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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1864Original Publisher: Edmonston and DouglasSubjects: Religion / Institutions ... Read more

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This volume deals with the entanglement of Scotland in the Thirty Years' War, discussing both the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict that led to Scottish involvement in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. To the Scots, the war was linked to the fate of the Scottish princess, Elizabeth of Bohemia, rather then the politics of central Europe per se. In three sections, the 12 authors have illuminated the political processes that led to the participation of as many as 50,000 Scottish troops in the war. The official alliances of the Stuart regime, the independent diplomacy of the Scottish Parliament and the actions of numerous well-placed individuals at various European courts are all shown to have a bearing on this important episode in European history. ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

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Chapters: First Minister of Scotland, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Royal Burgh, Secretary of State for Scotland, List of Provosts and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen, Reserved and Excepted Matters, Great Officer of State, List of Lord Provosts of Edinburgh, Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, Scottish Assembly, Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland, British-irish Council, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Great Seal of Scotland, List of Lord Provosts of Dundee, Napier Commission, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland Act 1998, Gender Equality Duty in Scotland, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, Scotland Act 1978, Freedom of Information Act 2002, Legislative Consent Motion, Scotland Office, Chief Veterinary Officer, Scottish Office, Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Privy Seal, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, Advocate General for Scotland, Tartan Tax, Burgh of Barony, Nhs National Services Scotland, Burgh of Regality, Vice Admiral of the Coast of Great Britain ... Read more

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Chapters: First Minister of Scotland, Government of the 1st Scottish Parliament, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Lord Advocate, Nhs Scotland, Government of the 3rd Scottish Parliament, Government of the 2nd Scottish Parliament, Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland, National Conversation, Homecoming Scotland 2009, Traffic Scotland, Emergency Medical Retrieval Service, List of Scottish Governments, Scottish Public Bodies, Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, Council of Economic Advisers, Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Directorates of the Scottish Government, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, History of Nhs Scotland, Local Income Tax, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Scottish Broadcasting Commission, Executive Agencies of the Scottish Government, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Fiscal Autonomy for Scotland, Talking Scotland, Scottish Futures Trust, Scottish Consolidated Fund, Adult Entertainment Working Group, Office of the First Minister, Projectscotland, Scottish Government Resilience Room, Choosing Scotland's Future, Attorney General of the United Kingdom, Talentscotland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 144. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is part of the series:Politics and government ofScotland The First Minister of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: ; Scots: ) is the political leader of Scotland and head of the Scottish Government. The First Minister chairs the Scottish Cabinet and is primarily responsible for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish government policy. Additional functions of the First Minister include promoting and representing Scotland, in an official capacity, at home and abroad and responsibility for constitutional affairs, as they relate to devolution and the Scottish Government. T...http://booksllc.net/?id=269604 ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Flag of Scotland, also known as the Saint Andrew's Cross or more commonly The Saltire, is the national flag of Scotland. As the national flag, the Saltire differs from the Royal Standard of Scotland in that it is the Saltire which is the correct flag for all individuals and corporate bodies to fly in order to demonstrate both their loyalty and Scottish nationality. It is also, where possible, flown from Scottish Government buildings every day from 8am until sunset, with certain exceptions. According to legend, the Christian apostle and martyr Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras, (Patrae), in Achaea. Use of the familiar iconography of his martyrdom, showing the apostle bound to an X-shaped cross, first appears in the Kingdom of Scotland in 1180, during the reign of William I. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more