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| sorbus |
Posted on: 19-Aug-2005, 05:01 AM |
Replies: 46
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If I remember rightly The Celt and or Kelt was the name given to a small stone
hammer used in metal beating and This Designation The Keltoi was Given as a Descriptive Term to Craftsmen using this Tool which thereafter became a portmanteau name which was later shortened as a race indicator Kelt or Celt
both pronounced with a K the only use of the soft S pronunciation I know of
occurs in Sports Organisations
Such as Oban Celtic Shinty Team Glasgow Celtic Football Team and Boston
Celtics interestingly the two Scottish Teams both find their Origins in Memberships
of The Roman Catholic Community
I do not know enough about The Boston Celtics to comment upon them
but I do find it interesting that Unlike Oban Celtic Glagow Celtic which appear as a singularity or Definite Article Boston Celtics go in for The Use of The Plurality
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #125286 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 16-Aug-2005, 11:26 AM |
Replies: 8
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nzcelt do I know Bailieston Yes There was an SMT bus ran from Cannonbie St
Easterhouse to Bailieston also There was a tram ran to Bailieston from if I remember Dalmuir also Shettlston was next to Bailieston after Shettleston was Parkhead AKA "Paradise" Now Just Outside The London Rd Entrance To Celtic Park
AKA "Paradise" was a Prefabicated building raised upon Bricks That was My Nursery School I was There in Paradise The Night The Lisbon Lions Brought back
The European Cup to Paradise |
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Forum: Introductions · Post Preview: #125012 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 03:22 PM |
Replies: 12
Views: 541
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I` m about to be declared an Apostate
and considering I`m a descendant of the man himself
A Heretic But I`ll be honest Folk
I do not like Haggis
So Once I was perusing The Bards Works
and I started to read it The Address
and I rememebered having previously
read that Burn`s Address To The King
if read backwards I do not mean Letter by letter
but word by word becomes A Tirade rather than a Eulogy
So as I was reading This "Address To The Haggis
if Read in a Similar Way as You Read Holy Willies`s Prayer
It becomes a Satire.
Anyway Back to The Subject
The Idea of The Piper at The High Table owes it`s Origins
Not To The British Army
But The Clans as Previous to The Formation of The Black Watch
The Piper was Alien to Engand
In fact The Pipes Were Instruments of Terror
Which may explain Englands Distaste towards The Pipes.
It was The Clan Chiefs who employed the Piper
and The Position was passed down from Father To Son
The Most Famous Being The Macrimmons Holders of The The Faery Flag of Dunveagan
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #124587 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 02:43 PM |
Replies: 42
Views: 624
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Here `s something not generally known These Anti Aging Lotions contain cells
extracted from human placenta (afterbirth) Ain`nt Science Wonderful   |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124575 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 02:37 PM |
Replies: 25
Views: 438
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Stormeil I`m Talking of A Think Tank which Planned The Iraq war Roughly about The Time My Friend and I started to talk about what This NeoConservative
Organism was Talking Aboout Funnily enough we did consult a Book by Bernard Lewis called
"From Babel To Dragomans" (Interpreting The Middle East)
Previous To The Invasion
In a Previously Unforseen Event
People Started Protesting Against A War in which the The First Shot had not even been fired
This Was not a Normal Scenario |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124573 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 02:16 PM |
Replies: 10
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Since ever I can remember America has fascinated me
I love Your Literature Mark Twain Edgar Allen Poe
John Steinbeck Walt Whitman HP Lovecraft Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ginsberg Burroughs Lin Carter Frank Herbert Phillip Jose Farmer
Roberts Sheckley and Heinlienand Countless Other SciFi Writers
Music The Dead Jefferson Dylan Jackson Browne Buffy Saint Marie
Janis Joplin Kris Kriststofferson Woody Guthrie Burl Ives pete Seeeger
and Countless Psyche Bands Hardy any Americans have hardly Heard of Dr John Frank Zappa Captain Beefheart Vanilla Fudge Quicksilver Messenger Service
I Love Your Openheartedness
Just as much as I hate Your SelfLoathing
what do I mean You Hate other Americans
With A Violence You Rarely Show to the Outside World
Now by Some Bizarre scenario
You see Brits Attacking Tony Blair as an Attack on America
Yet Tony Blair applauded The Anti War and Anti G8 Protests
I know Bush will Pass Out of Office
But Will Amerca`s Self Loathig Vanish
Will You be able to heal the Rift this War has caused amongst you
When Will You Be to again able to Love One and Other |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124570 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 01:38 PM |
Replies: 25
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The Balkans and Iraq He Kept Saddam Bottled up with No Fly Zones
Bush jnr Behaved Properly in Afghanistan
But Iraq was an unnecessary war in RealPolitikal Terms
It was War as A Social Experiment
Have You Ever Read The American Century
What JK Rowling Writes is Closer To Reality |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124563 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 01:29 PM |
Replies: 74
Views: 1,123
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you would have been taken from your home, tortured......
