Tartan
Day
Submitted
by: HOST
GFS
Chuck@aol.com
April
6th is National Tartan Day. For
those of you who do not know
about this date it was a day set
aside (originally by provinces in
Canada) as a day to celebrate
being of Scottish heritage. The
day was chosen because it was the
day in 1320 that the Declaration
of Arbroath was signed. In this
declaration of independence from
England, Robert the Bruce was
declared king of
Scotland.
The
US adopted the day as a national
day on March 20, 1998. To see
what is going on across the
country on that date type in
Tartan Day in your Internet web
browser. Right now it is still
filled with 2002 events, but
should change soon to the 2003
events.
Here
are some URLs with more
information:
http://www.tartanday.com
http://www.tartanday.com/about.htm
http://www.tartanday.org/home.htm
http://www.tartanday.gov.uk
http://www.burkes-scotland.com/sites/scotland/sitepages/tdhome.asp
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