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Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french

Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!

Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!

Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french

Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french

"But that's not MANLY!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1985308/but-that-s-not-manly

SHOTGUNS ARE A WAR CRIME, PASS IT ON

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1885419/shotguns-are-a-war-crime-pass-it-on

SHOTGUNS ARE A WAR CRIME, PASS IT ON

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1885417/shotguns-are-a-war-crime-pass-it-on

"Wow! Americans are stupid!"

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1866590/wow-americans-are-stupid

"Wow! Americans are stupid!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1866585/wow-americans-are-stupid

"Wow! Americans are stupid!"

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1866575/wow-americans-are-stupid

I have some ancestors who lived in Düsseldorf and Neuwied, Germany in the late 1500s and early 1600s. My ancestral relatives moved from Düsseldorf to Neuwied in the early 1600s. As they moved south on the Rhein, their surname also changed, from Gartner to Graat to Gradt. They were farmers who remained connected to the Catholic Church until my direct ancestors moved to New Amsterdam (modern New York). I am curious about two things:

* What might have caused them to move.
* What kinds of political, cultural, religious, and/or linguistic impacts might have caused them to change the spelling of their surname.

#genealogy
#Germany
#Dusseldorf
#Gartner
#Gradt
#Graat
#Rhine
#Prussia
#Westphalia
#FamilyHistory
#Neuwied

Austrian Jaegers got style

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1459520/austrian-jaegers-got-style

"Spoonerism"
Teableau for 07/19/25

I purchased the creamer & sugar two years ago at a garage sale. I brought home this spooner yesterday from a thrift shop and felt like I was reuniting a family.

#Tea #Prussia #Antiques #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #OolongTea #BlackTea #RoseTea #WhittardTeas #VintageChina #Handmade #Sewing #Crystal #AntiqueChina

La creazione bellica che dimostrò al mondo il vantaggio tattico della mitragliatrice

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=40990

#armi #conflitti #storia #tecnologia #ingegneria #armi #cannoni #battaglie #francia #prussia #napoleoneiii #artiglieria #parigi #balistica #mitragliatrici #fucili #munizioni #eserciti #europa #invenzioni

In a classical garden
I saw a golden quince
It represented marriage
to the Greeks and people since
How fitting that its sweetness
is sore tempered by its thorns
If left unkept and untended
it is blemished and forlorn
Spouses take heed, remember
to love and to be tender

#silentsunday #stillersonntag
#art #poetry #photography
#kunst #poesie #fotografie
#sunday #sonntag
#potsdam #schlosslindstedt
#prussia #preussen #preußen
#love #liebe #marriage #ehe

Through the woven ancient trees
appears a golden temple
that beckons to the faithful
of the past, long forgotten

#silentsunday #stillersonntag
#art #poetry #photography
#kunst #poesie #fotografie
#sunday #sonntag
#potsdam #schlosslindstedt
#prussia #preussen #preußen

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As I walk
shadows start to stretch
to the horizon
I spot a longer shadow
cast by a gilded column
aglow in the sinking sun
I glance up to see a statue of someone important
someone to be looked up to
someone to be remembered

I walk on by into the deepening night

#GoodNight 🌙 #GuteNacht

#poetry #poesie #art #photography #fotografie #baroque #barock #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos #potsdam #berlin #sanssouci

Kings and queens all fade away
Their pomp and glory crumbles
All that’s left of what they built
are ruins doomed to tumble
Nothing lasts and all must pass
To oblivion we all go
Hearts and clocks are doomed to stop
Time must ever stretch and flow

#poetry #poesie #art #photography #fotografie #architecture #architektur #architecturephotography #architekturfotografie #neoclassical #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos #potsdam #berlin #schlosslindstedt

We may come
and we may go
but the world goes on as ever

The sun rises,
the sun sets,
and goes back from whence it came

All things have passed
and all things shall be
and the sun sees nothing new

[adapted from Ecclesiastes]

—

#GoodNight 🌙 #GuteNacht

#poetry #poesie #art #photography #fotografie #architecture #architektur #architecturephotography #architekturfotografie #baroque #barock #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos #potsdam #berlin

As the light fades
and the day slips away
before the tides of night
I remember:
All glory fades
But so too
do the pains of memory
All that’s left
is simple being

This may sadden
But it also frees
and therefore gladdens

—

#GoodNight 🌙 #GuteNacht
and sleep and dream of #peace

#poetry #poesie #art #photography #fotografie #architecture #architektur #architecturephotography #architekturfotografie #baroque #barock #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos

📸 #Travel #Photography

👁️ Evening light II
📍 #Sanssouci Palace, #Potsdam
📆 26 Sep 2023
📷 #Nikon D5600
⚪️ #Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G

📻🎶 Frederick II “The Great”: Flute Concerto 1 in G https://youtu.be/AhMKSW2RtPg

#art #photography #architecture #architektur #architecturephotography #architekturfotografie #baroque #barock #baroquemusic #barockmusik #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos

📸 #Travel #Photography

👁️ Evening light
📍 #Sanssouci Palace, #Potsdam
📆 26 Sep 2023
📷 #Nikon D5600
⚪️ #Nikkor DX 35 mm ƒ1.8G

📻🎶 Frederick II “The Great”: Flute Concerto 3 in C Major https://youtu.be/4_dDTTnuq9c

#art #photography #architecture #architektur #architecturephotography #architekturfotografie #baroque #barock #baroquemusic #barockmusik #prussia #preußen #preussen #travelphotography #reisefotografie #reisefotos

2 last maps encompassing the superposition here separately shown for detail. These are the year 1812 and mid-19th century.

#maps #map #historicalmaps #prussia #germany #poland #brandenburg #history #europe #europa #pomerania #histodon #histodons #Preußen #Preussen #TeutonicOrder #Teutonic #GermanOrder

4 of the maps encompassing the superposition here separately shown for detail. 13th, 14th, 15th-17th and mid-18th centuries.

#maps #map #historicalmaps #prussia #germany #poland #brandenburg #history #europe #europa #pomerania #histodon #histodons #Preußen #Preussen #TeutonicOrder #Teutonic #GermanOrder

@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker

#DEhistory #Elections1933

👉The Death of the #WeimarRepublic👈

(5/n)

...On February 23, the #Communists were able to hold their last major election campaign event in #Prussia with Wilhelm #Pieck as their top candidate. But 👉Pieck could not [even] finish his speech because the event was broken up by the #police.👈 On February 27, there was a #Reichstag fire [#Reichstagsbrand]. Regardless of whether the fire...

Visiting the Church of Our Savior in #Sacrow, #Potsdam

#HeilandskircheSacrow #prussia #preußen #germany #photography #fotografie #architecture #architecturephotography #architektur #architekturfotografie #church #kirche #nikon #nikonD5600

#December 2, 1707
#OTD Johann Hecker, #German #Theologian & #Educator is born.

Johann installed #Gardens at his #Schools to teach hands-on #Botany.

Johann taught the #Cultivation of the #Mulberry #Tree.

This was a #Strategic move on his part since the production of #Silk & the care of #Silkworms found #Favor with the #King of #Prussia, #Frederick the #Great.

Thanks to Johann, both #Teachers & #Students tended the large #Mulberry #Plantation & learned the culture of silk & #Mulberries.