History
Edinburgh District played in the world's first ever inter-district match against Glasgow in 1872.
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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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