KT Tunstall Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall[1] (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish[2] singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since, picking up three nominations before winning a BRIT Award, and a Grammy Award nomination.[3] She is also the recipient of an Ivor Novello Award. She has released five albums internationally: Eye to the Telescope (2004), KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza (2006), Drastic Fantastic (2007), Tiger Suit (2010) and Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (2013). Early life[edit] Tunstall has a half-Chinese, half-Scottish mother and an Irish father. Music career[edit] Career beginnings[edit] 2004–07: Eye to the Telescope and Acoustic Extravaganza[edit] Her début album, Eye to the Telescope, was released in late 2004. 2007–12: Drastic Fantastic and Tiger Suit[edit]
1776 - (Smith) The Wealth of Nations An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. Through reflection over the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity and free markets. History[edit] The Wealth of Nations was published 9 March 1776, during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution.[1] It influenced a number of authors and economists, as well as governments and organizations. Many other authors were influenced by the book and used it as a starting point in their own work, including Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and, later, Ludwig von Mises.
Capital, Volume I The first edition of Capital, Volume I published in German Since its publication, Capital, Volume I has become recognized as a major work of political economy on par with Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), David Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) and John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). It is a central theoretical text in academic Marxian economics, economic sociology, historiography, dialectical logic and other fields. Capital, Volume I lists consistently high in rankings by economists, philosophers and others naming great books of lasting importance to modernity. Book contents[edit] Part One: Commodities and Money[edit] Chapter 1: The Commodity[edit] Section 1. Section 2. In this section, Marx discusses the relationship between labour and value. Section 3. (b) The Total or Expanded Form of Value[edit] .
Jimmy Shand Sir James Shand MBE (28 January 1908 – 23 December 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. Being a keen motorcyclist, Shand was also an enthusiastic supporter and spectator at the annual Isle of Man TT races. Jimmy also sponsored a motorcycle road racer from Errol, Perthshire called Jack Gow, a multiple Scottish Motorcycle Racing champion and later a motor cycle dealer in Dundee. Jack Gow was the son of Andy Gow who drove the bus which transported the Shand tour. Shand's interest in motorcycles began when a boyfriend of his sister had problems with his bike which had broken down, Shand repaired it and was allowed to use it. He failed an audition for the BBC because he kept time with his foot. Works[edit] "Call me precious I don't mind 78s are hard to find You just can't get the shellac since the war This one's the Beltona brand Finest label in the land They don't make them like that any more" In 1972 Shand went into semi-retirement.
Charles Ganilh Charles Ganilh (6 January 1758 – 1836) was a French economist and politician. He was born at Allanche in Cantal. He was educated for a profession in law and practised as avocat. During the troubled period which culminated in the taking of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, he became prominent in public affairs. He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror and was only released by the counter-revolution of the 9th Thermidor. During the first consulate he was called to the tribunate but was excluded in 1802. In 1815 he was elected deputy for Cantal and finally left the Chamber on its dissolution in 1823. Ganilh is best known as the most vigorous defender of the mercantile school in opposition to the views of Adam Smith and the English economists.[1] The mercantilists were believers in nations keeping a positive balance of trade at all times in order to prosper, economically. His works on political economy are clear and concise. Notes[edit] References[edit]
Jack Vettriano Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best selling image in Britain. Early life[edit] Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. Vettriano left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. In 1987, at 36, Vettriano's wife Gail left him. Career[edit] In 1989, Vettriano submitted two canvases for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show. In 1996, Sir Terence Conran commissioned Vettriano to create a series of paintings for his new Bluebird Gastrodome in London. His easel paintings cost between £48,000 and £195,000 new.[9] According to The Guardian, he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties.[10] Vettriano's 1992 painting, The Singing Butler has been the best selling image in Britain.[9] On 21 April 2004, the original canvas of The Singing Butler sold at auction for £744,500. Vettriano has studios in Scotland and London. Criticism[edit] Collaborations[edit]
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (German: [ˈʁɔʃɐ]; October 21, 1817 – June 4, 1894) was a German economist from Hanover. Biography[edit] Roscher studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848. The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Roscher tried to establish the laws of economic development by using the historical method from the investigation of histories legal, political, cultural and other aspects. Roscher developed a cyclical theory where nations and their economies pass through youth, manhood and senile decay: "The method of a science is of greater significance by far than any single discovery, however amazing the later may be." This short study was afterwards expanded into his great System der Volkswirthschaft, published in five volumes between 1854 and 1894, and arranged as follows: Roscher died in 1894 in Leipzig.
Alexander Selkirk Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721), also known as Alexander Selcraig, was a Scottish sailor who spent more than four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. By the time he was rescued, he had become adept at hunting and making use of the resources found on the island. His story of survival was widely publicised when he returned home, and likely became a source of inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe. Early life[edit] The son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, Alexander Selkirk was born in 1676. In February 1704, following a stormy passage round Cape Horn, the privateers fought a long battle with a well-armed French vessel, the St Joseph, only to have it escape to warn the Spanish of their arrival in the Pacific. Castaway[edit] Selkirk had grave concerns about the seaworthiness of their vessel. Cinque Ports did indeed later founder off the coast of what is now Colombia.
William Petty English economist and philosopher (1623–1687) Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. Petty was also a scientist, inventor, and merchant, a charter member of the Royal Society, and briefly a member of the Parliament of England. Life[edit] Early life[edit] Petty was born in Romsey, where his father and grandfather were clothiers. After an uneventful period in the Navy, Petty left to study in Holland in 1643, where he developed an interest in anatomy. Career[edit] Academic and surveyor[edit] By 1651, Petty was an anatomy instructor at Brasenose College, Oxford, as deputy to Thomas Clayton the younger.[1][2] He was one of the physicians involved in treating Anne Greene, a woman who survived her own hanging and was pardoned because her survival was widely held to be an act of divine intervention. Projector[edit] Family[edit] Legacy[edit]
Dougray Scott Stephen Dougray Scott (born 25 November 1965), better known as Dougray Scott (pronounced DOOG-ray), is a Scottish actor. Early life[edit] Scott was born in Glenrothes, Fife, the son of Elma, a nurse, and Alan Scott, an actor and salesperson.[1] He attended Auchmuty High School. Career[edit] Personal life[edit] Scott is the father of twins, Eden and Gabriel Trevis Scott (b. 1998), with ex-wife Sarah Trevis, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2006.[10] On 8 June 2007, he married actress Claire Forlani in Italy.[11] Scott is an avid fan of Hibernian Football Club and a celebrity supporter of the British Red Cross.[12] Filmography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Dougray Scott at the Internet Movie Database