title: Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History
author:  George Rosie 
description: This fun book makes no claim to scholarly rigor, but is instead "an autodidact's anthology of neglected episodes in Scottish history." The stories were chosen, Rosie says, according to just one principle: "Really? How interesting! I never knew." And so Rosie, a Scottish journalist, playwright and television documentary maker, takes us on a diverting tour, down the short cuts, bypasses and cul-de-sacs of history rather than its highways, from the time of King Arthur to the present. A flavor of what Rosie offers is hinted at in his chapter titles, which include "The Glasgow Frankenstein" (about an 1818 medical experiment to resurrect a hanged man); "The Blasphemer" (about Thomas Aikenhead, the last man to be executed in Scotland, in 1697, for that crime); and "Operation Vegetarian" (Britain's wartime plan to poison German cattle with anthrax). Rosie even makes a few stops in America, where he tracks down John Ross, the Highland Scot and Cherokee who became "<i>the </i>Native American statesman of the early nineteenth century" and dealt with every president from James Madison in 1816 to Andrew Johnson half a century later. There is much that readers "never knew" about and will be glad to have been told. 11 b&amp;w illus., map. <i>(Aug.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  LUCY AND HER SCOTTISH LAIRD ~ By Margo Maguire
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. References to historical events, real people, or
  real locales are entirely fictional. Names, characters, places and incidents
  in this novel are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance
  to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved,
  including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form.
  This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution to others.
  
  LUCY AND HER SCOTTISH LAIRD: © 2016 by Margo Maguire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Prologue](index_split_003.html#filepos3410)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_004.html#filepos6703)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_005.html#filepos27261)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_006.html#filepos43627)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_007.html#filepos56706)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](