RE: [Leica] Historical Cavil

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Right.....But what about the tails?


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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jason Hall
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:44 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Historical Cavil


ROFLMFAO!!

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From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Historical Cavil


> Marc-
> I know I am gonna get flamed, but I have always wanted to know- and
you seem
> to be the quintessential answer man!
> Did the progeny of the Hapsburgs really have tails!?
> I have heard that rumor for so many years, and have wondered more
about that
> than I did about Katherine the Greats supposedly strange sexual
> proclivities!
>
> Dan ( waiting to be made aghast at the answer!) Post
>
>
>
>  > Wow!  To set the record straight:
> >
> > King George III was the first of the House of Hanover to speak
English
> more
> > fluently than German -- his great-grandfather, George I, spoke
virtually
> no
> > English, and his grandfather, George II, preferred German to
English.
> >
> > George III was also King of Hannover.  He had no connection with
Prussia
> > save that both he and the King of Prussia were electors in the
Holy Roman
> > Empire.
> >
> > The German troops employed by the British in the American
Revolutionary
> War
> > were Hessians.  George III had no connection with Hesse, either:
these
> > guys were hired by the British government.
> >
> > Wilhelm II was the grandson, not the nephew, of Queen Victoria.
His
> mother
> > was Victoria's oldest child.  Wilhelm was the nephew of King
Edward VII,
> > who had a habit of treating Wilhelm as a petulant child.
(Victoria had
> > been much more successful in keeping Wilhelm's self-destructive
tendencies
> > at bay.)
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
> >
> >
>
>