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Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site in Denmark. It contains over 700 graves. The graves are arranged chronologically. The oldest graves from the Iron Age around 400 AD are at the top of the hill. Further down are the younger the graves. 

Scottish Covenanters had a big impact on the colonisation of North America. During the persecutions of the 1660s - 1680s, many Scots migrated to the Thirteen Colonies, some via Scottish settlements in Ulster (the “Ulster Scots” or “Scots Irish”). The highest concentration of Covenanters was in the South. Some claim they’re the source of the term “redneck”, because some Covenanters signed their names to the National Covenant in blood, then wore the reddened bandages round their necks to show their loyalty. 

Regardless of the term’s origins, it’s clear the Scots took their fierce Presbyterianism and ability to live rough to America, living in frontier settlements particularly in the Appalachians. Resistance to the authority of the Crown was seemingly in their blood, for when the colonies rose in rebellion in 1775 many of the descendants of the Covenanters were at the forefront (despite most Scottish colonists siding with the Loyalists). When campaigning in the South the British soon realised that Presbyterian communities were the most pro-rebel. 

Sam Bartram standed 10 minutes alone on the pitch, not realising that the game had been abandoned due to heavy fog. December 25th, 1937

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Titanic prepares to leave port, Southampton, 10 April 1912.

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