Friday, 19 September 2014

Scotland says NO

4.2 million Scottish voters have decided to stay part of the United Kingdom. A 55.3% of the voters have said No, while a 44.7% of the electors wanted Scotland to become an Independent Nation. 

The poll is over and the decision was taken, but the Government have to still solve the problem. An alarming rate, almost half of the population, doesn't feel identified with the UK. 

So today it is the best day to launch this new quiz. Where is it?


Near this spot, on the 23rd of August of 1305, one of the main leaders of the Wars of Scottish Independence was executed. He was hanged, drawn and quartered. His head was placed on London Bridge and his limbs were displayed in Stirling, Perth, Berwick and Newcastle.

This plaque, which stands in a wall of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, remembers "to the immortal memory" of Sir William Wallace. 





Wallace's life has been portrayed in fiction several times. Walter Scott, Jane Porter or George Alfred Henty were some of the authors that wrote about him but, surely, you know about this loyal Scottish because of the work of Randall Wallace. Braveheart, directed and starred by Mel Gibson, is one of the most famous films in the History of cinema. However, it didn't reflect, in an accurate way, the life and death of this patriot and national hero.

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