Sam reading Burns poetry

As always, a sheer delight listening! 🌹😘

Last Sunday I found in the Culture-section of the Telegraph these quotes about the Scots and Scotland.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/35-great-quotes-about-scotland-and-the-scots/

"The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love."

Robert Burns (1759-1796) is Scotland's most beloved poet, with Burns Night celebrated in his honour on January 25 every year.

A few more of my favorites:

“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.”
French philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778).

"The Glasgow invention of square-toed shoes was to enable the Glasgow man to get closer to the bar."

Jack House, aka Mr Glasgow (1906-1991), was a prominent and prolific Glasgow writer.

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."

PG Wodehouse's famous line can bring a wry smile to Scots and non-Scots alike.

"Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast."

Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) had a sound understanding of the Scottish character.

"God help England if she had no Scots to think for her."

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).

“If a Frenchman goes on about seagulls, trawlers and sardines, he’s called a philosopher. I’d just be called a short Scottish bum talking crap.”

Scotland national football team manager Gordon Strachan was born and raised in Edinburgh.

“Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.”

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister.

Source: Telegraph. co.uk- Jan. 24, '16

I just dled a book yesterday "How Scots Invented the Modern World". Looks pretty interesting.

I'm sure it's interesting, it covers many disciplines. I read as much as Amazon's 'Look inside' permitted, pleasant writing style too. Did you see the thorough descriptive bibliography for each chapter? I think that part alone is worth its price. I know Scottish personalities mainly from the Enlightenment era (my special interest), such as the works of Adam Smith and David Hume.

I haven't even done a "look inside" yet. I just saw it on the site I dl books from and decided to give it a try.

Doing more genealogy the last couple of days and found a ancestor that was a prisoner of war and shipped over to America after the Battle of Dunbar. Earlier than Outlander time but I still found it interesting.

Your ancestor was lucky surviving it. This seems to have been a short, but very messy battle.

Doing more genealogy the last couple of days and found a ancestor that was a prisoner of war and shipped over to America after the Battle of Dunbar. Earlier than Outlander time but I still found it interesting.

Same here, only my ancestor was actually from the Culloden time. He and his brother were POWs/slaves and shipped to the US - Virginia, I want to say. I found his brother on the ships manifest but not his. The research I found says that though his name is not listed, he was likely also on the ship - perhaps his name was miswritten or something. He married a girl where he landed (the timeframe supports it) though from what I've found on the ancestry trail. Our name then was MacBean. We always thought we were English & Irish on both sides of our family (mom's & dad's) but now we know we're mostly English, Scottish and French - not necessarily in that order. Genealogy research is fun!

My dad is full blooded Swede but my mom is a European mutt. Her ancestors cover most of Europe.