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Thane (/ ˈ θ eɪ n /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Chvrches. Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish synth-pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. [ 1] The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty [ 2] and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. [ 3] Mostly deriving from the synth-pop genre, Chvrches also incorporate indietronica, indie ...
Signed up to a top Scottish theatrical agency, he played in variety shows throughout Scotland from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, he was invited by the prominent Scottish dance band leader, David Findlay (later a presenter on Good Morning Scotland), to join his popular and well-established band "The Olympians". For the next 16 years the band broadcast ...
July 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM. NEW YORK (AP) — It is not easy to be an outsider in country music, but Orville Peck has made a career out of it. On his third album, “Stampede,” his nonconformist ...
Network. BBC Scotland. Release. 25 February 2019. ( 2019-02-25) –. present. The Nine (and The Seven) is a Scottish television news programme on the BBC Scotland channel, covering Scottish, UK and international news. It is broadcast weekdays at 9:00 pm as The Nine and weekends at 7:00 pm as The Seven .
Thegn. Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane[ 1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay ...
Empire Thane was an 8,120 GRT tanker built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched on 26 October 1939 as Desmoulea for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd and completed in December 1939. Torpedoed on 31 January 1941 in the Mediterranean Sea ( 35°31′N 02°34′E / 35.517°N 2.567°E / 35.517; 2.567 ) and abandoned
Christopher Nicolson. Ruairidh Graham. Website. niteworksband .com. Niteworks (also known by the Scottish Gaelic Obair Oidhche) is an Electronic Celtic fusion band from the Isle of Skye. The band are known for writing new songs in Gaelic and melding the bagpipes and Gaelic song forms such as puirt a beul with techno and house beats.