Tag: history of Scotland

• December 26, 2025

  On Dealing with a World Gone Crazy

  ​There’s a story, which may or may not be true, that an old Chinese curse was “May your children be born in interesting times.” The curse was because, goes the story, the yearly chronicles included things like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, peasant rebellions, invasions, plagues and so on. So it meant that may your children suffer disaster.  ​We live in…
• April 27, 2021

  Hello World

  Greg’s Business History I am posting again… For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely,…
• November 16, 2020

  Hello World

  I am posting again… Today’s Topics Moving Panorama ….HISTORY STORIES Mithridates VI, the Poison King…..HISTORY STORIES Mammoth Ivory…NATURE Beauty Can Grow in Unexpected Places…..ASSORTED MEMORIES Deep knowledge,and happy reading.Like,comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.
• November 4, 2020

  Hello Word

  I am posting again… Just thinking about creating a new page called “Assorted Memories” today.Get on my page Greg’s Business History to read the following topics. Today’s Topic… I Squash Cockroaches, But…Assorted Memories A Grandfather Lesson…Episode One…Assorted Memories A Lesson for the Teach…Assorted Memories Deep knowledge,and happy reading.Like,comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.
• September 17, 2020

  James the First and Sixth

  One of the puzzlements for people not well versed in the history of England and Scotland is how one king managed to be simultaneously James I and also James VI.  Actually, he was James VI before he was James I. The king, James Charles Stuart (1566-1625), was king of Scotland from 1567 until his death,…