Falkirk Tourist Association - Holiday guide provides information on accommodation, restaurants, walking, fishing, cycling and boating.
Falkirk Wheel and Millennium Link - A guide to the Falkirk Wheel in central Scotland. Information on tourist attractions, accommodation, events, sport and leisure, cycling, fishing, walking and boating facilities along the Millennium Link Canals.
Birlinn Cruises - Offer day trip cruises from the Falkrik Wheel to Linlithgow.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic
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In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism
