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News & Articles
Charles Macintosh, the inventor of the Mackintosh raincoat, died on 25 July 1843. ...
A collaborative maritime archaeology project to survey World War I shipwrecks is underway in Orkney, using ...
On 20 July 1819, Scottish geologist John Playfair died. ...
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