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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

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The Palace o Juistice, in Bucharest, in Romanie.

 Newsins

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• Jensen Huang (picturt) resigns as chief executive o Nvidia, the company he co-foondit.
• Thoosands o schuils in Scotland, Northren Ireland an Italy get hoax bomb threats bi email. Ower 300 schuils in Italy are evacuatit.
• Millions o fowk in Spain tak pairt in the kintra's first general strike in 14 year, ower the cost o hoosin.
• Twal fowk are killed an aboot 50 hurtit in pile-ups in thick fog on a motorway near Yambol, Bulgaria.
• The Inglis writer M. John Harrison 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.

 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

15 November:

• 655 – Penda o Mercia an Æthelhere o East Anglia are defeatit bi Oswiu o Northumbria at the Battle o the Winwaed in Yorkshire.
• 1859 – Peyed for bi the Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modren revival o the Olympic Games taks place in Athens.
• 1908 – Efter monie atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State is annexed tae Belgium as the Belgian Congo.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler orders that the Romani are tae be pit "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
• 1985 – The Breetish Prime Meenister, Margaret Thatcher, an the Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Northren Ireland.
• 1988 – The Soviet spacecraft Buran (picturt), a reusable craft biggit tae answer NASA's Space Shuttle, is launched, wi naebody on board, on its anerly flicht.

Albertus Magnus (d. 1280) · Johannes Kepler (d. 1630) · William Herschel (b. 1738)