Student fraternities start out with great expectations and aspirations: The original idea was for students to form an alliance to fight for political goals, or more specific to aim for a unified Germany through the alliance of the many individual German states (similar the U.S.A. almost a hundred years earlier – who adopted this Latin aphorism for their state motto).
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What better tea-for-one set for me: it features a sheep, it says “woolly” and there are two and a three-dimensional. The sheep and woolly ties in with my last name 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏 😃
The small winegrower village of Mußbach in the Palatinate has a Weinlage (smaller than a wine appellation but consisting of a number of vineyards) called “Eselshaut” (skin of an ass). The name is supposed to relate to the grass growing around the vines and which was harvested to feed the donkeys.
Images of donkeys abound all over the town in crests and emblems and sculptures. I found this red one particularly asinine … fetching.
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that I see the fluke of a whale in this piece of a man with open arms?
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These three doors are the entrance of the Herschelbad in Mannheim, a public pool built in the early part of the 20th century.
Just make sure it doesn’t swallow you up!
This “machine”, if you want to call it that, stands on a local playground. You operate the water propeller at the bottom with a crank and the water begins to swirl – creating a vortex.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Vortex
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