No One Provokes Me With Impunity

"No one provokes me with impunity"
1. The official animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

2. Scotland has approximately 790 islands, 130 of which are inhabited.
3. The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae (pictured below), on the island of Orkney, is the oldest
building in Britain, dating from 3100 BC.
4. Scotland has more than 600 square miles of freshwater lakes, including the famous Loch
Ness.
5. The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh, is only its second largest city, after Glasgow.
6. Edinburgh was the first city in the world which had its own fire brigade.
7. Like Rome, Edinburgh (pictured below) was built on seven hills and the capital has more
listed buildings than anywhere in the world.
8. Scotland had its own monarch until 1603. After Elizabeth I died, James VI of Scotland also
became James I of England, ruling both countries.
9. St Andrews Links is considered the "home of golf"; the sport has been played there since the
15th century.
10.Scotland is currently the second largest country in the UK, after England.
11. The highest point in Scotland is Ben Nevis, (pictured below) at 4,406ft (1343m)
12.The motto of Scotland is Nemo me impune lacessit, or: "No one provokes me with
impunity". It is used by the Order of the Thistle and on later versions of the Royal coat of arms.
13. The country is a favourite with the Royal family, who holiday at Balmoral castle in Royal
Deeside.
14. In the north east of the country, girls are called quines and boys louns.
15. The very first recorded appearance of the elusive Loch Ness Monster occurred in 565 AD,
when a " water beast " attacked one of St. Columba's followers in the loch. '''
16. Scottish city Aberdeen is known as Europes oil capital, or the Granite City.
17. The raincoat was invented in1824 in Scotland by Charles Macintosh, a chemist born in
Glasgow. In Great Britain, the garment is still called a Mac.
18. The official religion of Scotland is Christianity, with churches traditionally being called kirks.
19. Scotland gained independence in 1314, after Robert the Bruce (pictured below) defeated the
English army at the Battle of Bannockburn.
20. The Kingdom of Scotland remained as an independent state until 1 May 1707, when the Acts
of Union joined it with England, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
21. Since July 1, 1999, Scotland has its own parliament, for the first time since 1707.
22. The country still has its own legal system, separate from England, Wales, and Northern
Ireland. Juries can return verdict of guilty, not guilty and not proven.
23. Famous Scottish inventions include the television, developed by John Logie Baird in 1925,
the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (pictured below) in 1876 and penicillin, by Alexander
Fleming in 1928.
24. Scotland has three officially recognised languages: English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic,
with just one per cent of the population using the last.
25. The two first Prime Ministers of Canada, John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) and Alexander
Mackenzie (1822-1892), were Scottish.
26. One of Scotlands most famous products, whisky, was actually invented in China. It was first
distilled by monks in Ireland in the early 15th century, before reaching Scotland 100 years later.
27. The most infamous Scottish dish is haggis,(pictured below) normally made with the heart,
liver, and lungs of a sheep, traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach. It is not known where it
originated, but a similar dish was mentioned in Greece 2,500 years ago.
28. Scotland has spawned some of the greatest thinkers of the modern age, including Adam
Smith, James Watt, David Hume and John Stuart Mill.
29. Many of Scotlands most famous inventions kilts, tartans and bagpipes - were actually
developed elsewhere. Kilts originated in Ireland, tartans have been found in Bronze Age central
Europe and bagpipes are thought to have come from ancient central Asia.
30. Famous names from Scottish literature include: Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle and Robert Burns.
31. The flag of Scotland is known as the saltire (pictured below) or St. Andrews Cross.
32. The flower of Scotland is the thistle.
33. Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world. Around 13 per cent of the
population has red hair, with 40 per cent carrying the recessive gene.
34. The first official international football match was
played at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Partick in
1872, between Scotland and England

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