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1. Biographies of Mathematicians (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides short biographies of mathematicians by last name, period of history, or by search engine. 4-00

2. Mathematicians by Date or Alphabetical (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides short biographies of great mathematicians, by date of birth or by last name. 4-00

3. Trigonometry Functions - History (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides a history of trigonometry functions and the mathematicians behind their discovery. 4-00

4. Curves Index (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides famous geometric curves. 4-00

5. Kepler, Johannes (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides a history of Kepler's work. "Johannes Kepler is now chiefly remembered for discovering the three laws of planetary motion." Includes a picture of Kepler. 7-00

6. Scotland (LonelyPlanet.com)
   "There’s turbulent history and fascinating genealogy, castles and country pubs, canoeing and caber-tossing, golfing and fishing and all-round good craic (lively conversation)." 10-09
   

7. Education Resources from Scotland by Primary and Scotland (BBC Scotland Online)
   Provides links for primary and secondary education, as well as for teachers and parents.

8. Education Resources from Scotland by Subject (BBC Scotland Online)
   Provides links by subject.

9. Scotland

10. Christian Churches A - C (Yahoo)
    Provides sources of information on a wide variety of Christian groups. Includes African Methodist Episcopal, African Orthodox Church, American Baptist Churches USA, Amish, Anabaptist, Anglican, Armenian Evangelical Church, Assemblies of God, Associated Gospel Churches of Canada, Association of Vineyard Churches, Baptist, Baptist Bible Fellowship, Branch Davidian, Brethren in Christ, Calvary Chapel, Calvinist, Catholic, Cell Church, Charismatic Episcopal Church, Christadelphian, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Christian Reformed Church, Christian Science, Church of God (Anderson), Church of God (Cleveland), Church of God (Seventh Day), Church of God in Christ, Church of God of Prophecy, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church of Scotland, Church of the Brethren, Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America, Church of the Nazarene, Church of the New Jerusalem, Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Church Universal and Triumphant, Churches of Christ, Churches of God General Conference, Congregational Christian Churches, and Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 10-00

11. Mountains of the World (Wenzel)
    Provides pictures and information on mountains that allow exploration by walking, including Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mount Ararat (Turkey), Mont Blanc (France), Ras Dashen (Ethiopia), Mount Kinabalu (Sabah), Mount Cameroon (Cameroon), Mount Fuji (Japan), Pico de Teide (Canary Islands, Spain), Mount Etna (Italy), Qornat es-Sawda (Lebanon), Musala (Bulgaria), Jabal Katrina (Egypt), Huayna Picchu (Peru), Pico (Azores, Portugal), Hekla (Iceland), Ben Nevis (Scotland), Snowdon (Wales), Scafell Pike (England), Bénara (Mayotte), and Christoffelberg (Curaçao). 7-01

12. Fossil of Earliest Land Walker Found (CNN)
    "A fossil found in 1971 has been newly identified as the earliest known animal built to walk on land, a salamanderlike creature that marked a previously unknown stage in the evolution of fish into the ancestors of all vertebrates alive today." "The toothy animal, Pederpes finneyae, lived between 348 million and 344 million years ago in what is now Scotland." 7-02

13. 09-05-04 World's First Offshore Electric Project Starts (MSNBC News)
    "The world’s first offshore project to generate power from waves, built in the Orkney Islands off northern Scotland, has started production and supplied electricity to the grid, the project’s developers have announced."
    
    "The prototype Pelamis machine, which uses wave motion to turn an electricity producing generator, can supply enough power to run 500 homes. A long cylinder, the machine sits on the water semi-submerged."
    
    "The initial operating costs are half those of wind power when it launched 20 years ago and are a quarter of those of solar photovoltaic technology, Carcas said."
    
    "The British government is keen to encourage wave power and recently announced $90 million in support for the wave and tidal power sector." 9-04

14. -10-25-04 Explosives Missing (Fox News)
    "The Iraqi interim government believes that more than 380 tons of dangerous explosives are missing from a military installation south of Baghdad, FOX News confirmed Monday."
    
    "HMX and RDX are key ingredients in plastic explosives such as C-4 (search) and Semtex (search) — substances so powerful that Libyan terrorists needed just 1 pound to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 (search) over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 170 people."
    
    "The Iraqis told the nuclear agency the materials had been stolen and looted because of a lack of security at governmental installations, IAEA spokesman Melissa Fleming said." 10-04

15. Hadrian's Wall (Wikipedia.org)
    "Hadrian's Wall was a stone and turf fortification, built by the Romans across the width of Great Britain to prevent military raids by the Pictish tribes of Scotland to the north. The name is also sometimes used as a euphemism for the border between Scotland and England, despite it not following the modern border." 2-05

16. Africa's Future: Four Essentials (WorldPress.org)
    "As the Group of 8 nations prepare for the annual July 2005 Summit in Scotland, the dire development needs of Africa will again come into sharp focus. A recent report on development issues worldwide by the United Nations concludes that Africa is neither on course to meet goals of halving poverty rates by 2015 nor moving significantly to improve access to portable water and basic sanitation."
    
