SCOTTISH HISTORY

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FACT OF THE DAY It was announced today in 1996 that the Stone of Destiny would be housed in the Crown Room at Edinburgh Castle when it was returned on St Andrew's Day. The stone will be transported back to Westminster if and when required for future coronations. You can watch a video of former Scottish Se...

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Stevenson Model Lighthouse The original scale model of the Bell Rock lighthouse which was created by engineer Robert Stevenson, is being sold at auction in London. Every lighthouse across the world that sits in the sea today has been built to Robert Stevensons design and specification. Bell Rock i...

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Chapter XX The Grey Mother She stands today, full of mystical beauties within and crowned with a perfect grace without, looking down on the crowds that throng the best-known causey in Scotland. The storms of centuries, over-sweeping her plain Scots face, have invested it with a douce grey dignity...

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FACT OF THE DAY One in three of Eyemouth's fishermen died in a sudden storm on this date in 1881. Almost half the Berwickshire town's fishing fleet of 45 boats were destroyed in the disaster. The total death toll was 189, of which 129 were from Eyemouth. Only 30 bodies were ever recovered. When the seas s...

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FACT OF THE DAY Today in 1990 a fireworks party was held to celebrate the centenary of the Forth Rail Bridge. At the time of its construction it was the only major steel bridge in the world; its 521 metre steel girder remains one of the great feats of engineering. Find out more about the bridge - and its you...

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Thu 13 Jan 2005 Sir Alexander Fleming. Picture: Getty Images Sir Alexander Fleming1881-1955IAIN LUNDY Born: Lochfield, East Ayrshire IN HIS cluttered research laboratory, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made an accidental discovery that was to transform the world of modern medicines. He w...

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Civil engineering can lay good claim to being one of the oldest professions in the world. Its roots can be traced back to four thousand years before the birth of Christ, in Ancient Egypt where people began to abandon nomadic existences and come together to live in cities. The Pyramids, built between 2...

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Scots call to save Grand Old Lady of the Mississippi from scrapheapOperation of Clyde-built vessel to be ceased Delta Queen could be scrapped after her license is withdrawn MSPs back motion calling for preservation of the vessel SHE has carried presidents and princesses, seen wartime service and...

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FACT OF THE DAY Prince Charles Edward Stewart (Stuart), better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, entered the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, on this date in 1745, as part of "the Forty Five" rebellion. This event was later immortalised in the novel "Waverley" by Sir Walte...

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Prisons of War Visitor Experience At Edinburgh Castle Published: 13 June 2004 By: Historic Scotland Two-hundred-year-old graffiti in Edinburgh Castle's prison vaults is one of the inspirations behind the development of a major new exhibition within the castle. The focus is prison life in the ye...

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I found the attached articles about " The Stane " in The Scottish Sunday post newspaper August 19 and August 26th. 2007. The one from the August 19, edition is a real thought provoker!! I await some comments. andymacb

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I postewd the previous article but the image sizes may not be very readable. If anyone wants to have a better copy I will e-mail them directly. I wish it was easier to make decent posts of such material. I can make them as PDF or JPEG. I found the now defunct Tranter Group site deficient as there was noway to...

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Ingenious pioneers who made life better WHO is Scotland's greatest inventor? . There are theorists like James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin, James Watt and his steam engine, John Logie Baird and his mechanical TV and modern heroes, like James Black and Ian Donald, whose contributions to medicine a...

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Highland aid 'just blood money for Clearances'JOHN ROSS AND FIONA MACLEOD (jross@scotsman.com) GUILT has driven the financial regeneration of the Scottish Highlands, a leading academic is due to claim today. Professor James Hunter, the director of the University of the Highlands and Islands...

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Elsie Inglis DayElsie Inglis (1864-1917) started her medical training at the revolutionary "Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women" and was one of the first women doctors in the UK by the end of the 19th century. But she is best remembered for her work throughout Europe during the First W...

