Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Dunfermline - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom
Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Dunfermline - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom:
Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline Abbey and Palace, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, Abbot House Heritage Centre, St Margaret's Cave, Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline Public Park, Carnegie Hall,
All About Abbot House with Scotland's Urban Past
Spurred on by the impending closure of Abbot House, one of the oldest buildings in Dunfermline, the local community contacted the Scotland's Urban Past team, with the idea of producing a short film celebrating the day-to-day life of the building in its role as a cultural hub.
Since its development as a heritage centre in the 1990s, Abbot House has hosted a wide range of activities including storytelling, tap dancing, knitting, exhibitions, language teaching courses and more.
Keen to capture the importance of their community space, volunteers and visitors worked with the Scotland's Urban Past team to gain new skills in photography, film making, and oral-history recording to realise their project idea before the building closed to the public on 15 August 2015.
Volunteers were also keen to discover more about Abbot House itself and worked with the Scotland's Urban Past team to investigate and map out its history.
Although Abbot House closed its doors to the public in 2015, volunteers continued collecting memories and stories and researched the history of the building.
The film was completed in June 2016 and shown for the first time at Scotland's Community Heritage Conference in Ayr.
Renovation at Abbot House is due to commence in 2019, with a view to reopening in the future. For more information, see abbothouse.org.
Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a large town in the west of Fife. It was once the capital of Scotland and it's a great place to visit if you're interested in history. Dunfermline's heritage quarter includes the 12th century abbey which is the final resting place of Robert the Bruce and the burial site of 11 other Scottish kings and queens. You can also step back in time in The Royal Palace, Abbot House and St Margaret's Cave. The famous philanthophist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline. You can see the story of his life at the Carnegie Birthplace Museum and visit the beautiful Pittencrieff Park which he bought for the people of the town.
Dunfermline Scotland Tour Guide
Dunfermline Scotland Tour Guide. Dunfermline Abbey with the tomb of King Robert the Bruce and many other royal and historical associations attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year.
Pictish Symbol Stones Of Scotland
Tour Scotland video of Pictish symbol stones. They are a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized. The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles. Stones in orders of appearance in the video are; Bird And Fish Pictish Symbol Stone, Brough of Birsay Pictish Symbol Stone, Cross Slab Pictish Stone Abercorn, Dupplin Pictish Cross St Serf's Church Dunning Perthshire, High Keillor Pictish Stone Strathmore, Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone, Hunting Scenes Pictish Symbol Stones, Kilduncan Pictish Stone St Andrews Fife, Lindores Pictish Symbol Stone Abdie North Fife, Macbeth's Pictish Stone Meigle Perthshire, Papil Pictish Symbol Stone, Pictish Cross Slab Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife, Pictish Standing Stone of Sauchope Crail East Neuk Of Fife, Pictish Standing Stones Churchyard Aberlemno Angus, Pictish Stone Cathedral Museum St Andrews Fife, Pictish Stone Forteviot Strathearn Perthshire, Pictish Stone Meigle, Pictish Stone Scoonie Fife, Pictish Stone Shetland Islands, Pictish Stone Strathmiglo North Fife, Pictish Symbol Stone Abernethy Perthshire, Pictish Warrior Stone Abbot House Dunfermline Fife, Southern Roadside Pictish Stone Aberlemno, St Madoes Pictish Stone Perth Perthshire, Warrior Pictish Symbol Stone Dull, Wheel Cross Stone With Twelve Flower Petals Pictish Stone Abercorn
Aberdeen Tolbooth Museum Paranormal Investigation
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Episode 3 Aberdeen Tolbooth Museum 19 June 2014
History:
The Tolbooth Museum is one of Aberdeen's oldest buildings and one of the best-preserved 17th century gaols in Scotland.
Ghosts have manifested themselves to staff and visitors over the years, with dark shadows accompanied by ghostly footsteps.
The original building on the site of the Museum was built in 1393 as an area for collecting tolls for goods that were bought and sold.
Years later its role changed to that of a holding place for prisoners about to be tried at the court.
