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A Red, Red Rose
"A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources.
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Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Address to the Deil
"Address to the Devil" is a poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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Ae Fond Kiss
The Scots song "Ae fond kiss and then we sever" by the Scottish poet Robert Burns is more commonly known as "Ae fond kiss".
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Agnes Broun
Agnes Broun (or Brown) (17 March 1732 – 14 January 1820), or Agnes Burnes, was the mother of the poet Robert Burns.
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Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose (26 April 1758 – 23 October 1841Scotland's People, Death record of Agnes Craig or McIhose (OPR Deaths 685/03 0340 0368 CANONGATE)), or Agnes Craig, known to her friends as 'Nancy' Retrieved: 2012-04-03 and to Robert Burns followers as Clarinda, was a Scotswoman who had an unconsummated affair with Burns during 1787-88, on which he based the song, "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791).
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Alexander McLachlan (poet)
Alexander McLachlan (1818–1896) was a Scottish born Canadian poet, who was active in the mid nineteenth century and wrote in both Scottish dialect and poetic convention of the homesickness of Scottish immigrants to Canada.
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Alexander Nasmyth
Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 175810 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, a pupil of Allan Ramsay.
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Alfred Billings Street
Alfred Billings Street (December 18, 1811 – June 2, 1881) was an American author and poet.
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Alison Begbie
Alison Begbie, Ellison Begbie or Elizabeth Gebbie is said to have been the daughter of a farmer, born in the parish of Galston, and at the time of her courtship by Robert Burns she was a servant employed at Carnell House, then known as Cairnhill, close to the River Cessnock, situated about 2 miles from Loudoun.
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Allan Ramsay (poet)
Allan Ramsay (15 October 16867 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh.
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Alloway
Alloway (Gaelic Allmhaigh, pronounced) is a conservation village that is now a suburb of Ayr.
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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Anti-clericalism
Anti-clericalism is opposition to religious authority, typically in social or political matters.
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Apodemus
Apodemus is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" (note "s" rather than "z") is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294).
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Auldgirth
Auldgirth is a village on the A76 road in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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Ayr
Ayr (Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a large town and former Royal Burgh on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland.
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Ayrshire
Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is an historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.
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Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton
The Bachelors' Club is a National Trust for Scotland museum located at 1 Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, KA5 5RB.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.
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Blackie and Son
Blackie and Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England from 1890 to 1991.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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BR Standard Class 7
The BR Standard Class 7, otherwise known as the Britannia Class, is a class of 4-6-2 ''Pacific'' steam locomotive designed under Robert Riddles for use by British Railways for mixed traffic duties.
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British Rail Class 156
The British Rail Class 156 is a diesel multiple-unit train.
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British Rail Class 87
The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive built in 1973–75 by British Rail Engineering Limited.
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British Volunteer Corps
The Volunteer Corps was a British voluntary part-time organization for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Brontë family
The Brontës (commonly) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Burns Club Atlanta
The Burns Club of Atlanta, officially organized in 1896, is a private social club and literary and cultural society commemorating the works and spirit of the 18th century national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns.
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Burns Clubs
Burns Clubs exist throughout the world to encourage and cherish the memory of Robert Burns, to foster a love of his writings and generally to encourage an interest in the Scots Language and Literature.
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Burns Cottage
Burns Cottage, the first home of Robert Burns is located in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Burns supper
A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems.
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Burns, New York
Burns is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
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Burns, Oregon
Burns is a city in and the county seat of Harney County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.
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Campbeltown
Campbeltown; (Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Camperdown, Victoria
Camperdown is a historically significant rural town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital, Melbourne.
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Central Scots
Central Scots is a group of dialects of Scots.
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Charismatic authority
Charismatic authority is a concept about leadership that was developed in 1922 (he died in 1920) by the German sociologist Max Weber.
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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
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Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.
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Cittern
The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
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Comin' Thro' the Rye
"Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96).
