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AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BURNS.(EDITORIAL)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19970108
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Byline: ROSEMARY ROBERTS

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CORRECTION: In my Jan. 8 column ("An Evening with Robert Burns"), I wrote that the Scottish poet "died 200 years ago this month." That is incorrect; Burns died July 21, 1796. The English-Speaking Union event on Jan. 24 will celebrate the 238th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth in 1759. (1/10/97)

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With bagpipes and Scottish dancers, the local English-Speaking Union invites the public to celebrate a poet's life.

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Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, whose works include "Auld Lang Syne" and "Comin' ...

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