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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 07 July 2010 - Volume 04</b><br>
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From: <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" class="de QrVm3d" name="upi" width="1" border="0" height="1"><span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jonny</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span></p>



<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject:
<img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" width="1" border="0" height="1"><span class="gi">LL-L "History"</span></span></p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Dear Lowlanners,</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">obviously nobody
takes care about the fact that the German state of Lower
 Saxony since the 2nd of July has a new governor. He is a scotsman
by his fathers side and his name is David McAllister. He has both the German
and the British citizenship. He also is our regional candidate for the
parliament, born in Berlin
and grown up and still living at "Bederkesa", which in Low Saxon has
become damaged to "Beers".</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">He is by far the youngest
governor ever in Germany - just 39 years old, a notorious snappy speaker and
famous for his ability to get along with all social classes while drinking beer
<span style=""> </span>with a mason in a pub as well as
champagne with a CEO at any official party. I've had the pleasure to meet this winsome
guy twice, because he has visited the same school as my ex-wife.</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">He has married (his
German wife) in an original Scottish kilt (well, that may have been layed on a
little thick...); now I wonder if we have to learn Scots as another official
language in Lower Saxony ;-)!</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Probably he is the
British answer on King George II., because his Hanoveran descendence caused the
fact that the "State, later Kingdom of Hanover"
had been in personal union with the British Empire
for about 110 years ;-)!</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">(BTW: our Lower
Saxony "Minister of Youth and Family" is a female Muslim of Turkish
descendence - in Germany
another novum as well. Sometimes I really think that the state of Lower Saxony is extremely openminded for a
"Flaechenstaat"(?? 'areal state' ??). This may be a result of continual
integration of people of foreign descendence throughout history.)</p>

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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Friendly regards</p>

<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Jonny Meibohm</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Lower </span>Saxony, Germany</span></p>

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