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🐿️ You can see still see the red squirrel in the conifer forests of Galloway, to the woodlands of Argyll or the Caledonian pine forests.
If you're in Scotland just now, you may spot one among the 🍂 spectacular autumn foliage.
#Autumnwatch @BBCTwo https://t.co/5NA6ImYYio
James Short was born in Edinburgh #OnThisDay in 1710.
During his 35-year career as a telescope-maker in both #Edinburgh and #London, he produced about 1360 instruments that were sold all over the world. https://t.co/33tw9BdIsx
#OnThisDay 1919 George Pringle, excavation foreman on Traprain Law in #EastLothian, was loosening soil when he hit something strange…
The Traprain Treasure had come back to the light!
Discover more about it in this blog post from Dr Fraser Hunter:
https://t.co/piGwYrWUho
新年快乐!
Happy #ChineseNewYear! 2019 is the #YearOfThePig. You'll find this chap in our East Asia gallery, opening on Friday. He stars in an animation of the 12 animals of the East Asian calendar.
Do you know what your animal sign is?
🐖 🐀 🐂 🐅 🐇 🐉 🐍 🐎 🐑 🐒 🐓 🐕
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'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
#OnThisDay in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.
Explore this story at https://t.co/9zFy76ox2v
新年快乐!2017 is the #YearoftheRooster – this charming pair date from the Qing dynasty
This amazing cauldron from @nationalmuseet is 1 of the treasures in #Celts, opening today https://t.co/0UKaJYahje
Join our free #silversmiths demonstration with Miriam Hanid today! https://t.co/SYkjdeXoYZ
It's #Dinovember #ScienceSaturday tomorrow for fabulous fossils, dino craft & a dino show https://t.co/dk3GkkoYtz
SHINE, SPARKLE & GLITTER in #Silversmiths @GoldsmithsCo #SilverSeptember - NOW OPEN! http://t.co/vBoIzH7g4M