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15 unusual facts about Stirling


Alexander Dunlop

Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop (1798–1870), Scottish church lawyer and politician

Brian Binnie

The family returned to Scotland when Binnie was five, and lived in Aberdeen (his father taught at Aberdeen University) and later in Stirling.

Broomridge

Broomridge is a district in the south of the city of Stirling, Scotland, located north of Bannockburn and east of St. Ninians.

Clément-Stirling

Adolphe Clément was a director of Panhard-Levassor, and when the factory could not meet the production requirements for circa 500 units of the 1898 'voiture légère' ('dog cart') model, he undertook manufacture under licence at his factory in Levallois-Perret.

Highland Boundary Fault

From Loch Lomond the Highland Boundary Fault continues to Aberfoyle, then Callander, Comrie and Crieff.

Kincardine Line

Under Scottish Executive funding, and to relieve congestion on the Forth Bridge, the line between Stirling and Alloa was reopened to passenger traffic, and the line to Kincardine was rebuilt for coal traffic to Longannet.

Maximum term method

which scale as n^{1/2}n^n/e^n (Stirling's approximation).

Perfect Square

The documentary demonstrates the effect the concerts had on Stirling and its residents.

Stirling High School, East London

The Stirlng Castle was named after the real Stirling Castle that is to be found in Stirling in Scotland, which many Stirling staff members and past pupils have visited over the years.

Stirling-Rawdon

The NHL announced on June 17, 2013 that Stirling will host a pre-season game between the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets at Yardmen Arena on September 14, 2013.

Stirling, Alberta

Stirling Settler Days (July), after Stirling's founding on May 5, 1899, the 24th of July, previously known as "Pioneer Day" & now called "Stirling Settler Days", was celebrated to mark the Mormon pioneers' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.

Stirling, Western Australia

The building of the Mitchell Freeway to Karrinyup Road in 1983-84 facilitated the growth of Stirling as a regional hub, and the bus/train interchange (on the Joondalup railway line) was completed in 1992.

Services through the suburb include the Transperth 414 bus route running along Cedric Street between Stirling and Glendalough, the 276/278 routes from Perth which services Hamilton Street in the suburb's southeast, and the CircleRoute along lower Cedric Street and Karrinyup Road.

The Child of the Cavern

Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland.

Trip distribution

Second, it is convenient to maximize the natural log (ln) rather than w(Tij), for then we may use Stirling's approximation.


A Fictional Guide to Scotland

This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

Alexander Handyside Ritchie

Figures of John Knox, Melville, Henderson, Renwick and Ebenezer Erskine for a monument in Valley Cemetery, Stirling to commemorate the Covenanters, Margaret and Agnes Wilson (1858)

Army Base Repair Organisation

Apart from the HQ at Andover, there were other major units at Bovington,Old Dalby, Leics, Catterick, Colchester, Donnington, Stirling and Warminster.

Blackwood River

It was discovered in 1827 by Captain James Stirling and named by Stirling after Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood, under whom he served as a Midshipman on HMS Warspite in 1808-1909 during the Napoleonic Wars, in the North Sea and the Mediterranean.

Cambusbarron

Evangelist and writer Henry Drummond (1851–1897), although born in Stirling, lived for much of his early life in Cambusbarron, and founded a Sunday school in the village.

Carl von Donop

Donop was the senior officer present in southern New Jersey in late 1776, and commanded the garrisons in Trenton, Burlington, and Bordentown, which consisted of several Hessian battalions, the Forty-second Highland Regiment (commanded by Colonel Stirling), and Jäger detachments.

Central Belt

The area is often considered as the triangle defined by the M8, M80 motorway and M9 motorways stretching from Greenock and Glasgow in the west to Edinburgh in the east, encompassing towns such as Paisley, Cambuslang, Hamilton, Stirling, Falkirk, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Bathgate.

Central Radio

Central 103.1 FM, UK based radio station serving Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire

Demography of Scotland

Around 70% of the country's population live in the Central Lowlands — region stretching in a northeast-southwest orientation between the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including major settlements such as Paisley, Stirling, Falkirk, Perth and Dundee.

Earl of Stirling

Province of New York: in 1664 the Duke of York, James II of England, purchased Long Island and other lands granted Stirling in 1635.

Ernie Hannigan

He then spent one season with Eastern Hong Kong before emigrating to Perth, Western Australia joining Stirling City.

Gamma function

Extensions of his formula that correct the error were given by Stirling himself and by Jacques Philippe Marie Binet.

Harvey River

It is presumed to have been named by Governor James Stirling after Rear Admiral Sir John Harvey, who in 1818 was Commander in Chief of the West Indies Station while Stirling had served in that region.

