For The A to Z Challenge this year, I am focusing on everyday holidays. Each day there are multiple unusual things to celebrate. Every day of the challenge I look for an event taking place that day and pair it with the letter of the day. I have also made up 5 holidays to coincide with the vowel days of the challenge. At the end of each post I will share a special song of the day for that day's letter. At the end of the month, these songs will be assembled in a to z keepsake playlist on Spotify. Every day is a celebration, let's unwrap today's together.
Today is the day to celebrate Scotland from both sides of the pond.
Here are 10 Things about Either Scotland of the Science Festival:
1. The Proclaimers are from Scotland. Here is a great song of theirs called appropriately enough, Scotland's Story.
2. Haggis is the national dish of Scotland.
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3. Scotland is a country and is part of the United Kingdom,
4. Golf originated in Scotland.
18th hole of St. Andrews and Clubhouse
Von paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
5. David Tenant voices Scrooge McDuck on DuckTails and they are both from Scotland!
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6. Edinburgh is the Capital of Scotland.
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7. The Edinburgh Science Festival began in 1989.
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An Experiment being demonstrated - Edinburg International Science Festival 2014 , CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
8. The festival "was the worlds first public celebration of science and technology as a festival."
9. The festival has over 250 events for families and adults.
10. Valentina Treshkova, spoke at the inaugural festival in 1989, 26 years after becoming the first woman in space.
By Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
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The Song of the Day is He Reigns by The Newsboys
This gets the Leap Of Dave A to Z challenge Spotify playlist to about a third of it's capacity.
That's all for today. Leave a comment about why you like Scotland, Science, both or neither.
1 comment:
I remember crossing the border into Scotland in 1998 and feeling I had come home. My ancestors left Aberdeen for Australia in the 1860s. However I had a really bad cold the whole time I was in Scotland and don’t think I would have survived the weather had I stayed any longer. I’m now about to read your posts backwards to A.
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