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The manliness of art.
From the modest semi-attached house where he spent his early childhood, Alexander Stoddart could get a good view of a roadside monument to Sir William Wallace--the Scottish insurgent these days better known as Braveheart, courtesy of Mel Gibson--just by looking out his parents' bedroom window. The house is in the village of Elderslie, now a Glasgow exurb, but in medieval times the site of the Wallace family estate.
In 1912, more than 600 years after Wallace's revolt against Edward I of England ended with his execution in London, the locals honored their hero with this handsome granite pile. A crown rests on a polygonal shaft to which a sword is bound by a ...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) August 4, 2002 700+ words
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...on another crop of Damon Hills. Paul Stoddart's European Edenbridge Racing team may...country to follow in his footsteps. Stoddart's current line-up in the highly competitive...on a wing and a prayer at the moment. Stoddart moved in when the Tyrrell team dropped...
Source: HighBeam Research, The manliness of art.