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💬🌳🏛🖼️📜 Quotes, nature, architecture, art and history about our homeland, Europe.
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Victoria Louise of Prussia with militar costume
"Ill is the result of letting fear rule thine actions."

- The Saga of Harald Hardrade, c.46
"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." — Adolf Hitler
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rakotzbrücke (Rakotz Bridge), Gablenz, Germany

Hidden in Kromlau's Rhododendron Park, Rakotzbrücke is a 19th-century bridge that creates a perfect stone circle when reflected in the waters below it. Rakotzbrücke is often referred to as "Devil's Bridge," since the structure seems so impossible that it must have been built by, well, the devil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLiUc1h808
A ‘holed stone’ at Cam church, Co Roscommon.

In Irish tradition, these stones were often associated with making agreements, the contract being sealed by the participants joining hands/fingers through the hole and swearing an oath. These promises could involve legal pledges or even the exchange of marriage vows.
"If they wish to fight today, let them come like men."
- Bohemund of Antioch