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Articles that I have created or expanded significantly which have been featured on the Main Page in the Did you know section.

27 December, 2005
Did you know... 
 * ...that the Dunmore Pineapple is a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America?

29 December, 2005
Did you know...  Did you know... 
 * ...that the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots?
 * ...that Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746?

6 March, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall?

10 March, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland, is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?

10 April, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther contains 66,000 exhibits including Reaper, a 104 year old restored fifie herring drifter?

11 April, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?

21 April, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that Robin Philipson, former President of the Royal Scottish Academy, was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?

26 April, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement ?

30 April, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that Reaper, a 105 year old historic Fifie herring drifter, nearly sank off the north east coast of England after being restored and put back into service as a museum ship?

13 May, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that the Reverend John Thomson, distinguished landscape painter and former minister of Duddingston Kirk, is often credited with originating the famous Scots adage, "We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns"?

16 May, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that in the 1848 Moray Firth fishing disaster on the east coast of Scotland, 124 boats sank and 100 fishermen perished, leading to a major redesign of fishing boats in the following years?

30 May, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, John Thomson, was honoured by having one of the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro named "Point Thomson" on his death in 1921?

7 June, 2006
Did you know... 
 * ...that the remains of Henri Huet and three other noted war photographers, shot down in their helicopter over the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1971, have never been found?

25 May, 2007
Did you know... 
 * ...that Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?