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05/09/2008 12:02 AM
Nichol
NICHOL, JOHN PRINGLE, LL.D., an eminent astronomer, the eldest son of a merchant in Brechin, Forfarshire, was born in that town, January 13, 1804.
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05/08/2008 11:58 PM
Kidnapping
Another article from Good Words.
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05/08/2008 11:56 PM
Grand Results of the Conflict for Liberty
IT is easy enough for us now, after several centuries of uninterrupted progress in Scotland, to look back into her heroic ages, to see the meaning of the great principles then so fiercely contested, and to trace the results which have flowed from the vindication of those principles.
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05/08/2008 11:53 PM
Kintail
An account of the Clearances in Kintail from the History of the Highland Clearances.
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05/08/2008 11:33 PM
Electric Scotland Weekly Newsletter
Our weekly newsletter is now available for viewing.
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05/08/2008 08:03 PM
Scots in Michigan
We were given some information about this book by the publishers.
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05/08/2008 11:16 AM
The Flag in the Wind
This weeks issue is now available.
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05/07/2008 11:42 PM
Newhaven and Newton
Two more names from The Scottish Nation.
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05/07/2008 11:40 PM
Constitution and Rank of Burgh
Arbroath at first a Burgh of Barony and Regality: Made a Free Burgh by special grants: Temporarily represented in Parliament A.D. 1579: Made a proper Royal Burgh in 1599.
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05/07/2008 11:38 PM
Her Great Historic Names
NOT a little of the heroic and romantic mingles in the Iong story of Scotland's struggle for civil and religious liberty, giving rise to an illustrious roll known as the "Scottish chiefs" and the "Scottish worthies." Another chapter from Scotland's Influence on Civilization.
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05/07/2008 11:36 PM
Life and Death
A short poem from Good Words.
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05/07/2008 10:39 PM
The Eviction of the Rosses
Another report from the History of the Highland Clearances.
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05/07/2008 01:16 AM
Newark and Newburgh
Two more names explored from The Scottish Nation.
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05/07/2008 01:12 AM
The Town of Arbroath and its Dependencies
Chapter 1 from the book "Arbroath and its Abbey".
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05/07/2008 01:09 AM
Glencalvie
Another report from the History of the Highland Clearances from Ross-shire.
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05/07/2008 01:04 AM
The Parish of Longside
Another Parish from the New Statistical Account of Scotland.
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05/07/2008 01:01 AM
Lady Somerville's Maidens
Another chapter from this series from Good Words.
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05/06/2008 04:17 PM
Highlander and his books
This is a book review by Frank Shaw about "Boulders at Hirti Geo" By Jim Hewitson.
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05/05/2008 11:04 PM
Arbroath and its Abbey
Made a start at this new book where the famous Declaration of Arbroath was signed.
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05/05/2008 10:58 PM
Newall
NEWALL, derived from NEVILLE, or NOEL, the surname of a family of Norman extraction, which came to Scotland about the 16th century, and settled in Galloway.
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05/05/2008 10:56 PM
Summer Sadness
Another article from Good Words.
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05/05/2008 10:53 PM
Trial of Patrick Sellar
For his action in connection with the Sutherland Clearances, Patrick Sellar was placed on trial at a sitting of the Circuit Court at Inverness in 1816. The bench was occupied by Lord Pitmilly. We give the indictment, defences, judge's summing up, and other particulars, but omit the evidence, as no authentic record thereof is available.
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05/05/2008 10:51 PM
The Monkey
Another story from The Book of Scottish Story.
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05/05/2008 07:22 PM
Baptism
Got in this Homily from Nola Crewe to do with Baptism.
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05/05/2008 12:17 AM
The Black Book of Taymouth and Other Papers
This is our weekly pdf file which gives accounts of papers from the Breadalbane Charter Room which were prepared from it in 1598 and thus shows many interesting accounts including, for example, the use of fosterage in Scotland.
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05/04/2008 11:08 PM
Nasmyth
Another name from The Scottish Nation.
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05/04/2008 11:06 PM
Reply to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe by Donald Macleod
Another chapter from the Sutherland Clearances.
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05/04/2008 11:03 PM
Dr. Wichern and The Rauhe Haus
Another chapter from the publication Good Words.
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05/04/2008 01:41 AM
Napier
NAPIER, a surname of considerable antiquity both in Scotland and England. It is principally, however, Scotch.
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05/04/2008 01:14 AM
The Long Struggle for Liberty
Chapter 2 from Scotland's Influence on Civilization.
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05/04/2008 12:53 AM
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe on the Sutherland Clearances
Another account of the Sutherland Highland Clearances.
