The Scots, more than most people, are scattered over the world. With the defeat of the Highland army at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, dispersing the Scots came to be the political aim of the British rulers. Great numbers of Scots were deported to America, and to other British holdings around the world. The final destruction of the clan system at the Battle of Culloden was followed by the Highland Clearances in the 1800s when Scots were driven from their lands by their own Clan chiefs who had sworn, under the Clan system to care for them. Scots by the thousands migrated to America and Australia.

30 January 1647: The Scottish Covenanters march north and back to Scotland having handed Charles I over to the English in return for a payment of £200,000

As Israel approached the Promised Land nearly forty years later, Moses asked permission of the Edomites to pass through their land, but they refused (Numbers 20:14-21). As the generations passed, the two fought sporadically, and Edom invariably sided with Israel's enemies in other actions.

Charles 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558 was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg during the first half of the 16th century. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with direct rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and the Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia. In the Americas, he oversaw both the continuation of the long-lasting Spanish colonization as well as a short-lived German colonization. The personal union of the European and American territories of Charles V was the first collection of realms labelled "the empire on which the sun never sets"

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Nothing can be more hidden and dangerous than whores they would betray their own people to live a life of luxury with their slave owners. A people can rise no higher than its women because the women will work actively for the oppressor to keep a people bond.

Then again, women love a bad boy — and new science out of Brock University in Canada confirms that women are more attracted to men who display psychopathic traits.

“Psychopathic men are really good at pretending to display what women are attracted to,” says Kristopher Brazil, one of two researchers who led the study, which was published last month in the medical journal Evolutionary Psychological Science. “They’re really good at putting on this mask, and making themselves look attractive . . . You exude a larger-than-life presence, and give off an impression of greatness.”

Brazil says psychopathy is twice as likely to affect men. For his study, he recruited 46 men and videotaped their answers to questions (for example, “What do you look for on a first date?”). Then, 108 women were asked to rate their attractiveness based on the videos. In analyzing their responses, Brazil found that the women seemed turned on by men who exhibited psychopathic traits — such as penchants for manipulation, deception, risk-taking and bullying

Despite the best efforts of the Crusaders, the Byzantine Empire mostly did not participate directly in the expeditions

The French Connection

Assertions in the 15th century that English kings had a right to the French throne originated in Edward III's status as the grandson of Philip IV of France (Edward was the son of Philip's daughter, Isabella of France).

Salic Law of Succession, the rule by which, in certain sovereign dynasties, persons descended from a previous sovereign only through a woman were excluded from succession to the throne.

The Hundred Years' War (French: La guerre de Cent Ans; Picard: Dgère d'Un Chint An; 1337–1453) was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from English claims to the French throne