Sounds fun! Hope the kids had a lot of fun!
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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was referring to Professor Charles Francis Xavier from X-men 
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I guessed so, but as Iāve never seen @professor I was kinda hoping for a curve ball @Shenoy 
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Got a nice compass from the Wehrmacht at the flea today.
I am not in militaria and N*zi-stuff at all.
But it was 10 Euros so I took it.
The clk stands for Breithaupr Kassel.
After 1943 the equipment items got a special code.
Works of course.
Old German quality! 
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Canāt beat old German quality.
I like these old small pieces, interesting and nice to have as a topic of conversation.
Hope you had a good catch up with friends @Chiquinho
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I still store some watches and compasses from that period.
After 1945 the compasses, the watches and the binoculars were kept often.
All the rest stuff had to be destroyed.
I kept the medals of my father in law (RIP).
(Otherwise they would have disappeared)
I was so angry they would have thrown his photo being a āGebirgsjƤgerā into the garbage.
I could safe some things the others had no idea about.
You see him here āOberleutnant der GebirgsjƤgerā
I think he was about 24 when the photo was taken.
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Died some years ago.
Rest in peace my good old friend!
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Keeping pieces of history is very important.
Intact people do t realise how important historical and family heirlooms are until its too late.
I tried to translate Oberleutnant der GebirgsjƤger and it says first lieutenant mountain troop, was that correct?
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Genau Paul.
Oberleutnant der GebirgsjƤger -> you see an EdelweiĆ on his bonnet.
Thatās he was.
He was wounded twice, got two different purple hearts (dict says) and the EK II and EK I.
I found the report why he got that EK I.
He saved about 50 men.
He realized that they got nearly surrounded by the enemy.
But under his leadership they could get out from this trap.
War, never let us have one here in Europe.
The ancient enemies got good friends meanwhile.
Lets thank our LORD for this.
We do hope never get "abused " by those āleadersā .
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Thatās really good history to know and to have.
Passing onto grandchildren and beyond, remembering the family history.
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Unfortunately I dont have such informations from my father.
He passed away when I was 12 years old.
Those real soldiers were not talking much about the war.
He escaped from a train when they should be send as POW to Russia.
Got home fortunately!
SO GREAT.
But he was ābroken manā after being at the front for such a long time.
1942 - 1945 in Russia.
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Interesting relationship between magnets in compasses and what stops all (*) exploding stars becoming black holes.
Electrons have spin and are Fermions which must not be in the same Quantum state, so certain atoms have electrons in a net spin, others net no spin. Those with net spin are natural magnets, if you heat them up in a magnetic field then they become permanent magnets, which is what is in your compass.
Inside the sun, once the core fuses hydrogen finally into iron it explodes and the core collapses. What stops it collapsing to a black hole is the same spin and each electron must be in a different quantum state.
The iron ejected in the explosion is in your compass.
All very interesting stuff (to me at least!)
(* Vastly simplified version there are white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes and each is due to different mass but most stars end up white dwarfs which rely on electron degeneracy quantum phenomenon to not become neutron stars, and is the same Quantum state truth which makes magnets)
Thats a shame you donāt have any info from your father.
And amazing he escaped and got home, so many didnāt.
I couldnāt imagine being a front line soldier. I guess many didnāt really know what they were going into.
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Indeed.
They had no chance to āescapeā from that.
On all sides of that war.
āThe Fatherlandā was calling you.
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Hope everyone had a good weekend 
I barely did anything this weekend
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This is the only apple we will get this year.
A lonesome one.
First I got two but the other fall off.
50% of the harvest is gone.
I have to ask Brussels (EU) for some subventions.
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But what a nice looking apple it is @Chiquinho
Maybe a letter to the EU for farming subsidies as you have lost so much of your crop this year.
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I will do Paul.
50 percent is too much.
Reduction from two to one! 
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My girls were out in the woods here
The got wonderful mushrooms.
Is there anybody who knows about?
I have some knowledge about.
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We made a phantastic ragout and some Knoedel (what else ).
But this is not so important.
Take a look at the mushrooms.
Those are the 3 types they found.
All delicious.
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