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05/03/2008 01:14 AM
Nairne
Another name from The Scottish Nation which includes information on Baroness Nairne the Scottish Songstress.
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05/03/2008 01:12 AM
Good Words for Every Day of the Year
Another article from Good Words.
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05/03/2008 01:10 AM
Scotland's Place in History
This is us starting a new book, "Scotland's Influence on Civilization" By The Rev. Leroy J. Halsey, D.D., LL.D.
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05/03/2008 01:09 AM
Mr. James Loch on Sutherland Improvements
An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquis of Stafford, by James Kinloch, General Agent of the Sutherland Estates. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ovine & Brown, 1820.
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05/01/2008 10:38 PM
Mylne
MYLNE, ROBERT, an eminent architect, was born at Edinburgh, January 4, 1734. His father, Thomas Mylne, an architect and magistrate of that city, belonged to a family who held the hereditary office of master-mason to the kings of Scotland, conferred by King James III.
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05/01/2008 10:35 PM
Was it Spirit-Knocking?
Another article from Good Words.
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05/01/2008 10:32 PM
The Evolution of Fiction
This is the final chapter from the book The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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05/01/2008 10:29 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
Colonel George Sinclair—Caithness proprietors and wadsetters in 1668—Liberties of the Town of Thurso—The Caithness Fencibles—Lord Caithness's steam carriage—The Battle of Artimarlach—Gleanings from Douglas Peerage of Scotland, and other sources. This now completes this book.
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05/01/2008 10:28 PM
Electric Scotland's Weekly Newsletter
Our weekly newsletter for 2nd May 2008.
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05/01/2008 08:30 PM
Christina McKelvie MSP's Weekly Diary
This is Christina's weekly diary for this week.
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05/01/2008 08:28 PM
Grace Notes
This is the monthly edition (May) of Memphis Scottish Society
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05/01/2008 12:59 PM
The Concise Household Encyclopaedia
Cake, Sponge Cake Mixture, Gingerbread, Cake Stand, Calamine, Calandrinia, Calceolaria, Calculus, Calendar, Calendars for Household Use, Perpetual Calendars, Calf, Calf: The Leather, Californian Bluebell, Californian Poppy, Calipers, Call, Leaving Cards.
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05/01/2008 12:20 PM
Lady Jean: a Tale of the Seventeenth Century
Another story from The Book of Scottish Story.
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05/01/2008 11:11 AM
The Flag in the Wind
This weeks edition is now ready for viewing.
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04/30/2008 11:01 PM
Murray
A good account of the name and also some fine biographies of people of that name from The Scottish Nation.
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04/30/2008 10:40 PM
Parish of Clatt
Another account of a Parish from the New Statistical Account of Scotland.
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04/30/2008 10:27 PM
Lady Somerville's Maidens
Another chapter in this series from Good Words.
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04/30/2008 10:25 PM
The German Influence
Another chapter from The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/30/2008 10:24 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
Ancient state of husbandry, handicrafts, etc., in Caithness-Memoranda connected with public roads in the county of Caithness—Extracts from old inventories of the titles of the estate of Malcolm Groat of Warse—Valuation of the county in 1760 and 1798—Earls of Caithness of the Sinclair family after Caithness was disjoined from Orkney, and erected into a separate earldom—Armorial bearings of the Earls of Caithness—Pedigree of the Mey family— Pedigree of John Sinclair, Esq. of Barrock—Letter of Mr Sinclair of Forss to the Author—Pedigree of the Forss family—Testimony of Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath, in Caithness—Mutiny of the High School Boys—Young Sinclair of Mey.
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04/30/2008 06:33 PM
Beth's Newfangled Family Tree
The May edition of Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is now available.
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04/29/2008 10:56 PM
Mure
MURE, a surname, the same as More, Muir, and Moore. The chief of the name in Scotland was Mure of Rowallan, in Ayrshire, whose family, terminating in an heiress, is now represented by the noble family of Loundoun.
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04/29/2008 10:54 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
In this chapter I purpose to give a brief account of five of the most distinguished laymen that Caithness has produced, namely, the late Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, James Traill, Esq. of Rattar, James Bremner, civil engineer of Wick, John Finlaison, late actuary of the National Debt and Government Calculator, and Richard Oswald, the eminent London merchant.
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04/29/2008 10:52 PM
Highlanders at Home and Abroad
Why is the mountaineer so attached to his Highland home? We do not say that the home-sickness, or mal du pays, is peculiar to the mountaineer, but only that in him it is peculiarly intense and passionate.
