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  2. Roddy MacLellan - Wikipedia

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    Roddy MacLellan is a Scottish American bagpipe maker, currently based out of his store MacLellan Bagpipes in Zebulon, North Carolina.His business is the only in North America to make, sell, and teach how to play bagpipes, and one of the few stores offering custom bagpipe making in the world.

  3. Bill Millin - Wikipedia

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    William Millin (14 July 1922 – 18 August 2010 [1]), commonly known as Piper Bill, was a Canadian-born Scottish bagpiper, and was personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of the British 1 Special Service Brigade at D-Day.

  4. Jack Churchill - Wikipedia

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    John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.

  5. Full plaid - Wikipedia

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    These subsequently became the Black Watch, and the plaid continued as a conspicuous feature of the uniforms worn by Scottish infantry regiments. [1] As a military garment, the plaid served the practical dual purposes of a blanket and overcoat during the 18th century. It also provided protection from rain for the soldier's musket and powder.

  6. Feather bonnet - Wikipedia

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    The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highland infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I. It is now mostly worn by pipers and drummers in various bands throughout the world. It is also worn in a similar fashion by regiments in various Commonwealth armies.

  7. College of Piping - Wikipedia

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    The College pioneered outreach teaching of the bagpipe when, in the early 1950s, Seumas MacNeill established schools of piping in North America. This undoubtedly led to an upsurge of interest in Scottish bagpiping on that continent and in no small way contributed to the high standard of piping in Canada and the United States currently enjoyed ...

  8. Dress Act 1746 - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipes at the Strawberry Festival. Abolition and Proscription of the Highland Dress (19 Geo. 2.c. 39, s. 17, 1746): [2] That from and after the first day of August, One thousand, seven hundred and forty-seven, no man or boy within that part of Britain called Scotland, other than such as shall be employed as Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty's Forces, shall, on any pretext whatever, wear ...

  9. Lazarus (department store) - Wikipedia

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    Family patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War, the family business expanded to include ready-made men's civilian clothing, and eventually, a complete line of merchandise. [2]