This then developed into a general prison. The Wardhouse, now the Tolbooth Museum, was built between 1616 and 1629.
Several cells still exist in their original format; they have been restored to how they would have looked when they were used as holding cells.
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Join Afterdark Paranormal Investigations team for what will be a very interesting evening at this fantastic location.
Vigils & Experiments:
The event will include various vigils and experiments which everyone will have the opportunity to participate in if they would like too, these will include lone vigils, ouija board experiments, human pendulum experiments, EMF experiments, EVP experiments and many more.
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The Wallace| Book One|Middle Scots Recital
This is a recital of Book One of the poem The Wallace, written in Middle Scots by the poet Blind Harry in the late 15th Century. I have tried my best to stay true to the Middle Scots pronunciation but expect some small mistakes here and there.
A. J. Aitken: How to pronounce Older Scots (1977):
Below is a transcription of the original Middle Scots poem, albeit edited and modernized in parts by Anne McKim, from whose book I am reading.
[transcript to be added]
Treason's Truth 2
INTRODUCTION
This slice of historical fiction begins with the ancient vampire entity of The Forbidden Tome; Hansel and Gretel's True Tale and of Lethal Assumed; Lost Tome Found, not in Germany of the 1850s or present day Seattle but in the days of yore when Scotland was in its womb and about to be birthed.
The tale of Cinaed Mac Alpin, known commonly as Kenneth, and his queen Aiobheean opens as his life is of a fledgling and he, a boy of seven in 818AD British Isles. So much is primitive but moving towards formation of a nation.
The scale of the story is huge. And yes, it involves vampires and passionate embraces of significant characters in history. Yet the book also includes the sweep of one hundred and forty critical years in the building of that romantic land they now call Scotland.
Have you ever wondered about what truly ensued with the incident known as Mac Alpin's Treason? Or the clash of the Pictish and Gael cultures and how the Pictish way of life vanished? Where did those tattooed people go? Or how the Catholic Church brought its weight upon the land? Find answers, sophisticated answers, in this rendering.
There are descriptions of the people who allowed this time to flow down upon the world. There are births, deaths, passion, sadness and the tumultuous turmoil of a bold but wild era.
Sink your teeth into this tale
Wemyss Caves 4D: a digital future for the Pictish Wemyss Caves, Fife Scotland
Wemyss Caves 4D is a collaborative digital documentation and interpretation project involving archaeologists from the SCAPE Trust, University of St Andrews and the community group Save the Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (SWACS). The project website introduces a worldwide audience to renowned Pictish carvings inscribed into the walls of the Wemyss Caves in Fife, Scotland. Most of the caves are difficult to access and all are directly threatened by coastal erosion, structural instability and vandalism.
Laser scanning and convergence photogrammetric survey techniques were applied to eight hundred metres of coastline and eight caves to document the carvings within their setting. Individual carvings were recorded by community volunteers using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).
The massive resulting dataset was simplified and combined with historic content to present a coherent interactive digital resource that allows users to explore a realistic virtual model of the caves; examine the carvings; access additional information, and even travel back in time to see the caves as the Picts would have done.
Within each cave, context-relevant material (image gallery, video, RTI scan etc.) can be called up via a popup viewer. These viewers are self-contained modules which integrate into the main code, allowing for more content types to be seamlessly added to the site via the application programming interface (API).
Achieving a responsive design for the website necessitated amending the WebRTI viewer developed by the Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council and further modifications to other third party components such as the panorama viewer to enable communication between them and the core code.
Content is also organised through a filterable catalogue allowing the considerable resources to be accessed through a single click. The back-end database allows us to easily add new or rediscovered content.
This presentation will discuss the design and technical challenges of the website, in which we sought to create a balance between the interactive interface designed to give some simulation of the experience of being in the caves with a practical and intuitive way of accessing the rich and detailed content relating to the caves and carvings.
Mike Arrowsmith
Dalgarven Mill, Museum of Ayrshire Life and Costume
The River Garnock and the mill at Dalgarven, the Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume near Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The waterwheel, lade, sluice and weir are depicted. The mill site was once held by the Abbot of Kilwinning Abbey and more recently the Ferguson family have been the millers and later chair of the Dalgarven Trust.
