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   Message 185 of 206   
   David Dalton to All   
   Re: Witches of Scotland tartan   
   13 Mar 25 00:43:07   
   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 12, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D815818001D48E57000083FD38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Tonight on The World there was the following radio segment:   
   >   
   > New tartan design to honor women persecuted by Scotland’s Witchcraft Act   
   >   
   > "A new Scottish tartan has been designed to honor the thousands of   
   > individuals — mostly women — who were executed between 1563 and 1736   
   > under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. The Witches of Scotland tartan is part of   
   > a campaign to recognize what advocates call one of the greatest miscarriages   
   > of justice in the nation’s history. Host Marco Werman speaks with Claire   
   > Mitchell, a lawyer and co-founder of the Witches of Scotland campaign.”   
   >   
   > You can listen to it here:   
   >   
   > https://tinyurl.com/33a42vju   
      
   Some more detail, including a picture of the tartan, is at   
      
   https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=14651   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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