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...Porphyria was unknown in clinical jargon before the 20th century, and is still not fully understood. It is a group of diseases with many different signs and symptoms. "In some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...
...Pope. Their role in an island without history was to keep the 17th century's religious acrimony and long-faced industry alive and to form a kind of museum for the Protestant ethic. The Scots seldom assimilate anywhere without a struggle, and Belfast is a lot closer to Glasgow than it is to Dublin, especially on a Sunday. It may help to fix the type if you realize that Woodrow Wilson and Field Marshal Montgomery were both descendants of Ulster. Picture these men locked in a small country with a bunch of unreconstructed Gaels and marvel that the place...
Standing in the glow of the psychedelic lights of the ship's theater, the Cunard chairman, Sir Basil Smallpeice, announced that the ship was in such sad shape that the company would refuse delivery until everything was straightened out by the builders, Glasgow's Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. With that, Cunard scrubbed two scheduled cruises this month and one in February; the cancellations cost the company at least $2,160,000. When the ship will finally be able to go into service remained uncertain...
...itinerant cooper from the Glasgow slums, young Allan came to Chicago in 1842 as a fugitive, escaping the consequences of his past as a radical agitator. The time and the place could not have been more propitious for a man with an extravagant taste for self-righteousness and the sort of brawn developed by swinging a ten-pound cooper's hammer. Mid-19th century Chicago was beginning America's painful, often bloody transition from frontier to urban society. Law enforcement was faltering between mere inefficiency and dedicated corruption. Into the power vacuum stepped the indefatigable, incorruptible Pinkerton, self...
...Grads and Clam Beds. By the 1870s-chasing a new breed of bank robbers, mostly ex-soldiers like the Younger Brothers of Missouri, and pouncing on cheating streetcar conductors in the East-Pinkerton agents were operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society...