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Germans bury Prussia taboo to fete Frederick (300th birthday of Frederick the Great)
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| 01/27/12
Posted on 02/05/2012 2:36:57 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Georg Friedrich von Preußen, the direct descendant of Frederick the Great, and Princess Sophie von Isenburg
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posted on
02/05/2012 2:40:21 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Good! Frederick was the closest to humane of virtually all of the ‘divine right’ despots. He has been made into a political caricature by both idolaters and detractors. The real man is complex and interesting.
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posted on
02/05/2012 2:41:21 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips; but watch their hands!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
He is the Prince of Prussia.
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posted on
02/05/2012 2:42:16 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Germany was a great nation, but since the end of World War One they've been going from one awful extreme to another. I hope the German people drop this sissy liberal euro-fag phase and get back to their roots.
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02/05/2012 2:43:45 PM PST
by
NakedRampage
(Puttin' the "stud" in Bible study)
To: TigerLikesRooster
?
Frederick did not have children.
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posted on
02/05/2012 2:46:31 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips; but watch their hands!)
To: NakedRampage
Right. From Spartacist League to Nazis to Baader-Meinhof and Ecofreaks. Hopefully back to historical norm.
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02/05/2012 2:49:33 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Psalm 144
You may be right. His nephew inherited the throne.
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posted on
02/05/2012 2:54:44 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
My ancestors were from Prussia.
Where are my reparations?
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posted on
02/05/2012 3:12:16 PM PST
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MrBambaLaMamba
(This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
To: MrBambaLaMamba
Mine too! My Grandfather said that we were Prussian royalty.
I need some cash.
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posted on
02/05/2012 4:41:12 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice)
To: TigerLikesRooster
My ancestors were run out of every nation in Europe after they got caught showing a princess their horn.
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posted on
02/05/2012 4:44:28 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: All
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posted on
02/05/2012 5:07:08 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: NakedRampage; TigerLikesRooster; Psalm 144
Frederick did not have children. I hope the German people drop this sissy liberal euro-fag phase and get back to their roots.
According to Casanova, who was offered a job by Frederick the Great, Frederick had a regiment of soldiers who all wore a pocket watch. This distinction was reportedly conferred on the soldiers after they had had sexual relations with Frederick.
To: TigerLikesRooster
He and Catherine the Great colluded to pretty much delete Poland from existence.
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posted on
02/05/2012 5:47:09 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
It was ironic that Prussia was basically a vassal state of Polish kingdom at one point.
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02/05/2012 5:50:37 PM PST
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
...and not that Catherine II of Russia was an awful person. She didn’t want to be referred to as “The Great”, it was her subjects that conferred that title upon her. She was one of the earlier proponents of the enlightenment. She was a pen pal with Voltaire and others of his ilk.
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02/05/2012 5:56:13 PM PST
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gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
I asked a German friend once if the word in German for Poland didn’t mean “buffer zone.” He didn’t think it was too funny. Another time at some party a Japanese girl asked one of my Chinese friends what city in China he was from. I said, “Let’s hope not Nanking.” My other Chinese friend thought that was rude but I told him that kids her age in Japan had absolutely no clue about what Japan did there back then because their history classes had been “cleaned up.”
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02/05/2012 5:56:36 PM PST
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aruanan
To: aruanan
That’s amazing. Of course we here in America have pretty much cleansed our schools of history as well.
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02/05/2012 6:01:38 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: NakedRampage
Germany was a great nation, but since the end of World War One they've been going from one awful extreme to another. An exception to this course was the period between 1949 and 1966, when Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhardt ran the country. Both were strong believers in small government and free markets and were solidly anti-Communist.
To: gorush
Thats amazing. Of course we here in America have pretty much cleansed our schools of history as well. Just the other day, I saw a video on this site in which a high school student in the state of Washington told an interviewer that the US won its independence in the Korean War--so Korea must have ruled us before we became independent.
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