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04/29/2008 10:51 PM
Hugh Miller on the Sutherland Clearances
So much has been already said about these disastrous Sutherland evictions that we greatly fear the reader is sickened with the horrid narrative, but as it is intended to make the present record of these atrocious proceedings, not only in Sutherland but throughout the whole Highlands, as complete as it is now possible to make it, we shall yet place before the reader at considerable length Hugh Miller's observations on this National Crime.
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04/29/2008 09:16 PM
Clans And Scottish Societies of Canada
This is an article about the history of the Clans and Scottish Societies of Canada.
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04/29/2008 12:07 AM
Utley Family Newsletter
Got in the May/June newsletter of the Utley family as a .pdf file.
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04/28/2008 11:41 PM
Munro
MUNRO, frequently spelled Monro, and sometimes with a final e at both forms of the surname, the name of a clan (in Gaelic Clann roich of Rothich) whose possessions, situated on the north side of the firth of Cromarty, were generally known in the Highlands by the name of Fearrann Donull or Donald’s country, being so called from the progenitor of the clan, Donald the son of O’Ceann, who lived in the time of Macbeth.
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04/28/2008 11:39 PM
Burns and His Epoch
Another chapter from The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/28/2008 11:35 PM
God's Glory in the Heavens
The comet of Donati, which presented so imposing a spectacle in our northern hemisphere in 1858, strongly revived the popular interest in such appearances.
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04/28/2008 11:32 PM
General Stewart of Garth on the Sutherland Clearances
Another chapter from the History of the Highland Clearances
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04/28/2008 11:02 AM
STV News Bulletin
You can watch this 5 minute news bulletin courtesy of STV.
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04/28/2008 10:59 AM
Tom Weir = Climber, Photographer, Broadcaster
If you haven't watched the videos of Tom Muir then you're missing a rare treat. I've created a page so you can listen to some of them courtesy of ScotlandOnTV.
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04/27/2008 10:23 PM
Mowat & Mudie
Two more names from "The Scottish Nation".
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04/27/2008 10:21 PM
Good Words for Every Day of the Year
Another article from Good Words.
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04/27/2008 10:19 PM
The Literary Spirit
Another chapter from "The Intellectual Development of Scotland".
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04/27/2008 10:18 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
Memoirs of distinguished Caithness clergymen—Different religious persuasions in the county—Anecdote of Sir William Sinclair of Keiss,
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04/26/2008 10:38 PM
Moubray
MOUBRAY, the surname of an ancient family, the first of whom in Scotland, Philip de Moubray, descended from one of the Norman adventurers who came over with William the Conqueror, was the second son of Nigel de Moubray, and brother of William de Moubray, ancestor of the duke of Norfolk of that name.
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04/26/2008 10:34 PM
Lady Somerville's Maidens
Another Chapter of this book from Good Words.
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04/26/2008 10:32 PM
The Rev. Donald Sage on the Sutherland Clearances.
An account from The History of the Highland Clearances.
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04/26/2008 10:30 PM
The Economic Movement
Another chapter from our book, The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/26/2008 10:28 PM
How to Learn Gaelic
This is our weekly .pdf file and as I get lots of emails on how to learn Gaelic I thought this would be a good book to make available :-)
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04/26/2008 01:18 PM
Clan Shaw
I have been advised that Clan Shaw have a new web site.
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04/25/2008 10:39 PM
Motherwell
MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM, a highly-gifted poet, was born in Glasgow, October 13, 1797. His family originally belonged to Stirlingshire, where for several generations they resided on a small property of their own, called Muirmill.
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04/25/2008 10:36 PM
On the Atlantic
Another article from Good Words.
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04/25/2008 10:33 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
Prelature of Caithness—Bishop's lands—Tradition regarding the Lewis chieftain and the Bishop's daughter—Caithness intensely Popish before the Reformation—Dr Richard Merchiston of Bower, long after the Reformation, falls a martyr to his zeal against popery—State of education in Caithness—Edinburgh Caithness Association.
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04/25/2008 10:30 PM
Alexander Mackenzie on the Clearances
This is the first account in the book The History of the Highland Clearances.
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04/24/2008 11:23 PM
Morton
MORTON, earl of, a title in the peerage of Scotland, conferred by James II. 14th March 1458, on James Douglas of Dalkeith, descended from Sir John Douglas, second son of Sir James de Douglas, of Loudon, who was assassinated by order of Sir David Barclay of Brechin in 1350, and whose eldest son, Sir James Douglas, had, in 1351, a grant of the barony of Aberdour in Fife, from his uncle, William de Douglas, lord of Liddisdale, and some time earl of Athol.