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Hello Forum friends, this is a copy of the post Clyde put on the other site, all i have done is to add the photos, Rab. In August 1305, at Robroyston near Glasgow, William Wallace was captured by Sir John Menteith and handed over to the English authorities to be taken off to London and his cruel death. This...

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JAMIE RAEBURN Traditional as sung by Daisy Chapman My name is Jamie Raeburn, frae Glasgow toon I came;My place and habitation I'm forced tae leave wi' shane;From my place and habitation I now maun gang awa',Far frae the bonnie hills and dales o' Caledonia.It was early one morning, just by the bre...

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Discover where geology turns the world on its headGEORGE ANDERSON AND HEATHER KINNIN If you park at the end of the track, go round the back of a turnip shed and scramble down a steep bank, you can still see the conflicting layers of rock which gave Hutton the idea that the world wasn't created in six days S...

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700 years on, still battling over Bannockburn THE National Trust for Scotland has defended its portrayal of the Battle of Bannockburn as "two kings jostling for position" as opposed to a battle between Scotland and England. The controversial claim was made by Michael Hunter, the trust...

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The Highland ClearancesBRENDAN O'BRIEN THE HIGHLAND Clearances are an infamous chapter in Scottish history, the cruel story of how the Highland people were dispossessed of their homes by their landlords. So emotive is the subject that many writers denounce the clearances as the first act of mode...

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Last Gasp Bid to Save "City of Adelaide"There have been previous failed efforts to save the clipper "City of Adelaide" which has been rotting on a slipway at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Ayrshire for the last 15 years. But yet another bid to raise £1.5 million has been starte...

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The Auld Alliance - Scotland and FranceTo drink withe ws the new fresche wyneThat grew apone the revar Ryne,Fresche fragrant claretis out of France,Off Angeo and of Orliance,William Dunbar extolls the selections of wineto be found in Edinburgh to King James IV.Scotlands most famous connection w...

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During my research of the Barclays in Scotland I found information relating to a Battle that was fought called the battle of the Bloody Pits (or Pots) that took place in Banffshire in 1004. The site was near Gamrie ( or Gardenstown) on the coast not far from MacDuff. The wee kirk that was built there suse...

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Fri 21 Jan 2005 Vikings raided Scotland's western coast in 1263 Picture: Getty Images Viking threat thwarted at LargsBRENDAN O'BRIEN Viking King Hakon Hakonson sailed with 200 longships to confront Scots King Alexander III Storms grounded the Viking fleet and Scots forced them back to Orkney Vic...

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Thu 13 Jan 2005 John Logie Baird working on his early television apparatus John Logie Baird1888-1946Born: Helensburgh A CURSE as much as a blessing, television must surely rank as one of the most all-pervasive and important devices of our modern age, and the man credited with inventing the first pr...

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Mary, Queen of ScotsLIAM PATERSON Promised in marriage to Henry VIII's son, Mary's refusal sparked the 'rough wooing' Fled to France where she married, to return on her husband's death Mary's Catholicism and claim to the English throne led to a lengthy imprisonment Mary was beheaded in 1587 after p...

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FROM THE SCOTSMAN. Captain William Kidd(1654 - 1701)CRAIG HOWIE PIRATE or privateer, peg-legged villain or respected seafarer wrongly put to death, there are almost as many legends about Captain William Kidd as there were weevils in the average ship's biscuit. One thing is for certain: Kidd's pl...

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Hello Jane, Jud et all, The expedition arrived in January 2003, they found the remains of the first town that was built, NEW EDINBURGH and the fort, FORT ST ANDREW, also a moat that had been dug, heaps of artefacts, the wreck of the first re-supply ship, failed to find graveyard containing 2000 of the se...

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FACT OF THE DAY This is a famous day in world history. It is May Day. It was the day in 1522 that England declared war on France and Scotland. And the Scots declared civil war on this day in 1648. Most important to Scotland, though, the Treaty of Union, which famously bound this nation to England, came into...

