Big Sam, the affable giant

Big Sam was born in 1762, and raised in Lairg in Sutherland. A noted “strongman”, when he came of age, he first joined the 2nd Sutherland Fencibles in 1779, and then, in 1791, he went on to join the Royal Scots, wherein he served as their Drill-leader. He was then employed as a porter for …

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Hypothetical British Civil War

Well, I' ve just finished watching a rather fair and balanced, if slightly misinformed video in regards to the likelihood, and subsequent effects of an independent Scotland, to both Scotland, and England. And I have to say; it was all fairly inoculous, full of political guess-work, speculation, what if scenarios, and the like. And I was absolutely …

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