Franklin, North Carolina
Scottish Tartans Museum
"A museum tracing the origins & modern day uses of the classic Scottish tartan, particularly the kilt."
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"Old and Rare Scottish Tartans: With Historical Introduction and Descriptive Notices" at PG:
!["The tartan officially named "Red Grant (Government No. 15)" by the UK Ministry of Defense, and used in some regimental attire (including cap cockade and bandsmen uniforms) of the 32nd Signal Regiment – formerly 51st/52nd (Scottish) Infantry Division Signal Regiment, earlier Lowland Divisional Telegraph Company, amalgamated from the 1st & 2nd Lanarkshire Voluntary Military Engineers. It is a variant of the main Clan Grant tartan, with slightly altered proportions, and with both green and blue darkened, while the red is slightly lighter and more orangey than typical. This regimental tartan is no longer "funded" as part of the MoD uniform specs [1]). The unit began as a Lowland regiment, and after amalgamation (with 51st (Highland) Signal Regiment, et al.) became a pan-Scottish one. There is no evidence of clan usage of this variant of the tartan." - picyrl.com](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/37811404 "\"The tartan officially named \"Red Grant (Government No. 15)\" by the UK Ministry of Defense, and used in some regimental attire (including cap cockade and bandsmen uniforms) of the 32nd Signal Regiment – formerly 51st/52nd (Scottish) Infantry Division Signal Regiment, earlier Lowland Divisional Telegraph Company, amalgamated from the 1st & 2nd Lanarkshire Voluntary Military Engineers. It is a variant of the main Clan Grant tartan, with slightly altered proportions, and with both green and blue darkened, while the red is slightly lighter and more orangey than typical. This regimental tartan is no longer \"funded\" as part of the MoD uniform specs [1]). The unit began as a Lowland regiment, and after amalgamation (with 51st (Highland) Signal Regiment, et al.) became a pan-Scottish one. There is no evidence of clan usage of this variant of the tartan.\" - picyrl.com")
Old and rare Scottish tartans : with historical introduction and descriptive…
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ALoner: The Last Man on Earth "Jonathan McKenzie is the last human being on earth and he likes it that way." Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Ed Morawski Rating: 4.2/5 (17 Reviews) #PostApocalyptic #Survival #ScienceFiction #Adventure #SoloSurvivor #Mystery #BookSky
Aquarium Pothos - All For Gardening
Keep on wanting to make a nice hanging pot, but they seem so happy. Not to mention, absolutely zero maintenance.Gardener (All For Gardening)
Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (and throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.
Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys, acquires immortality through 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #artAdventCalendar #folklore #Chinese
Another blue wave? Meet the Democrat trying to make it happen and the Republican trying to stop her
https://apnews.com/article/2026-midterms-donald-trump-house-control-680d23ff6a5a46c57377d3588b34f4b0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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All the money in the world isn’t enough: billionaires want “the cheap high of influencer culture” too. #inequality #billionaires nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion…
Twee zwaargewonde kinderen aangetroffen in woning van spookrijder ongeluk op A58
In een woning in het Noord-Brabantse Moergestel zijn zaterdagavond twee zwaargewonde kinderen aangetroffen. De vader van de kinderen was volgens de politie eerder op de avond als spookrijder betrokken bij een ongeluk op de A58.Redactie redacteur (DPG Media)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: a ‘true German artist’ who found peace in Switzerland
The four-meter-long painting Sonntag der Bergbauern had to be removed by a crane from the German Chancellery in Berlin for the exhibition in Bern.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
> The “Vibe Coding”: I’ll be honest: much of this app was vibe coded.
i am horrified, but you did fill out the AI disclosure so there is that
Brown University shooting: Person of interest in custody
https://www.silive.com/nation/2025/12/brown-university-shooting-person-of-interest-in-custody.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Brown University shooting: Person of interest in custody
The shooting erupted Saturday afternoon in the engineering building of the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, during final exams.The Associated Press (silive)
Slight variegation - All For Gardening
Lets hope it keeps this light green variegation, i like this more than the extremely white green variegated frydek i have.Gardener (All For Gardening)
I thought so too, but there is almost no federated stuff... maybe there is a problem like i have with another server. It seems federated but nothing comes through. Strange...
Basically my feed is almost without any japanese postings despite I follow many topics from Japan.
#東京 e.g.
It shows me
#東京
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That's disheartening.
Biggets instance maybe, but used by Japanese or from all over the world accounts?
Texts in Sebald’s *The Rings of Saturn*
Collection of the major texts of which, and through which, the German writer W.G. Sebald speaks in his masterpiece The Rings of Saturn (1995) - including Thomas Browne, A.C. Swinburne, Gustave Flaubert, Diderot and Chateaubriand.The Public Domain Review
RE: aus.social/@KathyReid/11571761…
I had to look up what this was about. There was a terrible hate crime, a shooting in Australia on the first day of Hanukkah.
These hate movements have been normalized too much.
reuters.com/world/australia-in…
Bondi - what you can do to help---
Blood donation:
lifeblood.com.au/donor-centre/…
There are donation slots available from tomorrow morning
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Reach out to your friends who are in Sydney or who are Jewish.
They may have lost loved ones, or have loved ones seriously injured in hospital.
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Reach out to your friends who are first responders
This event is the one they train for that they hope they never have to attend.
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Take care of yourselves
Media coverage can be overwhelming.
Sydney Town Hall Donor Centre
Town Hall Square - between Town Hall and St Andrews Cathedral.There is limited free parking available for the length of your donation at St Andrews House car park, 464 Kent Street. Just ask reception for a validation ticket when you arrive.Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
I feel like the word "terrorism" has become meaningless sometimes. And it seems to be a "thought stopping word" --
But I also agree with you. The purpose of hate crimes is terror. To tell people they don't belong and eliminate them as equal participants in society.
Which is exactly what all of these Nazis have been saying over and over without push-back from enough people ... while some are just silent and others invite them over for dinner.
Bondi - what you can do to help
---
Blood donation:
lifeblood.com.au/donor-centre/…
There are donation slots available from tomorrow morning
---
Reach out to your friends who are in Sydney or who are Jewish.
They may have lost loved ones, or have loved ones seriously injured in hospital.
---
Reach out to your friends who are first responders
This event is the one they train for that they hope they never have to attend.
--
Take care of yourselves
Media coverage can be overwhelming.
Sydney Town Hall Donor Centre
Town Hall Square - between Town Hall and St Andrews Cathedral.There is limited free parking available for the length of your donation at St Andrews House car park, 464 Kent Street. Just ask reception for a validation ticket when you arrive.Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
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Piece on the recent findings at Çatalhöyük, showing matrilocality and greater tendency of grave goods in female infant burials:
'female babies and children were five times as likely to be favored with grave goods as their male counterparts'
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Ireland: HSE says National Gender Service does not have authority to close waiting list to new patients
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
HSE says National Gender Service does not have authority to close waiting list to new patients
The National Gender Service had said it was closing its waiting list to new patients in March.TheJournal.ie
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