don_tomlinsoni
don_tomlinsoni t1_jdwchlc wrote
Reply to comment by atlantis_airlines in Oldest tartan found to date back to 16th Century - A scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog 40 years ago is likely to be the oldest tartan ever discovered in Scotland, new tests have established. by ArtOak
They are, they just don't come from Scotland.
From Wikipedia:
Today tartan is mostly associated with Scotland; however, the earliest evidence of tartan is found far afield from Britain. According to the textile historian E. J. W. Barber, the Hallstatt culture of Central Europe, which is linked with ancient Celtic populations and flourished between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, produced tartan-like textiles. Some of them were discovered in 2004, remarkably preserved, in the Hallstatt salt mines near Salzburg, Austria.[6] Textile analysis of fabric from the Tarim mummies in Xinjiang, northwestern China has also shown it to be similar to that of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture.[15] Tartan-like leggings were found on the "Cherchen Man", a 3,000 year-old mummy found in the Taklamakan Desert.[16] Similar finds have been made in central Europe and Scandinavia.[7]
don_tomlinsoni t1_jdwbs03 wrote
Reply to comment by hungry4danish in Oldest tartan found to date back to 16th Century - A scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog 40 years ago is likely to be the oldest tartan ever discovered in Scotland, new tests have established. by ArtOak
It's the oldest found in Scotland.
From Wikipedia:
Today tartan is mostly associated with Scotland; however, the earliest evidence of tartan is found far afield from Britain. According to the textile historian E. J. W. Barber, the Hallstatt culture of Central Europe, which is linked with ancient Celtic populations and flourished between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, produced tartan-like textiles. Some of them were discovered in 2004, remarkably preserved, in the Hallstatt salt mines near Salzburg, Austria.[6] Textile analysis of fabric from the Tarim mummies in Xinjiang, northwestern China has also shown it to be similar to that of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture.[15] Tartan-like leggings were found on the "Cherchen Man", a 3,000 year-old mummy found in the Taklamakan Desert.[16] Similar finds have been made in central Europe and Scandinavia.[7]
don_tomlinsoni t1_j8ymvu7 wrote
Reply to comment by mediocrecowpowers in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r
Fair enough. I stand corrected
don_tomlinsoni t1_j8x5bbo wrote
Reply to comment by DoggyRocker in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r
Fair enough, though I think you might have trouble achieving high quality music reproduction without electricity :)
Edit: so it seems that AC was also Westinghouse, ignore me :)
don_tomlinsoni t1_j8waev1 wrote
Reply to comment by DoggyRocker in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r
You think that vacuum tubes are more valuable than alternating current - i.e. the thing that provides electricity to every home and business in the world?
don_tomlinsoni t1_j0u0gja wrote
Reply to comment by jabby_jakeman in Greek Hinduism - any surviving legacy? by Isabella1293
I wouldn't go to r/Buddhism and tell them that it isn't a religion - you'll get a lot more than a few downvotes :)
don_tomlinsoni t1_je47xgo wrote
Reply to comment by BasicLuxury in Oldest tartan found to date back to 16th Century - A scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog 40 years ago is likely to be the oldest tartan ever discovered in Scotland, new tests have established. by ArtOak
Whisky is an anglicised version of the Gaelic uisge beathe which - just like the Latin aqua vitae - means "water of life".