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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffcccc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b19d6174-1cb9-42d5-922a-690031161cd8/C33287AD-E456-4BFE-858F-D10E3543E921/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burns_supper&oldid=187748039" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burns_supper&oldid=187748039" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burns_supper&oldid=187748039"><P>A <B>Burns supper</B> is a celebration of the life and <A title="Poetry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry" class="snap_shots">poetry</A> of the poet <A title="Robert Burns" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns" class="snap_shots">Robert Burns</A>, author of many <A title="Scots Language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Language" class="snap_shots">Scots</A> poems including "<A title="Auld Lang Syne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne" class="snap_shots">Auld Lang Syne</A>," which is generally sung as a <A title="Folk music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" class="snap_shots">folk song</A> at <A title="Hogmanay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay" class="snap_shots">Hogmanay</A> and other <A title="New Year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year" class="snap_shots">New Year</A> celebrations around the world. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, <A title="January 25" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25" class="snap_shots">January 25</A>, sometimes known as <B>Burns night</B>, although they may in principle be held at any time of the year.</p> <P>Burns suppers are most common in <A title="Scotland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" class="snap_shots">Scotland</A>, but they occur wherever there are Burns <A title="Club" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club" class="snap_shots">clubs</A>, Scottish Societies, expatriate Scots, or lovers of Burns' poetry.</p> <P>The first suppers were held in <A title="Ayrshire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrshire" class="snap_shots">Ayrshire</A> at the end of the 18th century by his friends on the anniversary of his death, <A title="July 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21" class="snap_shots">July 21</A>, <I>In Memoriam</I> and, although the date has changed to <A title="January 25" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25" class="snap_shots">25 January</A> since then, they have been a regular occurrence ever since.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C33287AD-E456-4BFE-858F-D10E3543E921/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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