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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Scotland is a country which is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Since the late-1990s, a system of devolution has emerged in the UK, under which Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have each been granted some measure of self-government within the UK, which is often referred to as "devolved powers". The original Parliament of Scotland (or “Estates of Scotland”) was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland, and existed from the early 13th century until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. As a consequence, the Parliament of Scotland merged with the Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, which sat at Westminster in London. Scotland entered into a political union with England in 1707, and since then has sent representatives to the Palace of Westminster, which became the British pa...

Biography Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England), Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother’s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis". Mary Doyle had a passion for books and was a master storyteller. Her son Arthur wrote ...

Madame Tusseuds is an internationally reknown wax museum located in London with small museums in a number of other major cities. Madame Tussaud's exterior Originally, it was established by Marie Tusseud, a wax sculptor. Marie Tusseud was born under the name Marie Grosholtz, in Strasbourg, France in 1761. Her early life was spent in Bern and then Paris. The apostrophe is no longer used, since 2007, in "Madame Tusseuds". The museum exhibits the waxborks of famous and historical figures and it attracts a large number of visitors of the city of London. Marie Tusseud's first wax sculpture was created in 1777, and it was a replica of Voltaire. At the age of 17, she was proclaimed the arts tutor to King Louis XVI's sister, Madame Elizabeth, at the Palace of Versailles. Marie Tusseud, during the French Revolution (5 May 1789-9 November 1799), was imprisoned as a royalist for three months and condemned to execution, but thanks to the intervention of an in...