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grusl wrote:
> On Mar 23, 1:25 am, Magda wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:04:08 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, Hatunen
> >
> > arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
> >
> > ... History in the Americas goes way back. Perhaps you mean the
> > ... history of the USA? Cahokia Mound goes back a thousand years. Old
> > ... Oraibi village on the Hopi's Third Mesa goes back to 1100. That's
> > ... in the USA. If you go down to Meso-America things go back pretty
> > ... far. Aspects of the Aztec culture survive to this day.
> >
> > It all happened in a land not called usa or americas.
> >
>
> Those castles mentioned earlier in the thread were built in a land not
> called Germany, either. The USA is older than united Germany or Italy.
Because I speak German, I can get off the tourist-beaten path easily in
countries where that language is spoken. Tacitus called that area
"Germania", however, and the castles* I'm interested in are post-Roman.
*I will NOT get into the question of "what is a 'castle'?" again today.
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