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Stroud is considered to be one of the most notorious criminals in American history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Robert Niemi states that Stroud had a "superior intellect," and became a "first-rate ornithologist and author," but was an "extremely dangerous and menacing psychopath, disliked and distrusted by his jailers and fellow inmates."
Old Gala house by night. Old Gala House is a museum and conference centre situated in the Old Town area of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.The building was originally built as a tower house in 1457 by the Hoppringill (Pringle) family, who had been granted the lands of Gala by the Earl of Douglas.
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Main Entrance. Borders Family History Society, (BFHS), founded in 1985, is a members and research society which concentrates on the Scottish Borders region in south-eastern Scotland, comprising the ancient pre-1975 counties of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Selkirkshire and Peeblesshire, as well as small parts of the former counties of Midlothian (formerly Edinburghshire), and adjacent counties ...
A family history society or genealogical society is a society, often charitable or not-for-profit, that allows member genealogists and family historians to profit from shared knowledge. Large societies often own libraries, sponsor research seminars and foreign trips, and publish journals.
Galashiels was also home to the author of the famous Scottish song "Coulters Candy". Robert Coltart was a weaver in the town, but also made confectionery in nearby Melrose. The song was created as an advertisement and hence was renamed "Sugar Candy" when played by the BBC.
Robert Michael Stroud (born 1942) is a British biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology as means of determining the function of proteins, enzymes and integral membrane proteins. He was a professor of Chemistry at Caltech in the early 1970s and professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and of Pharmaceutical Chemistry ...
The building was extended to a design by Sir Robert Lorimer at a cost of £23,000 on the site of a former mill house between 1924 and 1927: [8] the extension involved seven extra bays along Albert Place to the southeast with the second of the new bays, which slightly projected forward, featuring an architraved doorway on the ground floor, a ...