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To: marcos who wrote (220276)	8/28/2012 8:56:31 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 314003

I watched that History of Scotland series on the Knowledge Network, very informative if a little too focused on rich and powerful people and royalty for my taste. I am generally more interested in the lives of the everyday people; in some ways I prefer the Museum of London to the British Museum. May I recommend to you and anyone else who might be interested a very entertaining and informative book -- How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it. I already knew how important the Scots were in fields like medicine and philosophy but to see all their contributions in myriad fields pulled together in one place makes a very good case for the title of the book. The British Empire certainly wouldn't have got very far without them, nor The Enlightenment. One of my lines of ancestry came over from France in 1079 in the wake of the Normans and ended up in Sutherland in Scotland as the Mouats, who were apparently very feared for centuries by their neighbours. Farley Mowat is some kind of second cousin or thereabouts of mine. LC