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Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Travelsleuth Stuart Buchanan MacWatt pays tribute to Robert Burns, Haggis and Whisky on the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's Bard and joins in the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne'.
haggis • whisky • burns • scotland • london

Adventure Sail On The Hawaiian Chieftain
Sailing aboard the Hawaiian Chieftain on a windy day offers a glimpse into the world of yesteryear's wind-ship sailors.
hawaiian chieftain • gray’s harbor historical seaport • adventure sail • adventure sails • day sail

Scandalous Love Affairs
Wife of aristocrats and mistress of kings and barons, Jane Digby fell in love in the 1850s with Greek War of Independence chieftain, Christodoulos Hadjipetros.
jane digby • scandalous love affairs • christodoulos hadjipetros • chieftains of greek war of independence • queen amalia and jane digby

Bush Barrow, Wiltshire
Bush Barrow is one of the best know British Barrow graves. Situated close to Stonehenge, it contained the possible remains of a Bronze Age king
bush barrow • bush barrow grave • wiltshire • stonehenge • stonehenge wiltshire

Delta Lloyd and Volvo Ocean Race
Building a foundation for a strong sailing program in the Netherlands, Delta Lloyd invest in Volvo Ocean Race Winning Boat, ABN AMRO ONE.
volvo ocean race • delta lloyd sailing • ger o'rouke • chieftain racing • dutch sailing teams

Hoarding: A Bronze Age Conundrum
In the Bronze Age, people began to hoard things--sword, animal skins, anything that showed wealth. But hoarding also had religious significance, especially the hoards that could not be retrieved.
bronze age • ancient british history • hoarding • ancient religious beliefs • ancient ritual behavior

Female Pirates on the High Seas
A common factor among most female pirates was a desire to escape the shackles of convention or to defy male authority-- or both.
granuaile • mary read • alwilda • gráinne • grace o'malley

Portland Summer Festivals
During the summer months Portland hosts a line-up of outdoor events from the Grand Floral Parade to the Oregon Brewers Festival, music and food and wine celebrations.
portland rose festival • grand floral parade • waterfront blues festival • bite of oregon • oregon brewers festival

Patron Saint of Mental Health
The tragic life of Saint Dympna and her deep faith in Christianity led to her eventual death at the hands of her father. Why then is Dympna the Patron Saint of insanity?
saint dympna • patron saint of mental health problems • patron saint of depression and alcoholism • patron saint of epilepsy • saint gerebernus patron saint of gout

Rus: Circassians
Short history & ethnology of the Circassians of the Caucasus mountains.
rus • russia • ukriane • dagestan • chechnaya

Grace O'Malley, Female Pirate
While female pirates were a rare thing, they certainly weren't uncommon. Grace O'Malley is one of the few women who gave pirating a new name.
female pirate • gracy o'malley • irish pirates • piracy • granuaile

The Excavation of Tintagel
The results of recent excavations at Tintagel suggest that its legendary links to King Arthur may have some basis in fact.
tintagel • tintagle castle • tintagel cornwall • archaeological excavation • british archaeology

Opusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park
The Opusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park has been functioning as a museum since 1970. It displays the History of the Hungarian people as well as the culture and life-style of people living on the Great Hungarian Plain.
europe • hungary • hungarian • arpad • árpád

John Alexander Macdonald, Canadian Boyhood
Born in Scotland, John Alexander Macdonald grew up in Kingston. A quiet boy, John was passionate about books, language, and eventually, law, politics and Canada.
sir john a macdonald • john alexander macdonald birthday • january 11 • 1815 macdonald birthday • childhood of john a macdonald

The Mythology of Saffron
Saffron spice is produced from the stigma of the crocus saffron flower. The word saffron is derived from the Arab word zafaran, meaning yellow, while crocus is the Greek
saffron • saffron history • saffron medice • saffron aphrodisiac • saffron mythology

Celts in the Balkans
Archaeologists are still searching for the lost city of Tylis - the capital of a short-lived Celtic tribal state established in the territory of modern Bulgaria in 279 BC
celts in balkans • celtic kingdom in trace • lost city of tylis • la tene culture • celts'diplomacy

Where Are the Aragorn and Arwen Web Sites?
A discussion of Aragorn and Arwen, how Web sites for them are currently lacking, and what may emerge on the Web as the popularity of these characters and the actors who portray them rises.
aragorn • arwen • strider • the lord of the rings • tolkien

Old Tales, Old Problems: The Ulster Cycle in a New Light
Looking at today's political situation in Ireland through the lens of two fifth-century tales in the Ulster Cycle, Dierdre of the Sorrows and The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
ulster • cattle raid of cooley • dierdre of the sorrows • conor • the red branch.

