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William McGonagall, the Glossary

William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer.^[1]

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19th-century Scottish male actors
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Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. William McGonagall and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are Victorian poets.

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Amanda McKittrick Ros

Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 8 December 1860 – 2 February 1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.

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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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Balmoral Castle

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a residence of the British royal family.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Billy Connolly

Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter. William McGonagall and Billy Connolly are Scottish people of Irish descent.

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Bob Servant

Bob Servant Independent, renamed Bob Servant, is a British television sitcom written and created by Neil Forsyth.

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Brian Cox (actor)

Brian Denis Cox (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. William McGonagall and Brian Cox (actor) are Scottish people of Irish descent.

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Christopher Hart (novelist)

Christopher William Napier Hart (born 1965) is an English novelist and journalist.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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David Langford

David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.

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Discworld (world)

The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edith Evans

Dame Edith Mary Evans, (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress.

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Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster; July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability.

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Flyer (pamphlet)

A flyer (or flier) is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution and typically posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail.

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Gale

A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts.

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George Gilfillan

Rev George Gilfillan (30 January 1813 – 13 August 1878) was a Scottish author and poet. William McGonagall and George Gilfillan are people associated with Dundee.

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Gerard Hoffnung

Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 192528 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.

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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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Gloryhammer

Gloryhammer is a British power metal band founded by keyboardist Christopher Bowes, lead vocalist of the band Alestorm.

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Greyfriars Kirkyard

Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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HMS Unicorn (1824)

HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful ''Leda'' class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction.

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Hoax

A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax.

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Imagery

Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as psychotherapy.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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International Organisation of Good Templars

The International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT; founded as the Independent Order of Good Templars), whose international body is known as Movendi International, is a fraternal organization which is part of the temperance movement, promoting abstinence from alcohol and other drugs.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.

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James McIntyre (poet)

James McIntyre (baptised 25 May 1828 – 31 March 1906) was a Scottish poet who emigrated to Upper Canada in 1851. William McGonagall and James McIntyre (poet) are 19th-century Scottish poets.

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Julia A. Moore

Julia Ann Moore (née Julia Ann Davis; December 1, 1847 – June 5, 1920) was an American poetaster.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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Macduff (Macbeth)

Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character and the heroic main antagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603–1607) that is loosely based on history.

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Magic in Harry Potter

In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, magic is depicted as a supernatural force that can be used to override the usual laws of nature.

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Mátyás Seiber

Mátyás György Seiber (sometimes given as Matthis Seyber; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards.

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Memorial bench

A memorial bench, memorial seat or death bench is a piece of outdoor furniture which commemorates a dead person.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Minerva McGonagall

Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".

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Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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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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Nac Mac Feegle

In the fictional world of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels, the Nac Mac Feegle (also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, the Little Men or "Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed") are a type of fairy folk.

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Neil Forsyth

Neil Forsyth (born 1978) is a Scottish author, television writer and journalist.

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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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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

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Perth, Scotland

Perth (Scottish English:; Peairt) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister.

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Poetaster

Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets.

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Poetry reading

A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry.

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Polemic

Polemic is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position.

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Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845

The Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 83) was an Act of Parliament that reformed the Poor Law system of Scotland.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Prose

Prose is the form of written language (including written speech or dialogue) that follows the natural flow of speech, a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or typical writing conventions and formatting.

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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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Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is an American franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims.

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Robert Coates (actor)

Robert "Romeo" Coates (1772 – 21 February 1848) was an English eccentric, best remembered for his career as an amateur actor.

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Scansion

Scansion (rhymes with mansion; verb: to scan), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish literature

Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers.

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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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South Ronaldsay

South Ronaldsay (also, Sooth Ronalshee) is one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.

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Stirling

Stirling (Stirlin; Sruighlea) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh.

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Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Tales from the Kingdom of Fife is the debut album by Anglo-Swiss power metal band Gloryhammer.

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Tay Bridge

The Tay Bridge (Drochaid-rèile na Tatha) carries rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife.

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Tay Bridge disaster

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing everybody on board.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Book of Heroic Failures

The Book of Heroic Failures, written by Stephen Pile in 1979, is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms.

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The Eye of Argon

The Eye of Argon is a 1970 sword and sorcery fantasy novella by Jim Theis (1953–2002) that narrates the adventures of the barbarian Grignr.

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The Famous Tay Whale

"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem by William Topaz McGonagall about the Tay Whale, also known as the Monster, a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port.

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The Goon Show

The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Great McGonagall (film)

The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Julia Foster.

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The People's Journal

The People's Journal, first published in 1858, was a Dundee-based Scottish periodical, originally produced by John Leng & Co., a local publishing company that for a time employed the Scottish artist, political cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher Martin Anderson (better known by his pseudonym Cynicus) as a member of its staff.

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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 Tay Bridge Disaster

"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history.

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The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men is a 2003 comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, which takes place in his Discworld setting.

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Thibaw Min

King Thibaw, also Thebaw or Theebaw (သီပေါ‌မင်း,; 1 January 1859 – 19 December 1916), was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) and also the last Burmese monarch in the country's history.

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Tommy Wiseau

Thomas Pierre Wiseau (or; born Tomasz Wieczorkiewicz) is a Polish-American actor and filmmaker.

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University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Wesley Willis

Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist.

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William Rees-Mogg

William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 192829 December 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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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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1841 United Kingdom census

The United Kingdom Census of 1841 recorded the occupants of every United Kingdom household on the night of Sunday 6 June 1841.

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2007 Scottish Parliament election

The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament.

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References

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

Also known as McGonagall, William, Sir William McGonagall, Sir William Topaz McGonagall, The world's worst poet, The worlds worst poet, William MacGonagall, William McGonagal, William Topaz McGonagall.

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See also

19th-century Scottish male actors

British weavers

Scottish Christians

References