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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 02 May 2008 - Volume 02<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "What does it mean?" 2008.04.30 (02) [E]</span><br><br></span><div id="1eox" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear
Pat,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you asked for the
meaning of the wall-anchors at the Tor-Haus in Otte_<strong>r</strong>_ndorf, my
regional 'capital'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">It is not
</font><font color="#008080" face="Arial"><strong>GHZSEUW</strong></font></span><span><font face="Courier New">, and no hidden
<strong><font color="#008080">JESUS</font></strong> over there as you wrote
resp. speculated, but the first letter is a combination of 'A' and 'G' and
denotes the initials of <strong>A</strong>u<strong>G</strong>ust, Earl of
Sachsen-Lauenburg, last or pre-last successor of his family to rule
the the Hadeln-region. In AD 1641 he had been the one to sponsor the whole
(meanwhile vanished) castle which the Tor-Haus was a part
of.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">The following
letters denote his entire title:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>H</strong>
= <strong>H</strong>erzog</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>Z</strong>
= <strong>Z</strong>u</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>S</strong>
= <strong>S</strong>achsen</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>E</strong>
= <strong>E</strong>ngern</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>U</strong>
= <strong>U</strong>nd</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><strong>W</strong>
= <strong>W</strong>estfalen</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Hope this
helps.</font></span></div><div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div align="left"> </div><font color="#888888">
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div></font></div>
</div><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "What does it mean?"</span><br><br><div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste Lowlanners
un' Westburen,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">vandaog hebb ick
eeyn Nederlandse Wourd leest, door kann 'ck heel gonnix mit
waar'n:</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong><span>_</span>Veganstreaker<span>_.</span></strong></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Kann mii
jichenseyn'n van Jouw verklaoren, wat dat meynt?</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="left">Allerbest<span> un'
bedankt!</span></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div><br>
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