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Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 388 relations: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, A939 road, Aberdeenshire, Absolution (1978 film), Acts of Union 1707, Affair, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Alexander Stephen and Sons, ALS, Amnesty International, An Audience with..., An Everlasting Piece, Anderston, Androcles, Angie Dickinson, Anglophile, Anita Roddick, Anti-English sentiment, Arctic Circle, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Atheism, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Audio engineer, Autism, Autoharp, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Fellowship, BAFTA Scotland, Ballater, Bangalore, Banjo, BBC, BBC News, BBC Radio, BBC Scotland (TV channel), Beautiful Joe (film), Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Benefit concert, Beverly Hills Ninja, Biafra, Billy (1992 TV series), Billy Bones, Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand, Billy Connolly's Route 66, Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia, Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales, Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World, Blue Money (1985 film), Bob Dylan, Boilermaker, ... Expand index (338 more) »

  2. 20th-century Scottish comedians
  3. 21st-century Scottish autobiographers
  4. 21st-century Scottish comedians
  5. 21st-century Scottish memoirists
  6. British autoharp players
  7. British boilermakers
  8. British harmonica players
  9. Musicians with disabilities
  10. People associated with Nottingham Trent University
  11. People from Anderston
  12. People from Strathdon
  13. Scottish atheists
  14. Scottish banjoists
  15. Scottish comics writers
  16. Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States
  17. Scottish people of Indian descent
  18. Scottish people with disabilities
  19. Scottish stand-up comedians
  20. The Humblebums members

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by American musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963).

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A939 road

The A939 'Lecht Road' connects the A96 at Nairn on the Moray Coast with the A95 Grantown on Spey, then it continues to the A93 at Ballater by way of the Grampian Mountains, passing Tomintoul and the Lecht Ski Centre.

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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Absolution (1978 film)

Absolution is a 1978 British thriller film directed by Anthony Page and written by playwright Anthony Shaffer.

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Acts of Union 1707

The Acts of Union refer to two Acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.

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Affair

An affair is a union of more than two people in one romantic and sexual relationship,, passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has betrayed their partner (regardless of formal or informal relationship status) with a third person or more people (regardless if the partner and the third person(s) were aware, not aware, and/or disagreed to having an affair).

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Airdrie, North Lanarkshire

Airdrie (Airdrie; An t-Àrd Ruigh) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Alexander Stephen and Sons

Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Glasgow, on the River Clyde and, initially, on the east coast of Scotland.

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ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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An Audience with...

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television (now part of ITV Studios), in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a lighthearted revue/tribute style.

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An Everlasting Piece

An Everlasting Piece is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Barry Levinson, written by and starring Barry McEvoy.

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Anderston

Anderston (Anderstoun, Baile Aindrea) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Androcles

Androcles (Ἀνδροκλῆς, alternatively spelled Androclus in Latin) is the main character of a common folk tale about a man befriending a lion.

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Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson (born Angeline Brown; September 30, 1931) is a retired American actress.

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Anglophile

An Anglophile is a person who admires or loves England, its people, its culture, its language, and/or its various accents.

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Anita Roddick

Dame Anita Lucia Roddick (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, now The Body Shop International Limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism.

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Anti-English sentiment

Anti-English sentiment, also known as Anglophobia (from Latin Anglus "English" and Greek φόβος, phobos, "fear"), refers to opposition, dislike, fear, hatred, oppression, persecution, and discrimination of English people and/or England.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Autoharp

An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

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BAFTA Fellowship

The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image".

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BAFTA Scotland

BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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Ballater

Ballater (Bealadair) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, immediately east of the Cairngorm Mountains.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).

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BBC Scotland (TV channel)

BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel) is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC Scotland division of the BBC.

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Beautiful Joe (film)

Beautiful Joe is a 2000 American-British film written and directed by Stephen Metcalfe.

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Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

"Being for the Benefit of Mr.

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Benefit concert

A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.

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Beverly Hills Ninja

Beverly Hills Ninja is a 1997 American martial arts comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Mark Feldberg and Mitch Klebanoff.

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Biafra

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970.

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Billy (1992 TV series)

Billy is an American sitcom and a spin-off of Head of the Class that aired on ABC for half a season from January 31 to May 30, 1992.

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Billy Bones

Billy Bones is a fictional character appearing in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.

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Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand

Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand is the soundtrack to the television series Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand, released in 2004.

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Billy Connolly's Route 66

Billy Connolly's Route 66 is a British travel documentary television series presented by Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly.

