Re: Historic Tripoint: Russia / Germany / Austria-Hungary
aletheia kallos <aletheiak-/[email protected]>
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welcome nicky & thanx for all the great news tho i got only as far as this tantalizing teaser page http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/article_info.php?articles_id=244 so please do follow up as soon as possible with the balance of the report if you can or with as much as you can if you cant in the meantime these excerpts from our recent ongoing & perhaps even simultaneous quest for your great english quadripoint may interest you as well as explain my excitement over seeing it evidently referred to in your article http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19709 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19710 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19712 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19714 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19716 indeed your article fairly promises to be an answer to our calls for help also about your above title the following much older highlight from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1715 A very nice site about the old tp atderu: http://www.zollgeschichte.de/monatskarten/11_98.htm To continue: click on Dreikaiserreichsecke. Lots of old postcards. --- Nicky Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > The September 2006 issue of hidden europe magazine > has an article on the > art of bagging tripoints. The tripoint and > quadripoint examples it > includes are possibly well worn examples, many > surely well-known to > members of this forum. But it does include a report > from the point, > southeast of Myslowice in southern Poland, where a > hundred years ago the > territories of three great empires met at a > tri-point. The > Dreikaiserreichs Ecke is nowadays a rather forlorn > spot, but there was a > time when visiting this tripoint was seen as a > curious excursion. There > are many late nineteenth century postcards of the > spot, many including > images of the Kaiser, the Tsar and the Austrian > Emperor. For those > interested, the hidden europe website is at > www.hiddeneurope.co.uk > <http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk> . The magazine has > regularly carried > articles on aspects of life in any around European > borders. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BoundaryPoint-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/