Like his hero Robert the Bruce, Mr Salmond starts this fight as an underdog.

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The restoration of a weather-beaten statue of Robert the Bruce has begun ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 2014.

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James Douglas (male, age range: 25-35), a Scottish Knight with a personal vendetta against Edward I for killing his father, and one of Robert the Bruce's trusted lieutenants.

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Hard by this slogan are more icons of Scottish nationalism, such as the Monymusk Reliquary, a casket which was carried into battle against the English at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce.

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There were bodybuilders like Lou Ferrigno, football players like Robert Young, and weight lifters like Bruce Wilhelm, who won the contest.

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In early 1997, Robert Wolf, a Pittsburgh attorney, and Bruce Guiot, a director in the trust company of PNC Private Bank, studied the use of total return payouts for family trusts by back-testing various investment scenarios.

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