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Page XI |
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Content
(geography and history of our home community) |
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The Geographical
Features of the Area |
1 |
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Pre and Early History |
7 |
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The Circular Walls in
the Karaner Valley |
8 |
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Count Mercy, the father
of the Banat |
11 |
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The History of our Home
Village |
32 |
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Italian
Settlers List in Mercydorf |
49-53 |
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French & German Settlers List from
Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg & Trier
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63-85 |
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German Settlers List from Austria &
Germany |
91 |
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The 1774
Mercydorfer householders/census |
86-90 |
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1794 Town
Directory |
96-112 |
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Page XII |
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Changes
in a Colonial Village |
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Name of the place |
170 |
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The development of the
village |
171 |
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The house and courtyard
throughout the ages |
174-182 |
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The colonial house and
its development |
182 |
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Building and roofing
materials used for the houses in the Wingaer
districtBuilding and roofing materials used for the
houses in the Wingaer district of 1900 and 1910 |
184 |
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The
movements of our district’s inhabitants |
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Number of inhabitants |
185 |
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Births, deaths,
marriages |
186 |
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Twin births (1752 -
1832) |
191 |
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The drop in numbers of
births of Banat Germans in the 20th century |
192 |
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Senior citizens of the
Mercydorf district (1745 - 1842) |
193 |
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Infant deaths (1735 -
1842) |
194 |
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Nationalities in
Mercydorf |
195 |
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‘Seelenstand’
in the affiliated villages of Mercydorf (1825 - 1943) |
196 |
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Number of Germans in
the Wingaer district (1880 - 1910) |
197 |
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Register of inhabitants
of Mercydorf between 1940 and 1945 |
198 |
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Romanian families
settle in our community after August 1944 |
210 |
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Poem: ‘O Lord’ |
211 |
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Local
government |
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Chairmen of the parish
council |
212 |
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Changes after the
division |
215 |
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Local public servants |
215 |
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A call for order and
security |
215 |
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‘Komitats’
membership of our district |
216 |
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Administration
and Seals of the Banat |
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The seal of the
Mercydorf parish church (1825) |
217 |
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The seal of the
Mercydorf district (1840) |
219 |
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Roads, Post, Rail,
Lighting |
219 |
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The road network |
224 |
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The ‘Monosturer’
Post and ‘Kambiatur’ |
225 |
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Railroad traffic |
226 |
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Lighting |
228-229 |
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The
Church and Religious Life |
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the First Settlement to the First Place of Worship |
231 |
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The First place of
worship |
231 |
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The New church |
232 |
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Antonio Pietor
Delpondio as benefactor of the Mercydorf Church |
242 |
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Pastors of the parish |
244 |
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The deans who
controlled the Mercydorf parish |
248 |
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Parish salaries and
‘Stola’ tariffs |
249 |
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Chaplains who worked
for the spiritual welfare of Mercydorfers |
250 |
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Confirmations during
the years 1934 to 1983 |
250 |
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Village and boundary
crucifixes in the first half of the 19th century |
251 |
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Village and boundary
crucifixes from 1940 to 1945 |
253 |
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The chapels in
Mercydorf |
255 |
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What do
the Mercydorf ‘Schulstuhl’ records from 1907 -
1945 tell us |
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The Church and
Religious Life? |
259 |
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The distribution of
religious denominations of Mercydorf inhabitants |
259 |
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The cemetery |
260 |
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School
and scholastic facilities |
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The Lessons |
264 |
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The Schoolhouses |
266 |
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The Kindergarten |
270 |
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Lessons in several
languages in Mercydorf |
272 |
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What do
the Mercydorf ‘Schulstuhl’ records from 1906 -
1947 tell us |
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The Teachers and the
Lessons? |
279 |
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Mercydorf Teachers
(1755 - 1944) |
282 |
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Teachers’ Salaries |
284 |
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Mercydorf a Good
Example |
284 |
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Elementary School
Pupils in Mercydorf |
285 |
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‘Stola’
Tariffs of the Choirmasters |
287 |
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Graduates of Higher
Education before 1945 |
287 |
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Graduates of Higher
Education after 1945 |
288 |
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Poem: ‘Indian |
289 |
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Agriculture |
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Ground form and
irrigation of the Mercydorf ‘Hotter’ |
294 |
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Types of soil
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295
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Development of
agriculture |
295 |
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Technical revolution in
agriculture |
298 |
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Cultural structure and
production technology |
299 |
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The steam threshing
machine shortens harvest time |
303 |
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Autumn
Work Wintertime |
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Jobs for Spring |
306 |
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Wine-growing fruit and
flower beds |
308 |
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Field names:
agricultural land; meadows; vineyards; springs |
