Subject: Re: AT Salient at Mueselbach<br/>
Date: Dec 18, 2002 @ 10:18<br/>
Author: anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@hotmail (&quot;anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;&quot; &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1374811012">Hi,<br/>
<br/>
this has hictoric reasons, of course. As we all know, the hammer is a <br/>
symbol for workers, the sickle for the farmers. So in 1918, when <br/>
Austria became a republic, they also changed the coat of arms:<br/>
<br/>
From the Imperial eagle with two heads, holding the symbols of the <br/>
Emperor, Sword and sceptre (is that the right word?), and a bombastic <br/>
crown, to the &quot;republican&quot; eagle, holding the symbols of the new <br/>
sovereign, the people of Austria, the farmers and workers, and having <br/>
a crown symbolising a city wall, which stands for the urban <br/>
bourgoisie. On a side note: The Republic was proclaimed mainly by the <br/>
socialists, and both the first president and the first chancellor <br/>
were socialists (so we know where they got the idea from)...<br/>
<br/>
Anton<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Karolis B. &lt;kbajoraz@y...&gt;&quot; <br/>
&lt;kbajoraz@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; WELL, that was so excellently prepared that only a non-border <br/>
&gt; question remains :) How come the Austrian eagle holds a hammer and <br/>
 </span></blockquote>a <br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; sickle??? </span></blockquote></div>