“Desperate for money, he stayed at Court for an entire year waiting for a chance to ingratiate himself with George I, but without success.”~~How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It by Arthur Herman
The author shows how the Scots provided genius minds in science, art, education and industry.
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