Shushkevich has a second more curious footnote to add to the history books.
The story of Ewen Cameron killing a wolf in Killiecrankie seems to derive from a footnote in travel book for 1769, but it is by no means the only "last wolf" story.
There, in a footnote to the text, he notes that "a noble animal in a large glass case" had come up for sale in 1818, a specimen that claimed to be "the last Wolf killed in Scotland by Sir E. Cameron".
There was an ironic footnote to Berger's carefully chosen words.
A Tory MP has sparked anger by suggesting that disabled people should work for less than the minimum wage to increase their chances of being taken on by employers [see footnote].
Rachel's hope is that in Glory she has rehabilitated a man who seemed a rather unglamorous footnote and given him his true weight in her family history: in May, she says, about 180 of his descendants are gathering to celebrate and reclaim him.
Sara Firth, a former London-based correspondent who resigned in July in protest at its coverage of the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, said presenters' salaries were "astronomical" and the average monthly take home pay for middle-ranking staff was around £4,300 after tax [see footnote].
A footnote, in such circumstances, is just not good enough.
After Friday's historic referendum, in which the Republic's voters endorsed same-sex marriage by 2-1, NoremainsIreland remains the last country in western Europe where LGBT couples are barred from getting married [see footnote].
Cute! See, Fey's Palin impression was a big hit for the show back in 2008, got marvellous ratings, and will long be remembered as a seminal SNL moment – but not, as one might think, because Sarah Palin was some wacky, harmless goofball destined to be a delightful footnote in the annals of election history.
But the BLA broke up in the early 80s and is now just a footnote in the history of militant black organisations, with no fewer than 13 former BLA members currently in jail.
