Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ROFLMFAO!! - ----- Original Message ----- 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! > > > > > >