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Phil - Warden, ULMC Caseg Fraith Hut🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @CasegFraith

Warden of @ULMC_’s Caseg Fraith Hut - well placed for the Ogwen Valley. I will repost or reply to mountain name interpretations, using the #MountainToponymy tag

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Bear Grylls OBE
@BearGrylls
Jun 15
Train hard. Prepare for the worst. Fight with everything you have. Then surrender the outcome to God. That is the only way to live without fear.
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Interesting cloud formations in the Ogwen Valley today recorded on our #TryfanCam tryfan.ulgmc.org/ for the live view, updated every 15 minutes tryfan.ulgmc.org/history/ for historic photos
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Seren Hawley-Plows@hedgerow_he4u5s
Jun 14
Bryn Cader Faner - one of the most unique and unusual Bronze Age sites in Britain. The name itself roughly translates to 'The Hill with the Throne with the Flag' Or 'The Hill with the Chair and the Flag' It was constructed around 4,500 years ago an...
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Amazing Maps
@amazingmap
Jun 13
Where blonde hair is most common in Europe
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Wici Cymru@WiciCymru
Jun 13
On this day in 2005, Gaeilge / Irish became an official language of the 🇪🇺 EU! 🇮🇪 The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh language did not, even though it has 5–6 times more speakers. Why not? 🇮🇪 Ireland is an independent country; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales is not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irelan…
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Brilliant Maps
@BrilliantMaps
Jun 12
Nationality Of All Mount Everest Climbers From 1953-2023 brilliantmaps.com/mount-ever…
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Premier Christian News@PremierNewsDesk
Jun 12
Welsh church voted best place on Earth in online challenge premierchristian.news/en/new…

Welsh church voted best place on Earth in online challenge - Premier Christian News | Headlines,...

The challenge on the online forum saw users start with a map of the globe, and vote out the “worst” half of it, until only a tiny square remained.

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Dr. M.F. Khan
@Dr_TheHistories
Jun 11
It's a map of the Atlantic Ocean floor published in 1968 based on a large number of deep ocean soundings compiled by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp, painted by Heinrich Berann. Marie Tharp (1920–2006) was an American Geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Tharp's work revealed the presence of the mid-Atlantic Ridge, causing a paradigm shift in Earth science that led to acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or 'constructive plate boundary' located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. In the North Atlantic it separates the Eurasian and North American Plates, and in the South Atlantic it separates the African and South American Plates. Although the Mid Atlantic Ridge is mostly an underwater feature, portions of it have enough elevation to extend above sea level. The section of the ridge that includes the island of Iceland is also known as the Reykjanes Ridge. The ridge has an average spreading rate of about 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) per year. © Reddit #drthehistories
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Dr. M.F. Khan
@Dr_TheHistories
Jun 11
One of the strangest quirks in mathematics appears when you calculate 1 ÷ 998,001. The resulting decimal seems to list every three-digit number in order: 001, 002, 003, and so on. But when the sequence reaches the end, something odd happens: 998 never appears. The reason is a cascading carry. After 999 comes 1,000, but the decimal is arranged in three-digit blocks. The extra digit from 1,000 spills into the block to its left, turning 999 into 1,000 and triggering another carry. That second carry reaches the block containing 998 and increases it to 999. In the final decimal, the original 998 has been replaced by 999, while the 999 block becomes 000. The result is a sequence that appears to jump straight from 997 to 999, making 998 seem to vanish entirely. It's not a mistake or a coincidence—just an unusual consequence of how carrying works in long decimal expansions. © Reddit #drthehistories
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Bear Grylls OBE
@BearGrylls
Jun 11
Faith is a well we dig in the dry seasons. So we can drink from it in the drought. Don't wait for the storm to start building your interior life.
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BBC Scotland News
@BBCScotlandNews
Jun 11
Plan for hundreds of new spaces to ease Ben Nevis parking woes bbc.in/3RRRE1d

Plan for hundreds of new spaces to ease Ben Nevis parking woes

Forestry and Land Scotland is proposing to extend its North Face car park near Torlundy.

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On the way home last Friday, we stopped at Dundee to visit @DiscoveryDundee and the RRS Discovery, which took Scott’s first expedition to Antarctica We paid for 3 hours parking, but this wasn’t enough to do justice to both the museum and the ship Would highly recommend a visit!
The Bridge of the Royal Research Ship Discovery which was used by Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica from 1901 to 1904 It also was dispatched to Elephant Island in 1916 to pick up Shackleton’s expedition after his ship, The Endurance, was crushed by ice and sank off Elephant Island Shackleton saved all his men by rowing to South Georgia in a lifeboat and trekking across the island with 5 of his men, to arrange for the rest of his men to be rescued from Elephant Island

ALT The Bridge of the Royal Research Ship Discovery which was used by Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica from 1901 to 1904 It also was dispatched to Elephant Island in 1916 to pick up Shackleton’s expedition after his ship, The Endurance, was crushed by ice and sank off Elephant Island Shackleton saved all his men by rowing to South Georgia in a lifeboat and trekking across the island with 5 of his men, to arrange for the rest of his men to be rescued from Elephant Island

