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    Cameron Highlanders, a Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, and Indian troops march past the Great Pyramid in the North African Desert, on December 9, 1940.


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    Common Riding is an annual event celebrated in Scottish Border towns and in some other places, to commemorate the times of the past when local men risked their lives in order to protect their town and people.

    The Hawick Common-Riding is the first and biggest of the Border festivals and celebrates the ancient custom of riding the boundaries of the parish/marches and the capture of an English Flag in 1514.


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    A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created, and belong to the classification "complex Atlantic Roundhouse"

    There are some 500 brochs scattered across Scotland, especially across the north and west of the country. Built from 200BC-200AD. They combine features of fort, fortified house, and status symbol, and could easily have served different purposes in different places and at different times.


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    Callanish Stones
    Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC.


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    The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland. It connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The lift opened in 2002.

    It takes just 22.5kW to power the electric motors, which consume 1.5kWh of energy in four minutes, roughly the same as boiling eight kettles of water.

    The wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and is regarded as a Scottish engineering landmark.


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    The Thin Red Line was a military action by the Sutherland Highlanders red-coated 93rd (Highland) Regiment at the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. Led by Sir Colin Campbell, routed a Russian cavalry charge.

    Scots Greys famous charge at the Battle of Waterloo. Capturing the French Standard at the Battle of Waterloo.

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    Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built by Robert Stevenson between 1807 and 1810.


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    New Lanark - The village was built from 1785 in a previously inaccessible gorge of the River Clyde a mile south west of Lanark. Here it could take advantage of the tremendous power of the fast flowing river. The village's cotton mills, for much of their life the largest in Scotland, continued to operate for nearly two hundred years until their closure in 1968.

    Some of New Lanark's earliest workers were orphans from Glasgow and Edinburgh's poorhouses.

    The Highlanders at New Lanark
    Many people were leaving the Highland in search of work in the towns and decided to try and encourage them to come to New Lanark. Many of them accepted, and settled in New Lanark. Caithness Row in the village is named after the large number of people who came from that part of Scotland to live in New Lanark.



    ...Great great grandparent on the Morrison side was born there.

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    beautiful pictures.
    I have to visit Scotland some time in the near future, it's the most fascinating part of the UK for me.

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