oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2006-12 00053

[mstulken <mstulken(a)wi.net>]

You're right, Fred.  Things are soooo close there.  I was in touch with a
distant cousin a while back.  He had taken a bus load of cousins from
Holland to the Osnabruck area.  He said "it's only a couple of hours
away."  I was amazed.  I always tend to think of Europe as a bigger area
than it is.

Your study of windmills sounds like fun.  You should write a book.

My hubby reminds me that the later development of the extra wheel to keep
the bigger blades pointed into the wind is much the same principle as used
on helicopters.

Marilyn





> On 12/20/06, mstulken(a)wi.net <mstulken(a)wi.net> wrote:
>> Thank you, Fred.  That's most fascinating.
>>
>> There must also have been windmills farther south, too—in Spain.  Wasn't
>> Don Quixote fighting with windmills at one point?
>>
>> Marilyn
>>
>
> Of course but we were discussing Holland and Oldenburg. You could walk
> from one to the other. It was only a day's walk across some land held
> by Hannover to get to the Netherlands.
>
> In any case, windmills started in early on the middle east especially
> present day Iran.
>
> The windmills in Spain are different from those we find in northern
> Europe. They are solid building made out of stone. I've travelled the
> area and could well imagine the road to La Mancha with the mills
> sitting high in the hills. It doesn't take much imagination to have
> you want to ride against them. :-) Cervantes first published that
> story in 1605 and it talks about an earlier time. So windmills were
> around in Spain early on for sure too. :-)
>
> Fred
>
>
> Fred
>
>
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