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Commonplace book
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Court of Session
The Court of Session (Cùirt an t-Seisein; Coort o Session) is the supreme civil court of Scotland, and constitutes part of the College of Justice; the supreme criminal court of Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.
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Cumnock
Cumnock (Cumnag in Gaelic) is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.
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Dumfries
Dumfries (possibly from Dùn Phris) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dunnottar Castle
Dunnottar Castle (Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope") is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about south of Stonehaven.
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Dunoon
Dunoon (Dùn Omhain) is the main town on the Cowal peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.
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Eddi Reader
Sadenia "Eddi" Reader MBE (born 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Elizabeth Bishop (Burns)
Elizabeth Bishop (22 May 1785 – 8 January 1817) was Robert Burns's first child following an affair with Elizabeth Paton (1760 – c. 1799).
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Elizabeth Paton
Elizabeth "Betsey" Paton or later Elizabeth Andrew of Lairgieside (1760 – c. 1799) was the daughter of James Paton and Eleanor Helen Paton.
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Ellisland Farm
Ellisland Farm lies about 6.5 mi/10.4 km northwest of Dumfries in village of Auldgirth, located in the Parish of Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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English literature
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.
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Epitaph for James Smith
"Epitaph for James Smith" is a satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in his first publication, the Kilmarnock volume.
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Epithet
An epithet (from ἐπίθετον epitheton, neuter of ἐπίθετος epithetos, "attributed, added") is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage.
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Excise
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Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.
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Flax
Flax (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Frances Dunlop
Frances Anne Walker Dunlop (16 April 1730 - 24 May 1815), of Dunlop, was a landowner and correspondent and friend of Robert Burns.
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Frank Lebby Stanton
Frank Lebby Stanton (February 22, 1857 – January 7, 1927), frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L. Stanton, was an American lyricist.
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Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts.
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Freedom of the City
The Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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George Thomson (musician)
George Thomson (1757–1851), born at Limekilns, Fife, Scotland, was a noted collector of the music of Scotland, a music publisher, and a friend of Robert Burns.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Gilbert Burns (farmer)
Gilbert Burns (1760 – 1827), the younger brother of Robert Burns the poet, was born at Alloway.
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Greenock
Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Haggis
Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, traditionally encased in the animal's stomach though now often in an artificial casing instead.
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Halloween (poem)
"Halloween" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785.
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Heath MacQuarrie
Heath Nelson Macquarrie (September 18, 1919 – January 2, 2002) was a Canadian politician, teacher, scholar, and writer.
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Hogmanay
Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the Scottish manner.
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Hugh MacDiarmid
Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.
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Irvine, North Ayrshire
Irvine (Irvin, Irbhinn) is an ancient settlement, in medieval times a royal burgh, and now a new town on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Is There for Honest Poverty
"Is There for Honest Poverty", commonly known as "A Man's a Man for A' That", is a 1795 song by Robert Burns, written in Scots and English, famous for its expression of egalitarian ideas of society, which may be seen as expressing the ideas of liberalism that arose in the 18th century.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David "J.
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James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn
James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn (1 June 1749 – 30 January 1791) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and patron of Rabbie Burns.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.
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James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author.
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Jean Armour
Jean Armour (25 February 1765 – 26 March 1834), also known as the "Belle of Mauchline", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns.
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Jean Redpath
Jean Redpath MBE (28 April 1937 – 21 August 2014) was a Scottish folk singer, educator and musician.
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Jenny Clow
Janet, Jennie or Jenny Clow was a domestic servant to Mrs Agnes Maclehose, née Craig (1759-1841), the Clarinda to Robert Burns' Sylvander.
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John A. Macdonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891).
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John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish-American actor, singer, presenter and writer.
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John Clare
John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.
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Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock (Cille Mheàrnaig, "Meàrnag's church") is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland with a population of 46,350, making it the 15th most populated place in Scotland and the second largest town in Ayrshire.
