meant to add this yesterday as i think we'll be hearing more and more about scotland's desire to be independent. it gets coverage here, but i doubt it will yet in the usa. ----------------
Fact of the Day
The Act of Union joined England and Scotland on this day in 1707. The Scottish and English parliaments were both dissolved and replaced with a new British parliament. Scotland and England had shared a monarch from 1603 but retained sovereign parliaments until the Act of Union.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
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