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Non, ce n’est pas la fille de Kiefer, Donald, Rossif ou un autre des Sutherland de la grande famille du cinéma. Zoë Sutherland, c’est juste Zoë Sutherland, avec ses 337 fans Facebook et ses 232 followers. Par contre, niveau physique, elle les balance tous à la cave !

Mais Zoë n’est pas seulement modèle, c’est aussi une chanteuse à ses heures perdues. Et comme c’est une fille moderne, on devrait pouvoir retrouver 2-3 perles sur Youtube…

Mais le plus important finalement à propos des Sutherland, c’est de savoir que Kiefer ne meurt jamais, et qu’il s’agit aussi d’un comté des Highlands en Ecosse… Y’aurait-il un rapport entre Kiefer et les Highlanders ? Personne ne le saura jamais…

Vous avez déjà décroché le texte pour mater les photos ? Bon ben c’est le moment d’aller sortir ma science Wikipedia. Et en Anglais cette fois-ci… Qui s’intéresse sérieusement aux Highlands ici ?

The Highlands is a historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the “Scottish Highlands”. It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands.

The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A’ Ghàidhealtachd literally means ‘the place of the Gaels’ and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.

The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis.

Before the 19th century the Highlands was home to a much larger population, but due to a combination of factors including the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances, and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution, the area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. The average population density in the Highlands and Islands is lower than that of Sweden, Norway, Papua New Guinea and Argentina.

The Highland Council is the administrative body for much of the Highlands, with its administrative centre at Inverness. However the Highlands also includes parts of the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Perth and Kinross, and Stirling. Although the Isle of Arran administratively belongs to North Ayrshire, its northern part is generally regarded as part of the Highlands.

Between the 15th century and the 20th century, the area was different from the most of the Lowlands in term of language. Most of the Highlands fell into the region known as the Gàidhealtachd, which was the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland (now largely confined to the Outer Hebrides).

The terms are sometimes used interchangeably but have different meanings in their respective languages. Scottish English (in its Highland form) is the predominant language of the area today. Historically, the Highland line distinguished the two Scottish cultures.

While the Highland line broadly followed the geography of the Grampians in the south, it continued in the north by cutting off the northeastern part of Caithness, Orkney and Shetland from the more Gaelic Highlands and Hebrides.

In traditional Scottish geography, the Highlands refers to that part of Scotland north-west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which crosses mainland Scotland in a near-straight line from Helensburgh to Stonehaven.

However the flat coastal lands that occupy parts of the counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire are often excluded as they do not share the distinctive geographical and cultural features of the rest of the Highlands. The north-east of Caithness, as well as Orkney and Shetland, are also often excluded from the Highlands, although the Hebrides are usually included.

This definition of the Highland area differed from the Lowlands by language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic speech and customs centuries after the anglicisation of the latter; this led to a growing perception of a divide, with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century. In Aberdeenshire, the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is not well defined. There is a stone beside the A93 road near the village of Dinnet on Royal Deeside which states ‘You are now in the Highlands’, although there are areas of Highland character to the east of this point.

A much wider definition of the Highlands is that used by the Scotch Whisky industry. Highland Single Malts are produced at distilleries north of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock, thus including all of Aberdeenshire and Angus.

Inverness is traditionally regarded as the capital of the Highlands, although less so in the Highland parts of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perthshire and Stirlingshire which look more to cities such as Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and Stirling as their commercial centres. Under some of the wider definitions in use, Aberdeen could be considered the largest city in the Highlands, although it does not share the recent Gaelic cultural history typical of the Highlands proper.

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