The National Monument of Scotland, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, is Scotland's national memorial to the Scottish soldiers and sailors who died fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. It was intended, according to the inscription, to be "A Memorial of the Past and Incentive to the Future Heroism of the Men of Scotland". The monument dominates the top of Calton Hill, just to the …

The first true national library was founded in 1753 as part of the British Museum.This new institution was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. The museum's foundations lay in the will of the physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane, who gathered an enviable collection of …

A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater number of museums are run by the central government. The following is an incomplete list of national museums:

History. The National Library of France traces its origin to the royal library founded at the Louvre Palace by Charles V in 1368. Charles had received a collection of manuscripts from his predecessor, John II, and transferred them to the Louvre from the Palais de la Cité.The first librarian of record was Claude Mallet, the king's valet de chambre, who made a sort of …

History. The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina was established by the Regulation on the National Library of the Yugoslav republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed by the then Minister of Education Ante Babić, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Peoples Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 31 October 1945.. The introductory part of …

The National Archives (TNA, Welsh: Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial government department. Its parent department is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales; and "guardian of some of the nation's most iconic …

Name on the Register Image Date listed Location City or town Description 1: Central Cole Camp Historic District: April 11, 2002 (Roughly consists of the 100 blocks of E. and W. Main St., most of Maple St., 105 E. Butterfield, 106 N. Olive, and 107 N. Boonville

The County of Brant (2021 population 39,474) is a single-tier municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario.Although it retains the word "county" in its name, the municipality is a single-tier municipal government and has no upper tier.The County of Brant has service offices in Burford, Paris, Oakland, Onondaga and St. George.The largest population centre (2021 …

National Insurance (NI) is a fundamental component of the welfare state in the United Kingdom.It acts as a form of social security, since payment of NI contributions establishes entitlement to certain state benefits for workers and their families.. Introduced by the National Insurance Act 1911 and expanded by the Labour government in 1948, the system has been subjected to …

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (/ ˈ b æ r i /; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he …