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Modern World Wonders: Scotland's World Heritage - J.K. Gillon's illustrated description of Scotland's UNESCO inscribed World Heritage Sites: the islands of St Kilda, centre of Edinburgh and Neolithic Orkney.
The Roman Gask Project - A long term programme to study the Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, Scotland. Includes detailed maps of the sites involved.
Accessing Scotland's Past - A pilot project from the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, with images and descriptions of historic buildings and ancient sites in the Cairngorms and the Merse.
Medieval or Later Rural Settlement - The MoLRS Working Group discusses the understanding, conservation and management of medieval or later rural settlement in Scotland. Includes projects and bibliography.
The National Trust for Scotland - The conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy.
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(Mark Twain) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Heritage What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Heritage The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Heritage Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Heritage blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Heritage Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Heritage "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Heritage Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Heritage Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." 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It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Heritage Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Heritage
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