Hey are We not Doing This In Gitmo Abu Graibh
Perhaps Some Self Appointed Worthy Country Should Invade
America and Britain
and Put Blair and Bush on Trial as War Criminals
Oh I forgot Not Every Country Has The Atomic Bomb
We Are The Bullies No One else |
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124562 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 01:08 PM |
Replies: 25
Views: 438
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I started To read this thinking I was going to read about "The Black Watch" 5
killed in Camp Dogwood then realised I was dealing with People Who
Bought into "The American Century" Mindset which believed it was possible
to Invade a Country Wage Allout War and Not Suffer Casualities
Which is Why I put in The Song about The Soldier/Victim Coming Home in an almost Unrecognisable State and Yeah I am AntiWar I marched Against Vietnam I
Marched against Bush Juniors War in Iraq But I supported The Balkan War I Supported Bush Senior`s War I supported Afghanistan Not exactly A Taliban
Lover My friend and I were Discussing The Forth coming War and how rather than calming the flames an Invasion of Iraq was unnecessary Two Year Before the
Actual Event up until The Bombing of London where I have Relatives among other thingsI felt Like a Bewildered Observer watching Some Bizarre Human Tragedy
War is Not Glorious War is a Failure to Resolve Political Situations by Other Means
You comment on The Fact This is The Twenty First Century
Yeah well Tell Marshall Bush That or Sherrif Blair
I find it Ironic That The Real Draft Dodger President Clinton
Fought A Good War
Whereas The President Who wasbut Wasn`t on National Guard Duty
Has Duplicated The Vietnam Scenario of fighting an Unnwinnable War
Why Unnwinable because The Opponents both operate outside the normal
mindset
On One side you Have The American Century Mindset
On The other A Medieval Mentality Unfocused MultiDirectional that believes The
Planet will accept Sharia Law
and someone actually believes I agree with ROFLMAO
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124557 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 08:11 AM |
Replies: 14
Views: 669
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There a phrase in Scotland
"Tak Tent" It Means Pay Attention
Christ said Behold The Lillies of The Field They neither card or spin....
Yet Solomon in all His Glory cannot Rival Their Beauty....
Tak Tent
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124517 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 08:03 AM |
Replies: 110
Views: 3,658
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Perhaps instead of Talking To God We Listen For a Change and Read
what already he has revealed
Tak Tent Tae God`s Coonsel No Ooor Ai  n |
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124516 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 11-Aug-2005, 07:53 AM |
Replies: 25
Views: 438
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While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy,
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye,
A doleful damsel I heard cry,
Johnny I hardly knew ye.
Chorus:
With your guns and drums and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your guns and drums and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your guns and drums and drums and guns,
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye.
Where are the eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the eyes that were so mild,
When my heart you so beguiled
Why did ye sci-daddle from me and the child
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye
Where are the legs with which you run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the legs with which you run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are the legs with which you run,
When first you went to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg,
Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to put with a bowl out to beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home,
All from the island of Ceylon;
So low in the flesh, so high in the bone
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye
Last chorus:
...the enemy never slew ye
Oh, my darling dear you look so queer
Soldiers Get Killed because That`s What War is About
Along as We Wage Wars
Soldiers Kill and Get Killed
I Mean Some one Invades Your Country
The British Prime Minister (May He Rot In Hell)
Joined The American President in Using British
and American Troops to invade a Reasonably
Stable Country
Note The Word Invade
We jointly are Responsible
We Elected These Guys
We Invaded
They`re gonna Try To Kill Us
Just as We are Killing Them
To Free Them
Riddlemeree
Answer this to me
How Free is The Grave
wherein you put me 
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Forum: Politics & Current Events · Post Preview: #124514 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 02:20 PM |
Replies: 23
Views: 1,386
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Her Dark Materials is
More about Shamanism
and Anthropomorphism
Now this Guy
Phillip Pullman Does Have an Agenda
JK Rowling
is Being Atacked Because She is A Woman
Not Only That
But was Also A Single Parent
Abomination Upon Abomination
A True Jezabel
The Whore of Babylon Strides The Land
ROFLMAO |
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124457 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 12:23 PM |
Replies: 23
Views: 1,386
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I have a Theory that America is Terrified Yet Fascinated By European Culture
So They Disneyise The Literature So when Someone Savvy Like JK Rowling
can write in such a deceptively simple way presenting profound Ideas
Then Alarm Bells start Ringing
Mainly because She is Female
Who leads The Attack Male Christian Clerics
Yeah we are Really Suprised Not |
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124437 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 12:00 PM |
Replies: 25
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Well this is what all the arguement was about
