MIDGES IN SCOTLAND

MIDGES IN SCOTLAND

The Scottish Highlands is a beautiful place with its mountains and valleys. 

 For thousands of years the grandeur of this landscape has been marred by the misery of the midge.

 So the midge is called the 'tiniest of monsters' 

 Dr Alison Blackwell says:

"A midge has a set of mouth parts that like shearing scissors and they cut a hole in your skin and create a pool of blood and then they put their mouth parts in and suck from that. And that itself can be very painful."

 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/6minute/100624_6min_highlands.pdf

It is very dangerous the insects in summer because you can have serious illness for them. 

TYPES OF SMILES IN SCOTLAND

                                                     THE TYPES OF SMILE

THE ENTHUSIAST SMILE 

GIVES GOOD RESULTS.

  BIG FREE SMILE

 

 

 

 

 THE ROBOT SMILE AND THE BIG FREE SMILES

 

 NEVER GIVE GOOD RESULTS.

 

 

 

 

 

SUPERSTITIONS IN SCOTLAND

SUPERSTITIONS  IN SCOTLAND

The animals, birds and nature feature a lot in British superstitions. So, people mention " touch wood "or "knock on wood" for luck.
On the other hand, if you carry a rabbit's foot, around your neck,  it will bring you good luck. It's what people call "a lucky charm". A charm is an object that brings good luck. So a rabbit's foot is a charm that brings good luck to the person carrying it.
Besides there are a  few more British superstitions involving nature. Dr Paul Walton, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, spoke to the BBC about some superstitions surrounding birds in Scotland.  He is talking about seagulls and the traditions associated with them. So, according to Dr Walton, there are superstitions that are associated with gulls in Scotland. Partly it must be because Scotland's such a fantastic place for birds,  these superstitions have developed because these are the living things that have shared their lives with. For example, there's a long tradition in Scotland among sailors and fishermen of seeing the gulls that follow the boats as actually being the embodiment of dead sailors, and to kill a gull is still in many places considered to be very back luck.

 He says sailors and fishermen consider it very bad luck to kill a seagull because gulls are the embodiment of dead sailors. So here it means that the seagulls have given physical bodies to the spirits of dead sailors – they're the embodiment of the dead sailors. So, it's bad luck to kill a seagull in Scotland because they're the embodiment of dead sailors. Let's listen to another bird superstition from Scotland.

 Paul Walton again talks about another of his favourite superstitions. So, listening  bird noises people can identify which bird he's talking about. What people should do when  hear its call. For example, if people hear a cuckoo calling and then they start to run away from it as quickly as they can, the number of times they hear the cuckoo calling before it fades into silence is the number of years they have got left to live.

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/pdf/2011/08/110810111323_6min_english_superstitions.pdf

People can find cuckoo clocks in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, with the cuckoo making a distinctive cry every hour, but  in Scotland, if people hear the cuckoo calling then they should run away from it as quickly as they can. The number of times they hear the cuckoo is the number of years they have got left to live.
So surely they should walk away very slowly – then they'd hear more calls and live longer.

Reintroducing the wolf to Scotland

http://www.wolvesandhumans.org/wolves/wolf_reintroduction_to_scotland.htm

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MIDGES IN SCOTLAND

The Scottish Highlands is a beautiful place with its mountains and valleys. 

 For thousands of years the grandeur of this landscape has been marred by the misery of the midge.

 So the midge is called the 'tiniest of monsters' 

 Dr Alison Blackwell says:

"A midge has a set of mouth parts that like shearing scissors and they cut a hole in your skin and create a pool of blood and then they put their mouth parts in and suck from that. And that itself can be very painful."

 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/6minute/100624_6min_highlands.pdf

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2. It is very dangerous the insects in summer because you can have serious illness for them. 

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THE BIGGEST PIZZA in SCOTLAND

Scottland and the healthy pizza

Scottland and the healthy pizza

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/pdf/2012/07/120705113010_120704_6min_english_healthy_pizza_pdf.pdf

The more traditional, Italian-style pizzas have thinner bases and less cheese, so they’re a bit healthier. The majority of pizzas that we buy in the supermarkets are laden with fat – that means they’re full of fat. But there is good news on the horizon for pizza lovers in the UK…

But there is a nutritionist from Scotland has helped to produce a range of pizzas which are nutritionally balanced. They contain the right number of calories, plus all of the vitamins and minerals you need in one meal. Being actually a perfect pizza. It was designed by entrepreneur Donnie MacLean and professor Mike Lean from Glasgow University.

This is the reason why did they decide to design the pizza:

Professor Mike Lean: 

Of the hundreds and thousands of pizzas on the market they vary enormously in what they contain. Not one of them, up until now, has been properly balanced for all the nutrients. But some have the right amount of fat, some have the right amount of saturated fat; some have actually the right amount of salt, very few. Nobody has thought about it, nobody has designed a nutritionally balanced meal so I got together with Donnie to try to do this.