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Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia

Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia is the second in a line of 'world tours' that follow comedian Billy Connolly on his various travels across the globe.

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Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales

Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales is the third of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly's "world tours" commissioned by the BBC.

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Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World

Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World is a four-part travel documentary series produced by ITV Studios, presented by Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly.

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Blue Money (1985 film)

Blue Money is a 1985 English television comedy film written by Stewart Parker, directed by Colin Bucksey and starring Tim Curry, Debby Bishop and Billy Connolly.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Boilermaker

A boilermaker is a tradesperson who fabricates steels, iron, or copper into boilers and other large containers intended to hold hot gas or liquid, as well as maintains and repairs boilers and boiler systems.

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Bonnie George Campbell

Bonnie James Campbell or Bonnie George Campbell is Child ballad 210 (Roud 338).

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Brandy

Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine.

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Brave (2012 film)

Brave is a 2012 American animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Brexit

Brexit (portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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British Academy Television Awards

The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Brownies (Scouting)

Brownies are the section in the Girl Guides (or in the United States, Girl Scouts) organisation for girls aged eight years old to twelve years old.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Bulldozer

A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.

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Bullshot (film)

Bullshot is a 1983 British comedy film, based on the stage play Bullshot Crummond.

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Calgary Sun

The Calgary Sun is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.

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Can I Have My Money Back?

Can I Have My Money Back? is the first solo album by Gerry Rafferty.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Channel 5 (British TV channel)

Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK and Australia division.

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Character actor

A character actor is an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles, rather than leading ones.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Chortle

Chortle is a British comedy website launched in 2000 by Steve Bennett.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.

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City Lights (1984 TV series)

City Lights is a Scottish television sitcom made by BBC Scotland and set in Glasgow.

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Clan Maclean

Clan Maclean (Scottish Gaelic: Clann 'IllEathain) is a Highlands Scottish clan.

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor.

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Coast guard

A coast guard or coastguard is a maritime security organization of a particular country.

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Coat of Many Colors (song)

"Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton.

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Cocaine

Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.

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Columbo

Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Comedy in Scotland

Comedy in Scotland is described as "cheeky rather than edgy", largely in part due to its use of language and innuendos.

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Comedy music

Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comical, comedic or humorous in nature.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.

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Connemara

Connemara (Conamara) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland.

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Construction foreman

A construction foreman, construction forewoman, or construction foreperson is the worker or skilled tradesperson who is in charge of a construction crew.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Cowal Community Hospital is a community hospital in Dunoon, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.

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Craic

Craic or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.

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Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host. Billy Connolly and Craig Ferguson are 20th-century Scottish comedians, 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish comedians, 21st-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish memoirists, comedians from Glasgow, male actors from Glasgow, Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States, Scottish male comedians, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors, Scottish male voice actors and Scottish stand-up comedians.

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Cub Scouts (The Scout Association)

Cub Scouts, often shortened to Cubs, are a section of Scouting operated by The Scout Association with a core age of eight to ten and a half years of age.

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Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld (meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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D-I-V-O-R-C-E

"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" is a song written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Tammy Wynette.

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D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

"D.I.V.O.R.C.E." is a 1975 UK number-one single by Scottish folk singer and comedian Billy Connolly.

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Danny Kyle

Danny Kyle (12 December 1939 – 5 July 1998) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter.

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Darien scheme

The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony in the Darién Gap on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s.

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Dawn French

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, and writer.

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Dennis and Gnasher (1996 TV series)

Dennis and Gnasher (or Dennis the Menace and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher) is a British animated television series based on characters from The Beano comic, which was broadcast on BBC from 2 April 1996 until 7 May 1998.

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Derroll Adams

Derroll Adams (November 27, 1925 – February 6, 2000) was an American folk musician.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) also termed "Doctor of Literature" in some countries is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities and social sciences that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor of Science (Sc.D.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music.

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Drumchapel

Drumchapel (Druim a' Chapaill), known locally as 'The Drum', is a district in the north-west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Drymen

Drymen (from Druiminn) is a village in the Stirling district of central Scotland.

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Duart Castle

Duart Castle, or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic, is a castle on the Isle of Mull, beside the Sound of Mull off the west coast of Scotland, within the council area of Argyll and Bute.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dunoon

Dunoon (Dùn Omhain) is the main town on the Cowal Peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Dwarfism

Dwarfism is a condition wherein an organism is exceptionally small, and mostly occurs in the animal kingdom.

