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CulterNET - The history, culture and heritage of the Parish of Peterculter, near Aberdeen.
Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney - The Anglican diocese for north-east Scotland. Includes details of parishes in this area, as well as Aberdeen cathedral.
Archaeolink at Oyne - A fascinating prehistory park visitor experience in the heart of ancient Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire Families - Family genealogy information for the locality. Surnames include Taylor, Ingram, Mann, Garden, Cordiner, Bradford, Birnie, Stewart, Chalmers, Mitchell, Ferguson and Allardyce.
Recumbent Stone Circles - Distinctive type of stone circle found in North East Scotland. Two stones, often the tallest ones, flank a large recumbent stone lying on its side, weighing many tons.
North East Scotland Community Web Collective - Allows communities to promote themselves and provides access to online information locally.
The Parish of Kennethmont - War memorial, genealogy, census and family history information. Includes Gartly, Clatt, Wardhouse, Rhynie farm areas.
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society - Assisting and promoting genealogy and family history in the area.
The Green Diary - Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland's environmental publication.
Hatton Of Fintray - Community noticeboard and news site for the village of Hatton Of Fintray near Aberdeen..
Royal British Legion Oldmeldrum Branch - Details of the various events that take place, such as Saturday night entertainment and dances.
Corgarff and Strathdon War Memorials - A site dedicated to the men of this Aberdeenshire glen who lost their lives in the Great War and WWII.
Newmachar - Personal page on Newmachar.
Newmachar Loon and Quine - A fun site for Newmachar.
Whiterashes Community Hall - Details of events and contact details for events in the local community of Whiterashes, Newmachar, Udny and Oldmeldrum.
Kintore - Kintore information, history, events and community noticeboard.
The Insch Gala - Includes information about the event including committee members and activity details.
Scotland Christmas - Fun Christmas and Hogmanay site. Listing jokes and animations.
The Scalan Trail - News about restoration of an 18th century Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Glenlivet.
Cllr Debra Storr - Liberal Democrat councillor for Belhelvie. Includes local issues and news.
Aberdeenshire Community Safety Groups - Advice, information and updates.
Computers and Integration - Voluntary organisation with the primary aim of providing access to computers to all able and disabled persons. Group information, services and contact details included.
Pitmedden - Community pages listing clubs and organisations together with places of interest for the locality.
Fit's Daein - Newsletter for Bonnyton House, Ellon. Produced by the friends and listing current and back issues.
Oyne.org - Site for the Oyne Community Association. Oyne is a small village in the heart of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Friends of the Clash - Friends of the Clash was formed to protect the beautiful tourist landscape over the Cabrach via Clashindarroch Forest, and the Tap o Noth hillfort, from industrialisation by a huge wind "farm".
Karin McVicar - Description of a small village (Muchalls), its castle and ghost, the geology of the cliffs and seahorses.
Parish Of St Mary Blairs - Located near Maryculter. Mass times, directions, links to the Blairs museum and the college.
Kincardine O'Neil - Containing pictures past and present together with information on the history of the village and it twinning ambitions.
St Mary's and St James' - Features the churches of the parishes of Ellon and Cruden Bay in north-east Scotland. The parishes cover a 35 mile long coastal region between Aberdeen and the port of Peterhead.
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Society and Culture The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Society and Culture Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Society and Culture "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Society and Culture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Society and Culture "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Society and Culture "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Society and Culture Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Society and Culture Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Society and Culture
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