[Shanda]

Actually, Scotland has had an impact far in excess of what one would expect of a country of 7 million.

I remember taking my Daddy's Ecyclopedia Britannica and just reading it. I was surprised how many famous men were from Scotland. A lot of them not famous enough that you would have heard of them but famous because of what they accomplished.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Actually, Scotland has had an impact far in excess of what one would expect of a country of 7 million.

To clarify: the Scots have had a tremendous historical impact. Scottish history arguably has not. The Wars of the Roses and the internecine warfare of the Italian city-states had a widespread impact on European history, but a great many Kings of Scots came and went without ever influencing much outside Scotland.

[antiRepublicrat]

I remember taking my Daddy's Ecyclopedia Britannica and just reading it. I was surprised how many famous men were from Scotland. A lot of them not famous enough that you would have heard of them but famous because of what they accomplished.

Everybody's heard of Andrew Carnegie, who immigrated here from Scotland with almost nothing. My hometown library was a Carnegie library, along with about 3,000 others. And I'm sure some churches are still using some of the 7,000 organs he paid for.