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Celtic Romance 6/18/2005 7:34:37 AM
LONG SWORDS AND HOT HEROES HOUSTON HIGHLAND GAMES:
Big, brawny men in kilts, high stepping, tartan clad dancers, the rich, gripping drones of highland bagpipes, and the rowdy tattoo of the drums, I could have sworn I was in Scotland. Surprisingly, these distinctive sights and sounds were found in Texas at the Houston Highland games May 15-16, 2005.
Read more in my article published at Romance Ever After. http://www.romanceeverafter.com/houston_highland_games.htm
CLAN OF THE WEEK:
BURNETT
Through my grandmother Anna Louise Burnett, I am a Burnett. They were originally an Anglo-Saxon family (BARNARD) who came to Scotland in the train of David I in the 12th century and first settled in the southern part of the country, where some remained to become the Burnetts of Barns. The chiefly branch traveled on to the Kincardineshire area (near Aberdeen), where they became the Burnetts of Leys. The family has been resident in the area since that time, Although the family lived in a Highland area and many spoke the Gaelic, Burnetts were generally considered a powerful Lowland family and in the main spoke Scots.
Crest: A cubit arm, the hand naked, vested vert doubled argent, pruning a vine tree with a pruning knife, proper.
Arms: Argen, three holly leaves in chief Vert, a hunting horn in base Sable garnished Or, stringed Gules.
Motto: Virescit Vulnere Virtus (Courage Flourishes at a Wound) The motto is the same as for the Stewarts and probably owes its origins to Mary, Queen of Scots, who is said to have embroidered it on some material during her imprisonment by the English.
Plant Badge: A sprig of holly leaves.
Branches: Burnett of Leys, Burnett of Craigmyle, Burnett of Kemnay, Burnett of Crimond and Burnett of Monboddo
An ancient log boat built in the Iron Age is to be put on public display in the West - after spending the last decade buried in sugar, it emerged yesterday. The bizarre treatment preserved the 32ft-long craft that was built by the Durotriges tribe in about 300BC. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146412198
ARCHAEOLOGY FIND OF THE WEEK:
Found: Europe's oldest civilization “Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=645976
You will need:
1/2 cup (one stick) softened in the summer sun
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cup flour
pinch of salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk
1 cup chocolate chips
Just as winter Solstice gives birth to the light, Summer Solstice, with its day that never seems to end, hold the seeds of darkness. We discover darkness in the bits of chocolate concealed inside this sunny cupcake.
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