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University of Saint Andrews
University of Saint Andrews at St. Andrews, Scotland; founded 1410. It is the oldest university in Scotland. It has faculties of arts, science, and divinity. St. Salvator's College was founded in 1450 and St. Leonard's College in 1512. St. Mary's College (1537) has been restricted since 1579 to the teaching of theology. Research facilities include the Institute of Maritime Archaeology, and the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre.
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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St Andrew's Day: 30 things you didn't know about St Andrew; A humble fisherman from Galilee, St Andrew is not only the patron saint of Scotland but of Greece, Russia, singers and even old maids.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/30/2005; 700+ words
; ...in Japan.This year's famous St Andrew's Society of Yokohama and Tokyo...the Tokyo Pipe Band27 The Order of Saint Andrew is a knighthood restricted to the...Scotland in 1687. 28 In modern times St Andrew would have been described as a fantastic...
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Say halo to saints in Andrew's shadow
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 11/23/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...missionary of Christ, a saint who has been adopted...now traditional St Andrew's Day speeches...just a handful of saints who have more than...Scotland. Unlike St Andrew. Even Irish-born...he lived here. "Saint Columba was a key...spend the day before Saint Andrew's Day noting ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Saint Andrew's Links.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...MACLEOD TODAY is St Andrew's Day when we...of our national saint. Assorted Scottish...is about a minor saint from Patras called...the keeper of Andrew's relics. According...do not even have Andrew to ourselves - he is patron saint of Russia and of...
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A saint of fun AND ROMANCE; All over Europe, St Andrew has 'helped' many in their quest for true love.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/24/2008; 700+ words
; TO MOST of us, Saint Andrew is usually thought of as a fisherman...And in many of these countries, Saint Andrew is a bringer of love and the person...should go to bed naked on the eve of St Andrew's Day and, that night, they will...
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Don't ignore Saint Andrew
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/24/2001; 700+ words
; ...while praising the Irish on Saint Patrick's Day, makes no reference...to celebrations to mark Saint Andrew, (traditionally, Scotland...contain no reference to Saint Andrew or the saltire, the legend of Andrew is central to our historic development...
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Fitch Rates Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton (Florida) $36MM VRDBs Series 2007 'AA/F1+'.
Business Wire; 6/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...Demand Revenue Refunding Bonds (Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton, Inc...date selected by the Bank or Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton, Inc...Rate Demand Revenue Bonds (Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton, Inc...
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SEX BAN PUT SAINT ANDREW ON CROSS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/20/2000; 405 words
; SCOTLAND'S patron saint St Andrew was crucified because a convert went...Greece, wa converted to Christianity by Andrew. She then refused to have sex with...frustrated he took his revenge on St Andrew by crucifying him on the X-shaped...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Football: SUR-PRIZE! SOUTHAMPTON 5 SURMAN 11, 80, 90 (PEN), JONES 48, 73 (PEN) BARNSLEY 2 NARDIELLO 2, FERENCZI 68 Hat-trick makes it Saint Andrew's day.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 2/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...PETER WHITE AT ST MARY'S ANDREW SURMAN rattled in a hat-trick...Jones scored twice to keep the Saints' promotion dream alive. But...M Thorpe 6 MAN OF THE MATCH ANDREW SURMAN Led the Saints' charge...CAPTION(S): PARTY TIME: Hero Andrew Surman is the centre of attention...
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 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Saint Andrew's cross? He must be furious.(Andrew Wilson)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 12/2/2001; 700+ words
; Byline: Andrew Wilson FEWER than one in four Scots knew that last Friday was St Andrew's Day. Our national day, named after our patron saint, and yet it registered on the...The people there know what St Andrew's Day is all about, even...
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Celebrate Saint Andrew
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 3/21/2005; 244 words
; ...s Day. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he the patron saint of Ireland? Where are these same people in November, when Scotland should be celebrating its own patron saint, Saint Andrew? Drew Boyd Giffnock
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Saint Andrew
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Andrew [Gr.,=manly], in the New Testament...Russia. According to the apocryphal Acts of Andrew, he was martyred at Pátrai in...have died on an X-shaped cross (St. Andrew's cross). He is patron saint of Russia...
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Andrew, Saint
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Andrew, Saint In the New Testament, brother of Simon Peter and one of the original 12 disciples of Jesus. According to tradition he was crucified on an x-shaped cross. He is patron saint of Scotland and Russia; his feast day is November 30.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...RIVERS AND WATERFALLS Rivers in Saint Vincent tend to be short and...located on the northern end of Saint Vincent, can be reached only...There are no desert regions in Saint Vincent. 9 FLAT AND ROLLING...Grand Bonhomme, and Saint Andrew. The Soufrière volcano...
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Saint Elizabeth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Elizabeth 1207-31, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and wife of Landgrave Louis II of Thuringia. She is called St. Elizabeth of Hungary. She led a simple life, personally...
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St Andrew
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
St Andrew an Apostle, the brother of St Peter, and like him a fisherman...because he is said to have died by crucifixion on such a cross. St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland (his relics were supposedly brought to Scotland by St...
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