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The first known settlement on the site of what is now Kirkintilloch was a Roman fort established in what is now the Peel Park area of the town. Dating from the mid-2nd century, the Antonine Wall, one of the northernmost frontiers in Roman Britannia was routed through Kirkintilloch; its course continues through the centre of the town to this day, although little trace can now be seen above ...
The current building was commissioned to replace the old tolbooth in West High Street which had been completed in 1815. [4] After rapid industrial expansion and population growth in the local area, as well as a deterioration in the condition of the tolbooth, [4] civic leaders decided to procure a purpose-built town hall: the site they selected in Union Street had previously been occupied by a ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Clan Gartshore is an armigerous lowland Scottish Clan from Dumbartonshire. [1]The name comes from lands of that name in the parish of Kirkintilloch in Dumbartonshire. There are references to the Gartshore Clan as far back as the late 12th century. [2]
The feudal barony of Kirkintilloch was a feudal barony with its caput baronium originally at Kirkintilloch Castle in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The barony was granted to William Comyn, Baron Lenzie in 1184. [1] After the Comyns were disinherited by King Robert the Bruce, the barony was given to the Fleming family after 1306.
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
In 2003, author Mark Arax published a book titled The King of California which is about how J.G. Boswell turned the lakebed into farms and revolutionized the farming industry. [ 56 ] In 2015, a documentary titled Tulare, the Phantom Lake: Drought was released and in 2022, a second part to the same documentary was released.