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| | SCOTLAND FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Inventors, Scottish by birth or residence, have played prominent parts in such important inventions and discoveries as Watt's steam_engine, Macleod with insulin, McAdam's macadam roads, Thomson and Dunlop with the pneumatic_tyre, Bell's telephone, Baird's television, Robert_Watson-Watt's radar, and James_Chalmers' invention of the postage_stamp. |
 | | Although he subsequently styled himself as the ''King of Great Britain'', this was a personal_union: the two nations shared a head_of_state but for most of the period up until 1707 remained separate kingdoms with the exception of a brief period when Oliver_Cromwell overthrew the monarchy and Scotland was under English military occupation. |
 | | The intellectual nature of Calvinism contributed greatly to the predominance of Scottish thinkers in the age_of_Enlightenment (see Scottish_Enlightenment), but the Church's distrust of the sensual is seen as the reason why Scotland contributed little to classical music and art before the 19th century. |
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