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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Hi Steve,</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">still a bit confusing, because the site does not tell about the 7th of december, but interesting. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">One day there might be videobridgeable history exchange...</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">as I wrote here (<a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2029071%3ABlogPost%3A12903&commentId=2029071%3AComment%3A12704&xg_source=activity" target="_blank">http://globalvillages.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2029071%3ABlogPost%3A12903&commentId=2029071%3AComment%3A12704&xg_source=activity</a>)</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">the story sounds familiar to me. We had a similar case as, for the revitalisation of our village spirit, we re-enacted in 2009 the "Battle of Schwarzlackenau", the first battle (or rather skirmish) where Napoleons troups were defeated here in Jedlesee 1809 . </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">We made the story more realistic to show how "little people" were crashed in the feudz of the mighty, sought their own way of escaping and paid a high price.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The play was written by Karl Danninger of "Schnittpunkt Jedlesee", the local cultural association I had founded here....</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">see our village diary <a href="http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Jedlesee/JedleseerDorfTratsch" target="_blank">http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Jedlesee/JedleseerDorfTratsch</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">go to entry of 8.5.2009 !!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Wow we could do a lot that makes sense, rediscovering European history from a village perspective is a powerful one.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">I found a nice quotation by Norbert Rost, maybe Markus could translate it to English:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">"Wenn Europa weiter gedeihen soll, braucht es einen neuen Weg, auf dem es sich entwickeln kann. Ein solcher Weg wäre, Europa als einen Kontinent der Städte und Gemeinden weiterzuentwickeln, statt als Kontinent der Nationen. Es sozusagen „von unten“ neu zu begründen. Wir alle leben in Städten und Dörfern, sie sind unsere Nester, in denen wir unsere sozialen Netze knüpfen. Das Leben von uns Europäern findet nicht in Nationen statt, es findet in unseren Häusern statt, in unseren Straßen, unseren Kommunen. Das nahe-liegende berührt uns tagtäglich mehr, als es die Entscheidungen weit entfernter Regierungen tun."</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">one should add: and if it touches us, then it inflicts pain!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">here is the full article where the paragraph is taken from:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.regionalentwicklung.de/category/regionalisierung/" target="_blank">http://www.regionalentwicklung.de/category/regionalisierung/</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Franz Nahrada</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Hotel Karolinenhof & GIVE</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Jedleseer Strasse 75</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">1210 Wien</font></div>
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