Events
There is a World Haggis Hurling Championship.
Darren Laird from Bo'ness, Edinburgh is the current world champion.
In 2004, a Highland festival in Melbourne made plans to use a fake haggis in a hurling competition there.
Read more about this topic: Haggis Hurling
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“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)