so like, we know the circumstance, but what is the diameter?
Cheap pick pouches
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lol, divide the circumstance by 3.14.
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3.14. what?
oh never mind…
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100 Percent. Which is why i don’t shop at Amazon(Jeff Bezos) anymore, and why i hate using anything microsoft(Bill Gates). Seems all the big boys are the ones actually controling everything and pushing this whole global agenda. I would give anything to bed able to go back to what my great great grandpa had and homestead the planes of America.
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One of my favorite albums even have it on LP.
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Double the radius!
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Hi Emilie, Andrew was a wealthy Scotsman born in Dunfermline Fife and migrated to America with his parents when he was about 12. An industrialist he grew a fortune and gave most of his wealth to charity and the church.
We have a saying here in Scotland that has a kind of sarcastic twist. If someone you knew came to you and asked to borrow money a common reply would be Who do you think I am - Andrew Carnegie.
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Hey Archie I remember learning about Carnegie and the steel industry in school it had slipped my mind he was a Scottish immigrant though thanks for the refresher course I enjoy them 
Its funny we’re talking about him I was at my friend’s a week or so ago and someone brought up philanthropy. I mentioned Andrew Carnegie and someone else said Tony Stark (aka fictional Iron Man I had to think a minute) 
The Father of Bluegrass great Bill Monroe was of Scottish decent as well I believe.
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Hi Emilie, It’s often overlooked that America was built on the blood, sweat & tears of the Scots and the Irish. In fact much of England and English wealth was built and earned that way. ( Soldiers of that era often referred to this as Cannon Fodder) Back in the 1800’s during the Industrial Revolution and the bygone days of the British Empire they created a colossal amount of wealth through raw materials such as coal, steel, oil, gas, tar, timber not to forget agriculture faming, fishing, railways and shipbuilding. For such a small country Scotland has produced it’s fair share of expertise including medicine and the medical profession.
It would seem that everything we take for granted today is linked back to some Scotsman in history. The southern states close to the Appalachian Mountains had a particularly high density of Scots and Irish immigrants. Coal the Black Diamonds of the earth that took so many lives as they extracted it from the ground at record speed with all disregard for health and safety.
The population of Texas it seems also had a high percentage of Scots migrants with Oil and Gas in abundance.
In 1852 James Young a Scottish Chemist took out a US patent for the production of paraffin oil by distillation of coal. Both the US and UK patents were subsequently upheld in both countries in a series of lawsuits and other producers were obliged to pay him royalties.
In 1865 Young bought out his business partners and built second and larger works at Addiewell, near West Calder. It was a substantial industrial complex, in its time one of the largest chemical works in Scotland. In 1866 Young sold the concern to Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company.
So you see the more you dig into history the more you will probably find you have a little Scottish or Irish blood running through your veins. I have both so I am extra proud of my heritage.
Bill Monroe was equally proud of his heritage and came to Scotland to visit the place where his ancestors lived before moving to America.
One thing I forgot to mention was the founding church in America. I don’t know much about the history of the church in the US but what I do know is that the Scots who settled in America had strong Christian morals. The Fire and Brimstone morals and the Grim Reaper stuff.
Here endeth another potted history lesson
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Thanks Archie I know that took a while to type. 
I often find myself digging in my family history just always interested me. If you hadn’t guessed I’m kinda a history nut always have been 
Church history would depend on the colony or location. Sorry @Simone we kinda hijacked your thread
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911: “what is your emergency?”
Me: "my thread has been hijacked "
911: “your what?”
Me: “my thread!”
911: “can you provide a description the hijackers?”
Me: “yes, it’s a bunch of musicians from all across the country and Scotland and Canada even…”
911: “musicians?”
CLICK, DIALTONE
Me: “hello?!” 
Lol, no worries @Lone_Wolf & everyone, absolutely no ill feelings here! I’ve enjoyed reading where my cheap (and ugly) pick pouch topic has led! That’s what makes this place interesting!
To be honest I really like the leather pouches @Chuck_R showed, those were nice looking!! Thanks all for your comments,
pouch related or not 
!
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We were taught British Empire history at school but by then the Empire was long gone and the Commonwealth was established, It was many years after leaving school I learned there was more to world history than the British Empire and the Commonwealth. They barely scratched the surface on Scottish & Irish history in the school curriculum. I caught the Family History bug when I was in the army and continued on for many years after leaving. I was lucky though since I had easy access to original paper records when I did my research. Nowadays it’s all online and it doesn’t hold that same magic of turning the pages of old documents and manuscripts discovering hand written documents in pen and ink describing details of my forebears
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Thanks for the daily laugh!
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We alternated one year was American next was World History (which included a lot of UK history) then American again and so forth.
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Sailing along here oblivious to what’s going on all around me. I hadn’t realized we had hijacked your thread @Simone. Forgiveness sought 
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Let me guess Kings & Queens of England was the main topic. Apart from the Civil War American History was irrelevant. So I never knew anything about Andrew Carnegie until I was trying to raise funds for a youth group I coached and discovered Andrew Carnagie had set up a Trust Fund in conjunction with the Royal Mail to help youngster finance projects in education
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What what happened during their reign and how it impacted the rest of the world. More than that though but I’m just throwing a blanket over it. The British influence on the world was extensive and worth knowing.
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