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The Royal Arms of Scotland [2] is a coat of arms symbolising Scotland and the Scottish monarchs.The blazon, or technical description, is "Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second", meaning a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a yellow field and surrounded by a red double royal tressure flory counter-flory device.
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The Scottish Daily Mail header. The Scottish Daily Mail was published as a separate title from Edinburgh [111] starting in December 1946. The circulation was poor though, falling to below 100,000 and the operation was rebased to Manchester in December 1968. [112] The Scottish Daily Mail was relaunched in 1995; it is printed in Glasgow. It had ...
As the arms are a national symbol of Scotland they are often used to represent the country, for example in the arms of Canada. Elements of the arms are frequently found in the arms of Scottish institutions, such as the Scottish Football Association, University of St Andrews, and Aberdeen City Council.
Scotland's floral emblem.. According to legend, the "guardian thistle" (see Cirsium vulgare) played a vital part in Alexander III, King of Scots' defence of the Kingdom of Scotland against a night-time raiding party of Vikings under King Haakon IV of Norway, prior to the Battle of Largs (1263): one or more raiders let out a yell of pain when stepping on a prickly thistle, thus alerting the ...
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [ 4 ] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
Executive editor of Scottish Daily Mail Chris Williams (born 1951/1952) is a British journalist. A former editor of the Daily Express , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] he is currently editor of the Scottish Daily Mail .
Scottish Red Ensign, used by the Royal Scottish Navy: A Red Ensign with the Flag of Scotland in the canton. 1606–1707: Scottish Union Flag: First Union Flag with the Flag of Scotland superior to and overlying the Flag of England. c.1617: An early version of the Union Flag that appears on a painted wooden ceiling boss from Linlithgow Palace