Penicillin was Discovered in 1928 by the bacteriologist. Sir Alexander Fleming (a Fellow Scotman). This drug has saved more lives than the number lost in all...
No one in Scotland can escape from the past. It is everywhere, haunting like a ghost.'--Geddes MacGregor ... Nice :) I have never been to Scotland yet it...
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More thoughts about handfasting: These articles were posted on the Celtic Christian Mailing List From: Father Sean, written in March 1988 and re-posted May...
Clans in Scotland The Clan system in Scotland began to evolve around 1200. The distinction applied to Highland families with a common ancestor to whose heirs...
The Sight Second site, or more correctly the Two Sights,* plays a very large part in Scottish beliefs. It was strongly believed that certain people had the...
It is now generally accepted that clan tartans were established and named towards the end of the 18th century. Prior to that time, while clan, district and...
In the 'Misted Past of Scottish History' (anything before about 1250 in the Lowlands and 1500 in the Highlands) Highland Games were organized by Clan Chiefs...
The Battle of Bannockburn 24th June 1314, fought in sight of Stirling Castle. This panoramic painting depicts the charge of the English Knights against the...
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hi everyone,i would like to take this opportunity to say thanks for all the info on scotland.i was born in scotland but grew up in australia and dont remember...
The term 'Welsh' appeared in the earlier English form of Weallise and the mediaeval form Wallensis, and was applied to the British peoples from Strathclyde in...
Plan for 30,000 pipers to blow record away By BRIAN FERGUSON A SIX-MILE parade of 30,000 pipers and drummers is planned to be held in Edinburgh in an attempt...
After Culloden (1746) Clan Donald was driven from its homelands and scattered all over the world. Instead of being the end of this great family it was the...
you all have scottish names, would you believe me if i told you that even though i was born in glasgow scotland that my maiden name was O'NEILL how un scottish...
When the Jacobite army lined up on Drumossie Moor on 16th April 1746, their stomachs were empty, they were exhausted from their night march the failure of...
Stuart Stuart or Stewart,royal family that ruled Scotland and England. The Stuart lineage began in a family of hereditary stewards of Scotland, the earliest of...
Jacobites Jacobites , adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and Scottish...
After James II's Ouster When William III and Mary II ascended the throne after the flight of James II to France, strong Stuart partisans remained to offer...
Boyne Boyne, river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Bog of Allen, Co. Kildare, E Republic of Ireland, and flowing NE through Co. Meath, past Trim, to the...
Under Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Young Pretender) After the failure of the 1719 invasion of Scotland, hope lay dormant until the Old Pretender's son Charles...
Under the Old Pretender At the death (1701) of James II his son James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, was recognized as James III by the courts of...
nonjurors nonjurors [from Latin,=not swearing], those English and Scottish clergymen who refused to break their oath of allegiance to James II and take the...
Scotland Geography Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. It is bounded by England in the south and on the other three sides by...
Macdonald, Flora Macdonald, Flora, 1722–90, Scottish Jacobite heroine. She aided Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, to escape to France...
druids druids , priests of ancient Celtic Britain, Ireland, and Gaul and probably of all ancient Celtic peoples, known to have existed at least since the 3d ...
Keith, George Keith, George, 1693?–1778, Scottish Jacobite, 10th earl marischal [marshal] of Scotland. He took part in the Jacobite uprising of 1715 and...
Deirdre Deirdre , beautiful heroine of Irish legend. A druid prophesied at her birth that she would bring great misfortunes. Deirdre, chosen to be the wife of ...
Ewan McGregor actor Born: 3/31/1971 Birthplace: Crieff, Scotland Television and film actor who got his big break on the British television series Lipstick on...