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04/24/2008 11:20 PM
The Scientific Movement (continued)
Another chapter from The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/24/2008 11:15 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
John Sinclair of Murkle succeeds to the earldom—Duel between Sinclair of Olrig and Innes of Sandside—Lord Macleod, son of the Earl of Cromarty, enters the county with a party of rebels for the purpose of procuring men— Head quarters in Thurso—Several of the proprietors in the county keen Jacobites—Alexander, now Earl of Caithness, and George Sinclair of Ulbster, staunch supporters of the Hanoverian dynasty—Lord Macleod, having got only a few men to join him, leaves the county—Achgillan and his band of robbers—Plot to murder and rob the Laird of Freswick—Story of Marshall, the Robber of Backlas— French Revolution and rebellion in Ireland—The Caithness Fencibles.
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04/24/2008 04:27 PM
Fallbrook Farm
Always great to see how a conservation project develops and this update issue gives you information on the last meeting and other activities.
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04/24/2008 04:08 PM
Christina McKelvie MSP's Weekly Diary
Got in this weeks diary.
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04/24/2008 04:08 PM
The Flag in the Wind
This weeks issue is now available for viewing.
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04/23/2008 11:02 PM
The History of the Highland Clearances
MACKENZIE'S History of the Highland Clearances, with its thrilling and almost incredible narratives of oppression and eviction, has been for a long time out of print and this is now the re-edited version which was published in 1914.
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04/23/2008 10:57 PM
Journey by Sinai to Syria
Another chapter from this series from Good Words.
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04/23/2008 10:48 PM
Mortimer
MORTIMER, the surname of an ancient potent family of Norman descent, who possessed the lands of Aberdour in Fife.
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04/23/2008 10:46 PM
The Scientific Movement
Another chapter from The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/23/2008 10:42 PM
Parish of Tarland and Migvie
An account of this Parish from the New Statistical Account of Scotland.
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04/23/2008 12:22 PM
Millburn
A small town in New Jersey, USA, with a Scottish connection.
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04/23/2008 03:34 AM
National Scots, Scots-Irish heritage month
Now that Tartan Day has finally been signed and now complete, we should join together towards the establishment of the entire month of April as “National Scots, Scots-Irish Heritage Month”.
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04/23/2008 03:14 AM
"Chief" by Donna Flood
Donna has started a new series called "Chief" which is the story of her cousin Warren Curtis Jones.
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04/22/2008 10:10 PM
Morison
Information on the name Morison from The Scottish Nation.
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04/22/2008 10:07 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
The late Earl, before his death, sells his property and title to John Campbell of Glenorchy—Glenorchy marries the Countess Dowager—George Sinclair of Keiss disputes the title—Battle of Altimarlach—The Sinclairs lose the day— Anecdote of Glenorchy's piper—Glenorchy hated by the inhabitants of Caithness—His estate in the county ultimately divided into separate portions and sold.
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04/22/2008 10:06 PM
Recent Developments in Philosophy
Another chapter from The Intellectual Development of Scotland.
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04/22/2008 12:24 PM
Belmont Camp - Meigle (1947)
Another doggerel from John Henderson.
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04/21/2008 10:42 PM
Moreham
MOREHAM, a surname taken from lands in Haddingtonshire, now a parish.
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04/21/2008 10:40 PM
Dr Wichern and The Rauhe House
Another article from Good Words.
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04/21/2008 10:38 PM
The Rise of Philosophy
Between theology and philosophy in the earlier stages there is a natural affinity. Theology, in the orthodox sense, busies itself with the systematizing of the doctrines of revelation, while philosophy busies itself with their intellectual comprehension.
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04/21/2008 10:37 PM
Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness
George, sixth Earl of Caithness, not distinguished by any remarkable qualities—Landing of Montrose in Caithness —He takes up his head quarters in Thurso—Compels the heritors and ministers to sign a bond of allegiance, which they all do except the minister of Bower—Is joined by Sinclair of Brims, Hugh Mackay of Dirlet, and Hutcheon Mackay of Scoury—Lays siege to the Castle of Dunbeath, which soon surrenders—Is defeated on the confines of Ross-shire, apprehended by Macleod of Assynt, sent to Edinburgh, and executed—Castle of Dunbeath re-taken— Henry Graham, the brother of Montrose, makes his escape to Orkney—Cromwell plants a garrison in Ackergill Tower.
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04/21/2008 09:52 PM
Memphis Scottish Society
We have received 2 years worth of the Memphis Scottish Society monthly newsletters. Loads of reading!
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