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 L O W L A N D S - L - 12 April 2014 - Volume 02<br><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>Posting: <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>

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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">From: </font></font><span name="Luc Hellinckx" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Luc Hellinckx</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br>

Subject: </font></font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Education"</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">

Beste Tjalle,<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">You wrote:<br><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">

<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">My Alma Mater, Calvin College, still offers Dutch: <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/academics/majors-minors/dutch" target="_blank">http://www.calvin.edu/academics/majors-minors/dutch</a><u></u><u></u></span></div>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tjalle Vandergraaf<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Pinawa, M)</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Very good!...but...what's in a name (Calvin) ? ;)</div><div><br></div>

<div>Apart from that, even though I don't buy the idea (completely) behind the suggested relation:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism" target="_blank">The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>On a more pan-lowlandic level, I would like to see somebody study how the Hanseatic League laid the foundations of what was to come in later centuries.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div>

<br></div><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></div><div><br></div></div><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">=========================================================<br>

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