I argued it was an actual Language with different grammar and punctuation
A Fusion of Gaelic Erse Lallans English and American English
Tom Leonard said it was a matter of inflection a Dialect
Yet Glaswegian is not place of just One Dialect
but a multitude. Yet a Guy From Parkhead
Can Chat to a Girl from Partick both are speaking different
dialects of the one Language and it`s neither Gaelic or English
it`s Broad Glaswegian
Look at these Three Sentences
"Heh Hen Dae ye Fancy a wee donner doon tae Kelvingrove"
"Will Ye gang tae Kelvingrove Bonnie Lassie O"
"Will you go to Kelvingrove Beautiful Maiden"
"Will Ye gang tae Kelvingrove Bonnie Lassie O"
"Will you go to Kelvingrove Beautiful Maiden"
These Two can be seen as being related
This is a separate Language
"Heh Hen Dae ye Fancy a wee donner doon tae Kelvingrove"
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Forum: Scotland · Post Preview: #124433 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 09:15 AM |
Replies: 25
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I was Lucky to Be inGlasgow when Tom Leonard Tom McrGrath Danny Kyle
Eric Bogle Gerry Rafferty Billy Connolly The Tannnahill Weavers Matt MacGinn
Hamish Imlach all walked abroad in The Scotia The Third Eye oftimes I argued with
Tom Leonard :
That Glaswegian was a separate Language with it`s own grammar and punctuation
Like This
Wher Hiv Aw Rha"Tossin` Schools" Gon?
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Wher hiv aw rhe "Tossin` Schools" gon
"Pitch an` Toss "
and "Moshie" tae?
When AH wis a wee smaw lad,
Ah`d go on a Sunday Wi Mah Dahd
Doon tae Rha Glesca Green ,
Tae Rha Biggest "Tossin` School"
Ye ever did see .
Ye`d get Fity ,Sixty,
A Hunner ur mair
Aw tryin` tae "Even up Rha Score"
Bit Ye Cannae Play "Moshie IN CUMBERNAULD
Cos Ye Cannae Maik "Moshie" Holes in Concrete
Ye Ask Mi Wher aw Rhe "Tossin` Schools Hiv Gon?
Well AH`ll Tell Ye .
Rher Aw DEID.
Rheh Died wen "RHEH" Demolished
AW RHASTREETS
Wher hi aw rhe "Tossin` Schools Gon?
Rhey`re aw BURIET
Under Rhe GlESCA MOTORWAE
Cos Rhe Folks RHat Ran Rhem
WUR AW MOVED AWAY. 
Sorbus Nov 1977 |
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Forum: Scotland · Post Preview: #124419 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 08:33 AM |
Replies: 2
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Now before I unleash the ravening Hounds of Controversy
Let us pause momentarily
Not all Victims are VICTIMS
some are happenstances
No what I`m talking about is more Profound
I am Talking of That Most Rare of Creatures
The Causal Agency of The Hue and Cry
He or She That Causes
Society To Respond
With The Ancient Cry of Change
SOmething MUst BE Done!!!!!!
I have further Thoughts but I`ll
Retain them at Present
Hai Go To It Ye Cats and Felines................. |
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124415 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 08:19 AM |
Replies: 104
Views: 4,541
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Where is The Head of Bran of The Bless-ed When You Need Clarity |
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Forum: Philosophy & Science · Post Preview: #124413 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 07:58 AM |
Replies: 9
Views: 623
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My Dear Colleague
I am of that Strange and oftimes Bewildering combinations
Scots Irish Now add Fenian and Covenanting to the Mix and The Obvious Result
is A Stew fit to Emerge from The Bloody Cauldron of The Morrrigan Herself
But this is Not Yet The Whole Story I also have the Honour of Being a Direct Loin
Descent of A ByBlow of Randy Rabbie  So The Fact I live in
Such an Important Location both Mythologically and Historically On One Side
Lies The Beloved Mystic Resting Place of Scotlands Ancient Kings Cradle of Celtic
Christianity and on the Other SideThe Beautious Tragic Site of of The The Woeful
Tale of Deirdre of The Sorrows would indeed Seem to Be Apt that I Live in The
One of The Most Romantic of Environs......Oh Young Lochinvar has Come Out of The West.......... |
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Forum: Introductions · Post Preview: #124411 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 01:10 AM |
Replies: 14
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This is all to do with England Freaking Out Unlike
Unlike The rest of The UK
England doesn`t want to play anymore
Having destroyed the combined infrastructurse
of Scotland Wales and Ireland
They Get somewhat peeved
That We Want Our Own Devolved Parlaiments as a Halfway House to Independance
This Is obviously Not Cricket
Well ain`t that a shame Boohoohoo
Having Screwed The Celtic Nations For So Long They Think it`s Their
God Given Right Like a Political Form of "Droit de Seignur"
and We all know Who Brought that to these Fair Shores
William The Bastard and His Greedy Spivs
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #124400 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 12:52 AM |
Replies: 2
Views: 401
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If You Contact
a) An Commun Gaidhealach
The Catalan Representative To The European Parlaiment
c)The Catalan Devolved Government in Barcelona
hope this helps |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #124399 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 12:39 AM |
Replies: 7
Views: 359
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I said 9/11 and Dealey Plaza rolled into One
You may think I exagerate
Let Me Say I am being circumspect in My Appraisal
Not only did almost every Noble House Suffer The Loss of at least One
Father or Son But Scotland Lost The Greatest Bloom of All
Scotland`s JFK "The Falcon" James Stuart The Fourth King Of The Scots
Every home in Scotland Suffered Loss
Truly "The Flo`ers O` The Forest Were A` Wi`ered Away"
1513 - Battle Of Flodden
Flodden was a disastrous and unnecessary confrontation for Scotland. James IV of Scotland was married to the sister of England?s King Henry VIII and a treaty of friendship existed between their countries.