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Edinburgh | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:14 1 Etymology
00:04:19 2 Nicknames
00:08:12 3 History
00:08:21 3.1 Early history
00:11:35 3.2 17th century
00:13:05 3.3 18th century
00:16:50 3.4 19th and 20th centuries
00:20:06 4 Geography
00:20:15 4.1 Cityscape
00:25:17 4.2 Areas
00:34:08 4.3 Climate
00:36:35 5 Demography
00:36:44 5.1 Current
00:39:55 5.2 Historical
00:42:34 5.3 Religion
00:46:55 6 Economy
00:50:23 7 Culture
00:50:32 7.1 Festivals and celebrations
00:50:42 7.1.1 Edinburgh festival
00:52:44 7.1.2 Edinburgh's Hogmanay
00:54:13 7.2 Music, theatre and film
00:56:47 7.3 Media
00:58:26 7.4 Museums, libraries and galleries
01:01:04 7.5 Shopping
01:02:11 8 Governance
01:02:20 8.1 Local government
01:03:48 8.2 Scottish Parliament
01:05:09 8.3 UK Parliament
01:05:56 9 Transport
01:11:38 10 Education
01:15:44 11 Healthcare
01:16:40 12 Sport
01:16:49 12.1 Football
01:16:57 12.1.1 Men's
01:19:22 12.1.2 Women's
01:19:45 12.2 Rugby
01:20:49 12.3 Other sports
01:25:30 13 Notable residents
01:31:25 14 International relations
01:31:35 14.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:32:20 15 See also
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Edinburgh ( (listen); Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [ˈt̪uːn ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]; Scots: Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (or Edinburghshire), it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the supreme courts of Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, philosophy, the sciences and engineering. It is the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom (after London) and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination (likewise after London), attracting over one million overseas visitors each year.Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The official population estimates are 464,990 (2012) for the Locality of Edinburgh (Edinburgh pre 1975 regionalisation plus Currie and Balerno), 513,210 (2017) for the City of Edinburgh, and 1,339,380 (2014) for the city region. Edinburgh lies at the heart of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region comprising East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, is placed 18th in the QS World University Rankings for 2019. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town, built in the 18th/19th centuries. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999.
Pictish stone
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A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs.A few have ogham inscriptions.Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde-Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized.The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles, but the later forms are variations within a wider Insular tradition of monumental stones such as high crosses.
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FBI Philadelphia Field Office GHOST PROTOCOL CARROLL SACRED TRUST US Biggest National Security Case
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The sensational Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust and parallel Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Trust multi-billion dollar corporate identity theft bank fraud case has revealed that Gerald Carroll is connected to the billionaire aviator R. Howard Hughes estate which follows on from further disclosures in the news media that the reclusive Howard Hughes occupied a Bel Air mansion in Los Angeles at 1001 Bel Air road close to the Carroll Foundation Trust Californian Bel Air estate interests. Los Angeles sources have confirmed that these further revelations are fueling speculation that the Howard Hughes Museum Trust could be much larger than presently declared.
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The sensational Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust and parallel Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Trust multi-billion dollar corporate identity theft offshore tax fraud bribery case has revealed that the FBI Chicago field office and the Chicago Police Department are understood are closely monitoring the unfolding developments in this case international importance.
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The sensational Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust and parallel Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland Trust multi-billion dollar corporate identity theft offshore tax fraud bribery case has revealed that the Loeb & Loeb law firm based in Los Angeles are confronting major criminal allegations of breaches of trust conspiracy to defraud racketeering offshore tax fraud and bribery on industrial scale in this case of international importance.
Sources have confirmed that the FBI Scotland Yard criminal “standard of proof” prosecution files contain forensic exhibits of the Rupert Murdoch empire News Corporation — Fox News and Sky News Adam Boulton broadcast tapes which surround the in-depth interviews with Gerald Carroll during the systematic break-up and fraudulent liquidation of major operating divisions of the Carroll Global Corporation Trust industrial empire.
