Maze: Back in Berlin

BERLIN TOUR

Brandenburg Gate (Front)

Inside the Gate

Reichstag or Bundestag (German Parliament)

Cultural Center (Jimmy Carter's Teeth)

Berlin Wall

The Wall fell on November 9, 1989

Who is the young American soldier in the picture?  Unknown - to be checked.

American Sector-West Berlin border

Right side: Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

German Unification 1990

Chinese restaurant in Berlin

Downtown Berlin

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Protestant)

Underground train station

Draft 2009


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4/8/13  lib's labyrinth blogspot
10/2007  ALT  MSN Group

Maze: Berlin Wall

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." * U.S. President Ronald Reagan

Internet Publication:

6/3/10  lib's labyrinth blogspot

10/2007  ALT  MSN Group

Maze: Berlin

BERLIN IS THE LARGEST CITY IN GERMANY AND THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN EUROPE.  Geographers call it an artificial city.  Most great cities grow because they are located on important trade routes or have great harbors.  But Berlin grew because the persons in power decided to make it grow.

About 1500, Berlin became the official residence of the margraves of Brandenburg.  It was almost wiped out during the Thirty Years' War.  The Great Elector, Frederick William, restored it to prosperity by rebuilding public buildings, constructing canals to connect the Spree and the Oder rivers.  Kings of Prussia followed the Great Elector and the growth and beautification continued. Frederick the Great miscalculations in war resulted in the first Russian occupation but the Russians soon withdrew.  Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.  Kurfurstendamm, the main street of Berlin begins at the church doorway.

"Constipated" Sculpture

Berlin Wall

Reichstag

The monumental Brandenburg Gate used to stand at the dividing line between East and West Berlin.  East Germany's government restored the war-scarred arch in 1957.  After World War II, the Pankow section of East Berlin became the capital of East Germany, and Bonn the capital of West Germany.  German unification was in 1992.

Checkpoint Charlie

Our most unusual looking hotel

Underground Train

Sans Souci [No Worries]

Tomb of Frederick the Great - Sans Souci

Weimar

Goethe and Schubert

Internet Publication:

6/3/10  lib's labyrinth blogspot
10/2007  ALT  MSN Group

Maze: Frankfurt & Main

Frankfurt & Main

Destination Central Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbm4kEaF3M 1:53

Monetary Center of Germany.

 

 

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6/3/10  lib's labyrinth blogspot

10/2007  ALT  MSN Group

Destination Central Europe Frankfurt

FRANKFURT, GERMANY
Hail Deutschland, Land of the Teutones! The land is a long story of wars and rulers - Hohenstaufen Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick II; Rudolph, the first ruler from the Hapsburg family down the line of Charles V, Ferdinand I & II; Frederick William, the Great Elector of the Hohenzollern family to Frederick I, King of Prussia (1701) and Frederick II, the Great.  Germany was blamed for starting World War I and World War II.  Julius Caesar around 9 A.D. wrote about the Teutones in his book "Gallic Wars" and the Roman historian Tacitus in his book "Germania."  In 800 A.D. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) conquered Saxon and was crowned Roman Emperor.  The Germans are famous for being thorough, thrifty and hardworking.



Fraport

Frankfurt, sister city of Chicago

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12/9/07  ALT  MSN Group

MS 150 Bike to the Beach Fundraising

Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:01 PM

Subject: MS 150 Bike to the Beach Fundraising

Hi Everybody, it's that MS 150 Bike to the Beach (October 20-21, 2007) time

of the year again. I had so much fun and raised a good bit of contributions to
the cause, Thank you to all for all the kindness and generosity. I am asking for
your help again this year, I had so much fun (all 150 miles of it!) that I am
willing doing it again this year and help fight the cause to find the cure for
Muliple Sclerosis. Below is my e donate link (it is safe and secure and also tax
deductible).  Thank you !

Ceasar

 http://www.ms150.org/edon.cfm?id=203832

The History of the Middle Finger

Hi BUST! We had a different take on giving the middle finger before -

http://groups.msn.com/BUST/thefinger.msnw  [LINK BROKEN]
.  Well....here a salute to the Frenchies.

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From: Sent:
Friday, August 31, 2007 8:42 AM

Subject: Fwd: The History of the Middle Finger

Just thought you all
needed to know this!!!  READ
ON.....

  The history of the
middle finger

The History
of the Middle Finger

Well,
now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I
feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope
that they, too, will feel edified.  Isn't history more fun when you
know something about it?  

Before the
Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the
English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English
soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the
renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting
in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English
Yew tree, and the act of d rawing the longbow was known as "plucking the
yew" (or "pluck yew").

Much to the
bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began
mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French,
saying, See, we can still pluck yew!  Since 'pluck yew' is rather
difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has
gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often
used in conjunct ion with the one-finger-salute!  It is also because
of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the
symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

IT IS STILL
AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

And yew
thought yew knew every plucking thing

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