Why did the Vikings choose Iceland to settle in? Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? Why was the Scottish Parliament created? Why did the Vikings abandon Greenland? Why was the Tea Party formed? Why did the Viking Age end? Why did the Iroquois Confederacy form?
Its commerce made it richer than a large northern country.
Why Scottish ice cubes could soon be hot in AmericaJonathan Aiken
Why did Mark Twain write The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Why did Robert Burns write in a Scottish accent? Why does Philip end up on the raft in The Cay? When Jim approaches the sleeping men in Treasure Island, what are the signs that something is wrong? Why does Jim ignore these ...
In the Middle Ages, the great medieval Scottish philosopher, Michael Scot (1180-1250), put forward a revision of this theory, according to which the uterus has seven chambers.[18] If the sperm enters in one of the right chambers, the fetus will be a boy, if one of the left, a girl...
The driveracknowledged my 13 but did not move off.Instead, he looked 14 at me.“Raddar?"he said,using my childhood nickname(绰号). I was astonishedat being so_ 15 addressed(称呼). Unexpectedly! Itwas Ismail! Even after two 16 we stil recognizedeach other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt...
Today Lehman is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Merrill Lynch is being bought for chicken feed by Bank of America. The Wall Street sky is falling. but what does that mean to tech companies, and particularly to startups? The last five or six years have been all about comm...
Cairn terriers were originally bred to fearlessly root out foxes and other small prey in the rocky Scottish countryside. Small, shaggy, and alert, this breed likes having a place where they can explore and dig. Cairns are small enough for a lap snuggle and sturdy enough for a good run on...
The Rolling Stones, and The Who. Since then, the U.K. has shared with us the music of Sting, U2 (ok, so they’re Irish, same difference, but not really), Natasha Bedingfield, Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse, Duffy, KT Tunstall (who’s Scottish), Coldplay, Snow Patrol, and my favorite...
is traditionally believed to have been derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the last name of Peter Wallace, a Scottish buccaneer who may have begun a settlement at the mouth of the Belize River about 1638. It is also possible that the name evolved from the Mayan word belix (“muddy wat...