| Thanks for the post, Jerin.
I got goosebumps reading your history of the "Honours of Scotland". European history is so interconnected. I thought of Michelangelo when you mentioned Pope Julius II.
It's amazing and fortunate that humans value and guard "mere" material symbols of sovereignty and self. Items such as the Scottish Honours are "living" proof that humans can rise to the occasion--proof that we can again wrest individuality and identity from these depressing, generic times.
CarolK
Last edited by CarolK; 09-06-2008 at 11:37 PM.
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