Further sources have disclosed that the files contain a startling litany of the Loeb & Loeb and Slaughter & May law firms “sponsored” twenty eight forged and falsified State of Delaware and UK Companies House “registered” Carroll Trust Corporations which are “centered around” the fraudulent incorporation of Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust structures that effectively impulsed this massive trans-national crime syndicate operation spanning three continents.
It has emerged that the dossiers contain forensic specimen exhibits which concern the systematic criminal seizure of the Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust major commercial property holdings that were located within the downtown financial district of Los Angeles.
It is understood that Gerald Carroll’s Southern California and Los Angeles investment holdings would have a value today in excess of a billion dollars. Scotland Yard sources have revealed that the files contain forensic specimen exhibits of the fraudulent incorporation of HSBC International offshore accounts Barclays International offshore accounts and Queen’s bankers Coutts & Co accounts which embezzled a staggering two hundred and fifty million dollars of Gerald Carroll’s huge treasury investment holdings.
This source also said that fraudulently incorporated HSBC USA escrow accounts triggered the seizure of Gerald Carroll’s Bel Air mansion estate and the systematic break-up and liquidation of the world renowned Carroll Aeronautical Collection which was “centered around” the unique Howard R. Hughes collection of images and artifacts.
The Carroll Foundation Trust files are held within a complete lockdown at the FBI Washington DC field office and the Metropolitan Police Service London under the “joint supervision” of the FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Scotland Yard Commissioner Cressida Dick QPM who are known to have an intimate knowledge of this case which stretches the globe.
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Green belt (UK) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:03 1 England and Wales
00:02:45 1.1 England
00:05:29 1.2 Wales
00:05:42 2 Northern Ireland
00:06:00 3 Scotland
00:08:15 4 History
00:11:48 5 Criticism
00:12:37 5.1 Environmental
00:13:51 5.2 Effect on house prices
00:16:34 6 Related concepts
00:17:35 7 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth. The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail. The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open, and consequently the most important attribute of green belts is their openness.
The Metropolitan Green Belt around London was first proposed by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935. The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 then allowed local authorities to include green belt proposals in their development plans. In 1955, Minister of Housing Duncan Sandys encouraged local authorities around the country to consider protecting land around their towns and cities by the formal designation of clearly defined green belts.Green belt policy has been criticised for reducing the amount of land available for building and therefore pushing up house prices, as 70% of the cost of building new houses is the purchase of the land (up from 25% in the late 1950s).
Green belt (United Kingdom) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:38 1 England and Wales
00:04:14 1.1 England
00:08:33 1.2 Wales
00:08:48 2 Northern Ireland
00:09:13 3 Scotland
00:12:40 4 History
00:18:09 5 Criticism
00:19:21 5.1 Environmental
00:21:12 5.2 Effect on house prices
00:25:27 6 Related concepts
00:26:57 7 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth. The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail. The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open, and consequently the most important attribute of green belts is their openness.
The Metropolitan Green Belt around London was first proposed by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935. The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 then allowed local authorities to include green belt proposals in their development plans. In 1955, Minister of Housing Duncan Sandys encouraged local authorities around the country to consider protecting land around their towns and cities by the formal designation of clearly defined green belts.Green belt policy has been criticised for reducing the amount of land available for building and therefore pushing up house prices, as 70% of the cost of building new houses is the purchase of the land (up from 25% in the late 1950s).
Dayton C. Miller, an American Collector of Flutes
Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford profiles the Dayton C. Miller Collection held at the Library of Congress. Miller was an accomplished scientist and collector whose collection of flutes and related materials is among the world's largest focused on a single instrument. Ward-Bamford is joined by scientist Paul Runci, and they discuss aspects of Miller's collecting processes and expenditures, including how the collection came to the Library of Congress.
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History Book Review: Pictish Warrior AD 297-841 by Paul Wagner, Wayne Reynolds
This is the summary of Pictish Warrior AD 297-841 by Paul Wagner, Wayne Reynolds.