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Kincardineshire
Kincardineshire, also known as the Mearns (from A' Mhaoirne meaning "the Stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of northeast Scotland.
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Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire
Kirkoswald (Kirkossald) is a village and parish in the Carrick district of Ayrshire, Scotland, 1¾ miles from the coast and four miles southwest of Maybole.
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Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.
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List of Robert Burns memorials
This is a list of over sixty known memorials (statues, busts, fountains and buildings) to the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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Literary adaptation
Literary adaptation is the adapting of a literary source (e.g. a novel, short story, poem) to another genre or medium, such as a film, stage play, or video game.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
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Makar
A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.
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Mary Campbell (Highland Mary)
Mary Campbell also known as Highland Mary, Retrieved: 17 March 2012 (was christened Margaret, March 1763 Retrieved: 23 March 2012 – 1786) she was the daughter of a sailor in a revenue cutterAnnandale, V.1, Page 173 named Archibald Campbell of Daling, whose wife was Agnes Campbell of Achnamore or Auchamore, by Dunoon on the Cowal Peninsula in 1762.
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Masonic lodge
A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.
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Mauchline
Mauchline (Maghlinn) is a town and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
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May Cameron
May Cameron also known as Margaret, Peggy, or Meg Cameron, Retrieved: 2012-03-11 was a servant in Edinburgh, working at a house close to that of William Creech, Burns's Edinburgh publisher.
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McMaster University
McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.
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Nanaimo
Nanaimo (Canada 2016 Census population 90,504) is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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National anthem
A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.) is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.
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National day
A national day is a designated date on which celebrations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign country.
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National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections.
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National poet
A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture.
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National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, commonly known as the National Trust for Scotland (Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish conservation organisation.
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National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector.
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Nelly Kilpatrick
Nelly or Nellie Kilpatrick, later Nelly Bone (17591820).
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New Year
New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.
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Oath
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon āð, also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise with wording relating to something considered sacred as a sign of verity.
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire
Paisley (Pàislig, Paisley) is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area.
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Peggy Thompson
Margaret "Peggy" Thompson, later Margaret Neilson, was the housekeeper at Coilsfield House or Montgomery Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.
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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect commonly known as the Kilmarnock volume or Kilmarnock edition, is a collection of poetry by Robert Burns, first printed and issued by John Wilson of Kilmarnock on 31 July 1786.
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Port Antonio
Port Antonio is the capital of the parish of Portland on the northeastern coast of Jamaica, about 60 miles (100 km) from Kingston.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Radicalism (historical)
The term "Radical" (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.
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Rebuke
In English law and the canon law of the Church of England, a rebuke is a censure on a member of the clergy.
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Republicanism
Republicanism is an ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty.
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Richard Brown (captain)
Richard Brown (1753 – 1833) or Ritchie Broun in Scots was born in Irvine.
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Robert Burns (disambiguation)
Robert Burns (1759–1796) was a Scottish poet.
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Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
During the years 1781–1782, at the age of 23, Robert Burns (1759–1796) lived in Irvine, North Ayrshire for a period of around 9 months, whilst learning the craft of flax-dressing from Alexander Peacock, who may have been his mother's half-brother, working at the heckling shop in the Glasgow Vennel.
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Robert Burns Fellowship
The Robert Burns Fellowship, established in 1958 as a bicentennial celebration, is claimed to be New Zealand's premier literary residency.
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Robert Burns's diamond point engravings
Robert Burns came to know James Cunninghamme, Earl of Glencairn in Edinburgh in 1786 through a 'Letter of Introduction' provided by Dalrymple of Orangefield who was married to Lady Glencairn's sister.
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Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 16 October 1774) was a Scottish poet.
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Robert W. Service
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".
