If you like, here is the second part of the lille book (I only picked the highlights).
Adolph Freiherr von Knigge wrote the "The journey to Braunschweig". It became one of the most-read novels of the 19th century (no, I have not and don´t intend to read it).
It was about a group traveling to Braunschweig to see Jean-Pierre François Blanchard rise with his balloon (Knigge describes it as boring after attending the event).
A real bummer, though, must´ve been when the LZ 129 Hindenburg floated above Braunschweig on March 28th 1936.
Must´ve been impressive to scary.
The Fire Brigade Braunschweig was 2019 the first in Germany having digital blue light.
(Yes, go ahead, laugh - Germany lives behind a rock...)
And when in 17th century you sent a letter, you gave it to the princely Brunswick state post office and Henry took care it arrived safely.
This one is from 1990 (I moved to Braunschweig in 2001 and sadly never saw one.
Today it´s 85 euro-cent!!! Quite a rise!
From time to time they ask Henry to do the job again, the book says.
I will "catch" him then!
You may be familiar with Till Eulenspiegel.
The book reveals he was not funny, rather mean.
Yet...
And certainly Kalle is mentioned, Carl Friedrich Gauss, he stands right around the corner from where I type. Just turn left, left, pass the little Gauss-bridge and at the end of the road you find him. He was a mathematician, geodesist, and physicis-guy and for many the friendly-looking man on the 10-DM-note.
At age 3 he corrected his father in accountancy. At age 9 he was the fastest pupil adding the numbers 1 to 100. The teacher thought it´ll take a while. Not for Gauss.
1+100, 2+99, 3+98...makes 50*101=5050, done.
They said he could calculate before he could speak.
Reckon you know the Bell curve - his work.
Henry 🦁 I was symbol of...
For part I see here, if you like.
18 comments:
When in 17th century you sent a letter..."
They had stamps way back then? In the 1600's. I did not know that.
I used to wish I was smarter mathematically and with science too, but I don't care anymore. I understand enough to get by and can manage my money and stay within my budget.That's good enough for me now that I am old.
Well, I assume the book is right. Let´s simply put it to "a long time ago" :-)
The basics are more important, right!
If Henry resumes his job, you´ll sure find him in your mailbox :-)
...a stamp is way more than pennies these days.
Fascinating! I told a few Til stories back in my storytelling days. I had to pick and choose because as you say he was kind of mean. The Hindenburg actually crashed about 50 miles from where I live. We have visited the crash area. It is quite remote. What a scary, horrible thing to happen. So sad.
Interesting
'Cultural capital of Europe' in 2010! Wow! Impressive.
All fun facts. Henry is so handsome no matter what age
Tom, yes, it´s ridiculous. I mean.. in times e-mail, e-cards and all that for free...
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Granny Sue, nice thought mean old Till really was read worldwide.
Oh, what coincidence with the Hindenburg. It must´ve been awful. Is the crash site a museum now?
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Christine, yes, Braunschweig has some history.
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magiceye, yes, makes one a tad proud!
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CJ, Henry sure blushes ;-)
To mail a letter locally here costs €1.45. Very spendy these days if you had to mail something.
WOW. That is expensive!!
I don't even know how much it costs to mail a letter here.
I'd like to read more about Gauss. He sounds fascinating!
And he was! He was a genius and the whole town is still proud he was a Braunschweig-person!
Often I see tourists stopping at his memorial, reading about him from the signs provided (sadly in German only), they take pics and since a few years he is illuminated in the dark half of the year, too!
These are all very interesting. I'd never heard of Gauss. I've enjoyed this post a lot!
Thank you, Jeanie.
Oh, I thought Gauss is known world-wide.
Poor dude, that, glad I could introduce him to you!
Can't recall the last time I mailed anything.
I did about two weeks ago - but just for fun.
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