Some Memories of Germany, Photos & Materials, 6B

This is part "B" of the photos and materials section. There will be more articles about castles and Heidelberg as a part of the overall series, with their own pictures.

This is a business card for a Viennese tavern/bar specializing in the most recently produced wine (they sold beer too). The top says, "A little piece of Vienna in the heart of Berlin"

This is the back of the business card. The top line notes, "Austrian charm and good times."

These are business cards from two hotels in Frankfurt where a friend of mine was the manager. He first managed the Hotel Union on Münchenerstraße near the main train station in Frankfurt. Later he worked at the Lian-Yi, a Chinese government owned hotel on Niddastraße, a few blocks from from the train station.

This is a post card I bought in Berlin showing various aspects of "Die Mauer" (The Wall). "Mauer" is derived from the same Latin source as English "mural." You can see the guard towers, where heavily armed soldiers tried to prevent anyone from escaping East Berlin. In the center is one of the wooden platforms on the West Berlin side of wall, where people could look over into East Berlin.

This is another post card I bought, due to the great clarity and quality of the picture. It is the Reichstag building in the 1980s. This was the former German parliament/Congress building. Since reunification, it is again in use, extensively renovated, as Berlin is again the capital.

This is the Reichstag building in 1929; that is, about four years before Hitler took power. Within a short time of Hitler becoming chancellor, the Reichstag building was set on fire and was badly damaged. It was never used again as a legislative meeting building until after German reunification. The Nazis moved the Reichstag legislative sessions, often just forums for Hitler's speeches, to the nearby Kroll Opera House (badly damaged in World War II and then torn down). For more on the Reichstag fire, see my article at this link: http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2010/01/berlin-before-wall-tumbled.html

These are the German and English version of the menu for one of my flights from Frankfurt back home..

German and English version of the menu for another flight.

WORD HISTORY:
Wield-This word, meaning "use power well, to use and control something with great skill," goes back to Indo European "wal-dh," which had the notion of "be strong," and was an expanded form of Indo European "wal." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "waldan," meaning "to control, to rule." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "wealdan," which meant "to rule, to direct," and the also the form "wieldan," which meant "to control." From these two forms came the single form "wield." The only other forms still used in the Germanic languages are: German "walten" (to rule") and the derived "verwalten" (to administer, to manage), and Swedish "vålla" (cause, basis; from the notion 'controlling idea, decisive reason').