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    wrecked on the Shaalds of Foula in 1914. Foula was the location for the film The Edge of the World (1937). The name "Foula" derives from the Old Norse...
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  • particularly striking. "Oot bewast da Horn o Papa, Rowin Foula doon! Owir a hidden piece o water, Rowin Foula doon! Roond da boat da tide-lumps makkin,...
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    Fula people (redirect from Foula people)
    Bertu, Wilson J.; Gusi, Amahyel M.; Ocholi, Reuben A.; Majekodunmi, Ayodele O.; Welburn, Susan C. (3 March 2017). "Wealth, household heterogeneity and livelihood...
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  • Ronaldsay Inverness Dundee Sumburgh Eday Edinburgh Fair Isle Islay Sanday Foula Papa Westray Glasgow Prestwick Kirkwall Stornoway Stronsay Tingwall Tiree...
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    Britain". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 12 March 2024. "The North End". (2012) Foula Heritage Ranger Service. p. 1 Mellor 2020, p. 206. "The Castle of Brough"...
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  • language was dying out in the late 18th century. The isolated islands of Foula and Unst are variously claimed as the last refuges of the language in Shetland...
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  • describe the language, probably in verses and songs, spoken in the islands of Foula and Unst as late as the 20th century. The Black Death struck Norway in 1349...
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  • in 1899 by Harland and Wolff for White Star. Requisitioned by the Royal Navy in WWI. Ran aground and wrecked off Foula, Shetland on 8 September 1914....
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  • IATA airport code: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z The DST column shows the months...
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  • the 1890s. In 1490, the Ciske family's estates were divided and Vaila and Foula became the property of Alv Knutsson. However, the Ciskes were Norwegian...
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  • the Mathematical Association of America Ian Holbourn, writer; Laird of Foula; instrumental in creating the art department Gao Hong, composer and performer...
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    nevertheless clearly one of the "northern isles" of Scotland. Fair Isle and Foula are outliers of Shetland, but would normally be considered part of Shetland...
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    Islands to: Rona, Scotland (uninhabited): 260 kilometres (160 mi) Shetland (Foula), Scotland: 285 kilometres (177 mi) Orkney (Westray), Scotland: 300 kilometres...
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    Aliou appears to have focused on lifting some of the teaching methods of Foula routine and to give his students some Arabic rudiments, Thierno Aliou Bhoubha...
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    deer have been recorded killing and eating young shearwaters on at least Foula, Skokholm, and Rùm; on the latter island, 4% of the chicks are killed by...
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    parades, masks, foods, and popular rasin music (such as Boukman Eksperyans, Foula Vodoule, Tokay, Boukan Ginen, and Eritaj) and kompa bands (such as T-Vice...
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  • Pottinger (guitar) Sylvia / Tulloch's farewell tae da Hagdale Rowin' Foula doon - Da song o' da Papamen Huckleberry hornpipe / Homesteader's rell / Donkey reel...
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    Cunningsburgh (Mainland) Delting (Mainland) Dunrossness (Mainland) Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Hillswick (Mainland) Laxavoe (Mainland) Lerwick (Mainland) Lund (Unst) Lunnasting...
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    United Kingdom, which lies 38 kilometres (24 mi) south-west of the Mainland. Foula in Shetland, which lies 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of the Mainland. General...
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    Foula; Arvra Skerry, Blobrick, Da Baas o Stremness, Da Buddle Stane, Da Gloor, Da Rippack Stack, Da Sheepie, Da Skerries o da Rokness, Da Skerry o Hellabrik...
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    British ocean liner RMS Oceanic ran aground on a reef off the island of Foula of the Shetland Islands due to a navigational error. All passengers and...
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    Airport, Colonsay Airport, Dundee Airport, Eday Airport, Fair Isle Airport, Foula Airport, Islay Airport, Tingwall Airport, North Ronaldsay Airport, Oban...
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    المصري المعارض محمد الجوادي (in Arabic) "تحميل كتب ومؤلفات محمد الجوادي". Foula Book. Retrieved 11 June 2023. "بوابة وزارة التربية والتعليم المصرية" [The...
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    Nonantola, Italy Weingarten, Germany Oñati Châteaubernard, France Gleibat El Foula, Western Sahara Guadalajara, Mexico José C. Paz, Argentina Zacatecas, Mexico...
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  • sorted by their name beginning with the letter F. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of islands (by country) List of islands by area...
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  • Iraklis Leontopoulos Martha Vourtsi ..... Aleka Palli Martha Karagianni ..... Foula Davari Kostas Voutsas ..... Patatas Joly Garbi ..... Andromachi Vangelis...
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    as the last native speaker of the Norn language. The remote islands of Foula and Unst are variously claimed as the last refuges of the language in Shetland...
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  • of his own lyric poems, Da Sang o da Papa Men, written from the perspective of the Papa Stour fishermen 'rowin Foula doon', has become a favourite Shetland...
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  • (Delting) Church 2020 Cunningsburgh Church 2020 Dunrossness Church 2020 Foula Church 2020 Gulberwick Church 1898 2020 Skerries Church 2020 Tingwall Church...
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  • Sandwick, on the Shetland mainland, her teenage years in the island of Foula. As a young woman she worked in Lerwick, before her marriage in 1949 to...
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