What has Scotland ever done for us? Plenty, it turns out. The land that gave the world haggis and tartan has produced so much more, from golf and television to Dolly the Sheep and “Grand Theft Auto.” ...

You might know that golf, Scotch and haggis come from Scotland, but did you know the blockbuster video game “Grand Theft Auto” does as well? As Scots go to the polls today to vote on whether to stick ...

A sports historian behind the claims that Scotland invented football says he has found the world’s oldest known pitch there. Ged O’Brien, who has campaigned for years for England to be stripped of its ...

Google has an animated Google logo, aka Doodle, for the 250th birthday of Charles Macintosh, the inventor of waterproof fabric. Which is why the doodle shows the man in a raincoat, to recognize his ...

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