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"In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen and they won their freedom. Forever!!"

Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and innovator. Alexander Graham Bell is most often associated with the invention of the telephone.
	Robert Burns (25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.
Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky produced in Kilmarnock, Scotland. It is the most widely distributed brand of Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country and with yearly sales of over 120 million bottles
	Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (Robert de Brus) (c. 1220s – 31 March 1295), 5th Lord of Annandale, was a feudal lord, Justice and Constable of Scotland and England, and Competitor in the Great Cause. A regent of Scotland in mid-13th century and finally a leading contender to be the King of Scotland in 1290-92.
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain
	Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots: French: Marie, eine des Écossais); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542, to July 24, 1567.
John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 – June 14, 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. Baird was born in Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland.
	Sir William Wallace (Latin: Villemus Valensis) (c. 1272–76 – 23 August 1305) born in Ellerslie, Ayrshire. Wallace was a knight and Scottish patriot who led a resistance against the English occupation of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Wallace was captured by the English on 5 August 1305, 18 days later on 23 August 1305, Wallace was stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of his brothers, John, and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Aberdeen.