Jedburgh Essays

Maine is the only state that shares a border with only one other state. Ever wonder what the state in the far Northeast part of the U.S was about? Who found, why? Why name it “Maine”? How does their government in the state work? What products are they popular for? If I moved there would the people be nice? What would they look like, how would they act? How’s the weather there? Sometimes I even throw in random facts so you can go to your friends and tell them so it looks like you know something. Fun

US Army Special Forces had its genesis during WWII when the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created. The OSS mission definition was intelligence gathering, support of resistance movements, and sabotage. Toward these ends, the OSS created “Jedburgh” teams (named after the English town where they trained) consisting of three men: a leader, an executive officer, and a radio operator. Normally the radio operator was American, one officer was Free French, and the other American. They parachuted

Douglas Jackson is a Scottish novelist that hails from Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. His first novel was the critically acclaimed Caligula that was published in 2008. His luck at being born in a place so full of history of bloody warfare that it was haunted by ghosts from thousands of previous wars it what got him interested in history and historical fiction. He attended the Parkside Primary School before proceeding to Jedburgh Grammar School but left a few days to his 16th birthday. With no O level

Mary Fairfax, Mathematician, Astronomer, and Geologist, was born on 28th December 1780 in the Jedburgh Mansion on the Scottish Borders. This was the home of her cousin and future husband. She spent a large amount of time here; it was her uncle Rev. Dr. Somerville who encouraged her education. However her childhood home was Burntisland, which she describes as a ‘small quiet seaport town… situated on the coast of Fife, immediately opposite to Edinburgh’ [1]. Her biography ‘The Personal Recollections

statements such as ‘it requires a moment's reflection to be aware that one is hearing something very extraordinary from the mouth of a woman’ (James David Forbes, later Principal of the University of St Andrew) and ‘ the sobriquet of the Rose of Jedburgh [as she was known] formed a piquet contrast to her masculine intellect’ (Ellen Mary Clerke). This very attitude may have been the reason she never carried out research of her own Mary Fairfax Somerville herself was against all forms of ‘oppression