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Nov 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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RULE #1 Any last name can be a first name.
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RULE #2: Any place name can be a first name.
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RULE #3: Any name can have "-ina" added to it for a "female sounding" name
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RULE #4: Found a name you like? Use it liberally.
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Honourable mentions too for:

FANNA SHORTBREAD (b.1859)
MURDER MACKENZIE (b. 1865)
SHART CLARK (b.1887)
NEPTUNE BLOOD (b.1825)
BOGLEMARY ROBERTSON (b.1783)

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Feb 16
Here goes with the next instalment of the Pillar Box War of 1953. If you missed it, part one is quote tweeted here.

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We left off in March '53, where displaying "EIIR" was taboo on pain of having your windows smashed in, Scotland's only "EIIR" pillar box is no more, and there is only one "official" cipher left--in Bellshill...
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Feb 14
This weekend was the 69th anniversary of the pillar box bombing at the The Inch estate in Edinburgh. Possibly the most dramatic display of discontent around the Queen's royal cipher; but there's a *lot* more to the "Pillar Box War".

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Oct 18, 2020
Many Scots, while owning Scotland's role in slavery, still take the stance that "normal" or "working class" Scots got no advantages from the fortunes made with enslaved labour, or any benefits were long in the past. (1/n)

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The idea of only the upper classes benefitting is bogus. All Scots still benefit from money made through slavery. "Education for all" has long been a pride of Scotland but the "philanthropist Scot" that funded this wasn't often asked where the money came from (2/n) Some examples:
Inverness Royal Academy was opened in 1792 by gentlemen who thought the parish schools were doing a poor job educating local children. To open a new school that would teach English, Gaelic, classics, arithmetic, sciences, geography et al. was massively expensive (3/n).
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Aug 25, 2020
Summer 1970: a rare form of typhoid is infecting people in Edinburgh. Dr Nancy Conn, a bacteriologist at Western General, finds the source and prevents a major outbreak with detective work and sanitary towels.

A thread on one of Scotland's unsung #WomenInSTEM

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Typhoid was and is uncommon in Scotland. Apart from an outbreak in Aberdeen in the 60s, most cases are linked to overseas travel. The Edinburgh outbreak was different. It was mainly children who were being infected, from different parts of the city. 1/n
None of them had ever been abroad and none had any link to India, where this rare strain of the Salmonella typhi bacterium comes from. Dr Conn sat with the patients and interviewed them in detail. Many were senseless with fever. She interviewed their friends and families too. 2/n
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Jul 9, 2020
An #OldWeirdScotland thread.

You've heard of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, but have you heard about the Seven Wonders of Scotland?

These come from the Gaelic tradition and were known as "seachd mìorbhuilean na h-Alba". (Seven Marvels of Scotland). Image
#1 Torbraichean Ghlinn Iuch.

The Wells of Linlithgow (Ghlinn Iuch) have long made the town famous. An old saying went "Glesca for bells, Lithgae for wells". The Cross Well was built in 1535 but was ruined by Cromwell and rebuilt in 1628. Image
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Jun 3, 2020
Fortunes in #OldWeirdScotland were made through black slavery. Many of the figures revered as "canny Scots", were directly involved in, or complicit in colonialism, oppression, exploitation and subjugation (e.g. Livingstone, Monboddo, Burns). 1/14
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In 1769, A slave named "Black Tom", brought to Methil by David Dalrymple, fled to E. Wemyss and was baptized David Spens. A farmer in Methilhill sheltered Spens but Dalrymple had him jailed in Dysart. 3/14
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