Edinburgh is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn
Edinburgh is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn
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| Arthur's Seat |
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Midlothian | |||
| Edinburgh Castle |
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| New Town of Edinburgh |
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| Old Calton Burial Ground |
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27 | Waterloo Pl | Calton Rd | |
| Old Town of Edinburgh |
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| Palace of Holyroodhouse |
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Abbey Strand | Canongate | ||
| Paton Home |
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66 | Great King St | ||
| Queensferry Crossing |
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M90 | |||
| Scottish Parliament Building |
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| The Witchery |
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Castlehill | The Royal Mile, just E of Edinburgh Castle |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1768/00/00 | Gustavus Richard Brown | Education | Gustavus R Brown receives his MD from the University of Edinburgh and writes a dissertation, De ortu animalium caloris. | |||
| 1850/11/13 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Born | Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson is born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland to lighthouse engineer and meteorologist, Thomas Stevenson, and his wife Margaret Isabella. | |||
| 1859/05/22 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Born | Arthur Conan Doyle is born at 11 Picardy Place (razed 1969-1970, now Picardy Place Roundabout), Edinburgh, Scotland, To Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary Foley. | |||
| 1897/08/07 | Francis H Underwood | Died | Francis H Underwood dies in Edinburgh, Scotland. He lived at 35 Mansionhouse Road in the Grange, Edinburgh. | |||
| 1964/04/29 | The Beatles | Performers | The Beatles make it on the big screen at the ABC Cinemas, Edinburgh, Scotland. | The Beatles' Spring 1964 UK Tour |
| Particulars for Edinburgh: | |
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| Locale Type | City |
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| Great Scots! |
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| Old and New Towns of Edinburgh |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| John Barrington Cowles (Short Story) | Short Story |
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Arthur Conan Doyle | I first met Barrington Cowles when I went up to Edinburgh University to take out medical classes there. My landlady in Northumberland Street had a large house, where she gained a livelihood by providing accommodation for several students. |
| Keeping His Promise (short story) | Short Story |
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Algernon Blackwood | It is 11PM and Marriott is locked into his room, cramming as hard as he can. A Fourth Year Man at Edinburgh University, he has ploughed for this exam so often that his parents have declared they can no longer supply the funds to keep him there. |
| Keeping His Promise (short story) | Short Story |
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Algernon Blackwood | The streets of Edinburgh town were very still at this late hour - it was late for Edinburgh - and in the quiet neighbourhood of F---- Street, where Marriott lived on the third floor, scarcely a sound broke the silence. |
| Regeneration (book) | Novel | Pat Barker | Craiglockhart War Hospital, now a part of Edinburgh Napier University in Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, Scotland. | |
| The Body Snatcher (short story) | Short Story | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a ten month period in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. | |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Book | Muriel Spark | Set in 1930s Edinburgh | |
| The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (short story) | Short Story |
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Ambrose Bierce | In the first moment of serious thought that I gave to the matter I recognized the city of my dream as Edinburgh, where I had never been. |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (book) | Mezzobula | Robert Louis Stevenson | "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" was inspired by the actual case of Deacon Brodie. |
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