... 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in In... ...reen as emeralds and skin like magnolia petals?’ ‘My fiancée owes her beautiful colouring to her Scottish descent, a country which has many redhead... ...ps as children in your beautiful country, because am I not correct in thinking that Forsythe is a Scottish name?’ ‘Yes,’ said Helen, ‘I have my Scot... ...nterest, smiled at her in his impudent, mischievous manner and said, ‘For that I am doubly in my Scottish friend’s debt. Do you not agree, Comtesse?... ...s palace, that he should be their guest and she could still hear her words spoken in that rolling Scottish accent, ‘Now Gavin, laddie, you must be o... ...t who loved the opportunity to dress up - the difference, I suppose, between the Anglo Saxon and Scottish temperaments.’ ‘Your husband is the hands...

...l solar year. Julius Caesar decreed that the year 46 BC should have 445 days (some historians implausibly say: 443 days) in order to bridge the yaw... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...ages in 1907. The idea to incorporated cathode -ray tubes was proposed in 1911 by a Scottish engineer, Campbell Swinton. Another Scot, John Log...

...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ... ...scussion: those who have written on heresies touch it, and generally all ecclesiastical historians, and withal I can assert that not one hath gone in... ...elate in one way, and others in another, as if it were a past event, written by various historians. Upon his death the church, and the whole world, s... ...s a compendium of the whole history of the future Antichrist, as we find it in the best historians; and to this may all the information which we poss...

...bols of shape with the alphabet‘s symbols of sound. For millennia, most historians tended to credit the Phoenicians with inventing the first phone... ...ined the block printing process as early as the seventh century, but most historians concede that Feng Tao (882–954) was the ―Eastern Father of Prin... ...Legend and myth tended to compete with hard-earned knowledge. Many modern historians decry the idea that conditions were so bad that progress stopped... ...ease in the number of liberal arts colleges throughout the world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carol... ...ments of the Mongol Empire have long been celebrated in Central Asia, but historians in the West paid them little attention until late in the twentie... ...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...

...ymbols of shape with the alphabet‘s symbols of sound. For millennia, most historians tended to credit the Phoenicians with inventing the first phone... ...ined the block printing process as early as the seventh century, but most historians concede that Feng Tao (882–954) was the ―Eastern Father of Prin... ...Legend and myth tended to compete with hard-earned knowledge. Many modern historians decry the idea that conditions were so bad that progress stopped... ...crease in the number of liberal arts colleges throughout the world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carol... ...ments of the Mongol Empire have long been celebrated in Central Asia, but historians in the West paid them little attention until late in the twentie... ...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...

...up- port for that position, 18 and, with one significant recent exception, 19 historians of intellectual property have agreed. 20 Jefferson himself had... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ... life. So much for the bad side of the enclosure movement. For many economic historians, everything I have said up to now is the worst kind of sentime... ... distribution of wealth that so incensed an earlier gen- eration of critical historians, they argue that there are significant questions about whether ... ...e about these issues is little known, however, outside the world of economic historians. “Everyone” knows that a commons is by definition tragic and th... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

...broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson p... ...e the Victorian and middle-class roots of his theories about suppressed sexuality. Historians deride and decry his stifling authoritarianism and fr...

...only one thing: the one thing that code allowed them to do and nothing else. Historians and history books cover up this fact. The fact is: Napoleo... ...lization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 423 for making bread. Do historians talk about where the roots of our Civilization come from? T... ... to understand their own Science in the proper historical context. Neither do Historians. Every new generation in every culture, in every neighborh... ... unless you understand all of the thousands of things they took for granted. Historians do not bother with this. Neither do Scientists. There is n... ...al, or understandable perspective. In other words… Scientists never talk to historians and Historians never talk to Scientists. They have never do... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen... ...e the Victorian and middle-class roots of his theories about suppressed sexuality. Historians deride and decry his stifling authoritarianism and fr...

...ourse of merchandize, is very strange. I commend fortune for that (as our historians report) it was a Gentleman of Gaskonie, and my Countriman, that... ...iam Guerenti, who hath commented Aristotele: George Buchanan, that famous Scottish Poet, and Marke-Antonie Muret, whom (while he lived) both FranceI... ...re beyond measure ambitious. Amongst others, that they openly solicit the Historians of their times not to forget them in their writings: and fortun... ..., and mutable, and of one parcell; so it is not alike. One of the Grecian Historians doth justly accuse his age, forasmuch as the secrets of Christia... ...ib. ii. c. 27 & c. 3); since in the Romane proscriptions, as one of their Historians doth testifie, many wives were found exceeding faithful, but fe... ...be an old man, so long as I might be, than to be old before I should be.' Historians are my right hand, for they are pleasant and e asie; and therewi... ...le, when or how we shall make an end. I was not long since reading of two Scottish bookes striving upon this subject. The popular makes the King to ...

...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...s and eye witness accounts. But historical evidence is often politicized. Historians can pick and choose what they will examine and report on. Were ... ...y of the past confirming that events never repeat themselves? ―Real historians want the truth, although some rewrite history to back up a polit... ...ious to injuries except for his heel? God can‘t change the past, but many historians do, especially if they are justifying for a cause that is sacred... ... situations of the American Revolution. The facts written by the American historians seem to be different from those reported by the English histori... ...to verify and illuminate the actions of the people who do the things that historians record and analyze. --―It seems that you are saying...

