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Hugh Miller 2002 - Bicentenary - Hugh Miller, the 19th century Scottish geologist and writer, born in the Highland town of Cromarty.
Hector MacDonald: Fighting Mac - Biography of Sir Hector Archibald Macdonald (1853-1903), a crofter's son, who rose from private to Major-General.
Rob Roy on the Web - A comprehensive guide and directory to resources on the Scottish hero Robert "Roy" MacGregor (1671-1734) and his image in literature and film.
1st Marquis of Montrose Society - as the title suggests dedicated to James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, who so successfully led a small royalist army on a campaign throughout Scotland, during the Civil War.
James Lord of Douglas - A history of James Lord of Douglas, right hand man of Robert the Bruce during the Scottish wars of independence.
Bonnie Prince Charlie - How Flora MacDonald saved the life of Charles Edward Stuart, called "Bonnie Prince Charlie."
Andrew Thomson - The life and work of Dr. Andrew Thomson DD of St Georges Kirk, Edinburgh. Biography, sermons, works, including Life of John Owen, Prince of Puritans.
Great Scots - Illustrated biographies of famous Scotsmen from Scotland Vacations.
In Memorium - Isabel MacDuff - Site dedicated to the story of Countess Isabel MacDuff, with links to different chapters of her life, written by the author, also an e-mail contact link.
Firth's Celtic Scotland - Short biographies of some of the early Celtic Saints who brought Christianity to the Picts of north-east Alba including pictures of their churches.
The Carnegie Story - Short history detailing the life of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish born philanthropist, who made his fortune in the steel industry of 19th century America.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Personages I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Personages Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Personages You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Personages "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Personages "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Personages There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Personages The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Personages Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Personages I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Personages After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personages I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Personages In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Personages A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Personages The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Personages Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Personages It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Personages "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Personages Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Personages Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Personages Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Personages "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Personages
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