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smeddum n. spirit, energy, drive, vigorous resourcefulnessSmeddum (2001) is the apt title of recent collection of works by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a writer whose brief but intense writing career was marked …
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A gang-roond oor Sun Gird – or a tour of our Solar System – describes the planets orbiting the Sun, the planetary moons, rings, and other features, and some of the facts relating to gravity …
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To celebrate the 250 years since the birth of James Hogg, the American Folklife Center in Washington, USA, and the University of Stirling are holding a joint conference. James Hogg (1770-1835), …
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Finola Scott's poems are personal and political, from the intimate to the world view. They can be read on posters, tapestries and postcards, in anthologies and magazines such as New Writing Scotland, …
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Mercury is cryed efter the Roman god Mercurius that haed tred an troke as his parteeclar haunling. But he wis equate wi the Greek god Hermes - the messenger o the ither gods – an sae a swith traiveller. …
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Oor Yird didna aye hae a moon. But we maun be thankfae that it daes. Oor Moon keeps us richt an pits the haims on oor planet’s wabble sae that it daesna tilt ower faur, ower shairp like. This slaw …
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The Greeks cryed this planet efter Ares thair god o weir. The Romans equate Ares wi thair ain god o weir Mrti an syne the lave o Europe took this name on. Mair nor ony ither planet in oor Sun Gird, Mairs …
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Jubiter is cryed efter the heid god o the Romans Jubiter or Jupiter. Jubiter is a michty cheil. It is bigger nor aw the planets o oor Sun Gird pit thegither an cuid swallae the Yird 1,300 times ower. …
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Seturn is cryed efter the Roman god o ferming SÄturnus an is namely for its mony rings. Efter Jubiter it is the neist biggest warld in oor Sun Gird an cuid fit oor Yird in it mony times ower. It …
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The Sun is a starn. An starn is jist anither word for a sun. Apairt fae oor ain Sun, maist ither anes is that faur awa that we cry them starns. Starn haes its oreeginal in the auld Indo-European word …