The Wardroom of the RRS Discovery where the officers dined

ALT The Wardroom of the RRS Discovery where the officers dined

The mess room of the RRS Discovery where the other ranks ate and slept The 1902 Antarctic Expedition, like everything else at the time, was very class conscious

ALT The mess room of the RRS Discovery where the other ranks ate and slept The 1902 Antarctic Expedition, like everything else at the time, was very class conscious

The bow of the RRS Discovery showing the fore-mast and some models of live sheep, that the expedition took on board at its last port of call in New Zealand. The live sheep would provide some very welcome fresh meat for the expedition

ALT The bow of the RRS Discovery showing the fore-mast and some models of live sheep, that the expedition took on board at its last port of call in New Zealand. The live sheep would provide some very welcome fresh meat for the expedition

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Our Highlands and Islands trip was very successful and enjoyable I climbed 7 Munros in the Cairngorms and the Monadhliath, and we visited 6 new islands Unusually for 2 weeks in Scotland, there was hardly any rain! It was also too early in the season for the midges!
The Walk Highlands Map of the Munros I have climbed in the Cairngorms and the Monadhliath Blue markers are Munros that I have climbed and red markers are for those still to do

ALT The Walk Highlands Map of the Munros I have climbed in the Cairngorms and the Monadhliath Blue markers are Munros that I have climbed and red markers are for those still to do

Google Map of Orkney

ALT Google Map of Orkney

Google Map of Shetland

ALT Google Map of Shetland

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We also learnt a great deal about the fascinating geology of Orkney and Shetland and collected quite a few interesting rock samples We will share these with the Sutton @u3a_UK Geology Group, at some point
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Luan Hanratty
@LuanHanratty
Jun 10
The Fight for the Old North and the Seeds of Northumbria The 6th century is a time of which there are sparse recollections, dimly denoted in poetry and scattered fragments. It was during this period that the beginnings of Northumbria were formed from the kingdom of Bernicia, a wild and rugged region vaguely encompassing the lands between the Tweed and the Tyne. penbal.uk/the-fight-for-the-…
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On Thursday, we visited the Shetland Museum and Archive looking for a booklet called “Shetland’s Volcanos” that was referenced on all the @GeoParkShetland information boards Their inventory said they had 3 copies, but they couldn’t find any They did have a good Geology section!
Information about the movement of the tectonic plate on which Shetland sits, from near the South Pole to where it now is, the separation of North America and Europe and the collision of plates that brought Scotland and England together and created the Highland mountains Also information about the ancient rocks on which Shetland sits (Lewisian Gneiss), plus some rock samples

ALT Information about the movement of the tectonic plate on which Shetland sits, from near the South Pole to where it now is, the separation of North America and Europe and the collision of plates that brought Scotland and England together and created the Highland mountains Also information about the ancient rocks on which Shetland sits (Lewisian Gneiss), plus some rock samples

More information about the collision of plates with some more rock samples

ALT More information about the collision of plates with some more rock samples

Some more rock samples

ALT Some more rock samples

An interesting rare sample of a rock (Komatiite) that is found on Shetland and in South Africa

ALT An interesting rare sample of a rock (Komatiite) that is found on Shetland and in South Africa

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It was our last day on Shetland and we had not been to the north of Mainland So we drove as far north as we could on the A970 to North Roe The A970 went on a bit further and ended at a farm called Isbister! We did pass some interesting rocks and glimpsed the Sullum Voe Oil Terminal
The end of the A970 at Isbister Farm!

ALT The end of the A970 at Isbister Farm!

The northern part of a cutting on the A970 near Mavis Grind showing vertical strata

ALT The northern part of a cutting on the A970 near Mavis Grind showing vertical strata

The southern part of the cutting on the A970 near Mavis Grind

ALT The southern part of the cutting on the A970 near Mavis Grind

The Sullom Voe Oil Terminal from a distance, bathed in sunlight No tankers docked there or anywhere else near Shetland, because of the closure of the Straight of Hormuz

ALT The Sullom Voe Oil Terminal from a distance, bathed in sunlight No tankers docked there or anywhere else near Shetland, because of the closure of the Straight of Hormuz

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We returned to Lerwick and boarded the @NLFerries overnight service to Aberdeen Pleased to have a comfortable cabin to sleep in, the use of the exclusive Magnus Lounge, complementary drinks and breakfast
Our cabin on the MV Hrossey ferry

ALT Our cabin on the MV Hrossey ferry

Leaving Lerwick

ALT Leaving Lerwick

Our last glimpse of Shetland (Sumburgh Head - which was the first place we visited on Shetland)

ALT Our last glimpse of Shetland (Sumburgh Head - which was the first place we visited on Shetland)

Passengers eating breakfast in the Magnus Lounge

ALT Passengers eating breakfast in the Magnus Lounge
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Creative Deduction
@CreativeDeduct
Jun 8
Replying to @mattyglesias
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