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Skinny Malinky
Orlaith having fun Skinny Malinky Long legs big banana feet,went to the pictures but couldn`t find a seat when the picture started Skinny Malinky farted ,Skinny Malinky long legs big banana feet. Funny rendition of a childrens song
The original Jack Daniel's whiskey recipe
The original Jack Daniel's whiskey recipe Mark Evans claims to have found the original recipe for Jack Daniel's whiskey in a book of herbal remedies. The Jack Daniels lost recipe was in a herbal book of 1853 written by his Welsh great-great grandmother. The...
Early morning rain
"When I hear a Gordon Lightfoot song I wish it could go on forever." Bob Dylan In the early morning rain With a dollar in my hand With an achin' in my heart And my pockets full of sand I'm a long way from home And I miss my loved ones so In the early...
The Removal of American Colonists from Scotland
Since escaping from fur farms in the 1950s, American mink had colonised the 2800 km2archipelago of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Between November 2001 and June 2006 the species was removed from a total of 850 km2 of the southernmost islands, collectively...
The wild rock dove
The wild rock dove is now found only along the north and west coasts of Scotland, on islands and on Northern Ireland coasts. Feral, or domestic, pigeons breed almost everywhere apart from upland areas, with the highest density in the most populated urban...
Davie Crocket
Davie Crockett The family Crockett came from Scotland The surname Crockett was first found in Larkshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig) a former county in the central Strathclyde region of Scotland , now divided into Lanarkshire, and the City of Glasgow....
The Scottish origin of "Buddy"
A common use in Scotland is to call someone from Paisley a “Paisley buddy”. “buddy” is a phonetic spelling of the Scots word “body” or person as in “abody”-everybody. In Robert Burns’ song “Comin Through the Rye” it is used in every verse and particularly...
Scottish scientists
A team of Scottish scientists has developed a type of laser that is thin enough to be integrated into contact lenses. However, those hoping to emulate their favorite Marvel character with super-ocular powers could be disappointed! The type of light the...
The Finnish sniper
Depending on the record, Simo Häyhä was born in 1905 in the farming town of Rautjärvi. Once the Soviet Union was formed and Finland had gained its independence, the town in which he lived found itself to be only a very short distance from the Russian...
The Finnish Sniper
On April 2, 1939, the Finnish government decided to start building fortifications along the Karelian Isthmus, the area located south of Lake Ladoga. Six months later, on October 5, the Soviet Union wanted to initialize talks on what it described as “current...