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L O W L A N D S - L * 11 July 2006 * Volume 09
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From: 'Kevin and Cheryl Caldwell' <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.11 (05 [E]

> From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.11 (04) [E]
>
> Unlike the "German chocolate cake", an American dessert that many people
> over there think is traditionally a German dish, while no one here has
> ever
> heard of it (its main ingredient is coconut - not many of them grow on
> Helgoland, I'm afraid). It is called that because it was invented by a
> baker
> surnamed German.

Not quite. The main ingredient (after flour) is German's baking chocolate. Mr.
German developed the chocolate, not the cake. And the only coconut is in the
traditional icing for German chocolate cake.

Kevin Caldwell

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From: 'Thomas Byro' <greenherring at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.10 (02) [E]

Ron et all

I think that Jekyl and Hyde turn up in all cultures and probably
allways will. Certainly Hitler and Stalin have been exposed for the
monsters that they were. I feel though that Roosevelt has not been
exposed sufficiently for the monster that he also was. Perhaps there
is little that individual citizens of the world can do about these
monsters. Publicising their activities might help though.

Tom Byro

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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.11 (05 [E]

Vlad Lee wrote:
"Why all those things are exactly Dutch? I vaguely remember one explanation
I
read years and years ago: shiploads of arrogant Dutch courtiers, their
servants
and knechten followed William of Orange across the Ditch to swagger around
London. True?"

Perhaps it's also something to do with Dutch commercial supremacy. The Dutch
and
the English / British were competing for control of the sea as well. The
quickest
slurs to take hold are those to do with persistent rivals.

Críostóir and list, what are those terms? I've never heard of a Dutch barn
or many of the others. I've heard the term "Dutch auction," "going Dutch,"
and the Dutch oven, but those are just about it. What is a Dutch auction?
Ben 

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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L 'History' 2006.07.11 (01) [E]

Paul,

I've also heard that he routinely spoke a Frankish-influenced Latin
(proto-French

This really fascinates me. Being Christian, I often hear about some treatise
that Saint Snuffaluffagus wrote in so and so A.D. I always wonder how the
Greek sounded in whatever era the treatise came out. At least to me, the
world that I see tends to forget the place between the fall of Rome and all
the furvor of "medieval Europe" with Henry VIII and the like.
Ben

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