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Tourist Spot Attractions In Ecclefechan

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Ecclefechan is a small village in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, famous for being the birthplace of poet and author Thomas Carlyle. It also has two food types called after it: the ecclefechan tart and ecclefechan whisky.
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  • 1. Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace Ecclefechan
    Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the Great Man, claiming that the history of the world is but the biography of great men.A respected historian, his 1837 book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and remains popular today. Carlyle's 1836 Sartor Resartus is a notable philosophical novel. A great polemicist, ...
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