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  2. List of U.S. state tartans - Wikipedia

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    Illinois state tartan Iowa: 2004 [12] Iowa tartan [13] Louisiana: 2001 [14] Louisiana tartan [15] Massachusetts: 2003 [16] Bay State tartan [16] DB8 LB4 DB48 R3 DB10 R8 G4 DB8 AW4 DB22 G6 DB6 G12 [17] DB8 LB4 DB48 R4 DB10 R8 G4 DB8 VLT4 DB22 G6 DB6 G12 [18] Michigan: 2010 State of Michigan tartan [19] Missouri: 2019 [20] [21] Missouri state tartan

  3. Sillitoe tartan - Wikipedia

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    Later, the pattern was also used by some Scottish volunteer regiments of the 1860s and the Lovat Scouts during the early 1900s. [2] The pattern was first adopted for police use in 1932 by Sir Percy Sillitoe, Chief Constable of the City of Glasgow Police, who required them to be used on cap bands. [3]

  4. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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    Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse (C Squadron of the Queen's Own Yeomanry); inherited from the original Scottish Horse. [ 8 ] It is unclear from available official documentation what tartans (ones apparently no longer in British military use at all) correspond to the serial numbers now missing from the specifications: 5, 10, 12, 13, 14 ...

  5. List of place names of Scottish origin in the United States

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    Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank". Burgh, alternatively spelled Burg, means "city" or "town".

  6. Tartan - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] [13] [a] Plaid, derived from the Scottish Gaelic plaide meaning 'blanket', [16] [b] was first used of any rectangular garment, sometimes made up of tartan, [c] which could be worn several ways: the belted plaid (breacan féile) or "great kilt" which preceded the modern kilt; the arisaid (earasaid), a large shawl that could be wrapped ...

  7. Border tartan - Wikipedia

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    The modern Border tartan is a crossweave of small dark and light checks, much plainer than the more elaborate Scottish tartans. [2] Traditionally, the yarn for the light squares was simply untreated sheep's wool and the darker yarn was the same wool dyed with simple vegetable dyes, such as alder bark or water flag , or the untreated wool of a ...

  8. Why are Ohioans called buckeyes? The term was once an insult

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    Ohio is known as the Buckeye State because buckeye trees were prevalent in the area when the territory was settled in the late 18th century. The buckeye gets its name from its distinctive nutlike ...

  9. List of municipalities in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Map of the United States with Ohio highlighted Ohio Municipalities. Ohio is a state located in the Midwestern United States. Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of ...