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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: History

Dear Lowlanders,

In today’s *Newsweek* there is an interesting article by Joel Kotkin about
“the new world order” in which traditional alliances play more important
roles than do political borders.

Among these alliances he mentions this:



New Hansa

Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden

 In the 13th century, an alliance of Northern European towns called the
Hanseatic League created what historian Fernand Braudel called a “common
civilization created by trading.” Today’s expanded list of Hansa states
share Germanic cultural roots, and they have found their niche by selling
high-value goods to developed nations, as well as to burgeoning markets in
Russia, China, and India. Widely admired for their generous welfare systems,
most of these countries have liberalized their economies in recent years.
They account for six of the top eight countries on the Legatum Prosperity
Index and boast some of the world’s highest savings rates (25 percent or
more), as well as impressive levels of employment, education, and
technological innovation.

[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/26/the-new-world-order-a-map.html]


Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

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From: Heiko Evermann <heiko.evermann at googlemail.com>

Subject: History



I thought you might like this entry from this dictionary:
"Holsteinisches Idiotikon
von Johann Friedrich Schütze
Königl. Dän. Kanzlei-Sekretraire
Altona 1806"

Entry "Setten":

"Setten (Dän. saette): setzen
Sade: Stille Ruhe. Richey macht es gegen Gramm der dies Wort vom Angs.
Sida Dän. Säder Sitten ableiten will,
wahrscheinlicher, daß es von Sate:Sitz abstamme.
B.W.B. Daher Saten, Undersaten: Sassen Eingesessene, Unterthanen,
der ursprüngliche Name unsrer Vorahnen, die an der Elbseite ihren Sitz
hatten,
die sich nach demselben Angelsaten, Holsaten, Wurtsaten unterschieden.
Das Wort Sachsen ist bloß durch Oberländer aus jenem Worte gebildet.
(Wolke Eingedichte Lpz. 1804. S.10)"

Till today I never came across the idea to base "Sassen" on the word
"to sit". Any comments?

By the way;
Who was Richey and who was Gramm and what does the abbreviation "B.W.B."
mean?

The "Idiotikon" was published 204 years ago. History is fun. Times
change and opinions about history changes.

Which reminds me of this story:
When I was in New Zealand (I arrived there on 9/11/2001), I bought a
book that was published in 1914:
the last volume of "Harvard Classics" with the title "lectures". It
contains several introductions into different fields of study as the
whole of "Harvard Classics" was supposed to enable anyone who cared
about education to do that at home in his sparetime.

What caught my attention was the introduction into history, which is
digitized in http://www.bartleby.com/60/101.html
Starting in Greece he works forward over Rome Renaissance etc. till he
comes to the last two pages of his 50 page essay, stating

" In 1859 France helped the House of Savoy to drive Austria from the
valley of the Po, and thereby cleared the way for the liberation and
fusion of all Italy by Cavour and Garibaldi. In 1866 Prussia expelled
the House of Hapsburg from Germany, and four years later consolidated
her work by marching to the walls of Paris at the head of a united
German host which there acclaimed William of Hohenzollern chief of a
new Germanic empire.

What has happened since then, and chiefly the scramble for colonies or
for establishing economic suzerainty, belongs more to the field of
present politics than of history. For that reason it may be left out
of account. And so indeed has much else been left out of account for
which the limit of space fixed for this essay has proved altogether
too narrow. If a last word may be added to help the reader to gather
in the harvest from that trampled and mutilated field which we call
history let it be this, that everything turns on a point of view, on a
mental attitude. The reader is the spectator of the pageant; he must
be cool to judge and discriminate, with no bias toward praise or
blame, content merely to observe as the constant stream unfolds itself
in all its changing colors, but with a mind ready to judge human
actions and motives, an imagination ready to seize on the ever-living
drama of fact, and a heart ready to respond to those countless acts of
heroism that have ennobled great men and great races, and with them
all humanity."

So in 1914 this history teacher declined to comment anything later
than 1870, to him all that was not yet history.

Heiko Evermann
Hamburg



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