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Darien Venture was a good idea at the time, insists TV archaeologist THE Darien Venture is often seen as one of Scotland's great follies: a flawed attempt to establish its own overseas empire that was doomed from the start, crippled the country financially, and led to the 1707 Act of Union. But a new ar...

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	FACT OF THE DAY.........THE STONE OF DESTINY-PHOTO (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY It was announced today in 1996 that the Stone of Destiny would be housed in the Crown Room at Edinburgh Castle when it was returned on St Andrew's Day. The stone will be transported back to Westminster if and when required for future coronations. You can watch a video of former Scottish Se...	Rabbie Downunder	0	625	Oct 21, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	STEVENSONS LIGHTHOUSE (Preview) Stevenson Model Lighthouse The original scale model of the Bell Rock lighthouse which was created by engineer Robert Stevenson, is being sold at auction in London. Every lighthouse across the world that sits in the sea today has been built to Robert Stevensons design and specification. Bell Rock i...	Rabbie Downunder	0	370	Oct 21, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	Chapter 20 of Barnett's Reminisences of Old Scots Folk (Preview) Chapter XX The Grey Mother She stands today, full of mystical beauties within and crowned with a perfect grace without, looking down on the crowds that throng the best-known causey in Scotland. The storms of centuries, over-sweeping her plain Scots face, have invested it with a douce grey dignity...	cagentry64	1	605	Oct 19, 2007 by abw1109
	FACT OF THE DAY SCOTTISH FISHING DISASTER (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY One in three of Eyemouth's fishermen died in a sudden storm on this date in 1881. Almost half the Berwickshire town's fishing fleet of 45 boats were destroyed in the disaster. The total death toll was 189, of which 129 were from Eyemouth. Only 30 bodies were ever recovered. When the seas s...	Rabbie Downunder	0	21757	Oct 14, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY FORTH RAIL BRIDGE PHOTOS (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY Today in 1990 a fireworks party was held to celebrate the centenary of the Forth Rail Bridge. At the time of its construction it was the only major steel bridge in the world; its 521 metre steel girder remains one of the great feats of engineering. Find out more about the bridge - and its you...	Rabbie Downunder	0	400	Oct 7, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING (Preview) Thu 13 Jan 2005 Sir Alexander Fleming. Picture: Getty Images Sir Alexander Fleming1881-1955IAIN LUNDY Born: Lochfield, East Ayrshire IN HIS cluttered research laboratory, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made an accidental discovery that was to transform the world of modern medicines. He w...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1409	Oct 1, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	TELFORD--A SCOT BUILDING NATIONS. (Preview) Civil engineering can lay good claim to being one of the oldest professions in the world. Its roots can be traced back to four thousand years before the birth of Christ, in Ancient Egypt where people began to abandon nomadic existences and come together to live in cities. The Pyramids, built between 2...	Rabbie Downunder	2	385	Sep 23, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	A BEAUTIFUL LADY WORTH SAVING (Preview) Scots call to save Grand Old Lady of the Mississippi from scrapheapOperation of Clyde-built vessel to be ceased Delta Queen could be scrapped after her license is withdrawn MSPs back motion calling for preservation of the vessel SHE has carried presidents and princesses, seen wartime service and...	Rabbie Downunder	0	361	Sep 20, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCOTTISH FACT OF THE DAY (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY Prince Charles Edward Stewart (Stuart), better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, entered the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, on this date in 1745, as part of "the Forty Five" rebellion. This event was later immortalised in the novel "Waverley" by Sir Walte...	Rabbie Downunder	0	352	Sep 18, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	Edinburgh Castle prisoner exhibit (Preview) Prisons of War Visitor Experience At Edinburgh Castle Published: 13 June 2004 By: Historic Scotland Two-hundred-year-old graffiti in Edinburgh Castle's prison vaults is one of the inspirations behind the development of a major new exhibition within the castle. The focus is prison life in the ye...	abw1109	2	417	Sep 17, 2007 by Aussied Pom
