historical mapsopen source technologypOver the last four years, the National Library of Scotland has saved money and improved user access to online historical maps through the implementation of new open source technologies. These new tools include a new Viewer for MrSID images using OpenLayers, a ...
Today, there is a growing impetus to conserve and restore marine ecosystems at scale26, furthered by policies such as the Habitats Directive of the EU, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the EU’s Nature Restoration Law and, in the case of the European flat oyster, its recognition by ...
It may sound strange to say that I needed a bit of quiet time this summer, but after all of the excitement of Scotland and the van life festival, I really needed a quiet couple of weeks. For the first week I chose to visit an area that I have driven past many times, on the M...
A native of Scotland, he settled on the lower ColumbiaRiver near this spot in the early 1850s after trying his luck in the goldfields of California. West built and operated sawmills, ran a general store and post office, built and managed a salmon cannery, developed and improved canning ...
“As a man who was driven to improve on his poor education as a child, Washington’s love of reading was voracious and topics covered everything from animal husbandry to Greek history,” said Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland. “Prominent however was his interest in all things Scottish...
Predominant: >45% of sequences returned in a sample, secondary: 15–45%, important minor: 1–15% and minor <1%. The overall height of the bar indicates the total proportion of samples with that taxon. Full size image There were no overall regional differences between England, Scotland and...
Gregor, Walter 1881 Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland. Elliot Stock, London, UK. Google Scholar Gregor, Walter 1891 The Scotch Fisher Child. Folklore 2(1):73–86. Google Scholar Griffith, T. Riseley 1887 On the Races Inhabiting Sierra Leone. Journal of the Anthropo...
How odd. Well, I suppose he’s usually only home at Christmas, and you always go to Scotland for the holiday. I had to threaten to cut him off to get him home for the twins’ birthday. As it was, he wouldn’t attend the party for fear that one of the mamas would try to marry...
A time capsule dating all the way back to 1894 was once discovered underneath a bridge in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. (Source: Boredom Therapy) Historic Hospital: Back in 2013, a construction crew in Madrid, Spain came across the foundation of a hospital while building ...
Here we have a well-illustrated corpus of most of the Bronze Age axes from northern England and Scotland, with 22 maps. The whole span is shown in a fold-out typology, with copper axes of the Castletown Roche phase, bronze flat axes of the Knockague, Migdale, and Aylesford phases, ...