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...Scottish parson and part-time inventor named Robert Stirling patented a new engine for pumping water out of mines and quarries. It could run on almost any fuel, he boasted-including whisky. Indeed the parson had such faith in his engine that he often cut his Sunday sermons short to work on it. For all his enthusiasm, though, when Stirling died in 1878 at the age of 88, his engine was still unperfected. Soon it was totally overshadowed by the newer gasoline-powered internal combustion engine...
...royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III. The handsome, 39-year-old prince was beaten at Culloden in 1746, when the infamous Duke of Cumberland broke the power of the Scottish clans. He fled to France with the price of ? 30,000 on his head, and traveled quietly to Virginia (says Thomas) under an assumed name...
...tryst even has its own whereto literature. A newly published (by Collier/Macmillan) Lovers' Guide to America lists inns, hotels and resorts that both welcome and appeal to couples. Scottish-born Travel Writer Ian Keown, 36, visited some 275 spots across the " country, and found 137 that were sufficiently charming and nonchalant to be awarded anywhere from one cupid (good enough for "a one-night stand") to four cupids (where a couple could live "happily ever after"). Among Lovers 'listings...
...microbopper parable out of Oliver Twist. There on the Queen Mary, docked at Long Beach, Calif., was little Lena Zavaroni, 10, the Scottish youngster with the big Garland voice who topped the Common Market charts in 1973 with her recording of Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. As she gyrated with prepubescent salaciousness at the end of a U.S. promotion tour, her managers Phil and Dorothy Solomon looked on with satisfaction. "Our biggest problem in England," said Phil, "is the antiquated work laws for children. Why, Lena can only give 40 performances a year." Noting that...
Though Maggie is often called the Scottish Janis Joplin, and there is a superficial physical resemblance, they are dissimilar artistically and psychologically. Bell's voice lacks Joplin's extraordinary naked emotional intensity, nor can she match the eerie tripartite wails approaching chords that Joplin achieved in her final performances of Ball and Chain. Bell has a bigger voice with a hefty three-octave range, and she is unencumbered by the insecurity and corrosive self-loathing that crippled Joplin. Hers may well prove a more durable talent. "The danger in this business is hanging around with too many people...