Scotland is famous for its Highlands, but it has much more to offer. To put it in another way, Scotland has contributed to world development in its own right and here are some of them.
1. Scots may have invented the telephone and television, but as Sean Connery said, “There is no more creative act than creating a new nation.”
2. Actually, the witches in the play were made-up, and he was a fair monarch.
3. In 1694, Dumfries-born William Paterson suggested then co-founded the Bank of England because the nation’s public finances were in disarray.
4. With The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, introduced the concept of the “invisible hand”, the idea that self-interested free-market competition without government intervention benefits the whole of society.
5. Written in 1788, Robert Burns’ poem “Auld Lang Syne” is sung around the English-speaking world on Hogmanay to bid farewell to the departing year.
6. The Alloway-born Burns, the author of masterpieces such as “A Red Red Rose”, is Scotland’s national poet – in 2009 he was voted the greatest Scot of all time.
7. He was a commander when the Stars and Stripes were first recognized by a foreign government, in Quiberon, France, in 1778.
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