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...sheep and dairy farmers of northeastern Scotland, the summer of 1976 was unusually harsh. Prolonged drought had parched the countryside, ruining crops and turning flourishing grasslands into brownish straw. But for archaeologists of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, the dry spell was something of a bonanza. It had created ideal conditions for observing so-called crop marks, telltale patches on the ground that usually indicate buried remains of ancient building, farming or other activity. Flying over the rolling terrain that summer, the scientists spotted some 650 crop marks, all of potential archaeological interest...
...after a year of excavation at one of the more promising sites, a rectangular patch along the River Dee, the archaeologists have made a discovery that could sharply revise prevailing ideas about the beginnings of civilization in Scotland. Located near Balbridie Farm in Kincardineshire, on a sprawling estate west of Aberdeen, the dig has revealed the remains of what may be the oldest structure yet found in the British Isles: a late Stone Age building, reminiscent of the chieftains' hall in the epic Beowulf, that dates back some 6,000 years...
...fanatically partisan fans of Britain's four national teams (representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) have all turned Scottish for a month, since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...Argentina. Austria, Brazil, France, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Scotland. Spain. Sweden, Tunisia, West Germany. At the start of the series, the three teams most favored to win the Cup were West Germany, Brazil and Argentina...
...Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up." Says the Guinness Book of World Records: "The greatest recorded train robbery occurred between 3:03 a.m. and 3:27 a.m. on August 8, 1963, when a General Post Office mail train from Glasgow, Scotland, was ambushed at Sears Crossing and robbed at Bridego Bridge at Mentmore, near Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, England. The gang escaped with about 120 mailbags containing ?2,631,784 worth of bank notes being taken to London for pulping. Only ? 343,448 had been recovered by December...