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Eccentricity (behavior)

Eccentricity (also called quirkiness) is an unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual.

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Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard (born Edward John Izzard; 7 February 1962), also known as Suzy Izzard, is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. Billy Connolly and Elton John are British critics of religions.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and writer. Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson are British critics of religions.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fido (film)

Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Frank Bruno

Franklin Roy Bruno (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996.

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Freedom of the City

The Freedom of the City (or Borough in some parts of the UK) is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.

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Gabriel & Me

Gabriel and Me is a 2001 film starring Iain Glen, Sean Landless and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel.

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Gag-a-day

A gag-a-day comic strip is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke or some other kind of artistic statement.

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Gambit

A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage.

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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (released in some countries as Garfield 2) is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.

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Gerry Rafferty

Gerald Rafferty (16 April 1947– 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty are 20th-century Scottish male singers, 21st-century Scottish male singers, Scottish male guitarists, Scottish people of Irish descent, the Humblebums members and Transatlantic Records artists.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Fair

The Glasgow Fair is a holiday usually held during the second half of July in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow Times

The Glasgow Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Govan

Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland.

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Gozo

Gozo (Għawdex), in antiquity known as Gaulos (𐤂𐤅𐤋|; Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)

Gulliver's Travels is a 2010 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Rob Letterman in his live-action directorial debut, produced by John Davis and Gregory Goodman, from a screenplay written by Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller, with music composed by Henry Jackman.

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Hamish Imlach

Hamish Imlach (10 February 1940 – 1 January 1996) was a Scottish folk singer. Billy Connolly and Hamish Imlach are 20th-century Scottish male singers, Scottish folk singers and Transatlantic Records artists.

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Hammersmith Apollo

The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace.

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Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Head of the Class

Head of the Class is an American sitcom television series that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television network.

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Headline Publishing Group

Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing brand and former company.

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Hemorrhoid

Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.

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House (TV series)

House (also called House, M.D.) is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012.

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Housing in Glasgow

Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings.

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Howard Hesseman

Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.

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Hyacinthoides

Hyacinthoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.

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Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something.

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Improvisation

Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.

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In My Life (George Martin album)

In My Life is a 1998 album compiled and produced by George Martin.

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In the Navy

"In the Navy" is a song by American disco group Village People.

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Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 American erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Amy Holden Jones.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.

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Irvine, North Ayrshire

Irvine (Irvin; Irbhinn) is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Isle of Mull

The Isle of Mull (An t-Eilean Muileach) or just Mull (Muile) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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J. J. Barrie

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Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. Billy Connolly and Jack Vettriano are Scottish people of Irish descent.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Jersey

Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.

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John Elliot Bradshaw (June 29, 1933 – May 8, 2016) was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality.

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John Brown & Company

John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.

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John Brown (servant)

John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years after working as a ghillie for Prince Albert.

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John Byrne (playwright)

John Patrick Byrne (6 January 1940 – 30 November 2023) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. Billy Connolly and John Byrne (playwright) are 20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights and Scottish people of Irish descent.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Billy Connolly and John Cleese are British critics of religions.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Billy Connolly and Judi Dench are people associated with Nottingham Trent University.

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Just Another Saturday

"Just Another Saturday" is the 15th episode of fifth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today.

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Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress.

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Kevin McKidd

Kevin McKidd (born 9 August 1973) is a Scottish actor and television director. Billy Connolly and Kevin McKidd are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 20th-century Scottish male singers, 21st-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male singers, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors and Scottish male voice actors.

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Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.

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Kingdom Swann

Kingdom Swann is an historical novel by the reclusive English writer Miles Gibson, his fourth book, first published 1990 by William Heinemann, London, ISNM 0-434-29133-1, in paperback by Black Swan in 1991, and subsequently reprinted by the Do-Not Press, London, in 1998.

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Kirkcudbright

Kirkcudbright (Kirkcoubrie; Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a royal burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Last Supper

The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (also simply known as A Series of Unfortunate Events) is a 2004 American black comedy adventure film directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon, based on the first three novels of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (1999), The Reptile Room (1999), and The Wide Window (2000), by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler).

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Linoleum

Linoleum is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil (linoxyn), pine resin, ground cork dust, sawdust, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing.

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Linthouse

Linthouse is a neighbourhood in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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List of The Hobbit characters

This article describes all named characters appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book The Hobbit.

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Live Aid

Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.

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Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London

Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London is the title of a 1991 comedy album release and a videotaped performance by Billy Connolly.

