Comments on: Gazza http://www.droug.co.uk/gazza.html Doug Scott's thoughts and opinions Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Maurice http://www.droug.co.uk/gazza.html/comment-page-1#comment-94 Maurice Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:45:47 +0000 http://www.asapventures.co.uk/blog/gazza.html#comment-94 >>"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace" Err actualy No Orson didn't know his history well untill the 19th century the Swiss where VERYwell known as mercenaries and ones with a very bad rep ie save you last crsosbow bolt for your wife/child/livstock :-) >>”In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace”

Err actualy No Orson didn’t know his history well untill the 19th century the Swiss where VERYwell known as mercenaries and ones with a very bad rep ie save you last crsosbow bolt for your wife/child/livstock :-)

]]> By: Frank Smith http://www.droug.co.uk/gazza.html/comment-page-1#comment-56 Frank Smith Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:28:11 +0000 http://www.asapventures.co.uk/blog/gazza.html#comment-56 Sorry Doug, sorry Orson: The Cuckoo clock was not a Swiss invention. Even a casual skim reading of Father Franz Steyrer's seminal work: "Geshichte der Schwarzwälder Uhrmacherkunst" reveals that the Cuckoo Clock was a German invention from about 1629 (that's the year not the time) Frank Sorry Doug, sorry Orson: The Cuckoo clock was not a Swiss invention. Even a casual skim reading of Father Franz Steyrer’s seminal work: “Geshichte der Schwarzwälder Uhrmacherkunst” reveals that the Cuckoo Clock was a German invention from about 1629 (that’s the year not the time)

Frank

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