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June 1: Fanciful Scottish Tales but Firm Evidence on Fingerprinting

johnmuldoon · 2013-06-01 15:06:53

June 1, 1495, is the day of the first recorded mention of Scotch whisky when a friar wrote it in the Medieval equivalent of his tax return. June 1 in Scotland also saw the birth in 1843 of Henry Faulds, the man credited with the development of fingerprinting. Born to a relatively poor family, Caulds was forced to leave…

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June 1, 1495, is the day of the first recorded mention of Scotch whisky when a friar wrote it in the Medieval equivalent of his tax return.

June 1 in Scotland also saw the birth in 1843 of Henry Faulds, the man credited with the development of fingerprinting.

Born to a relatively poor family, Caulds was forced to leave school at age 13 to work as a clerk. When he was 21, however, he enrolled in Glasgow University to study mathematics and logic.

He went on to graduate with a physician’s license from another Glasgow university.

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#2 01-06-2013 5:11pm
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This is just a cut and paste job with an at least extremely blurry link to health sciences.

Closed, OP is free to get in touch to reopen if they want to expand.

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