The Scottish Submarine Centre is the only place in Scotland that is dedicated to preserving the history of submarines and serves both as a museum and an educational centre, making it the ideal destination for a day trip with the …
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No, the Vatican does not move to Scotland, it is instead the multimedia exhibition which has been very successful in several places and will be in Glasgow from June 21st and August 14th. Tickets are on sale here . Some …
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On the Royal Mile near Edinburgh Castle lies the Camera Obscura, a tourist attraction that is housed in the Outlook Tower, which is part of the Castlehill district. In 1700, Thomas Short, an Edinburgh instrument manufacturer, rented property in Calton …
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Scotland is a small nation with a population of around 5 million people, yet it has made significant contributions to the world. Let’s ignore the whisky and tartan for the time being, and instead look at some of the other …
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Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, which was in service from1954 to 1997. Official website of the yacht. A total of more than one million nautical miles have been travelled …
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An entirely new species of four-legged mammal was found by scientists roughly 336 million years ago in what is now Scotland, but was once part of a continent that was quite close to the equator. Edinburgh was virtually on the …
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Melrose Abbey in Scotland is in the town of the same name in the Scottish Borders. Virtually all historic buildings found in the Borders (the border area between England and Scotland) have been destroyed numerous times by the English. Melrose …
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According to the Scottish newspaper The Daily Record , Professor Michael Sweet of Molecular Ecology at Derby University has a really strange theory about what the Loch Ness monster is. In fact, he thinks that the monster is nothing more …
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Today we are in Culross in Scotland, precisely in Fife. Even if you’ve never heard of it, let alone visited, the place of Culross is familiar to many. In fact it is the place where the television series Outlander is …
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