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 * ... that Angus Purden, regular presenter of the BBC's Cash in the Attic, was crowned Mr. Scotland as a teenager, and modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?
 * ... that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the severed head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
 * ... that although he was an illegitimate child, the 13th century prelate of Scotland Albin of Brechin had a successful career in the Roman Catholic Church after obtaining dispensation from the Bishop of Porto?