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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

This explains a lot 

In addition to saving civilization, the Irish apparently invented musical instruments, at least if you don't count the sounds made from beating things together as music:

Archaeologists are dancing with delight after discovering a set of musical pipes believed to have been used 4,000 years ago by pre-historic man in Ireland -- likely making them the world's oldest wooden instruments according to experts.

And the Irish were making them with bone even before they were homo sapiens:
A number of pre-historic musical instruments made from bone, including simple flutes and whistles dating back more than 100,000 years, have already been uncovered in Ireland.

So stop making fun of Riverdance. It's traditional.

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