And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
There‘s a hidden bear inside the mountain on the Toblerone Chocolate Bar logo, because the first Tobler chocolate factory was established in Bern, Switzerland.
Interesting in that New Bern, NC was named after Bern. (My name was changed from Koonce to Townsend when I was adopted by my aunt after my mother died when I was thirteen months old. BT) "The Koonce family of North Carolina originated in the Palatinate, the region along the upper Rhine River in Southern Germany, which supplied a large proportion of the Swiss and German colonists who founded the town of New Bern, NC in 1710 under the leadership of Baron Christopher De Graffenreid. The founder of the family in North Carolina was Johann Christian Kunitzsli, which was anglicized to John Koonce. John, his wife, and six children, survived the hardships of the voyage to America only to encounter worst misfortunes upon arrival in Virginia in April 1710. More at link below. http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=119&highlight=bern
Too bad they made a big deal out of going "halal" not too long ago. Lost me as a customer when they did that.
ReplyDeleteI won't eat chocolate that has been dedicated to some moon god or demon.
Interesting in that New Bern, NC was named after Bern.
ReplyDelete(My name was changed from Koonce to Townsend when I was adopted by my aunt after my mother died when I was thirteen months old. BT)
"The Koonce family of North Carolina originated in the Palatinate, the region along the upper Rhine River in Southern Germany, which supplied a large proportion of the Swiss and German colonists who founded the town of New Bern, NC in 1710 under the leadership of Baron Christopher De Graffenreid. The founder of the family in North Carolina was Johann Christian Kunitzsli, which was anglicized to John Koonce. John, his wife, and six children, survived the hardships of the voyage to America only to encounter worst misfortunes upon arrival in Virginia in April 1710. More at link below.
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=119&highlight=bern