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    WordUniversity of Aberdeen writers festival was a book festival that took place from 1999 until 2011, initially every two years and latterly every year...
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    Port Book Festival Wigtown Wigtown Book Festival WordUniversity of Aberdeen writers festival Edinburgh Comedy Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe The...
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    event), Triptych, the University of Aberdeen's annual May Fest (formerly the Word festival) and DanceLive, Scotland's only festival of contemporary dance...
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    The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland...
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    August 2016, using the name Booked!, the Book Festival held events in three other locations in Scotland (Aberdeen, Greenock and Galashiels). This expansion...
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  • Aberdeen University Press (AUP) is the publishing arm of the University of Aberdeen. Launched in October 2013, AUP is built on the legacy of the defunct...
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    Scotland's festival of New Music Triptych — popular music and spoken word (discontinued) Word — the University of Aberdeen Writers Festival (discontinued)...
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    Free University of Berlin. p. 12. Ahmeti, Sharon (2017). Albanian Muslims in Secular, Multicultural Australia (Ph.D.). University of Aberdeen. p. 197...
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    King's Pavilion (category University of Aberdeen)
    building in Old Aberdeen owned by the University of Aberdeen. It is home to the yearly WayWORD festival ran by the university's Word Centre. Events are...
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  • Doric dialect (Scotland) (category Culture in Aberdeen)
    choice by the voice actor, Kevin McKidd, a native of Elgin. In autumn 2020, the University of Aberdeen launched a term-long Doric course, offering it to...
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  • Alan Spence (category Devotees of Sri Chinmoy)
    Scottish writer and is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also artistic director of the annual WORD Festival. He was...
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    Aberdeen: From 25th to 28th September, 1906. Aberdeen, United Kingdom: Aberdeen University Press (University of Aberdeen). ASIN B001PK7B5G. ISBN 9781363625079...
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  • Raman Mundair (category Alumni of SOAS University of London)
    one of two British writers to participate in the Word Express, Literature Across Frontiers project. Word Express took 20 young writers from 12 European...
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    Hogmanay (category Festivals in Scotland)
    Scots: [ˌhɔɡməˈneː]) is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner...
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  • The Aberdeen doctors or doctors of Aberdeen were six divines working at Marischal College and King's College in Aberdeen, Scotland in the seventeenth century...
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    Sheena Blackhall (category Writers from Aberdeen)
    Institute of Irish and Scottish studies at King's College, and two years later was Writer in Residence during Aberdeen University's Word Festival. In April...
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    Isabel Hilton (category People from Aberdeen)
    Accountability 21, member of the advisory board of the Oxford Research Group member of the GE stakeholder panel, founding trustee of Free Word advisory board member...
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    Science Teaching Hub (category University of Aberdeen)
    The Science Teaching Hub is a building at the University of Aberdeen. Plans for the building were revealed on 1 September 2017. Pending approval, teaching...
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    Series, no. 15. Oxford, United Kingdom: Published for the University of Aberdeen by Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197141076. OCLC 8195814. Look up Shetland...
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  • 2024 in Scotland (category Years of the 21st century in Scotland)
    Traditional Scottish singer Iona Fyfe is named as the new Rector of the University of Aberdeen, succeeding Martina Chukwuma–Ezike, and will take up the post...
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    Arts festivals were held throughout the summer as part of the Festival of Britain: Aberdeen Festival 30 July – 13 August Aldeburgh Festival of Music...
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    Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen: From 25th to 28th September, 1906. Aberdeen, United Kingdom: Aberdeen University Press (University...
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    Angus Konstam (category Alumni of the University of Aberdeen)
    Angus Konstam (born 2 January 1960) is a Scottish writer of popular history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised on the Orkney Islands, he has written...
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    Matawan Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce. "Matawan Day Street Festival" (PDF). Matawan Borough. "MATAWAN DAY STREET FESTIVAL". VisitNJ. "Borough of Matawan...
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  • Style Manual. Oxford University Press. pp. 704, 768.. Material previously published separately as The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Burchfield...
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    Royal National Mòd (category Cultural festivals in the United Kingdom)
    Celtic festival focusing upon Scottish Gaelic literature, traditional music, and culture which is held annually in Scotland. It is the largest of several...
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    of the University of Aberdeen and the only member of the royal family to hold the post since it was created in 1860. In 2015, Camilla's presidency of...
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    Scots language (category Languages of Ireland)
    those of the University of Aberdeen, and only included reared speakers (people raised speaking Scots), not those who had learned the language. Part of the...
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  • Muriel Spark (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
    causa) from the American University of Paris in 2005; and Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London, Oxford...
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    on their 2006 list of the "100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time". Kurt Donald Cobain was born at Grays Harbor Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington, on February...
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