Dull
Dull may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Dull, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom, a village * Dull, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community * Dull, Texas, United States, a ghost town People * Jack Dull (1930–1995), American professor, scholar of the history of Han China * Orville O. Dull (1888–1978), American film producer and director * Ryan Dull (born 1989), American Major League Baseball pitcher Other uses * Dull Gret, a figure of Flemish folklore See also * Hugh the Dull, Lord of Douglas (1294 – between 1342 and 1346), Scottish nobleman and cleric * Dullness Dullness may refer to: In vision *A lack of perceived brightness *A lack of perceived colorfulness In medicine *A dull sound in response to percussion (medicine) **Shifting dullness, a medical sign In philosophy and religion *Tamas (philosophy) ...

Dull, Perth And Kinross
Dull ( gd, Dul, IPA: ̪uɫ̪ is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is paired with Boring, Oregon. Bland, New South Wales, Australia, is also a member of the League of Extraordinary Communities established by Boring and Dull in 2013. Orientation In the Scottish Highlands, Dull consists of a single street of houses on the north side of the valley of the River Tay. Etymology and translations The name ''Dull'' may be Pictish in origin and derived from the word ''*dol'' meaning "water-meadow, haugh" (Welsh ''dôl'') This would be cognate with the Gaelic ''dail'' meaning a meadow, but the modern Gaelic name of the town, from which the English is taken is "Dul" or "An Dul". History The parish church is on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St Adomnán (Scottish Gaelic: N. Eònan), Abbot of Iona (died 704). Several early Christian cross-slabs dating to the 7th or 8th century have been discovered in and around the parish graveyard. A slab carved with s ...
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