Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: WG: Old tp photo
Date: Nov 21, 2005 @ 14:58
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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welcome back my dear silent sufferer
or rather rare complainer as you sometimes like to
call yourself
but youll have to make a lot more noise than this to
get ripped apart by donner

--- Anton Zeilinger <anton_zeilinger@...>
wrote:

> "Achtung Lebensgefahr
> Wirkungsbereich
> sowjetzonaler Minen"
>
> Rough translation:
> "Attention! Mortal danger!
> operating area of
> mines of the soviet zone" (i.e. the GDR)
>
> Anton
>
> PS: I am one of the silent readers you mused about
> earlier. I do not
> like having to justify every single posting as to
> its "multipointing" relevance, although I am taking
> the risk now
> (waiting to be ripped apart by the self appointed
> enforcer of rules
> of the Donner Party, formerly known as
> BoundaryPoint).
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Wolfgang
> Schaub"
> <Wolfgang.Schaub@c...> wrote:
> >
> > Can anybody READ what is written on the left
> board: "Achtung
> Lebensgefahr
> > Wirkungsbereich ... Minen"? What kind of mines?
> >
> > Without consulting the link I would interpret the
> GO as Gotha,
> which makes
> > partly sense, since Coburg-Gotha's northern border
> was Bavaria's
> northern
> > border in the Cold War. Though I would have
> expected the stone
> saying CO
> > instead of GO. The stone to the left may say AL
> which could stand
> for
> > Altenburg, but this does not make sense at all.
> >
> > The website confirms: "The outer limit of the
> 'Iron
> Curtain' is symbolised
> > by three former boundary posts which mark the
> point at which the
> territory
> > of the former duchies of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and
> Saxe-Meiningen met
> that of
> > the former kingdom of Bavaria."
> >
> > Jesper help!
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> > > > Fra: Jesper Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@i...]
> > > > Sendt: 13. november 2005 00:20
> > > > Til: 'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'
> > > > Emne: Old tp photo
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.ena.lu/europe/success%20crisis/iron%20curtain%20border%
> 20point%20
> > three%20territories%201965.htm
> >
>
>
>
>
>




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