Knap of Howar (2179 bytes)
1: At '''Knap of Howar''' on the [[Orkney]] island of [[Papa Westray]] a [[Neolithic]] farmstead has be...
3: ...one splits into thin slabs, giving a ready source of construction material.
5: ... enter the buildings and readily imagine the life of the original occupants.
9: Finds of finely made and decorated [[Unstan ware]] pottery...

Eilean Domhnuill (639 bytes)
1: ...footed structures bear a resemblance to [[Knap of Howar]].

Unstan ware (1042 bytes)
1: ...ypical are elegant, round based bowls with a band of grooved patterning below the rim.
3: ...rial chamber in a circular mound, where the style of pottery was first found.
5: ... has been found at many sites including [[Knap of Howar]], [[Balbrindie]] and [[Eilean Domhnuill]]

Papa Westray (1351 bytes)
3: ...kney Islands]] in [[Scotland]], with a population of around sixty people.
5: ...hapel]] was consecrated to her and became a place of [[pilgrimage]] for people with eye complaints.
7: ...] with an associated [[museum]] and the [[Knap of Howar]] [[Neolithic]] [[farm]] which claims to be the o...

Winchcombe (514 bytes)
1: ...e town include [[Sudeley Castle]] and the remains of [[Hailes Abbey]].
3: ...], the town was the [[county town]] of the county of [[Winchcombeshire]].

Panzee and Panbanisha (2048 bytes)
7: ...nthropologist, is to study the language faculties of non-human [[primate]]s and to find out to what de...
11: ...nly digitised and spoken speech, but also the use of solely lexigrams from the keyboard. [[Kanzi]] (P...
13: ...th Kanzi receiving instruction from a human stone knapper.

Neolithic (7419 bytes)
3: ...round:#efefef;" | <small>This time period is part of the<br>[[Holocene]] epoch.</small>
15: ...l term, but refers instead to the earliest phases of sedentary communities and farming in any given re...
17: ...nts and the use of [[pottery]]. Again, the uptake of these skills was not uniform and varied from regi...
20: ...lthough here the term 'Formative' is used instead of 'Neolithic'.
23: ...entities later developed into the '[[chiefdoms]]' of the European [[Early Bronze Age]].

Stage combat (2924 bytes)
1: ... fixed point of view, and by the actor's "faking" of appropriate strikes and responses. Stage combat c...
3: ...king very lightly, again counting on the response of the blow's recipient to "sell" that they have bee...
5: ...e sure their timing is the same. The combat phase of a play rehearsal is referred to as a ''fight call...
7: ... stage combat. A show which includes a great deal of fighting will most likely have a fight choreograp...
9: ...ight Directors (SAFD) which provides training and offers the only widely recognized certification for ...

Frank Hamilton Cushing (5584 bytes)
3: ...ention of [[John Wesley Powell]], of the [[Bureau of American Ethnology]].
6: ...ntion. During this tour he married Emily Tennison of Washington, D.C in 1882, He returned to Zuni but ...
9: ...]] with whoom he began to write about the history of [[game]]s. He [[asphyxia|choked to death]] on a f...
11: ==Significance of work==
12: ...an outside observor. Frank Cushing, 1st War Chief of Zuni, U.S. Ass't Ethnologist.

Prehistoric Scotland (12679 bytes)
1: ...and to understand the background to the [[history of Scotland]].
3: ...ther than timber, has given [[Scotland]] a wealth of accessible sites where the ancient past can be se...
5: ==The deep prehistory of Scotland==
6: ...ra]], [[Mull]], [[Rum, Scotland|Rum]], and [[Isle of Arran|Arran]].
8: ...ch fields of fertile glacial till and eroded the softer material surrounding the extinct volcanoes (pa...

History of Scotland (54272 bytes)
1: ...es atop a volcanic crag defending the lowest ford of the [[River Forth]]. The fortification underwent...
3: ...rgent [[financial services]] sector, the proceeds of [[North Sea oil]] and gas, and latterly a [[Scott...
10: ...this. Glaciers then scoured their way across most of Britain, and only after the ice retreated did Sco...
12: ...er sites found around Scotland build up a picture of highly mobile boat-using people making tools from...
14: ...orians now interpret as showing sophisticated use of astronomical observations.

Scots language (28307 bytes)
1: ...nglish. Many Lowland Scots words have become part of English: ''flit'', 'to move home', ''greed'', ''e...
7: |[[Scotland]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[Republic of Ireland]]
10: ...im]], [[County Down]], [[County Derry]], Republic of Ireland: [[County Donegal]]
28: ...bufe al and yi nychtbour as yi self'': an example of older Scots on [[John Knox House]], [[Edinburgh]]...
30: ...hen England joined Scotland to form the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], there is ample evidence that Sco...

Scottish clan (32495 bytes)
1: ...[Image:Scottish clan map.png|thumb|300px|Clan map of Scotland]]
2: ...ar [[kilt]]s of the appropriate tartan as a badge of membership and as a uniform where appropriate.
4: ...castle]], and clan gatherings form a regular part of the social scene.
6: ==Origins of the clans==
7: ...' &#8211; related families or outside groups, all of whom looked to the clan chief as their head &#821...

List of tongue-twisters (42529 bytes)
1: == List of [[tongue-twister]]s in English ==
8: : Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. "But," she said, "this butter's bitter!
10: : So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter,
12: : So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
33: ...ost common mistake here involves a [[spoonerism]] of ''pheasant plucker'' and derivative phrases.

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