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...working telegraph line was laid between Newfoundland and Ireland after many failed attempts. But radio was the only means of transmitting telephone calls across the ocean until 1956, when the first voice-carrying cable was completed. Dubbed TAT-1, for transatlantic, the $49.5 million telephone cable connected Newfoundland with Scotland and could carry 52 telephone calls. More cables followed, but the number of available wires remained well below demand until recent years. The last conventional cable to be installed, TAT-7, was built in 1983 for $191 million and carries up to 9,000 calls...
McEvoy is seeing regular duty for the first time in his college career. He served as Blair's back-up during his freshman and sophomore seasons, then took a year off to study in Edinburgh, Scotland, before returning to the squad last year...
Bailyn uses the Register as a pair of binoculars to focus on the origins and destinations of specific people--like James Metcalf Jr., a 27-year-old Methodist farmer who left his native Hawnby, Scotland in 1772 to settle in a remote outpost of Nova Scotia...
...Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert De Niro, is still on the streets, running booze and plugging enemies. Connery, who was born in Scotland, says that Chicago reminds him of Glasgow, though guns are much rarer in his native land. "In Glasgow, it's more hand-to-hand combat each time, and you can never be sure what will happen." Unless, of course, there is a script, which usually places Connery on the winning side...
...everyone who graduated from high school was required to know, Macbeth is a play about the evils of ambition. Three "weird sisters" prophesy to Macbeth (Mark Southern), a Scottish nobleman, that he will one day become king of Scotland. At the urging of Lady Macbeth (Alicia Rubin), the hero decides to help fate along by knocking off the current sovereign, leading to the classic meditation on paranoia, guilt, death and despair. The critical decision for the contemporary director is whether to present these and other traditional themes as best she can or to innovate, to impose new contexts and outline...