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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A burgh of east-central Scotland northwest of Edinburgh. It was long a favorite residence of Scottish kings. Andrew Carnegie was born here (1835) and gave the town its library. Population: 43,800.
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“Dunfermline, taken from the _Cart. de Dunfermline_, fol.”
“DUNFERMLINE: Robbie Keane scored his first goal for Celtic as the Hoops came from behind to beat Dunfermline 4-2 in a thrilling Scottish Cup fifth round tie on Sunday.”
“One has been spotted flying over the car park of an Asda supermarket in Dunfermline, its 8ft wingspan and white tail clearly visible to shoppers.”
“Just think what the feel-good factor would have been had the Tory vote gone UP in Dunfermline enough for us to have pinched 3rd place from the SNP?”
“I don't think many of us expected the Cameron effect to sweep the electorate in Dunfermline, but for those who believe that everything is suddenly rosy in the Conservative garden, it will have been a bit of a shock.”
“Liberal England: Lib Dems win Dunfermline by-election. comment-link {margin-left:. 6em;}”
“Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in Scotland, came over to the States in an immigrant ship worked as bobbinboy in a textile factory fired boilers clerked in a bobbin factory at $2.50 a week ran round Philadelphia with telegrams as a Western Union messenger learned the Morse code was telegraph operator on the Pennsy lines was a military telegraph operator in the Civil War and always saved his pay; whenever he had a dollar he invested it …”
“There is a charter in the reign of Alexander II., in 1212, by William, son of Henry de Craigmillar, to the monastery of Dunfermline, which is the earliest record of the castle.”
“After riding about an hour they left the train at the station called Dunfermline, where there was a ruin of an abbey, and of an ancient royal palace of Scotland.”
“This is an important building society that's been around for 130 years, with 30-odd branches and a similar number of agencies," he said of the Dunfermline, which is a major mortgage lender.”
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