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...thousands of Scottish Highlanders who came out to Canada in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, the northern end of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island looked like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
...kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place as Scottish as Cape Breton...
...Finnish children, who had the most impressive collection, had used crayon in high, hot keys. The Scottish and English showed strong influences of modern art: they had obviously been to art galleries. The Swedes and Norwegians were neat, sure and uninspired. The French were the most elaborate...
Thomas Erskine, son of the Scottish 10th Earl of Buchan, is still regarded by many legal scholars as the greatest advocate ever to come before a jury. Usually "for the defense," he pleaded the most historic cases in one of England's most history-packed periods. For his time, he was the great courtroom defender of English civil liberties...
...Importance of Being Earnest. 5. Craig's Wife. 3. Lady Windermere's Fan. 90. Brigadoon, an engaging new musical, is about a Scottish village that...