1. Robert Burns is celebrated as Scotland's national bard, and the 'cult of Burns' is an integral part of Scottish cultural identity.
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1. Robert Burns is celebrated as Scotland's national bard, and the 'cult of Burns' is an integral part of Scottish cultural identity.
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4. Robert Burns remains popular in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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9. Robert Burns was in financial difficulties due to his want of success in farming, and to make enough money to support a family he took up an offer of work in Jamaica from Dr Patrick Douglas of Garrallan, Old Cumnock, whose sugar plantations outside Port Antonio were managed by his brother Charles, under whom Burns was to be a "book keeper".
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12. Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.
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13. Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
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16. Robert Burns was the original drummer in the iconic Southern rock band, which formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964.
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17. Georgia State Patrol told CNN that Robert Burns died after his car hit a mailbox and tree in Cartersville.
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18. In the egalitarian clubs and howffs Robert Burns met more sympathetic individuals, among them James Johnson, an engraver in the initial stages of a project to print all the tunes of Scotland.
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20. Robert Burns went to Edinburgh to arrange for a new edition of his poems and was immediately taken up by the literati and proclaimed a remarkable Scot.
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36. Robert Burns had a significant influence on Alexander McLachlan[39] and some influence on Robert Service.
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38. Robert Burns was born in Scotland, and grew up on a farm with many brothers and sisters.
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39. Robert Burns is honoured with more statues around the world than almost any other figure: after Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, he has more statues dedicated to him than any other non-religious person.
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46. Robert Burns selected his Kilmarnock poems with care: he was anxious to impress a genteel Edinburgh audience.
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48. Robert Burns was the main contributor to editor James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, a leading collection of Scots songs from the period.
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52. Robert Burns was the main contributor to editor James Johnson\u2019s Scots Musical Museum, a leading collection of Scots songs from the period.
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54. Robert Burns was pictured on the Clydesdale Bank £5 note from 1971 to 2009.
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56. Robert Burns had a significant influence on Alexander McLachlan and some influence on Robert Service.
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57. Robert Burns is generally classified as a proto-Romantic poet, and he influenced William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley greatly.
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62. As well as making original compositions, Robert Burns collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.
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