Here is a list of reasons to be proud to be Scottish.
Scottish people invented the telephone, the tv, penicilin, golf, oilcloth, linouleum, the pneumatic tyre, raincoat, tarmac, logarithms, incandescent lamps, the steam engine, etc etc, many have been PMS, founded the US navy, headed the Russian navy, of Canada, and Australia,
Scotland won the first 3 Football World Club Championships, (mostly 19th Century)
The first International football match was held in Scotland, and the first team to win an away game was Scotland, Scotland played the first international rugby6 match. Scots have won, many Opens, Snooker world toitles, the snooker world championship, of countries, loads of Olympic, Commwealtgh, and European golds, Swimming, set records in Atheltics, won the 100 Metres Gold in 1980, a Scottish team win a American Football world superbowl, regharded as that , but not as big as nfl really, also won loads of small events, plus F1, world rally titles, And a Scotsman, has also finished 4th in the Tour De France, won king of the mountains, and also finished 2nd in Italy's biggest cycling race, and finished second there, AND ALSO IN THE Spanish trophy, also winning the tour of Catlonia, and Tour of Britain. Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Scotland has the highest Mountain in the British Isles, and the largest lake in Britain.
Scotland saw the explorer, and anti-slavery hero David Livingstone born in it,
A Scotsman invented radar which won the battle of Britain,
A Scotsman, was the first non Aboriginee to cross Australia, another discovered the source of the Blue Nile, as being that,
Scotland is the most Republican nation in Britain. as of the 2000s
The Forth Bridge was once the longest bridge in the world,Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Famous Scottish writers, include, Burns, Scott, Stevenson, etc etc,
A Scotsman inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe, by surviving on a island for ages,
Scotsmen, signed the declaration of Indpendance, and of course Arbroath which some say helped inspite those beliefsm,
Scotsmen have been US senators, and of course British PMS, Chancellors, Home Secraterys, Foreign Secraterys, and MPs, and such,
There is lots of other things, Like it helped oust Charles I, so ending any threat of absolute monarchy in Britain,
Duns Scotus was famous in the Medieval era.
A Scotsman led Joan Of Arc's thanks after the relief of attacks on Orleans.
The Dutch had a Scottish regiment to 1782.
A Scot was a field marshal in the Swedish 17thC armyLook at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Emanuel Kant was the grandson, of a Scottish trader in Poland and Prussia.
A Scot was a general in the 17thC Russian army. not that he did good stuff, to Russians, as he was serving the terrible tsars, I say they were terrible as they were.
There was a settlement in Bruges named after Scots when it was the New York of Europe in the Middle Ages.
On loads of BBC Iq test programmes Scotland usually finished highest of the 4 home nations, though in a pop quiz, the high IQ Scots were last, so Pop Quiz less a speciality
Click here to view cottages in Scotland
Scotland have reached many Football World Cups,
The Nova Scotian flag has Scottish bits, so then so do Britain, and many areas basing their flag on Britain, the US flag may partly have some base on Britain's, as it was from ideas that may have been partly inspired by Britain's,
Scotland were 4th in the Rugby World Cup of 1991, the second world cup, and have done great and won countless other events
PS some people like to claim Scottish people did not invent certain things out of anti Scottishness, in reality they did invent these things. For example However, some scholars outside of Italy do not recognize the claims that Meucci's device had any bearing on the development of the telephone. Tomas Farley also writes that, "Nearly every scholar agrees that Bell and Watson were the first to transmit intelligible speech by electrical means. Others transmitted a sound or a click or a buzz but our boys [Bell and Watson] were the first to transmit speech one could understand. So BEll did invent the phone, as proven by many many cases of patent appe4als, and such, its the same for loads of other inventions, TV, penicilin, and the Phone were the key Scottish inventions
Here are some more sites, there are books and articles on the subjects in many internet places, or internet book shops, bookstores, at the bottom, are lists of which were the worst regimes of the past few centuries.
An Index with links to almost all our sites.
This site tells the story of serfdom in Scotland
The list of the Best Scottish sporting results ever
A site stating all Scotland's attempts to create an Empire
The Highland Clearances and it's full terribleness
A site stating the 10 Most famous fictional Scottish people ever
A site on the Belgian Congo, and how the king of that land killed 10s of millions of Congolese
Why the French Revolution was good
The most evil regimes of the 19th Century
What were the nicest regimes ever
The Best regimes ever in terms of achievers
Which regimes killed the most people in the 19th Century, find out here,
Worst 17th Century regimes ever
A site stating what have been the world's largest empires ever
What would happen in a war between these sides
Why not get a Scotland Flag T shirt
What were the most evil regimes ever
A list stating what were the worst 1990s regimes
What were the worst 16th Century regimes ever
What were the worst 15th Century regimes ever
What were the worst 2000s regimes
A site stating the 10 largest majority English speaking lands, as their main tongue in the world
A site on space, and the records to do with this subject
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/scotspoles.htm A site on Scots in Poland,. and vice versa
The world's 10 most powerful countries in 2008
My Worst regimes of the 20th century essay
My worst regimes of the 20th century stats
Some records about Celtic lands
Our History Lounge - Where you can peruse many fascinating historical articles.