The evening television news has snippets of the World Cup draw taking place in the Kennedy Center. We are treated to a hitherto unknown peace prize being awarded to DJT. The Canadian PM and Mexican President are on their best behaviour and smile for the cameras. A group of 'B' list celebrities make carefully scripted and highly anodyne comments designed for a local audience more used to the rules of baseball or the NFL. For the event, Mr.Tom Brady, an American football player seemingly chosen for his near effortless ability to pick balls out of a bowl, wears a black suit, black shirt and black tie. I guess this takes the meaning of black tie to a whole new level .
There's no doubting the Scottish teams unexpected and much celebrated entry into the football World Cup is good news for local travel agents and kilt shops. Flights are already filling up. Fans planning to travel to see the team in the US ( they're tentatively pitted against Brazil and Morocco in Foxborough and Atlanta ) seem keen on the lace up shirt, colourful tartan sash and medieval bunnet look. This may or may not, depending on the wearers physique and level of sobriety, combine practicality and style. What America will make of the arrival of the Tartan Army will be one of the more interesting cultural developments that await us in the year ahead. The linguistic differences with the Glasgow fans are borderline unbridgeable. Canada with their indigenous Scots demographic will certainly be well better prepared and Mexico may not even notice as the Scots are likely to be on their way home by that ( early ) stage of the tournament. I look forward to spurious press articles about the people of New Jersey taking the cheerful tartan clad visitors to their hearts. GLWT!
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Hari Om
Clark's a historian, so that and the tract you show suggest this is not a novel, but a factual history. There's nothing like a little inbuilt vagueness to give wiggle room for interpretation. Mainly, though, the sin against the holy spirit is one and the same issue described as blasphemy. Basically, it means if you don't conform to the teachings, you're damned. The 'teachings', of course, are a variable... In this case, according to Luther. Ah yes, the other part of the wiggle room - manipulation of the flock. Doesn't only work in the Christian faith. It's rising in India through Hindutva, a doctrinal turn that all decent Hindus detest.
Ta for the tune - very nice rendition. YAM xx
I think that snippets from that World Cup draw should be more than enough for anyone! The groups themselves look pretty good, and I am sure the Tartan Army will be a wonderful discovery for the Americans. Today's Christmas music was wonderful - it is my favorite of all holiday songs and a very nice rendition.
Lovely rendition of 'Oh Holy Night' and what a voice. It always delights and astounds me when talented singers can hit those very difficult high notes. Amazing.
And my thanks to YAM for her clear and succinct explanation. As for the Americans, we'll be just fine and no doubt, will greatly enjoy the Tartan army. We are not completely ignorant of the practice of kilt wearing.
We're talking World Cup that will be in East Rutherford, NJ? I have to laugh. I live in the Princeton area and was taking the train to NY one Saturday. There was a bagpipe, or some sort, of gathering in NY. At each stop I was "treated" to kilts blowing up in the gap between the platform and train. Chilly, indeed.
A friend from school moved to Scotland with her hubby shortly after school. They visited and eventually moved back, and it was so odd to hear her with a completely different voice coming out of her mouth. GAR-age, instead of gradge, etc.
Looking forward to the Scottish invasion.
By coincidence, today is the Scottish Walk parade in Alexandria-https://visitalexandria.com/holidays/scottish-walk/
"a hitherto unknown peace prize" Brilliant, just brilliant.
Hope you're OK and the trip to Edinburgh was non medical.
My understanding is that the unforgivable sin against the Holy Ghost is one of despair.
I don't comment often but read your posts every day and enjoy them greatly. I miss your posts when you're traveling. Thank you for past, present and future posts.
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Scottish history in Atlanta:
Ancestry.com. Scots in Georgia and the Deep South, 1735-1845 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Dobson, David. Scots in Georgia and the Deep South, 1735-1845. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000.
About Scots in Georgia and the Deep South, 1735-1845
During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the area now known as Georgia was a buffer zone between British-governed South Carolina and Spanish-governed Florida. Settlement of the region by the British did not take place until 1732 when James Oglethorpe established the colony of Georgia as a refuge for English debtors, paupers, and discharged prisoners. Scottish immigration to the colony commenced almost at the same time, however, and was made up of two distinct categories of immigrants: Lowlanders and Highlanders. Lowlanders immigrated for purely economic reasons, as farmers and later as merchants; while Highlanders were recruited to the colony for strategic purposes, basically to guard the southern frontier from Spanish incursions.
Somewhat later, at the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763, the Spanish withdrew from Florida. The removal of the Spanish threat and the acquisition of new lands by the British led to an influx of settlers, including Scots, into Florida and as far west as Mobile. Many of the earliest settlers in the area were former Scottish soldiers and indentured servants, awarded land on the condition that they develop it and settle other immigrants on the land within a few years.
This new work by the prolific Scottish author David Dobson contains the names of several thousand Scots who immigrated to Georgia and the Deep South, settling in the area sometime between 1735 and 1845. Based on probate records, court records, family papers, newspapers and journals, naturalization papers, church registers, gravestone inscriptions, printed sources, and census returns, the information provided in this book is of a broad and mixed character, generally giving some or all of the following details: name, place and date of birth, occupation, place and date of settlement in Georgia or the Deep South, and names of wives and children
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https://atlantaandbeyond.com/scotland-in-atlanta-the-burns-cottage/
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