Henry Maxwell Lefroy

He had studied at Guildford Grammar School in Surrey, where he became acquainted with the Stirling family and first developed an interest in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

Hoste Island

As of 1894 the Stirling House, a prefab house built on behalf of the South American Mission Society, is reinstalled in Tekenika Bay, on the southeast coast of Hoste Island in order to avoid the abuses and crimes caused by the recent arrival of miners and diseases in Ushuaia.

Inchcolm

This was the period of the Scottish Wars of Independence were in full swing, and decisive battles were being fought in the Lothians and in the Stirling/Bannockburn region, and so the island was effectively in the route of any supply or raiding vessels.

Jan Stirling

Following the 2008 Olympics, Stirling stepped down as the Opals head coach, becoming a consultant to the Russian Basketball Federation.

Joseph Rykwert

Sir James Stirling commented on The First Moderns, for example, that it was: ‘An erudite lead into my favourite period (early nineteenth century) with amazing revelations on the architectural heroes of the time.’ Many of Rykwert’s former pupils have gone on to have significant careers in their own right, such as Daniel Libeskind, Shams Naga, Eric Parry, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Mohsen Mostafavi, Robert Tavernor, Vaughan Hart and David Leatherbarrow.

Khoo Thean Teik

Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics ... by Kingsley Bolton, Gustaaf Schlegel, Herbert Allen Giles, Christopher Hutton, J. S. M. Ward, Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne, W. P. Morgan, William Stanton, W. G. Stirling; 2000

Len Stirling

The Liberals lost the election to Brian Peckford's Progressive Conservative Party, although Stirling was personally elected in the Bonavista North division.

Leslie Wilson

Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930), chair of computing science at the University of Stirling

Marquess of Zetland

He represented Richmond and Stirling in the House of Commons and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland.

Martin Beckman

After his return to England he was sent to Scotland to design works for strengthening Stirling, and he also reported on the defences of fortifications across England: Carlisle Castle, The Castle, Newcastle, Tynemouth Castle, Scarborough Castle, Chester Castle, Yarmouth Castle, and Landguard Fort.

Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum

The Stirling House is a prefab structure, planned and made of cast iron by the Iron Works of Mr. Hemming & Co., Old Ford, in 1869 for ₤ 265,00.

Matthew Stirling

The museum, in the University of California, Berkeley, displays 165 Dyak and Papuan objects, including steel axes, basketry, arrows and wooden boxes, from Borneo, donated by Stirling.

Operation Albumen

Aiming to disrupt these operations, British generals in Cairo sent three groups from the Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and one from Stirling's Special Air Service (SAS) to Crete to sabotage the airfields of Heraklion, Kastelli Pediados, Tympaki and Maleme.

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar

Hosted by Alan Yentob, the film took a detailed look at the unique music education system of Venezuela, of which the orchestra is an integral part, and described a recent attempt to imitate its success in Raploch, a deprived district of the city of Stirling, Scotland.

Ramcke Parachute Brigade

After arriving in North Africa in July 1942, the brigade performed excellently, providing a counter to Stirling's Special Air Service, which had been wreaking havoc with the Axis command, control and logistical system.

Robert Baston

He is certain that he was taken on a similar errand by Edward II, when setting out on the expedition to relieve Stirling, that resulted in the Battle of Bannockburn.

Rosemary Stirling

Rosemary Olivia Stirling (née Wright) (born 11 December 1947 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand) is a former British sprinter and middle-distance runner.

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise has approximately 1,100 staff and operates from 13 offices - Aberdeen, Bellshill, Clydebank, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, Glenrothes, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Selkirk and Stirling.

Shikari

"Shikari in Galveston", a 2003 alternate history short story written by S.M. Stirling

Stephanie Sparks

Though Jones and Stirling were considered great golfers in their day, the big contrast between Sparks and the film's star, Jim Caviezel, who played Bobby Jones, was that Sparks was once a great player with much promise, though it was never completely fulfilled, and Caviezel had never picked up a golf club in his life.

Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood

In Stirling, he established the Religious Studies department and recruited John Drane and the late Glyn Richards to work alongside him in this enterprise.

Transport in Lethbridge

Highway 4 leads out to satellite communities (such as Stirling and Warner) and the Canada-United States border, where it meets Interstate 15, connecting eventually to Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and San Diego.

University of Stirling School of Natural Sciences

The University of Stirling School of Natural Sciences is one of eight schools of the University of Stirling, a university near the City of Stirling, Scotland.

Walter Stirling

Stirling declined, but his eldest son, also named Walter, later claimed the title, becoming Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet of Faskine.