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Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine

by "tigermorph64@[EMAIL PROTECTED] " <tigermorph64@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 7, 2008 at 07:43 AM

On Feb 6, 4:08=A0pm, Shomeret <JDChronic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In the most recent issue of Scotland magazine, there's an article
> called "50 Things You Never Knew About Scotland".
> Among the fifty was that bagpipes were originally Roman, that Mary
> Queen of Scots liked to play billiards, that Robert Burns published
> his first book in order to raise money for a trip to Jamaica in order
> to become a plantation manager there. =A0His first book was so
> successful that he decided to stay in Scotland. =A0An English Quaker
> named Thomas Rawlinson introduced the kilt to Scotland because he
> found it more practical =A0than traditional Highland dress for his
> Highland employees at his iron smelting works to wear. =A0Five thousand
> years ago there were huts at Skara Brae in the Orkneys that had indoor
> bathrooms connected to a plumbing system. (Methos got tired of using
> an outhouse.)
>
> There were also one page profiles of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sean
> Connery in which I learned that the Connery family came from Ireland.
> Most Scots-Irish that I've heard about are Scots that settled in
> Ireland.
>
> There was also an article about emigration from Scotland that
> uncritically accepted extremely prejudiced statements about
> Highlanders made by Alexander Irvine in 1802.
>
> Shomeret

That kilt thing simply cannot be correct.
Kilts were around way before George Fox created The Religious Society
of Friends.

Tracy <---- Quaker
 




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Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
Shomeret <JDChronicler  2008-02-06 15:08:32 
Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
"tigermorph64@[EMAIL  2008-02-07 07:43:18 
Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL  2008-02-07 16:39:24 
Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
"It's just me...&quo  2008-02-07 15:09:51 
Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL  2008-02-07 20:27:06 
Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine
Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL  2008-02-07 18:59:35 

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