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The Beaton Doctors of Mull
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The Beatons of Mull, the famous 'Ollamnh Muileach', were a family of doctors, whose origins can be traced back to Béthune in France, and are said to have been very talented with a rather unique medi...
Topics: Beaton, Lochbuie, MacLean, MacLean of Duart, Mull, Myth
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Scotland's Oldest Man Dies
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Scotland's oldest man, Robert 'Bob' Taggart, has passed away on the 13th of Augus tat the age of 109, less than three weeks after being crowned Britain's oldest man, after the death of First World W...
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Boycott on Scotland after al-Megrahi's Release
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Scotland's worst terrorist incident occurred on the evening of Dec. 21, 1988 when a bomb exploded on board a PanAm Boeing 747 air liner on course from Frankfurt to New York. It crashed on the villag...
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Reverend Ernest Levy Dies
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Reverend Ernest Levy OBE, one Scotland's most prominent Jewish leaders, and Holocaust survivor has died at the age of 84. Born in 1925, in Bratislava, in the then Czechoslovakia, his family fled to...
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Johnnie Armstrong and the Border Reivers
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Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie was once one of the most popular, powerful, and feared clan chiefs in the Scottish borders. However, after his execution in 1530 by order of James V, Clan Armstrong ha...
Topics: Armstrong, Border Reivers, Carlinrigg, Clan Armstrong, Gilnokie, Johnnie Armstrong, Langholm, Mosspaul, Myth, Scottish Borders
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Thomas the Rhymer
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Thomas Learmonth from Ercildoune (now Earlston), better known as Thomas the Rhymer was a 13th century Laird, poet and a supposed prophet. Legend tells us how Thomas the Rhymer went out walking one ...
Topics: Fairy, Learmonth, Myth, Thomas the Rymer
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The Pharaoh's daughter and Scotland
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The story of how Scotland got it's name is an interesting one. Tradition has it that the legend starts back in ancient Egypt, where a pharaoh's daughter, called Scota, and two Greek princes formed...
Topics: Myth, Picts, Scota
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The Wardens of the Marches
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The relationship between Scotland and England wasn't always as amicable as it is today. From the late 13th century to the 16th century, Scotland and England were constantly at war with each other. Thi...
Topics: Bell, Border Reivers, Dixon, Hume, Irvine, Johnstone, Kerr, Marches, Scott, Scottish Borders, Trotter, Turnbull
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Edinburgh and Glasgow's Rivarly Began Over Bread
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It has been recently suggested that the centuries-long rivalry between Scotland's capital and Scotland's largest city all started over bread. It seems to have begun in 1656 when the Glasgow town coun...
Topics: Bread, edinburgh, glasgow, Rivalries
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The Battle of Altimarlach - Scotland's last Clan Battle
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The 13th of July, 1680 saw the last significant clan battle to be fought in Scotland, with the Sinclairs, under the command of George Sinclair of Keiss, taking on the Campbells led by Sir John Campb...
Topics: Altimarlach, Battle, Caithness, Campbell, Clan, Earl of Caithness, Sinclair
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