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Pictish Nation - Dedicated to the Picts, the pre-Scottish people of Caledonia, and Pictish culture. Covers the known history and legends about the Picts as well as comprehensive web links and a bibliography.
Pictofile - Contains maps, images, essays and historical facts about the Pictish people of Scotland and their carved stones.
The Picts: An Introduction - Discusses the origin and name of the inhabitants of Scotland prior to the Scots, and their struggles against the Romans. Includes maps.
A Consideration of Pictish Names - Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn explores the evidence for Pictish names.
Discovering a Kingdom of the Picts - Press release from York University outlining the discovery of settlement at Portmahomack, Scotland, which was in turn a Pagan fort, a Christian monastery and a Viking port.
Pictish Arts Society - A charitable society which promotes study and discussion of all aspects of Pictish and Early Scottish history. Who were the Picts? Features, news and events, book reviews.
Pictavia - This exhibition at Brechin Castle Centre tells the story of the Picts in Angus. Timeline of the Picts, the battle of Dunnichen and images of symbol stones.
Friends of Grampian Stones: Pictish Sites - Images and descriptions of Pictish symbol stones, together with Pictish kinglists and some information on the Pictish Church.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Picts "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Picts "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Picts Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Picts The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Picts Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Picts It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Picts "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Picts I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Picts Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Picts Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Picts People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Picts Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Picts If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Picts Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Picts "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Picts "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Picts "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Picts Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Picts "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Picts "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Picts I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Picts
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