What is certain is that for hundreds of years a Frenchman could count on a Scotsman by his side in almost every big battle (often against the English) until the Scottish and English thrones were united under James VI of Scotland in 1603.
The suggestion showed the "arrogance" of the English system, he claimed, and that, in reality, the Scottish and English legal systems have a relationship of "equality not subordination".
Former Northern Ireland international O'Neill played for several Scottish and English clubs before beginning his managerial career at Glebe Park in 2006.
Cross-references to the genealogy of the many Scottish clan chiefs who do not have hereditary titles and who have frequently married into the Scottish and English titled aristocracy are also absent.
The final list of works to be featured in the new compulsory question on Scottish texts in English exams has been published.
It follows a move last year to merge its Scottish, Welsh and English editions.
Falkirk have also arranged season-long loan deals for Scottish youngsters in the English Premier League.
Instead of seeing ourselves as English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, we have felt British.
Mannus, out of contract with Irish League club Linfield, is hoping to secure a deal with an English or Scottish club.
The Scottish lower divisions and English non-League football were also badly affected, with only a handful of games surviving in some leagues.
But, in the setting, it was hard to listen to Verdi, the composer of Italy's Risorgimento, without thinking of English and Scottish politics.
Barely half of the British themselves see Britishness as an important part of their identity about the same proportion who attach importance to being English, Scottish or Welsh.
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Mr Salmond repeatedly stresses that his aim is to repeal the Parliamentary Union of 1707, not the regal Union of 1603 when the Scottish king assumed the English throne as well.
Starting with Bank of Scotland's operation of payment cards for Marks and Spencer, a retail chain, they have shattered the old convention that English and Scottish banks did not compete on each other's turf.
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The concept of a combined touring Lions side began in 1891 when a group of English and Scottish players took part in a three-Test series against South Africa under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union.
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Scottish Conservative Party spokesman Murdo Fraser called for a reduction in business rates to below the English level to give Scottish firms a "competitive advantage".
He was keen to settle just as many English Protestants as Scottish ones in Ireland.
The 12 individual pie categories were being contested by 100 English and 20 Scottish bakers and butchers.
The full 37-man squad -- comprised of 15 Welsh, 10 Irish, nine English and three Scottish players --only came together last week and have been training in testing conditions for the past two days.
They arrive on two-year deals at Rodney Parade with Glasgow's English-born, Scottish qualified prop Lee Harrison.
More than 90% of England and Wales residents identified themselves as at least one of: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British.
Skipper Borthwick, 30, was the only missing representative from the coaches and captains of the 12 English, Welsh and Scottish clubs attending the event.
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Could we have a euro equivalent of the West Lothian question - the old chestnut about Scottish MPs getting to vote on English affairs?
Ed Miliband has told voters Labour are "back throughout the country on your side" after making big gains in the English, Welsh and Scottish elections.
McCormack's 19th goal in his first full season in English football was the Scottish international's ninth successful penalty and third last-gasp strike in four Cardiff games.
It has spent lavishly on transport, health care and education: Scottish university students pay less than English ones, and oldsters are cared for free of charge.
Mr Salmond, however, may be less concerned with Scots law being anglicised which it somehow managed to avoid during three centuries of rule from Westminster than with opening up a row over supposed English oversight of a Scottish institution.
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It could work only if the majority in this committee mirrored a majority of the whole House of Commons, ie, that the government of the day held a majority because it had sufficient English seats to overcome Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish representation.
But it said it was disappointed at the decision by the Scottish government to continue to match the English poundage rate.
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