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New Robert Burns stamp issue as England overtakes Scotland for Burns suppers
telegraph.co.uk - 1/29/2009
New Robert Burns stamp issue as England overtakes Scotland for Burns suppers
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Robert Burns will become the first person outside of the Royal Family to be celebrated with three collections of stamps.

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Dissecting Leftism — ... And that is not just something from my own social circle. It was recently reported that there were in fact this year more Burns Night celebrations -- always highly ritualized and traditional occasions -- in England than there were in Scotland! Such is the need for old customs and unashamed feelings of connectedness and uniting in something significant. ...

Grabbing traditions that the Left have not yet managed to destroy
Stop The ACLU — ... to all things Scottish that were typically English. They didn’t even really like the pipes (bagpipe music)! Yet I started the night by distributing the words of “Scotland the Brave” and asking everyone to sing it. It is of course a great patriotic and very sentimental Scottish song so I was mildly surprised that my English guests sang it with as much gusto as anyone else. They “got into it” as well as anyone else. And that is not just something from my own social circle. It was recently reported that there were in fact this year more Burns Night celebrations — always highly ...

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