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I’ve got a little over two weeks left at Okefenokee, and I’m getting short timer’s attitude.  Some people call it hitch itch, but I have noticed that as the time for me to move on nears, I become less tolerant of minor irritations.  Same thing happened just before I retired almost seven years ago.  The excitement of new horizons builds, and the attitude turns to “What can they do?  Fire me?”  I’ve been at this volunteer assignment longer than any other I’ve had, and I guess I’m ready to move on.  It seems to happen every time as the departure date nears.  I’ve spent the last two days between roving and working the VC.  This is the busy season here, and work in the VC is non-stop as hundreds of visitors come in.  Roving and observing the wildlife is a welcome break from all the harried activity. I got a call on the radio this morning that fellow fulltimers and bloggers, Randy and Pam , had arrived at the VC.  I headed in, picked t...

No fuss and fuss over their people appreciate both not. Today this is so, and that was 60 years ago no different when Prince Armin  zur Lippe  and Princess Traute of Lippe  tied the knot Just because Prince Armin and his bride Marie Elisabeth Traute Becker wanterd now crowds at their church Wedding on 29.03.1953, the ceremony got a little unusual. Today can both laugh at the anecdotes that have grown up around it. Everything said Prince Armin zur Lippe  had already begun at the civil Wedding on 27.03. when the  Göttinger registrar  absolutely not wanted to recognize the name Prince zurf Lippe. Although 1950 had been enforced by the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia by name approval decision, but: "Your father was a Fürst, so you are also a Fürst" Armin cites the  registrar. Which eventually had to be convinced not only by the birth certificate, but also by the birth protocol in which the Chamb...

The Ducal House of Anhalt House of Askania Since 1863 the member of the Ducal Family bear the Title Prince/Princess of Anhalt with the style of Highness.  The male members further bear the titles Duke of Saxony and Count zu Ascania. The first known ancestor of the Family is the swabian Count Esico of Ballenstädt in the 11th Century   The principal source for the genealogy of the early Ascanians is the   Anna Lista Saxo , which was written in the  in the middle of the 12th Century . However, the data are not supported by any contemporary evidence . Accordingly Esico was a maternal grandson of Margrave Hodo ( † 993) and inherited after the death of his uncle Siegfried († 1030) several allodial estates in Swabia and Serimuntgau .  The name of Esico's father is unknown , u ntil in much later written genealogies   the name Adalbert was added  because of the around the year 1080 murdered Count Adalbert was called a...