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  • ... that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
  • ... that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while legend has it that "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
  • ... that the Scotch Professors, a group of 19th-century Scottish footballers, are credited with inventing the passing style of the modern game and spreading the sport globally?

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  • ... that Jim McColl, the son of a butcher, reportedly became Scotland's richest man in 2008?

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  • ... that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island?

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Lunderston Bay Beach and picnic area

  • ...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
  • ...that moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?

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Balfour Harbour, quay and slipway

  • ...that Balfour, Orkney (pictured) was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle, then it was partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?

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Balfour Harbour, quay and slipway

  • ...that the Corbett hill Beinn Chuirn (pictured) has Scotland's largest known deposits of gold?
  • ...that Alma Cadzow is a former news reader, who once was so upset by an item on animal cruelty she cried on television?

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Ardencaple Castle Light. Today the tower is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde

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Carved stone ball, classed as Neolithic

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Public seating area, opposite the Bar

  • ...that the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint Columba", which reputedly never runs dry?
  • ...that the potential for the production of renewable energy in Scotland includes up to 25% of the EU’s capacity for both wind and tidal power generation?

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Charlotte Stuart, portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton

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Sgùrr na Ciste Duibhe (left) with Sgùrr nan Spainteach in front

  • ...that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?

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The Carron at its confluence with the Garvald Burn, near Fankerton

  • ...that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay was abandoned by its residents in 1912?

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The resolute Kate Cranston around 1903, dressed in the style of the 1850s

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The restored Willow Tearooms

  • ...that in the 1848 Moray Firth fishing disaster on the east coast of Scotland, 124 boats sank and 100 fishermen perished, leading to a major redesign of fishing boats in the following years?

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Aerial view of the museum complex

  • ...that the village of Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland, is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom, and was once home to a 200-strong fishing fleet?
  • ...that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while legend has it that "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?

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Lennoxlove, with the original tower house of Lethington in the foreground

  • ...that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland, is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?

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David Byrne

  • ... that the first edition of Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland took seven years to compile, contained nearly 500 illustrations, 4000 separate entries, and is around a million words long?

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