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Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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MacLellan's Castle

MacLellan's Castle in the town of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century.

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Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor.

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Malky McCormick

Malky McCormick (1943 – 15 April 2019) was a Scottish cartoonist, comics artist, postcard artist, caricaturist and musician. Billy Connolly and Malky McCormick are Scottish banjoists.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Martin Lewis (humorist)

Martin Neil Lewis (born 24 July 1952) is a US-based English humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer, and marketing strategist.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Billy Connolly and Michael Caine are actors awarded knighthoods.

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Michael Parkinson

Sir Michael Parkinson (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Mike Batt

Michael Philip Batt, LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director, and conductor.

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Minder (TV series)

Minder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld.

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Miramax

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Billy Connolly and Monty Python are Virgin Records artists.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mrs Brown

Mrs Brown (also released in cinemas as Her Majesty, Mrs Brown) is a 1997 British drama film starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, and Gerard Butler in his film debut.

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Muppet Treasure Island

Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical swashbuckler comedy film directed by Brian Henson and the fifth theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

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Musical Tour of Scotland

Musical Tour of Scotland is a collection of traditional and original songs and tunes which accompanied Billy Connolly's 1994 television series World Tour of Scotland.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nathan Joseph

Nathan Joseph (23 July 1939 – 30 August 2005) was a British record company founder, theatrical producer and talent agent.

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National Association for Bikers with a Disability

The National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD) is a Registered Charity (No. 1040907) in the United Kingdom and (No. SC039897) in Scotland.

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National Television Awards

The National Television Awards (often shortened to NTAs) is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and begun in 1995.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No Charge

"No Charge" is a country music song, written by songwriter Harlan Howard.

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Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 16 October 1979 to 8 March 1982.

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Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university located in Nottingham, England.

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Observational comedy

Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.

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Oil platform

An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

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Open Season (2006 film)

Open Season is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Roger Allers and Jill Culton and co-directed by Anthony Stacchi (in Culton and Stacchi's directorial debuts), from a screenplay by Nat Mauldin and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman, and a screen story by Culton and Stacchi, based on an original idea by Steve Moore and John B.

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Open Season 2

Open Season 2 is a 2008 American animated comedy film and the sequel to the 2006 film Open Season, produced by Sony Pictures Animation.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality. Billy Connolly and Ozzy Osbourne are British harmonica players and people with Parkinson's disease.

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Paisley, Renfrewshire

Paisley (Paisley; Pàislig) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Pamela Stephenson

Pamela Stephenson, Lady Connolly (born 4 December 1949) is a New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian.

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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)

The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is the airborne and elite infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Parkinson (TV series)

Parkinson was a British television chat show presented by Michael Parkinson.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.

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Partick

Partick (Pairtick, Cumbric: Peartoc, Scottish Gaelic: Partaig) is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan.

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Pavilion Theatre (Glasgow)

The Pavilion Theatre is a theatre in Glasgow located on Renfield Street.

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Paws (film)

Paws is an independent 1997 Australian family comedy film that was released on 25 September 1997 in Australia and filmed in Sydney.

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Pearl (TV series)

Pearl is an American sitcom television series which aired on CBS from September 16, 1996 until June 25, 1997.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Physical abuse

Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Pocahontas (1995 film)

Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company.

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Polydor Records

Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Prince Charming (2001 film)

Prince Charming is a 2001 television film.

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Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public housing in the United Kingdom

Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.

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Quartet (2012 film)

Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the play Quartet by Ronald Harwood that ran in London's West End from September 1999 until January 2000.

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Quartet (Harwood play)

Quartet is a play by Ronald Harwood about aging opera singers.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Rachel Maclean (artist)

Rachel Maclean (born 1987) is a Scottish multi-media artist. Billy Connolly and Rachel Maclean (artist) are Scottish artists.

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Radio Times

Radio Times (currently styled as RadioTimes) is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items.

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Rag-and-bone man

A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker (UK English) or ragman, old-clothesman, junkman, or junk dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants.

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Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell (born Ralph May; 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. Billy Connolly and Ralph McTell are Acoustic guitarists and British harmonica players.

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Residential child care communities or children's homes are a type of residential care, which refers to long-term care given to children who cannot stay in their birth family home.

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Retirement

Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life.

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Retrospective

A retrospective (from Latin, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past.

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Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.

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Rhea Perlman

Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress.

