Social media users claimed that the word "freelance" comes from a term for a mercenary warrior. "A literal free lance," one X user mused.

The Victorian era gem was the vision of Charles Thornton, proprietor of the City Varieties, who submitted plans to build the ...

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including the following classic yarns from our archives… Cut it out We recall when Sir Walter Scott’s hefty Ivanhoe novel was edited to half its size by Professor David Purdie, to make it more ...

Another Scottish influence was Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. Dev said it was the first novel he ever read. In March 1888, on her sole visit back to see Eddie as a child in Bruree, his mother brought ...

Police arrested a man for allegedly shooting and killing his friend after a night of drinking and using ketamine in northwest ...

A man was arrested after allegedly shooting his friend in the head during a party at a home near Downtown early Sunday ...

Natives of Glasgow, of whom I am one, offer a variety of tributes to their city, but Sir Walter Scott’s dreamy phrase is not among them. Traveling from Glasgow to Edinburgh, even on day trips before I ...

Africa-focused Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) has pushed its Makoko copper deposit past 13 km in strike length and found fresh high-grade copper at Kitoko, it said Monday in an exploration update.