A message in a bottle was delivered to a Confederate general Gen John Pemberton during the Civil War has been deciphered, 147 years after it was written. It was dated 4 July 1863, the day Vicksburg fell to the Union Army.
The message read “You can expect no help from this side of the river,”
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A CENTURIES-OLD institution that oversees Scottish heraldry and coats of arms has appointed its first woman to a leading role.
Elizabeth Roads, 59, from Edinburgh, is the first female herald at the Court of the Lord Lyon following a 35-year career at the official heraldry office for Scotland.
She is the first woman in the UK to hold the role of herald. The equivalent body in England – the College of Arms – has never had a female in the post.
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