My second Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its third and fourth lines:
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.
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Sir Walter Scott based his 1831 Castle Dangerous on Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire. Once the fortified home of the powerful Earls of Douglas and then a seventeenth and eighteenth-century mansion. Coal mining in the 1930s damaged the foundations and it was demolished before the end of that decade, this forlorn tower its only surviving monument.
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In 1611, Johannes Kepler first proposed that the most efficient way to stack cannon balls was in a pyramid. This method was used to stop them from rolling around a ship's deck. To prevent the bottom layer from moving under the other balls, a metal plate was made from brass (to prevent rusting) with round indentations, called (for reasons unknown) a 'monkey'.
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