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Aiken Drum" (Roud 2571) is a popular Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, which probably has its origins in a Jacobite song about the Battle of Sheriffmuir (1715).
A persistent troublemaker, young Aiken Drum refused to bend to the will of society. Offered the choice of incarceration, docilization or euthanasia, he instead chose Exile to the Pliocene. Always landing on his feet, his quick wits and schemes earned him respect from his fellow time travelers, and his latent metapsychic abilities earned him a ...
Aiken Drum: United Kingdom: 1820 [6] The rhyme was first printed in 1820 by James Hogg in Jacobite Reliques. Apple Pie ABC: United Kingdom 1871 [7] Edward Lear made fun of the original rhyme in his nonsense parody "A was once an apple pie". Akka bakka bonka rakka: Norway: 1901 [8] Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games). [8]
The Saga of Pliocene Exile (or the Saga of the Exiles) is a series of science / speculative fiction books by Julian May, first published in the early 1980s.It consists of four books: The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King and The Adversary.
One common anthology piece sometimes associated with his name is also "The Aiken Drum". He is best remembered today for "The Brownie of Blednoch" (1828), a favourite of the poet Marion Angus (1865–1946), and "The Braes of Galloway".
An example is Yue-Laou, from Chinese tradition; [21] another is Aiken Drum from Scotland. The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin , published in 1638, is one of the earliest novels thought of as containing several traits prototypical of science fiction .
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Contribute Help; ... 1 Edrin Drum. 1 comment. 2 full of speculation? 2 comments. 3 aiken drum, the brownie. 3 comments. 4 Earlier ...
Aiken boasted that the Mark III was the fastest electronic computer in the world. The Mark III used nine magnetic drums (one of the first computers to do so). One drum could contain 4,000 instructions and has an access time of 4,400 microseconds; thus it was a stored-program computer. The arithmetic unit could access two other drums – one ...