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  United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scottish Gaelic (in Scotland) has the status of being offically developed to become "an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language" [3] since 2005 Act.
Though 'nationalist' (as opposed to 'unionist') tendencies have shifted over time in Scotland and Wales, with the Scottish National Party founded in 1934 and Plaid Cymru (the Party of Wales) in 1925, a serious political crisis threatening the integrity of the United Kingdom as a state has not occurred since the 1970s.
However, there is at present little sign of any imminent 'crisis' (at the last General Election, both the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru saw their percentage of the overall vote drop, though the SNP did gain two more seats and are the second largest party in the Scottish Parliament as well as official opposition).
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 SPPC Recent Visiting Scholars Bio Notes
R.J. Pestritto is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas.
Bernard Boxill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tara Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where she has taught since 1989.
www.bgsu.edu /offices/sppc/vs-bios.htm   (6247 words)

  
 Red Clydeside: Links to related holdings and other sites of interest
Founded in 1968 in Glasgow as a tribute to the life and work of William Gallacher, political stalwart of the Red Clydeside period and former Communist MP for Dunfermline East, the Library consists of many thousands of books, pamphlets, posters, photographs, journals, microfilms, tape recordings, press cuttings, manuscripts and paintings.
Samuel Stewart was born in 1887 in Glasgow and lived in the Townhead area of the city.
Produced by the University of Wales in Swansea, this website gives an insight, through a variety of archival media, into the experience of the south Wales valleys during a period of industrial turmoil, both from an institutional and personal perspective.
gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /redclyde/redclydoclinks.htm   (1729 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Ma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mach was educated at home until the age of 14, and entered the University of Vienna at the age of 17, received his PhD in physics at the age of 22 and was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Graz in 1864.
In 1867 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Experimental Physics at the Charles University in Prague, where he remained till 1895, studying how the mind is able to sense movement and acceleration, the measurement of sound waves, wave propagation and supersonics (thus, the “Mach Number”).
Mach returned to the University of Vienna as Professor of Inductive Philosophy in 1895, but he suffered a stroke two years later and retired from active research in 1901, when he was appointed to the Austrian parliament.
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