The 77th RainForest Site :Wildclickers are celebrating March

Yup, you're right, Ul. Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. This year the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate on the same Sunday as the rest of Christians. The years when this isn't so, when Orthodox Easter falls on a different Sunday, is because in the Orthodox churches Easter cannot be celebrated til after the Jewish Passover has passed. Passover this year is 3 April, so we all celebrate Easter 8 April.

aktbird57 - You and your 300 friends have supported 2,711,203.8 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 154,238.3 square feet.

American Prairie habitat supported: 59,412.8 square feet.

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,497,552.7 square feet.

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1 Aktbird57 .. 62.238 acres

2 37.960 acres

Merry Andrew, your mention of the Ritz brought back memories of things I have picked up in Europe and still have - (of course).......

Here are two Hotel Ritz cigarette paper holders from the early '30's -- still has original paper also.


Ta Da - - -

I'm prompted to show some other treasures......

More cigs plus an engineers belt buckle


Back of the above cig box


Not quite sure of the branch of service for this dagger


The Kaiser's cigar box


I'm an inveterate collector of special stuff......Here are a few things of interest..

At the top is a Celtic Knife with some Roman items - - The two spurs are approx 500 to 600 yrs old - - The Mozart candy is saved from the late '60's - - next to the candy is an arrow point from Attilla the Hun's time - - the Bear Tooth is from a cave in S Slovakia and is approx 40,000 yrs old - - The Edelweis is carved from ivory - - the rest of the items are Roman things to hold belts in place.

I'm hopeless.....

This one is a mystery for me - maybe someone can explain it -


When I was married to the Weinerin during the early '70's till early '90's we visited family in and around Wein regularly. My best friend was Fritz (not to mention last name) who fought in the WWII - we swapped war stories (mine in Vietnam) and at last parting he gave me his silver cross. I was awed. I later gave him my Bronze Star (not nearly as great an achievement, but the best I had.). He also gave me the bayonet he used during the Russian campaign and again in the Western campaign. I was honored. During a nights festival at a wine cellar, he introduced to me his friend who had served in submarine duty during the war. It was interesting to hear all the adventures. He was lucky to have survived. We had a great time together.

wow, Danon. What great treasures! I would hate to be the one who had to go through and list the contents of your house.

Wow is right!

What great treasures, Dan!

Can't quite make out the last object photo? What is it sitting next to - the bears tooth? Is it metal, material?

I've one treasure from Italy, {other than my grandmothers dishes, cups, and beautiful 14 karat gold plated water glasses from Germany} a silver match holder. Quite unique with etchings. Oh, and theres also a light bulb and instead of regular coils, they're metal shapes of horses.

Interesting collection, Dan, and great story!

Early afternoon here- lots of sunshine.
It is so mild here that the apricot trees in the Wachau are starting to bloom. Countdown says: 3 more days to full bloom-
Danon, you will remember that area.



Great treasures you have. Sorry, I can't help you with your mystery item.

stradee, enjoy your day off.

Merry Andrew, I hope you are feeling better.

ul, beautiful photo!

You and all wildclickers, have a lovely day also.

That's really something worth to be shown, Danon!

I've only some things here at my home, the most is still at mother's.
With some, I even work regularily, namely books :wink:

The Hamelmann [first pic] is quite intereresting [and thus a bit valuable] since a second book is bound in it:




Clicking now :wink:

Oh, yes, ul.. I absolutely love that area along the upper Danube's left bank. It's incredibly beautiful and has so many great restaurants right on the river bank to enjoy. Our last visit we drove the left bank roadway from Korneuburg (great restaurant on river) - visited the castle at Kreuzenstein (to show our friend who was with us the first week) - then on to a stop at Durnstein for photos and past Willendorf (the Venus) to Melk - where we toured the Church and picked up souvenirs in the town. Beautiful area......

Here is my souvenir of the Venus von Willendorf


Now, I'm thinking the Venus came from the Wachau region - However, there is another Willindorf which is located south of Wein. I am guessing.

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Danon, Wachau area it is.

Map of Wachau and info about Willendorf

You have to zoom out a bit to see it.

Wonderful books, Walter.

Walter, I am thrilled to see your books. I have but one that I value - it is a prayer book I rescued from the burn pile left by my then wife's cousin whose elderly aunt had passed away. Also, I found books by Goethe and Schiller among other interesting volumes.
This is the prayer book I have and treasure. All the notes and slips of paper I found inside the book are in the exact same place that I found them. The earliest dated note is 1826.



Thanks for the photos of your books......

ul, Thanks so very much for the information and the map...... I was correct - the Willendorf is from the Wachau - even though it may have been made somewhere else. I have often thought, being a male, that when those old timers went on long long hunting trips they needed something to remind them of the home campfires and their women - I think those tiny statuettes were the equivalent of the first Play Boy magazines.......hohoho

My then Austrian wife had many relatives living in and all around Wein. One of the most interesting was her cousin who - along with his wife - had retired from Steyr Daimler Puch. They lived in the foothills of the Alps south of Wein in a very small village. The main attraction in the village was #1 the Church and #2 a cooperage. There was nothing else except for a few homes and a small restaurant with a dairy attached to the rear of the building. Great place to retire IMHO. Anyway, her cousin (no name mentioned) had served with the SS during the war and told me many stories about his adventures before - on about the tenth visit - showed me his war chest - including home movies of some of the action he had participated in. I thought it grand. He was a soldier and was proud of his bravery - just like me. We got along great. One of the best things about his retirement home was it's isolation which offered the local farmers free reign to make some GREAT home brew. I always left there with at least a two liter bottle of plumb schnaps. Mmmmmmmm the GOOD stuff.......

great reading and looking! thanks, everyone

Not to be picky, Dan, but I hope you realize that if you keep spelling the name of that beautiful Austrian city as 'Wein' you are referring to wine rather than Vienna. (It's Wien, I believe.)

No offense intended.

aktbird57 - You and your 300 friends have supported 2,711,836.0 square feet!

1 Aktbird57 .. 62.251 acres

2 37.960 acres

Merry Andrew,
I have fallen upon my sword...... Thanks

Danon, if you think of Wien you think of Heurigen and Wein, I guess.:wink:


This picture shows a landmark of Vienna.
It is the Schottenstift, a Roman Catholic monastery founded in Vienna in 1155.
Interesting that it is called "Schotten= Scots, although the monks came from Ireland.

Wikipedia:
In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks were actively involved in missionary work. Ireland was known in Latin as "Scotia Major"; therefore, in German, Irish monks were called "Schotten" (Scots) or "Iroschotten", and the monasteries that they founded as "Schottenklöster." In the foundation documents of the Schottenstift, Henry II specified that it was to be occupied exclusively by these "Iroschotten" ("Solos elegimus Scottos").




So there are Irish roots, but St. Patrick's Day is not in our cultur.
How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Ah, ul, The Schottenstift I remember being between the Beethoven house with of course the Dreimadlerhaus, and the Am Hof - site of the place where I would celebrate St Patty's day - the Esterhazy Keller. !!!

We in America have parades (in some locations - but not all) to celebrate St Patricks Day. Most of the people who actually know about St Patty only wear something Green that day. Many others use it as an excuse to not only wear green but to drink as much whisky as they can hold - which turns them green in the morning.......

Most Irish probably don't realize that St Patrick was actually an Englishman who spread Christianity to the pagan land the early Celtics lived in. Ooops.