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		<title>Inviting all architects</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, being sensible of the great advantage which will accrue to this city and to the public in general from having a proper communication between the High Street and the fields on the north, have unanimously resolved to follow out the design of making one, and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Theatre in Edinburgh</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the reign of George III. there was not a single theatre in Scotland countenanced by the law of the land. One which was erected in Glasgow in 1752, and on which a military guard mounted nightly, was demolished about two years after, by a mob when returning from one of Whitefield&#8217;s sermons,but when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methodism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide.The movement traces its roots to John Wesley&#8217;s evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism.His younger brother Charles was instrumental in writing much of the hymnody of the Methodist Church.George Whitefield, another significant leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Whitefield</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Whitefield (December 16, 1714 (O.S.) – September 30, 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally.[1] He became perhaps the best-known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The celebrated Whitefield</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ground occupied by the future theatre and Shakespeare Square is shown as an open park or irregular parallelogram closely bordered by trees, measuring about 350 feet each way, and lying between the back of the old Orphan Hospital and the village of Multrie&#8217;s Hill, where now the Register House stands. It was in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ancient leper hospital at Dingwall&#8217;s Castle;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the year 1584, when the Earl of Arran was Provost of the city, on the 3oth September, the Council commissioned Michael Chisholm and others to inquire into the order and condition of an ancient leper hospital which stood beside Dingwall&#8217;s Castle; but of the former no distinct trace is given in Gordon&#8217;s view. source-Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleanse the Causeway</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The skirmish known as Cleanse the Causeway, or Clear the Causeway, took place in the High Street of Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 30, 1520, between rivals James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran, chief of Clan Hamilton, and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, chief of Clan Douglas. for more click here]]></description>
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		<title>Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (c.1489 – 22 January 1557) was a Scottish nobleman active during the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the son of George, Master of Angus, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden, and succeeded as Earl of Angus on the death of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran and 2nd Lord Hamilton (ca. 1475–1529) was a Scottish nobleman and first cousin of James IV of Scotland. for more click here]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander II of Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander II (Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim) (24 August 1198 &#8211; 6 July 1249) was King of Scots from 1214 to his death. for more click here]]></description>
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