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Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, and the third most populous city in the United Kingdom, as of the 2017 estimated city population of 621,020. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Inhabitants of the city are referred to as Glaswegians or Weegies. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK. Glasgow is also known for the Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city...
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  • 1. Merchant Square Glasgow
    The Merchant City is a district in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.
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  • 2. Slaters Glasgow
    The Scottish Slaters, Tilers, Roofers and Cement Workers' Society was a trade union representing slaters in Scotland. The union was founded in Glasgow in 1866 as the Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland, and initially focused on providing strike pay and funeral benefits to members. When the City of Glasgow Bank collapsed in 1878, most building projects in Scotland stopped, and of the trade unions representing building workers in the nation, only the Amalgamated Slaters survived. This survival started a period of great success for the union; slaters went from being the worst-paid building workers to the best paid, and membership rose, reaching a peak of 1,383 by 1903. However, it thereafter fell gradually.In 1948, the union was renamed as the Scottish Slaters', Tilers', Roofers' and Cem...
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  • 3. The Good Spirits Co. Glasgow
    John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith PC is a British politician. He is currently the Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. He was a Labour Co-operative member of parliament from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West Dunbartonshire. He was best known for being the chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
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  • 5. House of Frasers Glasgow
    House of Fraser is a British department store group with 57 stores and 2 outlets across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it was known as Fraser & Sons. The company grew steadily during the early 20th century, and after the Second World War a large number of acquisitions transformed the company into a national chain. From 1936 onwards the company expanded substantially through acquisitions, including Scottish Drapery Corporation , Binns , Barkers of Kensington , and Dickins & Jones and the Harrods group . In 1948 the company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange. Later acquisitions included Howells and Army & Navy Stores . Ownership of the group passed to the Al Fayed family in 1985 , and in 1995 it was li...
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  • 6. Robert Graham Ltd Est 1874 Glasgow
    Matthew Piers Watt Boulton , also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. Bolton, was a British classicist, elected member of the UK's Metaphysical Society, an amateur scientist and an inventor, best known for his invention of the aileron, a primary aeronautical flight control device. He patented the aileron in 1868, some 36 years before it was first employed in manned flight by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. Boulton was the son of Matthew Robinson Boulton, and as well the grandson of Matthew Boulton, who founded the Soho Manufactory and the Soho Mint. His grandfather also co-founded the Soho Foundry with James Watt, which employed steam engines of the latter's design. Born into a family of significant wealth and means, M. P. W. was broadly educated in the classics, philosophy and science...
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  • 7. Little Birds Market Glasgow
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  • 11. Marks & Spencer Glasgow
    The curse of Cain and the mark of Cain are phrases that originated in the story of Adam and Eve in the Hebrew Bible. In the stories, if someone did something to harm Cain, the damage would come back sevenfold. Some interpretations view this as a physical mark, whereas other interpretations see the mark as a sign, and not as a physical marking on Cain himself. The King James Version of the Bible reads set a mark upon Cain.
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  • 14. Time and Tide Glasgow
    Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands , southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna and north of Fiji. It comprises three reef islands and six true atolls spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. Tuvalu has a population of 10,640 . The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres . The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians. The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from Samoa and Tonga into the Tuva...
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  • 15. Sloans Market Glasgow
    The Loyal Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order , is a Protestant fraternal order based primarily in Northern Ireland. It also has lodges in the Republic of Ireland, a Grand Orange Lodge in the Scottish Lowlands and other lodges throughout the Commonwealth, as well as in the United States and Togo. The Orange Order was founded in County Armagh in 1795, during a period of Protestant–Catholic sectarian conflict, as a Masonic-style fraternity sworn to maintain the Protestant Ascendancy. It is headed by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, which was established in 1798. Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange, who defeated the army of Catholic king James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War . Its members wear orange sashes and are referred...
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