	The Stane O,Destiny (Preview) I found the attached articles about " The Stane " in The Scottish Sunday post newspaper August 19 and August 26th. 2007. The one from the August 19, edition is a real thought provoker!! I await some comments. andymacb	andymacb	1	418	Sep 17, 2007 by Aussied Pom
	The Stane (Preview) I postewd the previous article but the image sizes may not be very readable. If anyone wants to have a better copy I will e-mail them directly. I wish it was easier to make decent posts of such material. I can make them as PDF or JPEG. I found the now defunct Tranter Group site deficient as there was noway to...	andymacb	1	393	Sep 16, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	Ingenious pioneers who made life better (Preview) Ingenious pioneers who made life better WHO is Scotland's greatest inventor? . There are theorists like James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin, James Watt and his steam engine, John Logie Baird and his mechanical TV and modern heroes, like James Black and Ian Donald, whose contributions to medicine a...	Rabbie Downunder	2	392	Sep 13, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	HIGHLAND AID AND THE CLEARANCES, BLOOD MONEY? (Preview) Highland aid 'just blood money for Clearances'JOHN ROSS AND FIONA MACLEOD (jross@scotsman.com) GUILT has driven the financial regeneration of the Scottish Highlands, a leading academic is due to claim today. Professor James Hunter, the director of the University of the Highlands and Islands...	Rabbie Downunder	2	423	Sep 5, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	EDINBURGH'S "FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE" (Preview) Elsie Inglis DayElsie Inglis (1864-1917) started her medical training at the revolutionary "Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women" and was one of the first women doctors in the UK by the end of the 19th century. But she is best remembered for her work throughout Europe during the First W...	Rabbie Downunder	0	350	Aug 26, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	WILLIAM WALLACE MEMORIAL (on behalf of Clyde) (Preview) Hello Forum friends, this is a copy of the post Clyde put on the other site, all i have done is to add the photos, Rab. In August 1305, at Robroyston near Glasgow, William Wallace was captured by Sir John Menteith and handed over to the English authorities to be taken off to London and his cruel death. This...	Rabbie Downunder	0	354	Aug 26, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH SONG.......JAMIE RAEBURN (Preview) JAMIE RAEBURN Traditional as sung by Daisy Chapman My name is Jamie Raeburn, frae Glasgow toon I came;My place and habitation I'm forced tae leave wi' shane;From my place and habitation I now maun gang awa',Far frae the bonnie hills and dales o' Caledonia.It was early one morning, just by the bre...	Rabbie Downunder	1	414	Aug 19, 2007 by andymacb
	THE AGE OF SCOTTISH ROCKS...........PHOTOS (Preview) Discover where geology turns the world on its headGEORGE ANDERSON AND HEATHER KINNIN If you park at the end of the track, go round the back of a turnip shed and scramble down a steep bank, you can still see the conflicting layers of rock which gave Hutton the idea that the world wasn't created in six days S...	Rabbie Downunder	2	420	Jul 14, 2007 by cagentry64
	BANNOCKBURN 700 YEARS ON (Preview) 700 years on, still battling over Bannockburn THE National Trust for Scotland has defended its portrayal of the Battle of Bannockburn as "two kings jostling for position" as opposed to a battle between Scotland and England. The controversial claim was made by Michael Hunter, the trust...	Rabbie Downunder	0	459	Jul 8, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	THE CLEARANCES.......... ANOTHER POST. (Preview) The Highland ClearancesBRENDAN O'BRIEN THE HIGHLAND Clearances are an infamous chapter in Scottish history, the cruel story of how the Highland people were dispossessed of their homes by their landlords. So emotive is the subject that many writers denounce the clearances as the first act of mode...	Rabbie Downunder	1	441	Jul 5, 2007 by Aussied Pom
