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Friday, 5th December 2008

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Ananurhing,

07/10/2008 09:17:45
I spent a couple of weeks in the Broch a while ago. I remember asking about Glover. No one I spoke to seemed to have heard of him. There's a wee statue of him in the town centre. Someone mentioned that it might explain the occassional Japanese tourists they saw in the town.
Maybe Fraserburgh could do more with this.

Interesting the connection with Jardine Mathieson, pioneers of the 'smack' trade. What goes around comes around!
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Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 07/10/2008 18:02:46
Glover was a typical Scotsman on the make who still irrevocably, changed Japan forever!

How is it that a small, impoverished nation clinging to the north-west rim of Europe, overshadowed by its powerful and influential neighbour, has a gene pool that has still been able to contribute so much to the world in the realm of commerce, education, medicine, science and, according to the Smithsonian Insitution, pioneered some of the most important world inventions in the past 250 years?

What was it reluctant physicist Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhatten Project to develop the atom bomb at Los Alamos once said:
"this could not have been done without the mathematical genius of two great men: Albert Einstein, and John Napier of Merchiston....!

 

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