313 |
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The division of work
before and after 1848 in some Banat German communities |
313 |
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Division of border
areas (in the ‘Kastraljoch’) |
315 |
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Forest land in
Mercydorf and the surrounding area between 1775 and 1895 |
316 |
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Some informative
figures about the economy in the Wingaer area 1895 and
1910 |
316 |
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Inventory of a farm
from 1871 |
317 |
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A Bill of Sale from
1860 |
322 |
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Poem: ‘The reaper’ |
324 |
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Poem: ‘In the
field’ |
324 |
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Trade
and Industry |
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The grain trade in
earlier times |
334 |
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The devaluation of the
currency in 1811 |
334 |
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Further currency
devaluation between 1900 and 1952 |
336 |
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Trades in various years |
337 |
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Number of traders and
craftsmen in Mercydorf 1852 - 1934 |
338 |
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Mercydorf inns |
339 |
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Weekly and annual
markets |
340 |
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Crafts in
Mercydorf |
341 |
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Traders in various
years |
341 |
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Mercydorf craftsmen
(1935 - 1940) |
344 |
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Mill traders in
Mercydorf |
345 |
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The village blacksmith
‘a jack of all trades’ |
346 |
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Trial of an industrial
plant |
348 |
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The Brandy distillery |
348 |
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Old currencies; weights
and measures |
348 |
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Poem: ‘The
Journeyman’ |
352 |
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Co-operatives
and societies |
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The Co-operatives |
353 |
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The
Common Pastureland
Co-operative |
356 |
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Clubs and Societies |
356 |
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356 |
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Banks
& Insurances |
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Mercydorf Financial
Institute |
383 |
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Insurances |
384 |
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Sanitation
in Mercydorf |
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Medicinal Supplies |
386 |
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Medication and
Apothecaries |
387 |
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Mercydorf Folk Medicine |
388 |
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Development of Village
Hygiene |
392 |
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Surgeons - Doctors
& Midwives |
395 |
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Customs
and traditions |
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Milestones in life |
398 |
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Feast days of the year |
419 |
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Eveyday life and work |
451 |
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The Swabian Year |
471 |
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Founding
Jubilees of the Mercydorf Community |
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The Founding in 1734 |
475 |
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Development of the
population up to 1934 |
476 |
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Societies as an
Expression of Spiritually Cultural Life |
483 |
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Literature |
486 |
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200 year Celebration in
1934 |
490 |
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The 1984 Jubilee |
496 |
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The
Mercydorf dialect |
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Phonetics |
503 |
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Vocabulary |
518 |
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Nouns |
523 |
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Pronouns |
524 |
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Numerals |
525 |
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Verbs |
526 |
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Negation |
530 |
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Adjectives |
531 |
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Adverbs |
532 |
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Prepositions |
533 |
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Conjunctions |
534 |
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Particles of emphasis
or reduction (?) |
536 |
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Words describing
feelings or sensations (interjections) |
537 |
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About the vocabulary of
the dialect |
537 |
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‘Lehngut’ (?) |
542 |
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Dialect geography |
544 |
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Poem: ‘Mother
tongue’ Josef
Gabriel |
546 |
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Poem: ‘We Swabians
speak Palatinate’
Josef Gabriel |
547 |
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Mercydorf
sayings and expressions |
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Nurturing of folk songs
and village music in our community up to 1950 |
550 |
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The home village
association (HOG) of Mercydorf |
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Reading
matter for Mercydorfer's |
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Prince Eugen the Noble
Knight |
556 |
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From Mercydorf’s
past |
564 |
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Poem: ‘Dusk’
by Josef Gabriel |
572 |
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Irregular years |
573 |
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Poem: ‘Evenings at
the well’ |
576 |
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Sathmar - Mercydorf -
Temesvar |
577 |
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A German soldier in
Mercydorf |
578 |
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Slavery in the 20th
Century |
581 |
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Lizzie |
588 |
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When one deals with
history |
590 |
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Poem: ‘October
snow’ by Ferdinand Muttar |
596 |
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The Railway Chief talks
about the Mercydorf Station |
597 |
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From the novel ‘Count
Mercy’ |
600 |
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Poem: ‘My home’
by Lorenz Szenetra |
606 |
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Things
to make you smile |
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Journey to the ‘Frischitari’ |
607 |
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Cousin John 'his pipe
& the cigarette lighter' |
608 |
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Poem: ‘Grandfather
up the cherry tree’ by Kathe Teufel |
609 |
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The Bearwolf |
610 |
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‘Ferkelsaat’ |
611 |
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‘What a funny
cemetery that is!’ |
612 |
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Quick-witted |
613 |
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Too late |
614 |
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Epilogue |
614 |
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Sources
and Literature |
615 |
