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The book Gloomy Memories counters Harriet Beecher Stowe’s description of these events as “almost sublime” in the travelogue Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. A 2018 book by T. M. Devine analyzes these events’ historical impact on the baile (“BAHL-ee”). After he led one of these events, Patrick Sellar was acquitted of arson and homicide charges. A cause of these events was the introduction of “new breeds” like the Blackface and the Cheviot (“SHEH-vee-ut”). Kelp farming became popular among those subjected to these events, (10[1])whose most notorious instance (10[2])was instigated (-5[1])by the Countess of Sutherland. (10[1])These events were ended by the Crofters Holdings (-5[2])Act. (10[2]-5[1])These events began after the Battle of Culloden (10[1])(“kuh-LAH-din”) according (10[1])to a book that tells (10[1]-5[1])“how sheep were preferred to” members of the traditional (-5[1])clan (10[1])system. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, what events evicted Gaelic (10[1])tenants from their land in Scotland? (10[1])■END■ (0[11])

ANSWER: Highland Clearances [or Scottish Clearances; accept Sutherland Clearances; prompt on Scottish enclosure movement; prompt on evictions of tenants or word forms until read; prompt on displacement of Scottish people or resettlement of Scottish tenants or similar answers; reject “Lowland Clearances”]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2357%0%30%106.85

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Daniel MaYale AStanford A8010
Kevin FanMcGill AClaremont A8410
Jonathan TranCornell ADuke A8410
Shardul RaoMinnesota ACornell B86-5
Gio MazzeoVirginia AWUSTL B9110
Stevie MillerMaryland ABrown A99-5
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BImperial A99-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AGeorgia Tech B100-5
Jason HongBrown AMaryland A10010
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AFlorida A10010
Chris RayOhio State AChicago B10810
Claire JonesChicago AWUSTL A10910
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AToronto A11410
Alex SchmidtPenn State AIowa State A114-5
William OrrYale BRutgers A123-5
Dennis ReppenChicago CUC Berkeley A12410
Andrew SalijNorthwestern ATexas A125-5
Steven LiuMIT AIndiana A12510
Michael MaysImperial AFlorida B13210
James StevensonMichigan AColumbia B13810
Justin ChenNYU ARutgers B1390
Collin AceRutgers BNYU A1390
Brad MacLaineTexas ANorthwestern A1390
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AUC Berkeley B1390
Justin WytmarIllinois ASouth Carolina A1390
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AIllinois A1390
Yared TadesseCornell BMinnesota A1390
Noah SheidlowerColumbia ANorth Carolina A1390
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AColumbia A1390
Andrew HannaVanderbilt APurdue A1390
Quynh PhungPurdue AVanderbilt A1390