You've never seen the Wizard of Oz?

I'm sorry it was on the wide screen when I was a little child, how silly of me. http://www3.christianforums.com/images/smilies/doh.gif

It could've been the one of his country men in charge of Area 51 for all I know. :lol:

That one looked quite different...

http://maridor.free.fr/images/kammler.jpg
-->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kammler

Reichsflugscheiben aside, I wonder when those Fallis in Russia pictures were taken.
I suppose mid 1990s for the simple reason that I didnt see a single G 36.
Maybe it was one of the early PFP exercises.

Re Thüringen, the state is quite interesting, even though I'm totally against state patriotism, I'm german and nothing else. States have too much power in Germany and they would best be reduced to pure administrative purposes in my opinion.
The Wartburg, Eisenach, Weimar, a bunch of other nice cities as Erfurt.
Plus the whole WW2 Area 51 crap like Mittelbau-Dora, the giant underground V2 factory.
Btw, the "drei Gleichen" Area is where according to one book Germany tested a nuclear bomb in 45.
"Drei Gleichen" (wordplay, "three equals, but one of the castles is named Gleichen) area a group of three medieval castles aligned in a triangle over a large area, each sitting on a lone hill. Looks quite mysterious.

Yeah, that's exactly the area, where I live. The local tale has it, that during a storm lighning was stroking
all at the same time. But here almost 'every little village' has some castle or castle-ruins on the hill top above it...
http://www.dreinschlag.de/blitz.jpg
Some of the Castles in Thuringia:
-> http://www.thueringerschloesser.de/m...&config=&part=

Ok, I suppose the castle density in the southern half of Germany is higher than anywhere else in the world, except maybe Scotland. Look up www.burgtour.de for a very incomplete and regionally biased list of castles, ruins and remains.
For my first years, I spent every vacation with my grandparents climbing up and down Windeck Castle in Weinheim/Bergstrasse.
Today, I know Windeck is nothing special at all, but in my youth this ruin was every story of Knights and heroism and so. I suppose today's parents would get hysterical when their children would climb the same walls and go down the same dungeons I did, even though it was only around 1985. :)
But the drei Gleichen is simply a magnificent sight, even from the Autobahn.
First time I saw them it was enroute to Berlin, on a sunny January morning with snow.

As 'Miss Thuringia Castle' i would vote for the Leuchtenburg at Kahla.
http://www.museum-leuchtenburg.de/de...s/start-kl.jpg

But that with the Auobahn (A4) and the Drei Gleichen is right. It's really a fantastic sight. Even at night because the castles are lightet with floodlights. Even better is to drive the A71 between Suhl and Arnstadt through the Turingian Forest. (Thüringer Waldautobahn) There are 5 or 6 Tunnels, one the 'Rennsteigtunnel' is the longest in Germany. And between the tunnels are huge bridges over whole valleys - would be something for games like 'Need of Speed'.

http://pictransfer.de/uploads/bruecke2491d769jpg.jpg
--> http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/tour_germany/thuringia.htm

That would make a nice greeting card Smaragdadler, thanks. :yep:




http://www.dreinschlag.de/blitz.jpg

http://pictransfer.de/uploads/4380046a090fbeJPG.jpg
Big online-archiv of castle fotos (not just Thuringia):
http://www.digitalstock.de/kategorie...id=&abilder=32

It means "next", just so you know like. sledooshtaya would proabably be a better phonetic spelling.

You are right, of course. I just 'spelled' the letters it in German...
But means it really 'next' in russian? I still think it comes from English 'slideshow'...

PS: google says:
следующая to English -> "next"
but also
'Slideshow' to Russian -> Слайдшоу
nächste to English -> next
nächste to Russian -> следующий

It really has nothing to do in no way with 'slideshow'? :hmm:
So I have translated it 'right' - but was only 'a blind Курица, who had found a corn...'?
http://smoking-room.ru/data/pnp/20_mif/840884.jpg
:lol:

I can very much asure you that it means next, in fact your German to Russian shows that as well. Cледующий is just the masculine of следующая.

That's one of my favorites, castle Eltz.
Never destroyed, never even surrendered, still in possesion of the very family that build it. A so called "Ganerbenburg", which means that it is serveral castles in one, with all branches of the family living in the same castle.
Eltz is in Rheinland-Pfalz near the Mosel river, upriver from Koblenz, I think. Has been a while since I was there.
There's the ruins of a smaller fortress on the other side of the valley called "trutz dem Eltz" which was build when the castle was besieged in the middle ages..

So 'it' really has NOTHING to do with the english WORD 'slideshow'?
'следующая' was the russian word for 'next' since - ... ?

(Nothing wrong with that for me - i had russian in school, long ago, - but that was it...

ja lljubljou
tei ljoublisch
on (ona, ono) ljoublit

meij ljoublim
tei ljoublischet (?)
oni ljoubljat...
:up:

(that's all, what is left of my по-немецки -schkola-russian...) :cool:

Yes. I like it too. (just the look of it - was never there...)

I have an A-Level in russian, you are just going to have to trust me on this one, and my russian dictionary agrees:

Cледующий: following, next.

'dostrobrimilschtschatischtschjinost' means "Sehenswürdigkeiten' - (famous) sights in a town... [I'm really proud to "know" this one] and 'pamnjatnik' means monument. That's all (more ore less), what's left...
So, I believe you.
:D

@ "AntEater":
I have posted some of my castle-fotos in this subsim-thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=Thuringia
(Wachsenburg - one of the three Gleichen - the only not in ruins...)

lol, that is about the first word we learn in Russian at my school, it is just so hilariously long, especailly compared to the English

Some more castle (ruins) pics taken by myself:
It shows the ruins of Castle Hohnstein on the southern Harz:

http://pictransfer.de/uploads/062a3e926d4jpg.jpg
http://pictransfer.de/uploads/074cbc5e3b1jpg.jpg
http://pictransfer.de/uploads/11544e64dbbjpg.jpg
http://pictransfer.de/uploads/1170ab84992jpg.jpg
http://pictransfer.de/uploads/13976cdb86bjpg.jpg