The auld alliance between Scotland and France had been recently renewed. There had been English attacks made upon Scottish ships at the time when Henry VIII, on behalf of the papacy, invaded France. James IV declared war immediately, with nothing to gain and ties to both England and France that their war neutralised. With the whole nation behind him, James amassed twenty thousand men with ease, both Highlanders and Lowlanders. His fleet set sail and his army crossed the border into Northumberland with the intention of drawing upon England?s numbers in France.
Norham Castle was among the places captured before confronting the English defenders, led by the Earl of Surrey and his son, west of the River Till, near Branxton, on 9 September.
The Scots took the advantageous high ground. With slightly fewer numbers but superior equipment and artillery, the English moved around the Scots on their west and opened with cannon fire. They struck their target with great success, which the Scots could not match.
James dropped strategic tactics and ordered all to attack. Initially gaining the upper hand, the Scots were again thwarted by England?s superior equipment, the long halberd with its axe, hook and spike bloodier than the spear in hand-to-hand conflict.
English losses were heavy but the dead Scots numbered between five and ten thousand. It is said that ?the slaughter struck every farm and household throughout lowland Scotland?.
There was an unusually high number of aristocracy who came down into combat that day and among the slain were dozens of lords and lairds, at least ten Earls, some abbots, an archbishop and the body of the King himself.
he Battle of Flodden was a decisive victory for the English. For the Scots it had been a disaster,with many of the most important members of Scottish society killed or slain in the conflict. The
Scottish dead included twelve earls, fifteen lords, many clan chiefs an archbishop and above all KingJames himself. It is said that every great family in Scotland mourned the loss of someone at the Battleof Flodden. The dead were remembered in the famous Scottish pipe tune
The Flowers of the Forest';
We'll here nae mair lilting at our ewe milking,
Women and bairns are heartless and wae,
Sighing and moaning on a ilka green loaning,
The flowers of the forest are a wede away.
Today a large granite cross marks the site of the Battle of Flodden. It is touchingly inscribed;
"TO THE BRAVE OF BOTH NATION
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #124398 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 10-Aug-2005, 12:20 AM |
Replies: 7
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I havebeen somewhat remiss in my post The Reason I joined
The Understandable Confusion By The Lady who posted
The Post concerning:
The Origins of The Pibroch and Lyrics of" Flo`ers O` The Forest".
The Lady in Question mistakenly connected it with Culloden
A Terrible Tragedy of itself
When it was in fact The Battle in Question was in fact
The More Catastrophic Battle of Flodden
Why do I dismiss Culloden as a Mere Tragedy
Compared to The Catastrophe which was
Flodden
Well using Modern equivalences
Imagine 9/11 and Dealey Plaza
Happening The Same Day
That Dear Friends was Scotland`s Fate
at Flodden
To Be Continued |
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Forum: General Discussion · Post Preview: #124396 |
| sorbus |
Posted on: 09-Aug-2005, 09:31 PM |
Replies: 9
Views: 623
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Thanks Peeps When I First Joined Parkead PublicLibrary at the Grand Old Age of Seven The Very First Book I Took Out Was A Childs History of Scotland
Approx 200 pages which I devoured and a Historophile was born
I have been working for the Last TwentyFive Years upon a Dramatic
Speechplay for Twelve or More Voices called Invasion Journal
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