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Hunor Deak, BSc Geology

@geologyedinburgh

Geology, with a focus on ore minerals, clays and mining. Cosmology and astrobiology, with a focus on the origin of life on Earth and the possibility of life in the cosmos. History of propaganda, with a focus on the 'Short 20th Century' (1914-1991). + IR🌐☎️ Constructivism & Institutions. Shares do not equal endorsement.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't just have the High Ground! He was born on it!

Imagine if both of them could get real life, real size statues!

Make a statue of Obi Wan Kenobi and Wedge, place it in their home town: Crieff, Scotland

Dedicated to the hero of the Rebellion and to a great Jedi master! They will always have the High Ground! Both of them would like to say: "Hello there!" to the town's visitors! The town is in the Highlands, so naturally the statue will always have the high ground! The statue should be in a sandpit so that a certain "I hate sand!" will not be able to attack it!

Make a statue of Emperor Palpatine and place it in his home town: Carnoustie, Scotland

The Emperor of the great GALACTIC EMPIRE, has a humble origins in the Scottish town of CARNOUSTIE. It is imperative for us, to get this GREAT man, Chancellor, Supreme Chancellor, GALACTIC EMPEROR, a massive statue in his BIRTH PLACE.

It is very important to get the SENATE a statue!

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Help us to restore the St Andrews Geology Wall!

St Andrews has a geologically informative feature: the geology wall, set up in 2001.
This wall contains examples of rocks from all over Fife:
Volcanic Ash, Columnar Basalt, Quartz Dolerite, Olivine Dolerite,
Andesite, Oil Shale, Tree Root, Algal Limestone, Massive Limestone,
Red Devonian Sandstone, Shelly Limestone, Rippled Sandstone,
Coral limestone, Conglomerate, Coal, Dolomitised Limestone,
Cross-Bedded Sandstone, Felsite, Fossil Rootlets, Agate Rich Andesite,
Crinoidal Limestone and Highland Schist! The wall was set up by geoHeritage Fife working with various geological associations and societies around Britain.  New Campaign The Geology Wall of St Andrews
geoHeritage Fife: geoHeritage Fife is a registered charity (SC032509) and a fully-constituted society which was set up in 2000.  geoHeritage Fife aims to publicise Fife's geological heritage, to provide educational resources in geology and to promote geotourism in Fife.  It also has a duty to inform the local planning authority on new geologically-important sites.  Contentious planning applications are referred to the group for assessment. The group currently has 38 members who participate in field excursions, suggest new itineraries and “test-walk” new trail leaflets.  Its Chairman is Richard Batchelor, currently Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews. A new sister society has been set up in Angus, called the Angus and Dundee GeoSciences Society, aiming to do similar work in the Dundee and Angus area.
Angus and Dundee GeoSciences Society: This society is dedicated to honoring the lifetime work and achievements of Paul Ewing, geology teacher at Arbroath High School. He inspired 100s of students into the scientific field of geology and the wider geosciences. This society aims to inspire 100s more! Its current focus is on Angus County, the Mearns and the City of Dundee.
The geology wall has fallen into disrepair. And beside a leaflet it doesn’t have a lot of useful information that could help the public connect with the site!
So our society is launching a new initiative to help raise funds and get the site restored, along with a new phone app!
Our society is aiming to work with geoHeritage Fife and St Andrews GeoBus to create a new website and phone app for the wall. The aim is to integrate the wall into the geology walks in the area of Fife, Dundee and Angus.
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Short film about the Bellrock Lighthouse and the Year of the Light celebrations to commemorate its bicentenary. Includes interviews with John Boath, the last principal keeper of the lighthouse; and David Taylor, authority on the subject and creator of www.bellrock.org. Graphics using engravings from Robert Stevenson's account of the construction of the Bellrock Lighthouse show how the structure was built off the coast of Northeast Scotland 200 years ago.

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In the summer I participated in an archaeological survey in Transylvania, Romania. This is one of the articles published about it, on a local news site. Old Székely-Hungarian runes and ancient roads. The expedition mostly concentrated on the trying to find the old border posts which marked the boundary between old Transylvania and old Romania. A lot of focus was payed on trying to find more evidence for the once prevalent writing type in the area the Old Hungarian runes (Székely–magyar rovásírás).

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