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Anniversary of Burns Birth On Land O Cakes Day
Readers mark January 25 1434 anniversary of poet Robert Burns born 1759 at Alloway Scotland and died 1796 His life and works praised for democracy and equality challenging nobility titles highlighting his poem The Man for a That and the line The rank is but the gutter stamp The man’s a man for a that The article notes Burns influence on American ideas of freedom and social equality and praises Burns as a precursor to republican thought.
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Robert Barna
Alloway
Ayr
Scotland
William Burnes
Or Burnes
Furseryman
Gilbert
Mosegei
Kilmranook
Burne
Jane Armour
Burns
Christendom
Pyne
Purne