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Scottish. Alma mater. Edinburgh College of Art. Awards. Guthrie Award, 1934. William Wilson's maker's mark in Glasgow Cathedral (1960) William Wilson (21 July 1905 – 1972) was a Scottish stained glass artist, printmaker and watercolour painter. [ 1] He was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He was appointed an OBE.
The Black Bull Inn. This is one of the oldest glass engraving techniques, practiced by the ancient Romans probably using flint and in the mid-sixteenth century in England and Holland using diamond tipped tools and a stipple technique to produce landscapes, portraits, still life, etc. [2] Old glass has a higher lead content than the present day and this generally made scribing easier and more ...
Glass, Aberdeenshire. Coordinates: 57°26′N 2°58′W. Glass is a parish about 8 miles west of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [ 1] It is now wholly located in Aberdeenshire but before the reorganisation of Scottish county boundaries in 1891 [ 2] it was partly in Banffshire. [ 3][ 1] The name Glass may have come from the Gaelic word for ...
The glass cone shown within Scotland. The Northern Glass Cone is a 19th-century glass cone formerly used in the glass manufacturing process at Alloa Glass Works in the burgh of Alloa, the administrative centre of the central Scottish council area of Clackmannanshire. The brick-built cone is the only such structure to survive in Scotland, and is ...
The original structure dates to c. 445 BC. A fragment of a Roman glass bowl made in the Rhineland between AD 160 and 250 was discovered in the interior. [68] [Note 2] Broch of West Burrafirth: East of Sandness: Shetland: 100 AD or older Broch: The stone stands eight or nine courses high for much of the circumference. [69] [70] Antonine Wall ...
Caddie (historical occupation) View of Edinburgh's Old Town from Slezer's Theatrum Scotiae. A caddie, also spelt "cadie", was an urban occupation in early 18th century Scotland ("in Edinburgh and other large towns") [1] that consisted of running various errands. [2] [3] The term is a Scottish form of the French word cadet (student soldier).
The Scottish watershed is the drainage divide in Scotland that separates river systems that flow to the east into the North Sea from those that flow to the west and north into the Atlantic Ocean. At a point on the summit of Ben Lomond for example, looking west all water flows to the Firth of Clyde, and looking east all water flows into the ...
Experts agree that old water contains more bacteria and could potentially make you sick, though it does depend on what type of bacteria is present and the health status of the person drinking it ...