Ranger For Hire: Have Horse, Will Travel
A discussion of possible locations where Aragorn's people may have lived in Eriador.
aragorn • eriador • tolkien • rangers • dunedain

Frodo's Temptation; Aragorn's Resistance
The Kings of Numenore succumbed to Sauron's influence. The Nazgul had all been men who had been corrupted by him. Boromir went mad with desire for the One Ring. What enabled Aragorn to resist the temptation to seize the Ring?
aragorn • elrond • elros • rivendell • gandalf

European folk boom?
Eurosceptics needn't worry about folk music - national identities are alive and well.
folk • music • traditions • europe

Archaeology and the Celts
The Celts were only known from the writings of the Greeks, Romans and Etruscans until archaeological evidence helped explain where their culture began and how it spread.
the celts • celtic archaeology • celtic culture • origins of celtic culture • keltoi

Henry II
Henry II was the grandson of Henry I and the son of Matilda, who succeeded Stephen in 1154. He is most remembered for the death of Thomas Becket.
henry i • stephen • matilda • geoffrey of anjou • henry ii

Exalted Reputation with the Timbermaw Hold
Gaining exalted reputation with the Timbermaw Hold and the achievement 'They Love Me In That Tunnel' is a very quick and easy achievement to complete.
world of warcraft • achievements • exalted reputation • timbermaw hold • felwood

Hobbit Tales, or Never There And Back Again...
A discussion of some of the other stories Tolkien could have told about Hobbits had he explained their history in greater detail.
hobbits • tolkien • shire • buckland • gondor

Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, is born in Kentucky. Years later he attends West Point and fights in the Black Hawk war.
jefferson davis • american civil war • confederacy • black hawk war • west point

Mull of Galloway
You cannot get any furthest south in Scotland than the Rhins of Galloway. This remote headland's southernmost extremity, The Mull, has so much to offer visitors.
mull of galloway • gallie craig coffee house • royal society fo the protection of birds • seabirds • gannets

The Birth of Krishna Dwaipayana
The sage Parashara is smitten by Satyavati the fisherman's daughter. Under very unusual circumstances they unite and Krishna Dwaipayana is born.
satyavati • dashraja • matsyagandha • yamuna • parashara

Book Review: Britain's Royal Families
Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy is a unique reference book from AD 800 to the present in one volume. It is a must-have for monarchists and history buffs.
royal families - great britain • genealogy • england ad 800 to 1603 • scotland 9th century to 1603 • great britain from 1603

Boudica, Historic Warrior Queen
In the first novel of the Boudica series, author Manda Scott relates the story of the fabled warrior queen of the Eceni tribe, located on the south-east coast of England.
boudica • roman invasion • manda scott • historical novel • pre-roman society

E3 2009 - Halo 3: ODST Preview
Halo 3: ODST was showcased in Microsoft's E3 2009 Conference and is playable upon the E3 show floor.
halo 3: odst • odst at e3 2009 • halo 3: odst preview • new mombasa sandbox • firefight in halo 3: odst

Et Tu, Faramir?
Tolkien's vivid mythology captures the imagination with a careful retelling of supposedly ancient stories which were long forgotten. But just exactly what were the imaginary sources for Tolkien's imaginary sources? Middle-earth's undiscovered literature evokes a wheels-within-wheels mystique, much as real literature draws upon older sources to build up its own power and breadth.
epic of gilgamesh • indo-european • tyr • zeus • julius caesar

Hot flutes
Of all the current developments in instrument-playing on today's folk scene, what's being achieved on the flute is perhaps the most exciting.
folk scene • music • flute playing • techniques • traditional

Obama Ancestry: Part of the Great Melting Pot
Barack Obama's ancestry is American melting pot, making him distant cousin to Katharine Hepburn, Brad Pitt, Christopher Reeve, Winston Churchill and astronaut John Glenn.
barack obama • obama ancestry • obama kin to presidents • obama kin to kings • obama kin to slave owners

Obama's Surge Policy for Afghan-Pakistan Border
A haven for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, the Pakistan Northwestern Frontier has been the most difficult region for coalition troops and Pakistan Army forces to control.
obama’s afghanistan surge policy • pakistan northwestern frontier • pakistani government • waziristan • border policy

Piping on
Of all the bagpipes, the Irish uilleann pipes are perhaps the most revered in folk music.
folk • music • bagpipes

The Barbarization Of The Roman Army
The Roman Army at its zenith was a force of professional infantry, with a few supporting cavalry. All this changed, however, when the Germanic Tribes began to invade.
roman • german • comitatus • vassal • pilum

The Beaker People
Beaker Culture was prevalent 6000 years ago. It's spread across Central and Western Europe was a key element in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
beaker people • european bronze age • bronze age • beaker culture • beaker pottery

The Heathen Harriers
This is a short article about Viking culture.
vikings • viking culture • art • myth • sagas

The La Tene Period
With its intricate, highly defined art forms and developed civilisation, La Tene represents the high point of pre Roman Celtic culture
la tene • celtic iron age • celtic iron age culture • lake neuchatel switzerland • celtic culture

The Retreat from Kabul
The attempted retreat from the Kabul cantonments in January 1842 was one of the worst disasters in British military history.
the retreat from kabul • first anglo-afghan war • kabul • final stand at gandamak • jellalabad

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