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400 WW1 Soldiers Bodies Recovered
In a quiet corner of a French field lies the remains of over 400 World War 1 Soldiers, stripped of their identity tags these mass graves are evidence of a very little documented slaughter. The sold...
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Scottish Regiments
- May 5, 2009 8:09 pm
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The Thompson's Curse
There's a very old, very little known tale connected with the Thompson Clan. Four brothers and five sisters lived on a beautiful bay in the island of Arran at Machrie. The sisters do not feature in t...
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Clan Thompson, Legend, Thompson
Credit crunch hits Highland Games
The recession has bitten again, this time causing Stirling's annual Highland Games to be cancelled. Organisers blamed "economic uncertainties created by the credit crunch" and successive changes of...
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Highland Games, Scotland
'Scotland's Schindler' to be Honoured for Sacrifice
A missionary from Dunscore near Dumfries has been described as "Scotland's Schindler" after she sacrificed her life at Auschwitz-Birkenauis to finally be honoured by the Prime Minister.
Jane Hainin...
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Haining, Scotland, World War II
Scotland a Feeble Country! and Burns is Boring! - So Sa...
Academic David Starkey is now facing the wrath of the Celtic Fringe after last Thursday's appearance on BBC's Question Time. The Tudor lover dropped more than a few insults, dismissing the nations of ...
ScotClans Twittering Makes The News!
Today an article was published in The Edinburgh Evening News which looked at ever growing phenomenon of Twitter. Rodger from www.scotclans.com was interviewed to give his views on how ScotClans uses...
ScotClans at Aviemore Tradeshow
This is the third year ScotClans has attended the tradeshow at Aviemore. Unlike the Scottish tradeshow in Glasgow here each exhibitor has to guarantee that at least 90% of their goods are designed and...
Get on Yer Bike!
Fresh on the heels of YouTube's singing sensation Susan Boyle Scotland has just found yet another video star in the shape of Danny MacAskill. This young tearaway from Skye, now living in Edinburgh cou...
Sea Eagles doing well in Scotland
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Sea Eagles are the largest European bird of prey, they had sadly become wiped out in Britain because of Egg collectors.
A few years ago Sea Eagle chicks were brought over from Norway in an...
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Eagles
The Annat Skull
There's a superstition in Applecross/Torridon area of Scotland that relates to the Annat skull in which water sipped from the skull of a female suicide is a supposed cure for epilepsy. The poor wom...
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Applecross, MacDonald, Scottish Myths, superstitions, torridon