Removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950 I of England (Longshanks) in 1296 during the struggles against English invasion, which historians call the Scottish Wars of Independence as a spoil of war, kept in Westminster Abbey in London and fitted into King Edward's Chair. Subsequent English and then British monarchs were crowned sitting upon the chair and Stone. At the time, the Stone was viewed as a symbol of Scottish nationhood; by removing the Stone to London, Edward I was declaring himself 'King of the Scots'. In 1950, Ian Hamilton, a student at the University of Glasgow, approached Gavin Vernon with a plan to remove the Stone
Yellow-crowned woodpecker Yellow-crowned woodpecker The yellow-crowned woodpecker ("Leiopicus mahrattensis") or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. The Yellow-crowned woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name "Picus mahrattensis". The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended that the genera Leiopicus and "Dendrocoptes" and are combined into a larger "Dendropicos". Some taxonomists place this species in the genus "Dendrocopos". A medium-small (17.5 cm, 6.9 inches, 28-46 grams, 1-1.6 ounces), pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upper-parts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, streaked dingy white with