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Robert Burns - what he means to me

 Robert Burns is very famous in my home country of Scotland - in fact he is famous the world over - and I'd be very surprised if you hadn't already heard of him. He is known as Scotland's National Bard: a...

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Separation of Church and State: Part 6 - Great Britain

As we saw in Part 5, the Reformation movement rapidly spread across the whole of Europe and had a profound effect on every nation that it touched. But the peculiarity of the British dynamic was in how three...

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Separation of Church and State: Part 5 - Reformation

  We previously saw how ignoring the principle of Separation of Church and State adversely affected the Church while benefiting the State inasmuch as a seduced and corrupted Church might be co-opted as an...

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Separation of Church and State: Part 4 - Dark Age and Medieval Church

In Part 3 we saw the early Church begin to transform from a Spirit-led organism of Christian liberty to crystallize into a imperial organisation. This was more than unbiblical, it was a contradiction because...

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Henry VII's Children

When Henry VII, the Lancastrian King, took the English throne he made a very shrewd, political move.   Henry married Elizabeth of York which brought together the two warring factions in England and formed...

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Sir Alex Ferguson The Great Scot

Sir Alex Ferguson The Queen ventured into football punditry telling Sir Alex Ferguson that his achievement in winning the domestic treble and a European treble was unlikely to be emulated. She made her...

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English Civil War Part 2.

The English Civil War started in 1642 when Charles raised his royal standard in Nottingham. Two weeks later The Earl of Essex led his army north towards Northampton, picking up supporters of...

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English Civil Wars

The first of the English Civil Wars was between the years of 1642 and 1646 when King Charles 1st and his Parliament finally came to blows when all else had failed. King Charles dissolved Parliament on...

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The Most Brilliant Men In My Life

Isn't it funny how as we grow up and become the adults, the parents, and the grandparents, we begin to realize how lucky we were to have certain people in our lives, and thier importance to the formation of...

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Mary, Queen of Scotland

Mary Stuart was born at Linlithge Palace on Dec 8th, 1542; 6 days later she became the infant Queen of Scotland.  For security reasons her French mother sent her to France in 1548, at the age of 6. Henry...

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