Silent Sunday
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Tag: Germany
I Keep Silent on Honour
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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Asinine Wine Growers
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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Come and Get Clean
These three doors are the entrance of the Herschelbad in Mannheim, a public pool built in the early part of the 20th century.
Change Your Point of View, Change Your Outlook
It was foggy down in the valley. It was sunny up on the hills. Your outlook depended on where you were.
I choose the sunny side.
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Whoop, Whoop! Opa!
When I was three years old I contracted whooping cough. At the time, the treatment consisted of symptomatic relief, and caregivers were advised to let patients into fresh air, preferably sea or mountain climate.
We neither had close to us but for six weeks my grandpa put me on his shoulders and walked up these hills until we reached the castle on the left, quite a lot of steep paths through the thick forest in wonderful, healthy air.
He was indefatigable.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Indefatigable
The Original Fool
Or so it says on the plaque:
I wonder – is it foolish to claim that he is the original one since apparently it is only been only 127 years (11*11+6)?
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He Lost His Head
Silent Sunday
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