• family of the United States began with George Franklin Getty and his son Jean Paul Getty as their patriarchs. In the 20th century, they were heavily involved...
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    Michel Wieviorka, Aube ed., 2005. Faut-il réviser la loi de 1905 ?, with Jean-Paul Scot, Christian Delacampagne, Henri Pena-Ruiz and René Rémond, Paris, PUF...
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  • desertion. During her married years, Jean lived for a time at Dunoon Castle, where her half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, visited her in 1563, and granted...
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    Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus; 1175 – c. 1232) was a Scottish mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages. He was educated at Oxford and Paris,...
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    that the pontiff was "furious". John Paul II visited Haiti on 9 March 1983, when the country was ruled by Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He bluntly...
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    Paul also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD) who spread the teachings...
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    Robert Burns (category Scots Makars)
    known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience...
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    mother, Minna Williams, née Lockhart, a third-generation Dominican Creole of Scots ancestry.[citation needed] ("Creole" was broadly used in those times to...
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  • Jean-Paul Samputu (born 15 March 1962) is a Rwandan singer, songwriter, and musician. A winner of the Kora Award in 2003, Samputu travels the world as...
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    Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) married Francis, Dauphin of France (1544–1560), at Notre-Dame de Paris on 24 April 1558. The festivities included pageants...
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    son Jean Paul (then aged 21) money to invest in oil wells. By 1915, Jean Paul had made his first million and the following year George and Jean Paul incorporated...
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    Jean Iris Ross Cockburn (/ˈkoʊbərn/; 7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. During the Spanish Civil...
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    Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943), also known as BJK, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles:...
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    Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly...
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  • The Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards or Young Scot Awards is an annual award ceremony hosted by Young Scot and Sunday Mail to honour young people in Scotland...
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    Mary Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553, by Kathryn Lasky The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Carolyn Meyer...
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  • originally a British publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas...
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    Karen Gillan (category Anglo-Scots)
    same character. In 2010, she won in the Entertainment category at the Young Scot Awards. She appeared in the sixth series in 2011 and the first five episodes...
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    Jean or Janet Sinclair was the Scottish nurse of Mary, Queen of Scots. In a letter to Mary of Guise written in 1553, Sinclair mentions her long service...
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    ('Native Son') on the controversial story: 'Nobody in this film gets away scot-free' [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]". Gold Derby. Archived from the original...
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    were Margaret Hume, Margery Livingston, Jean Elphinston, Jean Murray, Annabell Murray, Margaret Steward, Anne Scot, Margery Kirkcaldy, Coullombe, Barbara...
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  • Young Scot (Gaelic: Òigridh na h-Alba) is a national youth information and citizenship charity for 11 to 25 year olds living in Scotland. Young Scot is the...
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    Queen of Scots, was described in several contemporary documents, and many records of her costume have been published. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)...
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    The jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), are mainly known through the evidence of inventories held by the National Records of Scotland. She was...
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  • earliest period of post-Spanish European colonisation. An early influx of Scots came in 1656 when Oliver Cromwell deported 1200 prisoners of war. There...
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    being overtaken close to the end by Lotus's Romain Grosjean, depriving the Scot of a maiden podium. He followed that up with a seventh in Spain. A disappointing...
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  • Crimson: Lizard (1970), on the track "Prince Rupert Awakes" With Colin Scot: Colin Scot (1971) Credited as "John Anderson (Dr Yes)" next to Rick "Broken Toes"...
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  • Aerts Paul Anderson (weightlifter) Ted Arcidi Taylor Atwood Nick Best Big E (wrestler) Fernando Báez (weightlifter) Dean Bowring Bonica Brown Jean-Pierre...
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  • Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. 75–6. Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots (Panther, 1970), p. 29. Scott, A.G. (1833). A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents...
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    more financial and military assistance from France brought by Paul de Thermes, the Scots were able to maintain resistance. André de Montalembert, sieur...
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