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Christie Cleek is a mythical Scottish cannibal said to have lived during a famine in the mid-14th century. The legend of Sawney Bean first appeared in British chapbooks (a type of printed street literature). Many today argue that the story served as political propaganda to denigrate the Scots after the Jacobite rebellions.
Wawro was the son of Tadeusz and Olive Wawro; his father was a Polish military officer and civil engineer who had settled as a librarian in Fife, Scotland and his mother a Scottish primary schoolteacher. [1] He was diagnosed as "moderately to severely retarded" at the age of three, a condition later recognised as autism.
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The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples , the Picts and Gaels , who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba ) in the 9th century.
The remains of Rob Roy MacGregor's house in upper Glen Shira. Despite having fought on opposing sides during the 1715 rising, MacGregor and his family moved immediately afterwards to Glen Shira, where they lived under the protection of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, also known as Red John of the Battles, "Iain Ruaidh nan Cath".
He also wrote a novel, A Stolen Smile, which is about the theft of the Mona Lisa and how it ends up hidden on a Scottish housing scheme. It was rumoured that Disney bought the film rights, but Boyle has denied this. [11] [12] [13] In 1998, he was named as a financial donor of the Labour Party. [14]
Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on 29 May following, partly in revenge for Wishart's death. [8] Wishart's preaching in 1544–45 helped popularise the teachings of Calvin and Zwingli in Scotland. [citation needed] He translated into English the first Helvetic Confession of Faith in ...