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...became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac's sons...
...Queen Elizabeth II a lineal descendant of David. This Irish Israelite line is also thought to have preserved the stone Jacob used as a pillow. The stone, so goes the legend, was saved from the Jerusalem temple when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and taken to Ireland, thence to Scotland. Now it is the Stone...
...unusual sport: the herding championship of the North American Sheep Dog Society. The crowd's favorite was a black & white border collie* named Rock, owned by Society President Arthur Allen. Rock, so small (32 Ibs.) that he seems lost in the shadow of a ram, was imported from Scotland as a pup four years ago. On Allen's 280-acre Illinois farm, he puts flocks of some 400 sheep through their proper paces year-round...
...Ford is preparing to jump in with a big new line of farm machinery (TIME, Aug. 10), British Inventor Harry Ferguson, once Henry Ford's "only partner," is merging with Canada's Massey-Harris. With five plants in the U.S., four in Canada, and others in England, Scotland, South Africa, France and Germany, the new company, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., will be the world's third largest farm implement maker, and plans to challenge International Harvester and Deere for first place...
Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...