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Ribaldry

Ribaldry or blue comedy is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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Robbie Coltrane

Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March 195014 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. Billy Connolly and Robbie Coltrane are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male actors, Scottish male comedians, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors and Scottish male voice actors.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris (30 March 1930 – 10 May 2023) was an Australian musician, television personality, painter, and actor.

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Rosary

The Rosary (rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), also known as the Dominican Rosary (as distinct from other forms of rosary such as the Franciscan Crown, Bridgettine Rosary, Rosary of the Holy Wounds, etc.), refers to a set of prayers used primarily in the Catholic Church, and to the physical string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (access-date) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and film in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish independence

Scottish independence (Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once again becoming a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom.

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Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scots National Pairty, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Scouting in Scotland

Scouting in Scotland is largely represented by Scouts Scotland, a registered Scottish Charity No.

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Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.

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Screen One

Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998.

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Screen Two

Screen Two is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing Screen 2 between April 1977 and March 1978).

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Sean Connery

Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. Billy Connolly and Sean Connery are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male actors, actors awarded knighthoods, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors, Scottish male voice actors and Scottish people of Irish descent.

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Sentimental ballad

A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.

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Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.

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Sharon Stone

Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model.

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Sheb Wooley

Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Shrink Rap (TV series)

Shrink Rap is a British television series hosted by clinical psychologist Pamela Stephenson in which she interviews various celebrities using psychotherapeutic techniques.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Siege of Lucknow

The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East India Company's Army) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Smoking pipe

A smoking pipe is used to taste the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe.

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Sobriety

Sobriety is the condition of not having any effects from alcohol or drugs.

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Springburn

Springburn (Allt an Fhuairainn) is an inner-city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow, made up of generally working-class households.

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St Gerard's Roman Catholic Secondary School, Govan

St Gerard's RC Secondary was a secondary school in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, formerly known as St Gerard's Senior Secondary School.

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St Peter's Boys School, Glasgow

St Peter's Boys School was a Roman Catholic school in Stewartville Street, Partick, Scotland.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts.

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State-dependent memory

State-dependent memory or state-dependent learning is the phenomenon where people remember more information if their physical or mental state is the same at time of encoding and time of recall.

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Still Crazy

Still Crazy is a 1998 British comedy film directed by Brian Gibson (his final film before his death in 2004).

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Strathdon

Strathdon (Gaelic: Srath Dheathain) is an area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Super Gran

Super Gran is a Scottish fictional series about a grandmother with superpowers.

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Surrealist automatism

Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway.

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Tailcoat

A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the tails), with the front of the skirt cut away.

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Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.

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Tenement

A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.

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The Ballad of Nessie

The Ballad of Nessie is a 2011 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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The Barras

The Barras is a major street and indoor weekend market in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.

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The Big Man

The Big Man (US title: Crossing the Line) is a 1990 British sports drama film directed by David Leland.

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The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American-Canadian vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy in his feature directorial debut.

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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is a 2009 American-Canadian vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy, based on a story by Duffy and his brother Taylor.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Debt Collector (1999 film)

The Debt Collector is a 1999 thriller, written and directed by Scottish dramatist Anthony Neilson and starring Billy Connolly, Ken Stott and Francesca Annis.

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The Dreamstone

The Dreamstone is a British animated television series that ran for four series, with 13 episodes per series between 1990 and 1995.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. Billy Connolly and the Dubliners are Polydor Records artists and Transatlantic Records artists.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro.

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The Humblebums

The Humblebums were a Scottish folk rock band, based in Glasgow.

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The Impostors

The Impostors is a 1998 American farce film, directed, written, and produced by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Kenny Everett Television Show

The Kenny Everett Television Show is a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC1 from 24 December 1981 to 18 January 1988.

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The Kenny Everett Video Show

The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) is a British television comedy and music programme that was made by Thames Television for ITV from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.

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The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan.

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish actor and comedian Craig Ferguson.

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The London Studios

The London Studios (also known as The South Bank Studios, The London Television Centre, ITV Tower, Kent House and LWT Tower) in Lambeth, Central London was a television studio complex owned by ITV plc and originally built for London Weekend Television.

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The Man Who Sued God

The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian comedy film starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and directed by Mark Joffe.

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The Mercury (Hobart)

The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Pick of Billy Connolly

The Pick of Billy Connolly is a Billy Connolly compilation album.

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The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After (1845) by Alexandre Dumas.

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The Rocket Record Company

The Rocket Record Company is a record label founded by Elton John, along with Bernie Taupin, Gus Dudgeon, Steve Brown and others, in 1973.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Secret Policeman's Ball is a series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International.

