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Robert Burns (25 Januar 1759 in Allowa, Ayrshire – 21 Julie 1796 in Dumfries), cried Robbie or Rabbie Burns forby, is the naitional poet o Scotland. He scrieved in Scots, wi some Inglis influence whiles. He is weel-kent as the naitional makar o Scotland, an his wark is celebratit athort the warld. Athort the warld he is the best kent o the mony makars that haes wrocht in the Scots leid, tho he screived mony poems in Inglis forby, an in a kin o licht Scots that can be easy read by fowk nae sae acquent wi Scots, within an furth o Scotland. Burns is aften regairdit as a pioneer o the Romantic Muivement, an efter his deith he becam a symbol an important springheid o inspiration tae the foonders o baith Leiberalism an Socialism. He haes become a cultural icon o Scotland, baith in Scotland itsel an amang Scots that haes flittit tae fremmit airts.

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24 August:

79 AD – The tradeetional date statit that Munt Vesuvius eruptit, in which the ceeties o Pompeii, Herculaneum, an Stabiae were buiried in volcanic ess.
1456 – The prentin o the Gutenberg Bible is completit.
1814 – Breetish truips invade Washington, D.C. an in the Birnin o Washington the White House, the Capitol an mony ither biggins are set ableize.
1944 – Warld War II: Allied truips begin the attack on Paris.
1954 – Getúlio Vargas (picturt), preses o Brazil, commits suicide an is succeedit bi João Café Filho.