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Re: [NABOKV-L] fountains and the metric systemDear Jansy,
"The butterfly of doom" has to do not with Napoleonic wars, but with the murder of the tsar Alexander II in 1881. According to VN, the pattern on the butterfly's wings looks like 1881. There were unusually many Vanessa atalanta butterflies in St. Petersburg in the spring and summer of 1881.
"acht" can mean many things in German (for example, "exile"), but it is not "pay attention" (Achtung!), as you affirm.
Avdey Sky de la Renko (I mean, Alexey Sklyarenko)
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"The butterfly of doom" has to do not with Napoleonic wars, but with the murder of the tsar Alexander II in 1881. According to VN, the pattern on the butterfly's wings looks like 1881. There were unusually many Vanessa atalanta butterflies in St. Petersburg in the spring and summer of 1881.
"acht" can mean many things in German (for example, "exile"), but it is not "pay attention" (Achtung!), as you affirm.
Avdey Sky de la Renko (I mean, Alexey Sklyarenko)
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