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...chaste womens laps, with not so subtle sexual undertones, began to appear in artwork. Likely for similar reasons of imagery and historical belief in its purity and healing powers, over time the unicorn was adopted as a symbol of power and royalty, most notably becoming the symbol of the Scottish crown...
...exposed to such variety. It's been on view in the U.S. for 150 years. Whenever the 11th man from any European town emigrated to the States, a football team got organized. Football, the real variety, is an American game, too. Since the 19th century, whether it was Scottish mill hands in New Jersey, Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts, Ukrainian steel workers in Pennsylvania, Italian masons and Irish sandhogs in New York City, or German brewers and shopkeepers in Missouri, one ethnicity after the next established its community and its football, not necessarily in that order...
Radcliffe Executive Dean Louise M. Richardson was named the next leader of the University of St. Andrews, the Radcliffe Institute announced yesterday. Richardson, a leading scholar on terrorism and political violence, will be the first woman to serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities’ president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities” starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male...
Since then, Manson conducted some of the finest orchestras in the world, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stockholm’s Royal Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many others. In 1999, she became the music director of the Kansas City Symphony—one of only three women to have held such a position in a leading American symphony...
...topic most political memoirists skate around. Not so Cherie, who even discusses the conception of her fourth child, Leo, during a trip to Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish retreat. On the Blairs' first visit to the castle, valets had unpacked Cherie's toiletries, including what she refers to as "contraceptive equipment." On a subsequent visit, she left the equipment at home to spare any blushes. That's a courtesy her readers should definitely not expect...