William Fowler (makar) | Makar Sankranti | Scott Makar | Jimmy Makar |
In 1976, at the age of 20 years, Makar began his NASCAR career after being chosen to take his father's NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) car to Robert Gee, where he helped with the repairs.
Nikoghos Tahmizian, Makar Yekmalian - Life and Work (in Armenian), 1981, Sovetakan Grogh Publishing, Yerevan, Armenia.
Makar Sankranti is a festival that marks the start of northern declination (called Uttarayana in Sanskrit) of the Sun from the Zodiaca sign of Sagittarius (Sanskrit name: Dhanurmas) to Capricorn (Sanskrit: Makara), which according to Hindu calendar usually falls on 14 January.
The recordings were created over a period of thirty years by George Philp and Allan Ramsay and feature the voices of present poets in the language, such as William Neill, as well as audio readings, by poets and scholars, of a wide range of canonical texts, including extracts from Barbour and work of makars such as Henryson and Dunbar.
Where these earlier movements had been steeped in a sentimental and nostalgic Celticism, however, the modernist-influenced Renaissance would seek a rebirth of Scottish national culture that would both look back to the medieval "makar" poets William Dunbar and Robert Henrysoun as well as look towards such contemporary influences as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence.