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At the Parade, Plaid Wrapping For the Season; Scottish Festival Celebrates City's Roots, Start of Holidays
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They were a study in contrasts, the two pipe majors, as they
waited in their kilts yesterday for the start of the annual Scottish
Christmas Walk, a festival of tartan-clad clans and pooches -- and
more than a few politicians -- that has wrapped Old Town Alexandria
in holiday cheer for more than three decades.
Sandy Hain was of the old school. A 75-year-old native Scotsman,
he had his two dozen pipers and drummers from Red Hackle Pipes and
Drums in tight formation, their tartans identical and crisp, their
drum major looking properly austere, their bagpipes heaving in
unison. After a seven-hour ...
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The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...contrast, reflected for a time the "patronage, piety, and largess" (95) of a lay network centered on Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle. For the Church in Wales, it was beneficial in the first half of the period to have leaders who were...
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Gillian Glover
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...quite a man o' pairts in the mid-14th century) Sampson Gideon, an 18th-century gambler, and Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. What will be next? Cleopatra's monthly income? The capital transfer tax still owed by Genghis...
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They've dished out enough punishment
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...we feel nowadays about eating horsemeat. Thomas Pelham- Holles, the Duke of Newcastle and a future Whig Prime Minister, listened...Runners were up and, indeed, running. And the Duke of Newcastle never found out that the blackguards who assaulted...
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