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===========================================<br></div><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="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jonny</span> <span class="go"><<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="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "History"</span><br><br></span><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span>Dear
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>last evening I read
a (German) text written in A.D 1917. It deals with the conditions in Germany
during WW I and its author is a "simple" craftsman.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>One sentence
attracted my special attention: <font color="#008080"><strong>Damit Kohle und
Elektrizität gespart werden, werden jetzt alle Geschäfte mit Ausnahme der
Lebensmittel-Läden vom 10. Okt. an um <font color="#ff0000">5 p.m.</font>
geschlossen. (14. Oktober 1917)</strong> [E: To save coals and electricity all
shops exempt those for food will be closed at <font color="#ff0000">5
p.m.</font></font><font color="#008080">. (October 14th,
1917)]</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>You see the author
using the Anglo-Saxon way to describe the time. This seems to be strange
for Continental Europe, because according to ISO 8601 we use the
24-hours-system. I tried to find out more about the history of time
destination in Europe outside U.K. but failed.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Does anyone
around here know more about that theme? Was it at last any tribute of the last,
very anglophile German Kaiser to his royal British relatives (Queen
Victoria having been his aunt)?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Thanks in award for
your answers!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><span></span> Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</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-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">History</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;">Jonny,</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;">Might the writer have been from Heligoland (</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Helgoland, Luun</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">) by any chance? As no doubt you know, the island was under British rule for a while.</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;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and a happy Fourth of July weekend to all Lowlanders in and from the "US & A" (to borrow from Borat)!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br><br><br>
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