Wildvogelgeflügelpest in Dresden nachgewiesen radiodresden.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radiodresden.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ON shelves in my study sit a collection of books. Their titles are at one and same time both colourful, and malevolent. The Whores of War, Licensed to Kill, Congo Warriors, The Wonga Coup, and so the epithets adorning their front covers go on. No less colourful and malevolent are the real-life characters who inhabit the pages of what I’ve come to call my ‘mercenary’ collection. “Mad” Mike Hoare, Jean “Black Jack” Schramme, Costas Georgiou alias “Colonel Callan”, and Bob Denard, who revelled in the nickname les Affreux – the Dreadful – and whose life is said to have inspired Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 novel about mercenaries in Africa that was subsequently made into a fictional action movie – The Dogs of War.
Singer wins campaign to persuade Spotify to recognise Scots language for first time scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In Scotland, we have three national languages – English, Gaelic and Scots. The 2011 census revealed that 1.5 million people identified as speaking Scots, yet much of Scotland’s population is unaware that they possess skills in reading, writing and speaking Scots. Scots is part of the West Germanic language family and is a sister language to English with close affinities with Scandinavian languages such as Danish and Norwegian. Scots has four main dialects: Insular, Northern, Central and Southern, but for me, it was just the way folk spoke in their everyday lives. Growing up in rural Aberdeenshire, I didn’t realise that the way people speak – in Doric, a vernacular or byleid of Scots – was a special and unique trait of the regions people, lore and history. At the time, I was unaware of the similitude of Scots to other European languages, I was unaware of the language’s history and the significance of the literature written in the language, and I was unaware of i