The Archaeologica Scotica: transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland article from 1792 presents an explanation of the origin of the name Scotland. [NOTE: Adobe Acrobat file] The full title of the article is An Inquiry into the Origin of the Name of the Scottish Nation, presented to the Society of Antiquaries, at Edinburgh, December 1780.

According to Jim Horning (personal communication, January 20, 1998) and John Guttag (personal communication, March 28 1998): "The name was not selected at PARC (hence from the Sunset Western Garden Book), but at MIT. The project had been known informally there as 'Bicycle'." One day Mike Dertouzos [director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science] and John were talking on the phone.

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When importing data, Timetabler can store details of where the data originated. These Origin records are useful when differentiating between data in multiple import operations.

Airdrie is a town of 40,000 people located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and founded in 1150. It adjoins directly onto the neighbouring town of Coatbridge to the west, and lies approximately 17 miles to the east of Glasgow city centre and is the last major town in the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area on the eastern route towards Edinburgh.

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Midges are, unfortunately, found in most rural areas of Scotland and some urban ones. However their frequency depends on the type of conditions. They prefer warm, damp places without too much direct sunlight or wind - a riverbank or Highland bog is ideal for them.

The properties of NicoBloc were discovered in the 1980's in America. During the 1990's, thousands of smokers in the UK and Ireland took part in corporate 'stop smoking programs' using NicoBloc and achieved very significant results. Due to popular demand, NicoBloc and the core elements of the program were refined into a retail product and made available to the general public in Ireland and the UK during 2002.

Origin is a group of highly skilled dentists and businessmen intent on making it easier for you to launch, own and manage a successful dental practice.

The Census Bureau is in the process of planning data products for Census 2000. Most of our products will be released through the American FactFinder. We are in the process of identifying the content and presentation of these data. Generally, we plan to release some of the data products that were available in the 1990 census. The release of special reports will depend on internal and external funding.

Ayn Rand, born Alisa Rosenbaum, based her professional first name on a Finnish one [see above]. The source of her last name, however, has been a mystery. Although its origin is still uncertain, recent biographical research by Drs. Allan Gotthelf and Michael Berliner has eliminated one possible source. An oft-repeated story claims that Ayn Rand took her last name from her Remington Rand typewriter while she was living in Chicago in 1926. This is false and we would like to put the error to rest.

The Dictionary of American Names, page 232, states that a Whipple was originally "one who came from Whimple (white stream) in Devonshire [England]." According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, Whimple is from the Welsh "gwyn" (white) and "pwll" or "poll" (pool, stream). Variant forms of the name include Winple, Wimpoll, and Wympol. The oldest record of the name is in the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086), where it is spelled "Winple.

The earliest origins can be traced to Socrates who declared, “you can know a man by his mark” more than 2,000 years ago. One of the first documented books on graphology date back to Spain in 1552. Writings on Graphology were also published in 1622 by an Italian doctor of medicine and philosophy. The European masters of this science did most of their work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Acadia probably stems from a name given to the area by the explorer, Giovanni Verrazano, when he sailed by in 1524. The shoreline reminded him of a part of Greece named Arcadia.

Early in 1990, the Congressional Black Caucus, a bi-partisan coalition of academicians, social scientists and political activists met with EPA officials to discuss their findings that EPA was unfairly applying its enforcement inspections and that environmental risk was higher in racial minority and low-income populations.

Scotland is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Time Zone, 6 hours ahead of Central Time Zone, 7 hours ahead of Mountain Time Zone, and 8 hours ahead of Pacific Time Zone. Clocks go forward 1 hour at 0100hrs on 26 March and go back 1 hour at 0100hrs on 29 October.

Varied' describes Scotland's climate perfectly. There are wide variations in climate over small distances, and a sunny day will often as not be followed by a rainy one. Although the country nudges the Arctic Circle, the Gulf Stream winds keep the temperature mild (well, relatively mild). The Highlands, however, can have extreme weather at any time.