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Nadine Lee
Romancing the Stone: Curling's Scottish Heritage
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On Thin Ice - Team GB at Sochi Olympic Games 2014 Who could have thought that a sport whose humble beginnings can be traced back five centuries to a frozen Scottish lake, would become one of the bi...
Topics: Curling, Grand Caledonian Curling Club, Kilsyth Curling Club, Rabbie Burns, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Scottish immigration to Canada, Scottish Inventions, Scottish Sport, Sochi WInter Olympic Games 2014, Team GB, Winter Olympics
Nadine Lee
Bannockburn Visitor Centre Ready for Battle
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A 3D Robert the Bruce visits his troops at the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre We're just back from a quick trip up the road to just outside Stirling to check out the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre,...
Topics: 700th Anniversary of Bannockburn, Bannockburn, Bannockburn 2014, Bannockburn Visitor Centre, Robert the Bruce, Sir James Douglas
Nadine Lee
Kelburn Castle Set to Reopen
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The seat of Clan Boyle, also known as the 'graffiti castle', is set to reopen after a five year £500,000 renovation. Kelburn Castle near Largs, North Ayrshire was closed in 2009 following a fire in ...
Topics: Boyle, Castles, Scottish Clans, Scottish History, Scottish News
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ANOTHER MUSE FROM A SIMPLE MAN (WHAT IF...................
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IS OUR LIFE DECIDED BY FATE OR BY FREE-WILL? OR IS IT OUR FREE CHOICE BUT WHERE SOMETHING EFFECTS WORLD HISTORY THAT IS PRE-DESTINED AND CANNOT BE CHANGED. ISTARTED THINKING ABOUT THIS WHEN WALKING R...
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The Death March to Durham
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The aftermath of the 1650 Battle of Dunbar saw the grave mistreatment of 5,000 Scottish prisoners-of-war at the hands of the English Parliamentarian army. These battle-weary prisoners were starved o...
Topics: Covenanter, Cromwell, David Leslie, Death March, Doon Hill, Dunbar, King Charles
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Amanda Moffet
Life of Pi poster shows Scottish Shipwreck
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Left is The Life of Pi poster, and on the right the wreck of The Sovereign A Scottish Shipwreck makes a cameo appearance in The Ang Lee Blockbuster - Life of Pi. Surprised locals recognised the wre...
Amanda Moffet
Clan MacKinnon gets a new Chieftan
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Clan MacKinnon have a new lease of life - not only have they appointed a new Chieftan but have a shiny new website. This will serve as a great resource to the widespread MacKinnon Clan. They want ev...
Topics: MacKinnon
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The Gauntlets are Off! - Sir Malcolm Wades into Bannock...
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Strange forces seem to work on the internet, last year only hours after we had launched this site the news broke that the Stirling gathering was on the rocks. Yesterday a matter of minutes after I pub...
Amanda Moffet
The Electric Brae
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As part of our mini-tour on Sunday we managed to take in one of Scotlands spookiest roads, the Electric Brae near Ayr. We stopped the car to check if we were in the right place and immediately start...
Topics: Electric Brae
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Nadine Lee
From Norway with Love
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The Nidelva River, with Nidaros Cathedral in the background. Trondheim, Norway. When asked to give the name of his nearest mainline rail station on a Parliamentary expenses questionnaire, former lib...
Topics: Gunn, Ian Rankin, MacDonald, MacLeod, MacLeod of Lewis, Norse, North Sea, Norway, Trondheim, Vikings
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