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The Declaration of Arbroath included in the text of the Scotichronicon in the British Library.. The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign, which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, [5] rather than its being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as to lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce. [6]
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.
1599: St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare as part of his history play Henry V has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film Henry V, and it made famous the phrase "band of brothers".
Gerry Hughes (born 1958), sailor, first single-handed Atlantic crossing by a deaf person; Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) welterweight champion boxer [7] Jimmy Johnstone (1944–2006), football player; George Kerr (born 1937), judo expert, winner of the 1957 gold medal in the European Judo Championships
Along with many Highland clansmen, at the age of eighteen Rob Roy MacGregor together with his father joined the Jacobite rising of 1689 led by John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, and Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, to support the Stuart King James VII, whose flight from Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had been declared by the English Convention Parliament to be an abdication, then ...
One example is speeches – some of the most inspiring talks in history have been spoken by female orators like Sojourner Truth, Oprah Winfrey and Susan B. Anthony. These 23 speeches delivered by ...
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John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish Naval Officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.Often referred to as the "Father of the American Navy", Jones is regarded by several commentators as one of the greatest naval commanders in the military history of the United States.