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 Featurt airticle

George Square is the main civic square in the middle o Glesga, Scotland. It is named fur King George III. It's ane oot o sax squares in the ceetie centre.

The idea ahint the square wis pit oot in 1781, bit didna git developit fur anither 20 year. George Square wis sorroondit bi important biggins. Tae the east is the Glesga Ceetie Chambers, kent as the Municipal Chaumers an aw, whase stane foondin wit pit in 1883, an tae the wast o't is the Merchants Hoose.

Ben the square is an important collection o statues an monimets, sic as thae dedicatit tae Robert Burns, James Watt an Sir Walter Scott

 Featurt pictur

The Palace o Juistice, in Bucharest, in Romanie.

 Newsins

M. John Harrison

• The Inglis writer M. John Harrison (picturt) wins the Booker Prize wi his novel The End of Everything. The Scots writer Douglas Stuart, that wan in 2020, wis on the shortleet wi John of John, set on Harris.
• The COP31 climate conference opens in Antalya, Turkey.
• Sax fowk are killed an 15 hurtit in a mass shootin in the Main Square o Kraków, Poland.
• The Preses o Paraguay, Santiago Peña, is impeached, arrestit an replaced bi his Vice Preses, Pedro Alliana, in a bankin crisis.
• In the Unitit States, the Democratic Pairty wins a majority in baith the Hoose o Representatives an the Senate in the midterm elections.
• Kimi Antonelli becomes the youngest ever winner o the Formula Ane Warld Championship.
• The first meenisters o Scotland, Wales an Northren Ireland, John Swinney, Rhun ap Iorwerth an Michelle O'Neill respeckiv, meet in Cardiff tae sign a Memorandum o Unnerstaunin tae assert the richt tae sel-determination as weel as wirk thegither on shared pairty policies.

 Did ye ken...

Frae a collection o Wikipedia's airticles:

• ... that Guy Fawkes Nicht gaes back tae an Act that makkit 5 November a yearly day o thanksgiein efter the Gunpowder Plot?
• ... that John Steinbeck teuk the title o his novel Of Mice and Men frae Burns's poem "To a Mouse"?
• ... that Remembrance Day wis set apairt bi King George V on 7 November 1919?
• ... that Saunt Andra (picturt) is said tae hae asked tae be crucified on an X-shapit cross?
• ... that the Scots leid wis gien official status in Scotland on 30 November 2025?

 On this day

11 November: Remembrance Day

• 1918 – Warld War I: The German Empire signs an airmistice wi the Allies in a railwey cairrage in the forest o Compiègne, Fraunce.
• 1920 – In Lunnon, the Cenotaph is unveiled an the Unknown Warrior is buried in Wastmeenster Aibey (picturt) in myndin o the First Warld War.
• 1965 – Rhodesie, led bi Prime Meenister Ian Smith, declares itsel independent o the Unitit Kinrick withoot its agreement.
• 1975 – Durin a constitutional crisis in Austrailie, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismisses Prime Meenister Gough Whitlam's government.
• 1999 – The House of Lords Act gets royal assent, takin maist hereditary peers oot o the Hoose o Lairds.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (b. 1821) · Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974)

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