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Tartan Day
This year, for the first time, the huge contribution of Scots and Scotland to the founding of North America will be celebrated across the whole of Canada and the USA on Tartan Day, April 6.
The decis...
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Tartan Day
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Memories of Elizabeth Rose
Elizabeth Rose : Obituary
Published in the Scotsman Publications on 15 December 2012
ROSE Anna (Kilravock) Peacefully, at Nairn on December 9, 2012, aged 88 years, Baroness Anna Elizabeth Guillemard...
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Clan Rose, Kilravock Castle
The Gooseberry Bush of Kilravlock Castle
There is said to be a curse on Kilravock Castle and the Chiefs of Clan Rose. It was told that if a gooseberry bush that grew at the top of their main tower died, so too would the male line. It is not...
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Clan Rose, Kilravock Castle
A MacKinnon Tale
Highland Revenge - An Ancient MacKinnon Tale
As each generation passes the torch to the next, something is always lost. Some stories and songs do not get passed down, while others only do so in a gar...
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Clan MacKinnon
Scot fights for apology from Japanese PM for PoW Father'...
[caption id="attachment_577" align="alignnone" width="460" caption="POW's After VJ Day. Patrick James McAnulty, never fully recovered from more than three years of captivity in Japan. McAnulty; standi...
Sir Jack Leslie - A true eccentric
Still moving and shaking around the globe at 93
My most memorable holiday was...
a three-month, round-the-world-trip back in 1957. I just took a wad of travellers' cheques, a little suitcase and wen...
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