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Romantic poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rosa acicularis
Rosa acicularis, also known as the prickly wild rose, the prickly rose, the bristly rose, the wild rose and the Arctic rose, is a species of wild rose with a Holarctic distribution in northern regions of Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Royal Company of Archers
The Royal Company of Archers is a ceremonial unit that serves as the Sovereign's Bodyguard in Scotland, a role it has performed since 1822 and the reign of King George IV, when the company provided a personal bodyguard to the King on his visit to Scotland.
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Royal Mail
Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.
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Royal Mint
The Royal Mint is a government-owned mint that produces coins for the United Kingdom.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Saint Andrew's Day
Saint Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
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Samuil Marshak
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Samuil Yakovlevich Marchak) (Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; 4 July 1964) was a Russian Jewish and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet.
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Scots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).
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Scots Musical Museum
The Scots Musical Museum was a major publication that had a pivotal role in the collecting and tradition of music of Scotland.
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Scots Wha Hae
"Scots Wha Hae" (English: Scots, Who Have; Brosnachadh Bhruis) is a patriotic song of Scotland written using both words of the Scots language and English, which served for centuries as an unofficial national anthem of the country, but has lately been largely supplanted by "Scotland the Brave" and "Flower of Scotland".
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Scottish diaspora
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Scottish English
Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.
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Scottish literature
Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers.
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Scottish national identity
Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, of the Scottish people.
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh.
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Serge Hovey
Serge Hovey (1920 – 5 May 1989) was a composer and ethnomusicologist.
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Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada with campuses in Burnaby (Main Campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.
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Sings the Songs of Robert Burns
Sings the Songs of Robert Burns is the seventh studio album by Eddi Reader.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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SparkNotes
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
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Stirling
Stirling (Stirlin; Sruighlea) is a city in central Scotland.
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Stonemasonry
The craft of stonemasonry (or stonecraft) involves creating buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone from the earth, and is one of the oldest trades in human history.
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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
The Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is a passenger transport executive responsible for planning and coordinating regional transport, especially the public transport system, in the Strathclyde area of western Scotland.
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STV (TV channel)
STV is a television channel serving Scotland.
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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar was the main crop produced on plantations throughout the Caribbean through the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Summerhill, Dumfries
Summerhill in Dumfries is a post war residential suburb on the West side of the town.
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Tam o' Shanter (poem)
"Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries.
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Tarbolton
Tarbolton (Tarbowton) is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
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The Battle of Sherramuir
"The Battle of Sherramuir" is a song written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) about the Battle of Sheriffmuir which occurred in Scotland in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising in England and Scotland.
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J. D. Salinger, first published in serial form in 1945-6 and as a novel in 1951.
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The Fens (Boston, Massachusetts)
The Back Bay Fens, often called The Fens, is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Octagon, Dunedin
The Octagon is the city centre of Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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The Slave's Lament
The Slave's Lament is a song first published in 1792 in Volume Four of the Scots Musical Museum.
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The World of Robert Burns
The World of Robert Burns is educational software which teaches about the life and times of Robert Burns.
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Thomas Blacklock
Rev Thomas Blacklock DD (10 November 1721 – 7 July 1791) was a Scottish poet.
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To a Louse
"To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie.
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To a Mountain Daisy
"To a Mountain Daisy" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1786.
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To a Mouse
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" is a Scots Language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume.
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Two pounds (British coin)
The British two pound (£2) coin is a denomination of the pound sterling.
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Typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
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University of Otago
The University of Otago (Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) is a collegiate university located in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Wallace Monument
The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the shoulder of the Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland.
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.
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Water of Fail
The Water of Fail, or River Fail, is a fast-flowing river in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Whitsun
Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used especially in Britain and Ireland, and throughout the world among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts 2).
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William Burnes
William Burnes or William Burness (11 November 1721 – 13 February 1784), the father of Robert Burns the poet, was born at either Upper Kinmonth or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Ayrshire and becoming a tenant farmer.
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William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas; Norman French: William le Waleys; died 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
