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on my trip to Topeka...before they became the "Me Too" cars..

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Somewhere over Kansas..

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Omaha Beach Cemetery, Normandy France. 60th Anniversary of D-Day (June 6th, 1944).
One of the most impressively humbling places on earth if you are a history fan.



Looking out of Versailles Palace into the formal gardens in France.



The Venus de Milo in the Louvre Museum in Paris France. This survived since the time of the Greeks. Wonderful place to visit.



Iceland from the air. Flew over it twice to get to and from Europe. I have a few more photos, but this one is probably the neatest.



Also at the Omaha Beach Cemetery in Normandy France. You can't see it but to the right is a wall of thousands of names of the Missing in Action. The wall is over 300 feet long and has names very similar to the Vietnam Memorial, but is only of those whose remains were never found.



This is the Maeuse Turm in Germany on the Rhine River.

From Wikipedia:
Hatto II, the Archbishop of Mainz, restored the tower in 968. The story of how it came to be called the "Mouse Tower" comes from a folk tale. This popular legend goes as follows: Hatto II was a cruel ruler who oppressed and exploited the peasants in his domain. He used the tower as a platform for crossbowmen and demanded tribute from passing ships, shooting their crews if they did not comply. During a famine in 974 the poor people were without food, and Hatto, having all the grain stored up in his barns, used his monopoly to sell it at such a high price that most could not afford any.

The peasants were getting angry and organizing to rebel, so Hatto devised a cruel trick. He promised to feed the hungry people and told them to go to an empty barn and wait for him to come with food. The peasants were overjoyed and praised Hatto heartily, and all of them journeyed to the barn to await his coming.

When he showed up with his servants he ordered the barn's doors shut and locked, then set the barn on fire and burned the peasants to death, saying "They are like mice, only good for eating up the grain." When Hatto retired to his castle, he was besieged by an army of mice. He fled the swarm and took a boat across the river to his tower, hoping that the mice could not swim. The mice followed him and rushed into the river by the thousands. Many of them drowned, but even more crawled onto the island. There, they ate through the tower's doors and crawled up to the top floor, where they found Hatto and ate him alive.

Some say that the Devil appeared to Hatto in this moment and offered him salvation from the mice in return for his soul. Hatto accepted.

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