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- ... that the Lewisian gneiss (pictured) forms the basement to Torridonian and Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks in the Hebridean Terrane?
- ... that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite during the Battle of Jutland in 1916 which forced it to withdraw from the battle?
- ... that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so?
- ... that according to local tradition, the rental paid to the king for the Scottish castle and island of Fraoch Eilean was one snowball?