Re: Latest Issue of Scotland Magazine

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