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This statue in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens honours Wotjek, a Syrian Brown Bear that served in the Polish military during WW2. Picked up in Iran by soldiers of the Polish 2nd Corps in 1943, and enlisted as a Private soldier in order to ensure his rations from the quartermaster, Wotjek would see active combat inContinue reading “The Soldier Bear”

Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig: There at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross. But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake! For Nannie far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, AndContinue reading “25 January is Burns Night”