...for the first time in 40 years when they are auctioned at an Edinburgh sale later this week. The oil paintings feature James Macpherson, born in Inverness in 1794, and his wife Jessy Young, born in Aberdeen in 1807. James Macpherson was the son of Donald Macpherson,...
...Sept. 29 to Oct. 24. "Fragments of Ancient Poetry" is the title of a controversial work published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson who claimed it was the translation of an epic poem by the third-century Celtic bard. The work gained admirers...
...on the power lines above, are designed to make the lines visible to birds, or scare them off a crash course. (AP Photo/James MacPherson). Recently, biologist Darren Doderer located casualty No. 373, a mangled and bloodied double-crested cormorant that appeared...
...Bureau said McIntosh County had the oldest population in North Dakota in 2000. The county now ranks second. (AP Photo/James MacPherson). "We stock Depends, but we don't have any for babies," said Kyle Anderson, a store clerk in the McIntosh County town of...
...visit of George IV in 1822, like some Chinese Olympic ceremony organiser. The "Ossian" phenomenon in the 18th century – James Macpherson passed off his epic poem of Celtic mysticism as a "recently discovered" Gaelic text – is re-asserted as a key moment of...
...key players as possible. Notable re-signings around the AFL are QB Jeff Garcia (New York), WR T.T. Toliver (Orlando), QB James MacPherson (Grand Rapids), Los Angeles' WR/DB Kevin Ingram and FB/LB Lonnie Ford and Chicago's QB Russ Michna and WR Donovan Morgan....
...free agents before the end of the Arena Football League's re-signing period yesterday. Among those re-signing were quarterback James MacPherson (Tucson, Ariz.) and receiver Cole Magner (Palmer, Alaska). In just his first year as an AFL starting quarterback,...
...expressed in popular anthologies and Samuel Johnson's famous "Lives of the Poets" prompted the search for a Celtic Homer. James Macpherson's translations from a Gaelic epic of the third century purportedly by the bard Ossian offered an answer, and Scotland's...
...that lies at the very heart of the Scottish identity: its literary soul. In the 1760s, an undistinguished writer named James Macpherson "discovered" the works of the blind third-century poet Ossian, who over the next 50 years was to become Scotland's very...
...Paula Sherman $15,000 and the Ardoch community $10,000. The appeals court didn't release its decision until July 7. Justice James MacPherson wrote that the sentences were set aside because they were too harsh, and identified a number of problems that led...