Robert Burns Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns's poetry. Senator Heath Macquarrie quipped of Canada's first Prime Minister that "While the lovable [Robbie] Burns went in for wine, women and song, his fellow Scot, John A. did not chase women and was not musical!" 'Gung Haggis Fat Choy' is a hybrid of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day, celebrated in Vancouver since the late 1990s. In January 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to attend a Robert Burns celebration by Robert Crawford; and if unable to attend, send a toast. Lincoln composed a toast. An
Cigarette Burns Cigarette Burns "Cigarette Burns" is the eighth episode of the first season of "Masters of Horror". It originally aired in North America on December 16, 2005. Deeply in debt to the father of his late wife, rare-films dealer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus) has less than a month to produce $200,000 in order to keep his small theater afloat. He is hired by an old cinephile, Mr. Bellinger (Udo Kier) to find the only existing print of a rare 30-year-old movie titled, "La Fin Absolue du Monde" (). The film supposedly has supernatural power to anyone who views it which led