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The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)

The Secret Policeman's Ball was the third of the benefit shows staged by Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights field.

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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was the fourth of the benefit shows staged by the British Section of Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights field.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010.

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The Sunday Post

The Sunday Post is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland, by DC Thomson, and characterised by a mix of news, human interest stories and short features.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a 2008 American supernatural thriller film directed by Chris Carter, and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz.

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Thorin Oakenshield

Thorin Oakenshield (Thorin II) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.

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Tickle on the Tum

Tickle on the Tum is a series of ten-minute programmes for young children produced by Granada Television and aired on the ITV network from 1984 until 1988.

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Timeline (2003 film)

Timeline is a 2003 historical science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel.

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Tom Buchan (poet)

Tom Buchan (19 June 1931 – 18 October 1995) Scottish poet, novelist and playwright/dramatist. Billy Connolly and Tom Buchan (poet) are 20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Tour manager

A tour manager (or concert tour manager) is the person who helps to organize the administration for a schedule of appearances of a musical group (band) or artist at a sequence of venues (a concert tour).

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Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On... is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman.

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Tradesperson

A tradesperson or tradesman/woman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade.

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Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label.

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Transatlantic Years

Transatlantic Years is a double compilation album by Billy Connolly, released in 2001 on Sanctuary Records.

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Two Roads

Two Roads Books is an imprint of John Murray Press now a division of Hachette.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Union Square, Manhattan

Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde (Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Veronica's Closet

Veronica's Closet is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman.

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Veterinary surgery

Veterinary surgery is surgery performed on non-human animals by veterinarians, whereby the procedures fall into three broad categories: orthopaedics (bones, joints, muscles), soft tissue surgery (skin, body cavities, cardiovascular system, GI/urogenital/respiratory tracts), and neurosurgery.

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Village People

Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music.

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Water (1985 film)

Water is a 1985 British comedy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Michael Caine.

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Welder

A welder is a person or equipment that fuses materials together.

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Wembley Stadium (1923)

The original Wembley Stadium (originally known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley, London, best known for hosting important football matches.

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What We Did on Our Holiday

What We Did on Our Holiday is a 2014 British black comedy-drama film written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin.

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White Oleander (film)

White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky.

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Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)

Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history.

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Who Is Cletis Tout?

Who is Cletis Tout? is a 2002 comedy film written and directed by Chris Ver Wiel and starring Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Portia de Rossi, RuPaul, and Tim Allen.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.

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Wild Oats (film)

Wild Oats is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Gary Kanew and Claudia Myers.

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William Brodie

William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a housebreaker, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling.

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William, Prince of Wales

William, Prince of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982), is the heir apparent to the British throne.

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World Tour of Scotland

World Tour of Scotland is a six-part television series – the first of Billy Connolly's "world tours" – originally broadcast by the BBC in July and August 1994.

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Worzel Gummidge (TV series)

Worzel Gummidge is a British children's television series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, and based on the Worzel Gummidge books by English author Barbara Euphan Todd.

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Y.M.C.A. (song)

"Y.M.C.A." is a song by American disco group Village People, written by Jacques Morali (also the record's producer) and singer Victor Willis and released in October 1978 by Casablanca Records as the only single from their third studio album, Cruisin' (1978).

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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi, Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.

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100 Greatest (TV series)

100 Greatest is a long-running TV strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that has been broadcasting from 11 September 1999 to 10 October 2015, originating in Tyne Tees Television’s Factual Features department under Executive Producer Mark Robinson.

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15th (Scottish Volunteer) Parachute Battalion

The 15th (Scottish Volunteer) Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, originally raised as 15th (King's) Parachute Battalion by the British Army in World War II.

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2003 Birthday Honours

The 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2003 for the United Kingdom and on 2 June 2003 for New Zealand.

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2014 Scottish independence referendum

A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014.

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2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

On 23 June 2016, a referendum took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU).

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2017 Birthday Honours

The 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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3rd Rock from the Sun

3rd Rock from the Sun is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC.

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See also

20th-century Scottish comedians

21st-century Scottish autobiographers

21st-century Scottish comedians

21st-century Scottish memoirists

British autoharp players

British boilermakers

British harmonica players

Musicians with disabilities

People associated with Nottingham Trent University

People from Anderston

People from Strathdon

Scottish atheists

Scottish banjoists

Scottish comics writers

Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States

Scottish people of Indian descent

Scottish people with disabilities

Scottish stand-up comedians

The Humblebums members

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Connolly

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