    "However, to provide assistance to more than 300 million Africans who live on extreme poverty, surviving on less than one dollar a day, Group of 8 nations at the July 2005 Summit have an urgent obligation to provide immediate, 100 percent debt relief for the poorest nations in Africa. Poor African nations should not have to choose between debt servicing and saving the lives of its citizens." 7-05

17. -07-02-05 Huge Protest for the Poor (CBS News)
    "Tens of thousands of protesters clad in white streamed through the cobbled streets of Scotland's medieval capital Saturday, demanding that the leaders of the world's richest nations act to better the lives of the poorest." 7-05

18. -03-22-06 Credit Card Bill "Outs" Tom DeLay's Trip (ABC News)
    "The paper trail seems so obvious it makes you wonder whether anyone ever worried about getting caught. When Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and his wife flew from Houston to a golf resort in Scotland in June 2000, the first-class airfare cost $14,001, a big-ticket item for a public servant. But someone else paid."
    
    " 'The source of the travel expenses may not be … a registered lobbyist,' according to the House rules. Abramoff was a registered lobbyist at the time." 03-06

19. -06-29-06 New Test for Colon Cancer (ABC News)
    "Lynch syndrome is the leading hereditary cause of colon cancer, accounting for 4 to 5 percent of cases. It's estimated that every one to two people out 1,000 have the syndrome, and it affects all races equally."
    
    "Thankfully, new research from Scotland has provided an easier method for identifying patients at risk." 06-06

20. -09-16-06 Oceans Provide Electrical Power (Christian Science Monitor)
    "Pacific swells off the Oregon coast can range from at least five feet high in the summer to 11-1/2 feet high in the winter. Over the length of the coastline, these swells could, in principle, provide 13,800 megawatts each year to a state that consumes 5,000 to 6,000 megawatts. Oregon already hosts several old coastal lumber mills that are powered by individual power substations, each of which has an outflow pipe to the sea. The existing mills would allow wave-power companies to ship 2,000 megawatts to Oregon communities without any additional infrastructure."
    
    "Nicol Stephen, a Scottish enterprise minister who visited the project in Portugal, is proposing Scotland utilize the same Pelamis technology and begin harnessing ocean power in the waters off Orkney by 2007. The payoff could be substantial. According to a report by Carbon Trust, a British organization that works with both business and public sectors to reduce carbon emissions, wave and tidal power could in the long run supply as much as 20 percent of the United Kingdom's current electricity needs." 09-06

21. Fawkes, Guy (Wikipedia.org)
    "Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was an English soldier and member of a group of Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605."
    
    "The Gunpowder Plot was a plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I (James VI of Scotland) and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England, by blowing up Westminster Palace during the formal opening session of the 1605 Parliament, in which the king addressed a joint assembly of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Guy Fawkes was in large part responsible for the later stages of the plan's execution. His activities were detected before the plan's completion, and following a severe interrogation involving the use of torture and a trial in Westminster Hall by Judge John Popham, he and his co-conspirators were executed for treason and attempted murder. Guy Fawkes' failure (or the attempt) is remembered by Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night) on 5 November." Visitors sometimes misspell as Fox or Faux. 01-07

22. -08-12-08 Small Ways You Can Reduce Waste in the Office (TimesOnline.com)
    "It's only a matter of time before wolves start roaming New York and we lose Scotland under glacial drifts of snow (well, that’s Hollywood’s take on global warming in the film The Day After Tomorrow). Back in the real world, employees are checking their companies’ green credentials and acting to make their workplace environmentally friendly." 08-08

23. -09-29-08 Lessons of Europe's Biggest Bailout (Time.com)
    "In the largest financial services deal ever signed, Fortis — part of a consortium alongside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Spain's Santander — put up $34 billion in return for ABN's Dutch banking business, among other assets." 09-08

24. Study: Controlling Blood Suger Levels (U.S. News)
    "In this study, subjects used exercise bikes to perform six sessions of intervals over two weeks. Each session consisted of between four and six 30-second sprints, plus a few minutes of rest in between. After two weeks of training, their body's ability to control blood sugar levels improved by 23 percent, says James Timmons, the study's coauthor and an exercise biologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland."
    
    "And, says Timmons, two of the major reasons we try to combat obesity are to prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes; so while interval training may not produce dramatic weight loss unless combined with dietary changes, it may produce those other physiological benefits." 06-09

25. United Kingdom (Britannia.com)
    Describes the UK, including Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. 11-01

26. Europe - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
    Provides information on dining, where to stay, and interesting things to see. Search by city, state, or country. Includes Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Wales. 3-02

27. Pictures of Famous Places (PicturesofPlaces.com)
    Provides pictures of many of the tourist spots. 5-02

28. Scots Gaelic Version of Google Search Engine (Google.com)
    Provides searches of the Web in Scots Gaelic. 7-02