Professor Lean and entrepreneur Donnie MacLean began tweaking the recipe. Red pepper in the tomato sauce adds more vitamin C. There‟s full fat mozzarella, just not too much of it. And a secret ingredient – Hebridean seaweed – hidden in the base to provide iron, calcium, zinc and… “…as way of reducing the salt level „cause the sodium content of seaweed is about 3.5% compared to 40% in salt.” These pizzas are more expensive because they are the best.

The Hebridean seaweed – so seaweed taken from the islands off the west coast of Scotland called the Hebrides, provides a lot of the minerals you need to keep you healthy, and it has a lower sodium content than salt, so the pizza is less salty and therefore better for you.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-18663969

Mr Maclean and Prof Lean come up with unusual ways of incorporating more nutrients into a pizza

MONSTERS IN DESERT OF GOBI

DESERT DISCOVERIES AND MONSTER MYTHS

David Keys on new insights into the day of the dinosaur.

Chinese and Canadian scientists working in the Gobi Desert have stumbled across a series of 80 million year old dinosaur colonies.

They have discovered new species.

The Gobi Desert colony discovered this year is of a species of vegetarian armoured dinosaur known as an ankylosaur which has been attacked by a carnivorous dinosaur on the ankylosaur nest full of eggs. They were neither round nor oval, but long and thin- around 180 centimetres long and 60 centimetres in diameter . Ankylosaur females seem to have laid them with great efficiency, two at a time. One extraordinary nest, containing thirty of these eggs, has yielded some clues about laying techniques. The eggs were arranged in the nest in a multi-layer spiral, resembling a pyramid.

The team has also unearthed the skull and vertebrae of what seems to be the Old World´s largest dinosaur. This creature was 31 metres from head to tail- the per cent longer than any other Old World dinosaur found so far. It lived 140 million years ago, was vegetarian , weighed up to forty tonnes and would probably have walked at less than sixteen kilometres per hour.

They were wiped out by a natural disaster, possibly caused by meteorite impact. 

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/austropalaeo/2016/04/dinosaurs-of-the-gobi

Palaeontology assistant and student Mainbayar Buuvei excavates a dinosaur fossil 

Palaeontologists and volunteers at our camp in the eastern Gobi

The Gobi has a population density of just 0.4 people per square kilometre. It is a true desert with less than 193mm of rainfall a year and average maximum summer temperatures above 35°C.

Spectacular dinosaur discoveries in the Gobi

IN RECENT YEARS, a series of feathered species of dinosaurs have been discovered in the Gobi, helping firm up the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

 include Gigantoraptor, a parrot-beaked 'oviraptorosaur', 8m long and 4m tall. Found in the Gobi in 2008, it is thought to be one of the largest feathered animals ever to have lived.

WOLVES IN SCOTLAND

REINTRODUCING WOLVES INTO SCOTLAND

Wolves were last seen in the wild in Scotland in the seventeenth century but in recent times there have been proposals to reintroduce the animal to more remote highland areas of the country. Four scientists give their views on the idea.

There are four points of view according to different scientists:



1.- The idea of reintroducing wolves into Scotland three centuries after they were eradicated has a romantic appeal, and if, as wolf reintroduction schemes in parts of the USA like Montana suggest would happen, they reduced red deer numbers and consequently stimulated greater biodiversity, this would be very positive. This potential ecological benefit is undeniable but comparisons with the USA are deceptive. Scotland is a small country and keeping wolves away from its many livestock farms would be difficult. Scotland also has limited economic resources, and the funds required to introduce and manage packs of wolves would be far better spent maintaining and enhancing native species already present in the country. The few opinion polls that have been carried out on the subject reveal that most Scottish people, while attracted by the idea of wolves in their limited remaining wilderness areas, question the sense in pursuing the idea in the foresseable future.

2.- Scientists largery agree about reintroducing wolves into wilderness areas: by preying on deer and other vegetation-destroying animals, wolves help create conditions for various tree and plant species to prosper, which then attracts a greater variety of wildlife. All this happens at little expense. Even the cost of monitoring the wolves and compensating farmers for any livestock killed can be offset by growth in revenue from tourism as visitors are attracted by the opportunity to observe wolves in their wild habitat. The fact is, however, that Scotland is not ready for wolves. It is a relatively small country with many sheep farmers horrified by the idea that their flocks could be vulnerable to wolf attacks. The Scottish countryside is also  heavily used by recreational walkers, climbers and fishing enthusiasts, most of whom would surely feel uncomfortable at the thought of carrying out their hobbies in the company of wolves.

3.- Scotland is currently home to large numbers of red deer which over-graze and prevent native trees and other plants from growing. Each year, many deer have to be culled, but wolves, if re-introduced, would keep the deer population down naturally, leading to reforestation and greater biodiversity. We know this because of wolf reintroduction programmes in the USA. Comparatives studies suggest that similar schemes would be eminently feasible in parts of Scotland. Monitoring wolf packs to ensure they were not a threat to farms and the general public would, of course, require funding, but there would almost certainly be a rise in tourism in areas with wolves, which  would probably mean a net economic gain. Realistically, we will not see wolves reintroduced into Scotland any time soon, largery because of opposition from the powerful Scottish farming lobby, but surveys indicate a majority of Scottish citizens would actually be in favour.

