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26th November 08, 07:15 AM
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 Originally Posted by thanmuwa
Afraid I can't give you that one  . It was a guy called Meucci.
Well - if the Guardian says so then it must be true. It wouldn't surprise me as Scots have made good one way or another around the world. Look at Andrew Carnegie from Dunfermline. How many places have libraries and halls funded by him? Or Jardine, Mathieson although they do say that was on the back of the opium trade. Only the other night I watched a programme about the Clan Grant and how they made a fortune from slavery on their plantations in Jamaica. It seems that Grant is about the most common name in the Jamaica telephone book! So not things to be too proud about. The Grant clan chief even betrayed his clansmen who had fought on the Jacobite side with Bonnie Prince Charlie. They were sent into slavery in the West Indies as a result. I'm not sure about golf though. Didn't I read recently that the Chinese are claiming to have invented that?
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