...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ..., etc.) and the diary observation of the technological breaking point (what the old historians called: the "short time" and the "long time"). To com...

...en, the wind tossing her long chestnut-locks, uncovered, but tied with the Scottish snood, sat on the battle- ment, gazing far out over the waters, wi... ... of beauty and dignity. Her lips were crooning at intervals a mournful old Scottish tune, sometimes only humming, some- times uttering its melancholy ... ...iends, Malcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to be in the Scottish Guards to learn chivalry like his father. And the Leddy of Glenusk... ...l likewise of original fancy and of that vein of poetry almost peculiar to Scottish women; and Jean was equally charming for all the sports in which s... ...h them, though he had much difficulty in en- forcing it, except with those Scottish knights and nobles who, like Sir Patrick Drummond, had served in F... ...o her was at that time unprecedented. It is hard to believe it, yet French historians aver that the Dauphin Louis actually thought of obtaining a disp...

...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ... thrice, that lady bold; He rose beneath her hand The fairest knight on Scottish mould, Her brother, Ethert Brand! 69 Sir Walter Scott Merry it... ...d step I knew; Like form in Scotland is not seen, T reads not such step on Scottish green. ’Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Serle! The uncle of the ban... ...landers, for which no apology was necessary. The Gael, great tradi- tional historians, never forgot that the Lowlands had, at some remote period, been...

... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...ng demoralization of the lower orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, ... ..., that in 1688-9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large effect in this change to the perso... ...marked rekindling of reli- gious fervor. In what extent this change in the Scottish church had been due, mediately or immediately, to Methodism, we do...

...rt the Bruce and of his son David. He was one of the chief of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The... ...Spain, and was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Holy Land with such Scottish knights as had escaped the fate of their leader and assisted for s... ..., and the Saracen matron testified so much haste to recover it as gave the Scottish knight a high idea of its value, when compared with gold or silver... ...ing the most romantic gasconades. The verb and the meaning are retained in Scottish.] I were wrong to chal- lenge, for the time, the privilege of thy ... ...to in Scripture—yawned fearfully on either side as they proceeded, and the Scottish knight was informed by the Emir that these were often the refuge o... ... proposition that it is necessary to say such a one was actually made. The historians, however, substitute the widowed Queen of Naples, sister of Rich...

...d afterwards, where his sis ter, who was young and beautiful, married the Scottish King. Edgar himself was not important enough for anybody to care m... ...ng away from Dover, where he happened to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refug... ... Merton Abbey upon these conditions, and journeyed away to see his wife: a Scottish Princess who was then at St. Edmund’s Bury. Almost as soon as he h... ...ried to Margaret, King Edward’s sister. All their children being dead, the Scottish crown became the right of a young Princess only eight years old, t... ...Bor der land where England and Scotland joined. There, he called upon the Scottish gentlemen to meet him at the Castle of Norham, on the English side... ...e known to posterity, by the name of the battle of Azincourt.’ Our English historians have made it Agincourt; but, under that name, it will ever be fa... ...AMES THE S ECOND WAS A MAN so very disagreeable, that even the best of historians has favoured his brother Charles, as becoming, by comparison, qu...

...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ...diate and active interest in the civil war of England, are detailed in our historians, but may be here shortly recapitulated. They had indeed no new i... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ...y a poor and discontented nobility, under whom it was officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune, who had served in the German wars until they ... ...s of his domination, had fired the train, by attempting to impose upon the Scottish people church ceremonies foreign to their habits and opinions. The...

...ce the king caused his premises to be guarded by a de- tachment of his own Scottish guard. Such royal solicitude made the courtiers believe that the o... ...eaving the rue du Murier, his people stopped him, seeing an officer of the Scottish guard riding towards them at full speed. “What is it?” asked the p... ...djoining hall. These two Tourainean seigneurs looked at the captain of the Scottish guard, who was sleeping in his chair, accord- ing to his usual cus... ...s royal majesty with the burgher life. This taste, severely blamed by some historians, was really only a passion for the “incognito,” one of the great... ...rder—not without adding certain secret instructions—to a lieutenant of the Scottish guard to take a squad of men and accompany the ambassador to V eni...

...sialists, struck by the necessity of correcting popular errors endorsed by historians, made and published to the world very remarkable works. Thus Mon... ...did against the insurgents of the sixteenth century. Therefore the popular historians, who know very well that in a like case the people will do the s... ...rvable, made the subject of accusations by either the Calvinists or modern historians. Though there was no poi- soning, as some grave writers have sai... ...stantly renewed difficulties of her posi- tion, he saw with what injustice historians—all influenced by Protestants—had treated this queen. Out of thi... ... reign of Henri II. to make head against the Guises, the Montmorencys, the Scottish princes, the cardinals, and the Bouillons, he distinguished himsel... ...himself to the eyes of young Pardaillan, the officer of the guard, and the Scottish captain. The agitation which, in a royal castle, always attends th... ...g to Mary. “I owe you all respect, and should not dare to do so,” said the Scottish queen, maliciously, glancing at Dayelle. Placed between the rival ... ...f the leaders of the Reformation was then led away by four soldiers of the Scottish guard, who took him down the stairs and delivered him to Monsieur ... ...ad their sentences. The whole square was guarded from early morning by the Scottish guard and the gendarmes of the king’s household, in order to keep ...