After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.

The fortress in Bitche, France.  Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.

The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.

Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.

The Alps are also “set in stone” – in this case, the famous Eiger and Jungfrau in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland.

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The Rhine burst its banks in Düsseldorf, way back in 2016.

For more photos illustrating the five words, click here.