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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: History<br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
In today’s <i>Newsweek</i> 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.<br>
<br>
Among these alliances he mentions this:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New
Hansa<br style="">
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden<br style="">
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.<br>
<br>[<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/26/the-new-world-order-a-map.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/26/the-new-world-order-a-map.html</a>]</p>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br>
<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Heiko Evermann</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@googlemail.com">heiko.evermann@googlemail.com</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">History</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I thought you might like
this entry from this dictionary:<br>
"Holsteinisches Idiotikon<br>
von Johann Friedrich Schütze<br>
Königl. Dän. Kanzlei-Sekretraire<br>
Altona 1806"<br>
<br>
Entry "Setten":<br>
<br>
"Setten (Dän. saette): setzen<br>
Sade: Stille Ruhe. Richey macht es gegen Gramm der dies Wort vom Angs.<br>
Sida Dän. Säder Sitten ableiten will,<br>
wahrscheinlicher, daß es von Sate:Sitz abstamme.<br>
B.W.B. Daher Saten, Undersaten: Sassen Eingesessene, Unterthanen,<br>
der ursprüngliche Name unsrer Vorahnen, die an der Elbseite ihren Sitz hatten,<br>
die sich nach demselben Angelsaten, Holsaten, Wurtsaten unterschieden.<br>
Das Wort Sachsen ist bloß durch Oberländer aus jenem Worte gebildet.<br>
(Wolke Eingedichte Lpz. 1804. S.10)"<br>
<br>
Till today I never came across the idea to base "Sassen" on the word<br>
"to sit". Any comments?<br>
<br>
By the way;<br>
Who was Richey and who was Gramm and what does the abbreviation
"B.W.B." mean?<br>
<br>
The "Idiotikon" was published 204 years ago. History is fun. Times<br>
change and opinions about history changes.<br>
<br>
Which reminds me of this story:<br>
When I was in New Zealand
(I arrived there on 9/11/2001), I bought a<br>
book that was published in 1914:<br>
the last volume of "Harvard Classics" with the title
"lectures". It<br>
contains several introductions into different fields of study as the<br>
whole of "Harvard Classics" was supposed to enable anyone who cared<br>
about education to do that at home in his sparetime.<br>
<br>
What caught my attention was the introduction into history, which is<br>
digitized in <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/60/101.html" target="_blank">http://www.bartleby.com/60/101.html</a><br>
Starting in Greece he works forward over Rome Renaissance etc. till he<br>
comes to the last two pages of his 50 page essay, stating<br>
<br>
" In 1859 France helped the House of Savoy to drive Austria from the<br>
valley of the Po, and thereby cleared the way for the liberation and<br>
fusion of all Italy by Cavour and Garibaldi. In 1866 Prussia
expelled<br>
the House of Hapsburg from Germany,
and four years later consolidated<br>
her work by marching to the walls of Paris
at the head of a united<br>
German host which there acclaimed William of Hohenzollern chief of a<br>
new Germanic empire.<br>
<br>
What has happened since then, and chiefly the scramble for colonies or<br>
for establishing economic suzerainty, belongs more to the field of<br>
present politics than of history. For that reason it may be left out<br>
of account. And so indeed has much else been left out of account for<br>
which the limit of space fixed for this essay has proved altogether<br>
too narrow. If a last word may be added to help the reader to gather<br>
in the harvest from that trampled and mutilated field which we call<br>
history let it be this, that everything turns on a point of view, on a<br>
mental attitude. The reader is the spectator of the pageant; he must<br>
be cool to judge and discriminate, with no bias toward praise or<br>
blame, content merely to observe as the constant stream unfolds itself<br>
in all its changing colors, but with a mind ready to judge human<br>
actions and motives, an imagination ready to seize on the ever-living<br>
drama of fact, and a heart ready to respond to those countless acts of<br>
heroism that have ennobled great men and great races, and with them<br>
all humanity."<br>
<br>
So in 1914 this history teacher declined to comment anything later<br>
than 1870, to him all that was not yet history.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Heiko Evermann<br>
Hamburg</span></p>
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