4.- The impression is sometimes given that wolves are natural feature of the Scottish landscape reintroduced would restore the environment to some original, ideal condition. The fact is, however, that there have been no wolves in Scotland for 300 years and in that time, the country´s ecosystem has been transformed. To introduce wolves would effectively mean bringing in an alien species. It is always difficult to know precisely what impact non-native species will have on a particular ecosystem, but in many instances – rats are a classic example in many parts of the world- huge damage has been caused, with considerable economic consequences. Why take a risk in Scotland where the farming sector is going through hard times as it is? It would be far more sensible to focus on looking after species we already have than to get involved in an over-ambitious project involving a potentially dangerous, though glamorous, animal.

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The last wolf in the UK was shot centuries ago, but now a "rewilding" process could see them return to Scotland. Adam Weymouth hiked across the Scottish Highlands in the footsteps of this lost species.

MacQueen killing a wolf in 1743 is but one of many "last wolf" stories in Scotland. 'Last wolf' mystery

MONSTERS AND LEGENDS

MORE RARE CREATURES

There are more rares creatures in the world which are studied by the Cryptozoology, for instance:

THE YETI in the Tibet

Mount Everest in the Himalayas.

The Yeti, once better known as the Abominable Snowman, is a mysterious bipedal creature said to live in the mountains of Asia. It sometimes leaves tracks in snow, but is also said to dwell below the Himalayan snow line. Despite dozens of expeditions into the remote mountain regions of Russia, China, and Nepal, the existence of the Yeti remains unproven.

The Yeti is said to be muscular, covered with dark grayish or reddish-brown hair, and weigh between 200 and 400 pounds. It is relatively short compared to North America's Bigfoot, averaging about 6 feet in height. Though this is the most common form, reported Yetis have come in a variety of shapes.

In 2010, hunters in China caught a strange animal that they claimed was a Yeti. This mysterious, hairless, four-legged animal was initially described as having features resembling a bear, but was finally identified as a civet, a small cat-like animal that had lost its hair from disease.

A curious animal recently caught by hunters in the Sichuan province of China is being touted by some as a Yeti, the Oriental version of Bigfoot. The mysterious hairless animal was initially described by eyewitnesses as having features resembling a bear or kangaroo.

The finding is part of a growing number of mysterious mangy creature reports in recent years. And it could get worse.

The supposed Yeti is being shipped to Beijing for DNA testing, but a photograph of the animal clearly shows a small creature with four legs and a tail.

The Big foot

https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Bigfoot-Sightings-Where-Does-Bigfoot-Live-in-North-America

Where Does Bigfoot Live?

Think you’ll never spot Bigfoot where you live? Guess again! Bigfoot encounters are reported all across North America, and the big guy is seen in all kinds of different climates and geographic regions.

Researchers are beginning to realize that the creature is more widespread than even the most optimistic among them may have imagined. Bigfoot is everywhere, from the stark and frozen north to the hot and swampy south.

In fact, Bigfoot and Bigfoot-like creatures are spotted all around the world. This makes Bigfoot the most geographically diverse cryptid, and raises some questions about the origins of the creature, its evolution and even its breeding habits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei9e8DUQ_So

10 monsters in North American

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12965/10-legendary-monsters-north-america-part-two

1. OGOPOGO

2. MOTHMAN

3. THE PROCTOR VALLEY MONSTER

4.- MOMO

5. JERSEY DEVIL

6. LA LECHUZA

7. WENDIGO

8. THE DONKEY LADY

9. WAMPUS CAT

10. SASQUATCH

St. George´s Day ( 23 rd April)

St. George´s Day (23 rd April)

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk//worldservice/learningenglish/6minute/090423_6min_george_pdf.pdf

Question:

According to the legend, which mythical creature did Saint George kill?

a)      a unicorn

b)       a dragon

c)        a griffin

St George's Day is great fun and an ideal opportunity for people to celebrate their nationality and being English. It reminds that they are proud of their national identity, where they come from and who they are.

St George isn't patron saint of England but also of many other countries and cities including Lithuania, Portugal, Germany, Moscow and Venice.

However it is important to make the distinction that Britain is made up of England, Wales and Scotland and each country has its own patron saint with its own special day. St Andrew is patron saint for Scotland and Saint David is for Wales.

Video of St. Andrew of Scotland URL:

http://www.scotland.org/video-gallery/#st-andrew-scotlands-patron-saint

Video of St. David  of Wales URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyfXWSVaqUE

Video of St. Patrick of Ireland and Britain URL: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOqWT2tk9Js

Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death.

The United Kingdom has always been a map of multiple identities. How much truer that is today in an era of mass immigration and labour mobility. More and more of us are hybrids.

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