Imagine
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Several times a week I go over to the center of Aachen. To the Old Town. Charlemagne’s cathedral from 800 A.D. is there, so is Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Starbucks, and the little Turkish
hole in the wall that I eat at often. I almost always sit at the same table. I’m sure I have eaten there 20 or probably many more times.
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This afternoon I looked up at a picture on the wall and I realized, “Hey that is the Imagine memorial to John Lennon at Strawberry Fields in Central Park, N.Y.” So I got up to look at it closer, and the young Turkish guy who runs the place smiled and pointed around. All of the pictures on all the walls were different ones he had taken in the Big Apple.
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I frequently tell visitors the following story. Charlemagne was the most powerful man in the world in 800 A.D. The Pope in Rome asked him for favors. Really. He was later canonized.
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If you look at the map of the territory Karl the Great controlled it is very similar indeed to the modern day European Union. This extremely wealthy, powerful man could have lived anywhere he wanted. In the South of France, or Rome, or Paris. And he chose as his most favourite palace and the place to build his cathedral what we know of today as Aachen.
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Same with the first man to ever build an all metal airplane, Hugo Junkers. He had factories all
over Europe. And he chose to live in Aachen. Nowadays his house is a museum with his amazing collections from the Roman times to the middle ages. So honest, Aachen is really a pretty nice place.
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But here is this guy who knows Turkey (Asia Minor) quite well. And his restaurant is maybe 20 yards away from Charlemagne’s palace in Aachen. And all the pictures on the walls of his place are ones that he took in New York City in 2001. And his very most favourite picture is the one of the Imagine memorial to John Lennon.
Several times a week I go over to the center of Aachen. To the Old Town. Charlemagne’s cathedral from 800 A.D. is there, so is Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Starbucks, and the little Turkish
hole in the wall that I eat at often. I almost always sit at the same table. I’m sure I have eaten there 20 or probably many more times.-
This afternoon I looked up at a picture on the wall and I realized, “Hey that is the Imagine memorial to John Lennon at Strawberry Fields in Central Park, N.Y.” So I got up to look at it closer, and the young Turkish guy who runs the place smiled and pointed around. All of the pictures on all the walls were different ones he had taken in the Big Apple.
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I frequently tell visitors the following story. Charlemagne was the most powerful man in the world in 800 A.D. The Pope in Rome asked him for favors. Really. He was later canonized.
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If you look at the map of the territory Karl the Great controlled it is very similar indeed to the modern day European Union. This extremely wealthy, powerful man could have lived anywhere he wanted. In the South of France, or Rome, or Paris. And he chose as his most favourite palace and the place to build his cathedral what we know of today as Aachen.
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Same with the first man to ever build an all metal airplane, Hugo Junkers. He had factories all
over Europe. And he chose to live in Aachen. Nowadays his house is a museum with his amazing collections from the Roman times to the middle ages. So honest, Aachen is really a pretty nice place.-
But here is this guy who knows Turkey (Asia Minor) quite well. And his restaurant is maybe 20 yards away from Charlemagne’s palace in Aachen. And all the pictures on the walls of his place are ones that he took in New York City in 2001. And his very most favourite picture is the one of the Imagine memorial to John Lennon.
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Right On Bro! You sure have got your priorities right.
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It just goes to show that The Grass is Always Greener on the other side of the fence.
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It just goes to show that The Grass is Always Greener on the other side of the fence.
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