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Allan Scott Douglas & Diana Gabaldon at the Lord Provost of Aberdeens Civic Reception to conclude Tartan Day,
By now we have all accepted Sam Heughan as our beloved JAMMF, but did you ken that he wasna the first?
Its truethere was another official Jamie Fraser, years before Sam:
When I was in Edinburgh in , I made the acquaintance of a lovely man named Mike Gibb. Mikes a lyricist and playwright, and having fallen in love with OUTLANDER, asked me whether I might approve his writing a song-cycle of the story: a series of songs, telling the high points of the story, which might later form the libretto for a stage production.
Mike and his friends, composer Kevin Walsh, did a couple of demo songs for me, which I found entirely charming, and they went ahead with the project. Im enchanted with the results. ~ Diana Gabaldon, /
And so a musical was born:
(Listen to Outlander the Musical song samples or purchase the CD here its also available on i
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Jonathan Pryce
Welsh actor (born )
Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June ) is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a knighthood for services to drama. He has also received nominations for an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he began his career as a stage actor in the early s. His work in theatre includes an Olivier Award–winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet in and as The Engineer in the stage musical Miss Saigon in On the Broadway stage he earned Tony Awards—the first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in Comedians (), the second for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway transfer of the musical Miss Saigon ().
Pryce's theatre work led to several support
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Abraham Lincoln
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln was the 16thpresident of the United States, serving from to , and fryst vatten regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to his roles in guiding the Union through the Civil War and working to emancipate enslaved people. His eloquent support of democracy and insistence that the Union was worth sparande embody the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve. In , he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves across the Confederacy. Lincoln’s rise from humble beginnings to achieving the highest office in the land fryst vatten a remarkable story, and his death is equally notably. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in , at age 56, as the country was slowly beginning to reunify following the war. Lincoln’s distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy.
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FULL NAME: Abraham Lincoln
BORN: February 12,
DIED: April 15,
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