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Have you ever wondered what your state’s tartan might look like, or if your state has a tartan at all? With the amount of Scottish settlers that came to North
The Halloween celebrations we see today are vastly different from the original Samhain/Samhuinn traditions and practices of the past. This is for many reasons including the Christian restructuring of the
1) The Calanais Standing Stones Located in the Outer Hebrides, the Calanais Standing Stones (sometimes referred to as the “Stonehenge of the North”) on the Isle of Lewis are some
With Tartan Day quickly approaching in April, I thought I would add the second installment of the Tartan series I started in October which began with the Tartans of the
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