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28 December 1694, Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, dies aged 32 due to smallpox. #otd pic.twitter.com/JFJlUuiuWy

— Aurora von Goeth 🏳️‍🌈 (@PartyLike1660) December 28, 2019

Callanish Standing Stones. #Scotland @StormHour #StormHour #neolithic #Alba #History pic.twitter.com/6U8Xx04gf8

— Margaret (Mags) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 (@Magsbooks2481) December 28, 2019

Somewhere over the rainbow (or in #Perthshire) you'll find beautiful views like this! 🌈 #OnlyinScotland 📍 Glen Almond 📸 VisitScotland/ Crieff Succeeds/ Damian Shields pic.twitter.com/yOPw1SQ4jw

— VisitScotland (@VisitScotland) December 28, 2019

Pathway to Dunnottar Castle, Scotland! 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 From the 1500's! pic.twitter.com/cF9e5vI61i

— Jim's the Man (@yesjimstheman) December 28, 2019

Rituals ( Calanais Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland ) by Jenny Cameron pic.twitter.com/yvgRvkwoNb

— Joaquin Muñoz García (@JoaquinMuozGarc) December 28, 2019

#Hogmanay #Outlander

Another hogmanay custom still common in Scotland is “first footing.”

Superstition dictates that in order to bring good luck to the house, the “first foot” over the threshold after midnight on Hogmanay should be a handsome, dark-haired man. pic.twitter.com/HFrooGuJwW

— Penelope Pureheart🇺🇸 (@PenPure1) December 28, 2019

Scotland

By Jack Anstey pic.twitter.com/PXVgjXBmMk

— PicPublic (@PicPublic) December 28, 2019

I loved Janey Godley since she the very first moment I saw her on the day she welcomed Donald Drumpf to his golf course in Scotland by holding this sign 👇 😂😂#CancelJaneyGodley nahh....what a star she is. pic.twitter.com/ij18IAMSnl

— Sasmin (@Sasmin83400098) December 28, 2019

A final end of year treat was to come. Data Science for Design MSc students had been inspired by Emma's work & the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database to create a physical map of accused witches in Scotland, lasercut from a block of wood, with Scotland burnt into its surface. pic.twitter.com/sOXwc8PXkO

— Ewan McAndrew (@emcandre) December 23, 2019

Massive lightning strike may have inspired ancient Scottish stone circle, say archaeologists https://t.co/jslZaY06Us #Infowars #Science #Tech

— Brian Hamel (@hamel1776) December 24, 2019

Take a bunch of #scifi writers, #astronomers, #humanists and artists, and throw them into a room. Give them a whiteboard, a pile of sandwiches and a pot of coffee. Let’s see what happens.

This is the result: https://t.co/M5SPzPCqSt#scotland #space #writers #science pic.twitter.com/IX6oUR9T1C

— Scottish Books (@scottish_books) December 26, 2019

Every time #trump takes a swipe at wind turbines, remember that a Scottish Court ruled against his request to have visible wind turbines removed from off the coast of his #trumpturnberry golf course

This is pure revenge, not based on science

— TweetyWeety (@TweetyThings1) December 23, 2019

Many day-flying #moths are often brightly coloured. This example, the Transparent Burnet moth, is a Christmassy red & is restricted to a few localities on the Scottish west coast and islands. #NMSAdvent #MothMonday #MothsMatter pic.twitter.com/vyZuokeyLv

— Natural Sciences NMS (@NatSciNMS) December 23, 2019

Scottish salmon fisher tackles food fraud with forensic science. Food fraud costs UK firms £12 billion annually.https://t.co/ZKxcF0yypJ@GHGGuru

— JOHN G. KEOGH (@JGKeogh) December 24, 2019

#OnThisDayInWomensHistory in 1780 Scottish mathematician & science writer Mary Somerville was born.

Mary studied mathematics & astronomy, and in 1836 became a member of the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel. #OTD pic.twitter.com/OCJTmkrOTH

— WomenOfLondon (@WomenOfLDN) December 26, 2019

Chris Rutterford took his inspiration from the classic science fiction novel ‘20000 Leagues Under The Sea’ when he covered the Cabin Cafe, Dennistoun, with a 16 metre long Scottish octopus suffering from the munchies. @RutterfordArt pic.twitter.com/vPpE2hLy78

— Murals Scotland (@MuralsS) December 23, 2019