	THE CITY OF ADELAIDE SAILING SHIP (Preview) Last Gasp Bid to Save "City of Adelaide"There have been previous failed efforts to save the clipper "City of Adelaide" which has been rotting on a slipway at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Ayrshire for the last 15 years. But yet another bid to raise £1.5 million has been starte...	Rabbie Downunder	0	358	Jun 24, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCOTLAND AND FRANCE (Preview) The Auld Alliance - Scotland and FranceTo drink withe ws the new fresche wyneThat grew apone the revar Ryne,Fresche fragrant claretis out of France,Off Angeo and of Orliance,William Dunbar extolls the selections of wineto be found in Edinburgh to King James IV.Scotlands most famous connection w...	Rabbie Downunder	0	360	Jun 21, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	Vikings in Scotland (Preview) During my research of the Barclays in Scotland I found information relating to a Battle that was fought called the battle of the Bloody Pits (or Pots) that took place in Banffshire in 1004. The site was near Gamrie ( or Gardenstown) on the coast not far from MacDuff. The wee kirk that was built there suse...	andymacb	8	852	Jun 14, 2007 by andymacb
	VIKINGS---FACT OF THE DAY----PHOTO (Preview) Fri 21 Jan 2005 Vikings raided Scotland's western coast in 1263 Picture: Getty Images Viking threat thwarted at LargsBRENDAN O'BRIEN Viking King Hakon Hakonson sailed with 200 longships to confront Scots King Alexander III Storms grounded the Viking fleet and Scots forced them back to Orkney Vic...	Rabbie Downunder	0	867	Jun 9, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCOTLAND AND TELEVISION--FACT OF THE DAY (Preview) Thu 13 Jan 2005 John Logie Baird working on his early television apparatus John Logie Baird1888-1946Born: Helensburgh A CURSE as much as a blessing, television must surely rank as one of the most all-pervasive and important devices of our modern age, and the man credited with inventing the first pr...	Rabbie Downunder	0	369	Jun 7, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY--MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (Preview) Mary, Queen of ScotsLIAM PATERSON Promised in marriage to Henry VIII's son, Mary's refusal sparked the 'rough wooing' Fled to France where she married, to return on her husband's death Mary's Catholicism and claim to the English throne led to a lengthy imprisonment Mary was beheaded in 1587 after p...	Rabbie Downunder	1	401	May 16, 2007 by cagentry64
	CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD- FACT OF THE DAY (Preview) FROM THE SCOTSMAN. Captain William Kidd(1654 - 1701)CRAIG HOWIE PIRATE or privateer, peg-legged villain or respected seafarer wrongly put to death, there are almost as many legends about Captain William Kidd as there were weevils in the average ship's biscuit. One thing is for certain: Kidd's pl...	Rabbie Downunder	0	404	May 8, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	DARIEN/PREBBLE (Preview) Hello Jane, Jud et all, The expedition arrived in January 2003, they found the remains of the first town that was built, NEW EDINBURGH and the fort, FORT ST ANDREW, also a moat that had been dug, heaps of artefacts, the wreck of the first re-supply ship, failed to find graveyard containing 2000 of the se...	Rabbie Downunder	0	457	May 1, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY This is a famous day in world history. It is May Day. It was the day in 1522 that England declared war on France and Scotland. And the Scots declared civil war on this day in 1648. Most important to Scotland, though, the Treaty of Union, which famously bound this nation to England, came into...	Rabbie Downunder	0	352	May 1, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	ANOTHER DARIEN ARTICLE (Preview) Darien Venture was a good idea at the time, insists TV archaeologist THE Darien Venture is often seen as one of Scotland's great follies: a flawed attempt to establish its own overseas empire that was doomed from the start, crippled the country financially, and led to the 1707 Act of Union. But a new ar...	Rabbie Downunder	0	383	May 1, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
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