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Stańczyk by Jan Matejko; source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Stanczyk_Matejko.JPG
Apr 10
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the destruction of yet another fundamental bit of knowledge by which we’ve always lived our lives there’s now a speed limit of 120km/h on a rural section of the German autobahn; it was imposed by and in the State of Bremen according to this story in Der Spiegel: … the change is symbolically huge in a country where the freedom of the road has been both an escape from regimented urban life and a chance to celebrate the achievements of Germany’s proud tradition of automotive engineering. the image above from here is of “Men standing in the back of a truck salut[ing] Hermann Göring and others during inaugural ceremonies for the newly opened Autobahn”——
  • the destruction of yet another fundamental bit of knowledge by which we’ve always lived our lives
  • there’s now a speed limit of 120km/h on a rural section of the German autobahn; it was imposed by and in the State of Bremen
  • according to this story in Der Spiegel:
… the change is symbolically huge in a country where the freedom of the road has been both an escape from regimented urban life and a chance to celebrate the achievements of Germany’s proud tradition of automotive engineering.
  •  the image above from here is of “Men standing in the back of a truck salut[ing] Hermann Göring and others during inaugural ceremonies for the newly opened Autobahn”
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