Geology Notes
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  • ...1817 by [[William Blackwood]] as a [[Tory]] rival to the [[Whig]]gish ''[[Edinburgh Review]]''. It is now chiefly remembered for the [[Noctes Ambrosianae]].
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  • {{r|Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh}} {{r|Edward, Duke of Edinburgh}}
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  • ...ibed [[leukaemia]]<ref>John Hughes Bennett (1812-1875) Clinical Teacher of Edinburgh. ''JAMA'' 1969;208:857-8</ref> ...nt of the ''Royal Medical Society'' and of the ''Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh'' and Vice-President of the ''Anatomical and Physiological Society''. The s
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