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telegraph.co.uk at 14 Jul 2009 03:23 pm
President Obama has ignored Alex Salmond's overtures to visit Scotland to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns.
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SLP98042803- 28 APRIL 1998- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA: Students at Washington University have apparently played a spring prank, by placing an umbrella in the hands of the 1928 statue of Robert Burns, April 28. UPI Bill Greenblatt
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EVANSTON, Ill., April 1 (UPI) -- Legal decisions made behind closed doors are serving to greatly reduce the number of open-court trials being held in the United States, a scholar says.
AYR, Scotland, April 10 (UPI) -- Some fans of poet Robert Burns say they are mystified by the selection of a veteran British rock group to headline a festival honoring the Scottish bard.
TWEEDSMUIR, Scotland, March 25 (UPI) -- A local council ruled Tuesday that a historic Scottish inn said to have been a haunt of poet Robert Burns cannot be converted into housing.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A hip flask that once belonged to Scotland’s hard-drinking national poet, Robert Burns, goes on the auction block this month.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 2 (UPI) -- William Topaz McGonagall, the Scottish poet widely reviled in life, is getting no honor in death either.
CHICAGO, April 24 (UPI) -- A 450-pound Chicago master document forger who tried faking his own death with a 185-pound corpse has lost his federal court appeal.
STIRLING, Scotland, March 18 (UPI) -- A hill that, tradition has it, played a big role in Scotland's victory over the English at Bannockburn may be lost to quarrying.
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telegraph.co.uk at 5 Jun 2009 04:30 pm
Robert Burns is to become the first person to feature on a commemorative bottle of Coca Cola.
telegraph.co.uk at 18 Feb 2009 10:23 am
A reading of Robert Burns poetry by Prince Charles has become an online download success story for the BBC.
telegraph.co.uk at 18 Jan 2009 11:43 am
Robert Burns will become the first person outside of the Royal Family to be celebrated with three collections of stamps when a new edition is unveiled this week.
telegraph.co.uk at 19 Dec 2008 11:45 am
Attempts to promote Scotland abroad are often criticised for concentrating on the "naff stereotypes" of tartan shortbread and Robert Burns.
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