Pub Crawl Edinburgh Napier University 2012
The second awesome Pub Crawl in early 2012 - 99 Hanover Street, The Standing Order, Elements, The Black Rose, .... not visible: The Jekyll & Hyde and his ridiculous bouncer which is not able to read a passport - or at all.
Bars in Edinburgh - Rick`s Bar
Bars in Edinburgh - Rick`s Bar Edinburgh
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DAFFY'S Gin at Devils Advocate
Daffy's Gin party at Devils Advocate Edinburgh
33 & T and Hibiscus Fizz with Martin Duffy (@ The Royal Dick - Edinburgh)
We catch up with Martin Duffy, director of Solid Liquids and Founder of the Scottish Bartender's Network.
Martin is a well known face across the UK drinks scene. Having managed bars he know organises private and runs the Juniper Festival, one of the UK's top gin focussed festivals.
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Chief Superintendent Mark Williams on the benefits of utilising the Air Support Unit for Op RAC
Alfonzo - BOX presents The Next Big Thing (Dec 20th 2008)
ALFONZO interviewed by Fraser Thomson on behalf of BOX Glasgow. Live from the Edinburgh Picture House on Dec 20th 2008
how to kill time on train from newcastle to edinburgh
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At the Omni Centre in Edinburgh, cool elevator
3 Perfect Days: Edinburgh (Day 2)
Edinburgh-based fashion and lifestyle blogger, Alice Cruickshank delves into contemporary Edinburgh, grabbing haggis pakora for lunch, watches street performers along the Royal Mile and sips on quirky cocktails at Hoot the Redeemer.
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Edinburgh Gin
Making the Edinburgh 75 cocktail at Heads & Tales Bar, a collaboration with the Edinburgh Gin Distillery
Central House Hotel Victoria - Hotels in London Victoria
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Scottish fire and rescue service responding
K07P1&P2 tollcross on blues and twos along towards the meadow area of Edinburgh
The Traveller's Cocktail with Haig Club - by Iain McPherson
Iain McPherson, bartender and owner of Panda & Sons in Edinburgh, presents his Haig Club cocktail creation: The Traveller's Cocktail.
Melody Makers
Edinburgh Arms in York 4th March 2017
Watch Christian Bale Burn Rubber in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ | Anatomy of a Scene
How do you go about recreating a 24-hour auto race for a movie? If you’re the director James Mangold, meticulously.
His latest film, “Ford v Ferrari,” takes place in the mid-1960s as the Ford Motor Company is trying to come up with a car that can beat out Ferrari in the Le Mans auto race. The American executives bring on the car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and the driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) to aid in that task.
This scene takes place at the beginning of the 1966 edition of the race as Miles is preparing. Narrating the sequence, Mangold said that he wanted to use the camera following Miles down a hallway and then out to the track as a technique to reveal the spectacle of the race, with overwhelming crowds and a heightened energy.
The race starts the same way Le Mans used to actually begin, with the drivers standing across the track from their cars, then running over and leaping into the vehicles before pulling out. Mangold said the moment, captured in one shot, was a challenge to coordinate but was important to give a sense of authenticity to the scene.
He said he shot as much of the action as possible with real cars and stunt drivers, using visual effects not as much for the racing moments, but more to populate the stands so the production wouldn’t need 20,000 extras each day.
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BA 971 British Airways Airbus A319 Landing in London-Heathrow
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Acts of Union 1707 | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Acts of Union 1707
00:01:52 1 Historical background
00:02:02 1.1 Pre-1707 attempts at Union
00:03:00 1.1.1 1603–1639
00:04:38 1.1.2 1639–1670
00:08:30 1.1.3 1670–1707
00:09:55 1.2 Treaty and passage of the Acts of 1707
00:12:42 2 Political motivations
00:14:35 2.1 English perspective
00:15:46 2.2 Scottish perspective
00:19:26 3 Provisions of the Acts
00:21:11 3.1 Related Acts
00:22:09 4 Evaluations
00:23:21 5 300th anniversary
00:24:03 6 Scottish voting records
00:24:13 7 See also
00:24:45 8 Notes
00:24:54 9 Further reading
00:26:54 10 Other books
00:27:29 11 External links
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The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries. By the two Acts, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland—which at the time were separate states with separate legislatures, but with the same monarch—were, in the words of the Treaty, United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain.The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although described as a Union of Crowns, until 1707 there were in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head (as opposed to the implied creation of a single Crown and a single Kingdom, exemplified by the later Kingdom of Great Britain). Prior to the Acts of Union there had been three previous attempts (in 1606, 1667, and 1689) to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that both political establishments came to support the idea, albeit for different reasons.
The Acts took effect on 1 May 1707. On this date, the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament. Hence, the Acts are referred to as the Union of the Parliaments. On the Union, the historian Simon Schama said What began as a hostile merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.
24. Refashioning the State, 1688-1714
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251)
In this lecture, Professor Wrightson discusses the transformation of the English state in the twenty years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He examines the ambiguities of the Revolutionary Settlement which placed authority in William III and Mary II following the deposition/abdication of James II, and the manner in which parliamentary government was strengthened through responses to the demands of the wars precipitated by the revolution, culminating in the constitutional provisions of the Act of Settlement of 1701. Finally he considers the origins and outcomes of the 1707 Act of Union which fused the kingdoms of Scotland and England into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and ends by briefly characterizing the paradoxical realities of the British state of 1714.
00:00 - Chapter 1. The Glorious Revolution of 1688
07:28 - Chapter 2. Settlement
12:25 - Chapter 3. War
16:15 - Chapter 4. The Financial Revolution
34:17 - Chapter 5. Scotland
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This course was recorded in Fall 2009.