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Scot of Scots. Coldstream has been home to the Homes for at least eight centuries, and they have always been powers in the land. Their rolling farm lands were bestowed on the family by Scotland's King William the Lion in the 13th century. Later, the Homes merged with the powerful Douglas clan and inherited their vast, 50,000-acre estates in the Douglas Valley, 80 miles west of Coldstream. For several centuries, the bold, battling lairds of Douglas and Home fought the English and rustled their cattle. The 4th Earl of Douglas was acclaimed by Falstaff in Henry...
Cargill has been prospering from thin margins on great volume ever since it was started a century ago by Will Cargill, son of a ship's master from Scotland's Orkney Islands. He set up a small grain storage shed near a rail terminal in Iowa, expanded with the railroads and the river barges; today, Cargill's 110 outposts are placed at almost every strategic transportation point in the midcontinent. The family business has been passed down through Cargill's descendants, who built huge grain elevators and expanded into everything from fish-meal processing in Peru...
...race and break the course record too," boasted Scotland's jaunty Jimmy Clark before the U.S. Auto Club's 200-mile race at Trenton, N.J., last week. "Bah," sneered the U.S.'s pugnacious Parnelli Jones. "Clark may go back to Scotland talking out of the other side of his mouth...
...which permitted players to pick up the ball and run with it, soon evolved into rugby. The other version, which only permitted players to kick the ball, was soon formalized as a separate sport. In fact, soccer, or rugby without passing, today enjoys greater popularity than its kin in Scotland...
...cabalistic signs as a guide to the future. The Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm was accused of witchcraft for burning a peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John...