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...Tory Row, the Hooper Lee Nichols House on Brattle St. is said to be home to the ghosts of five Hessian mercenaries who fought in the Revolution. Legend has it they first appeared in 1915, when a library was built on the sight of their graves. They Hessian quintet has been playing cards in the room ever since...
...more difficult to meet of late. Last year the 1st Armored Corps Association had to call off a reunion in Bad Harzburg when demonstrations erupted and a local court banned the meeting. Veterans of the 3rd SS Armored Division did gather in the village of Oberaula in the Hessian hills, but so did 5,000 anti- Nazi demonstrators and 700 helmeted police. The welcome in Nesselwang is not expected to be much friendlier: an anti-SS rally has been scheduled for next week...
...West Germany's growth rate in 1983 would not be 3%, as previously stated by Schmidt, but less than 2%, increasing the budget deficit by $4 billion. To make matters worse, Lambsdorff the week before had openly endorsed the F.D.P.-Christian Democrat alliance in Hesse, declaring that "the Hessian voter will decide what he thinks of a change of the Free Democrats into another coalition." His remarks infuriated Schmidt, who lashed out at Lambsdorff in a Cabinet meeting for discussing the Hesse defection in public...
Whatever its origin, the Christmas tree spread throughout Germany and was brought to America by Hessian troops during the Revolutionary War. But the tree did not gain popularity until the mid-1800's, when a picture of Queen Victoria's elaborate fir appeared in Godey's Lady's Book, the fashionable magazine...
Coolly poised to repel the attack, the British forces moved forward, Hessian grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts. Almost as one, the Continentals opened with a fusillade of musket and rifle fire. The British responded with a volley of their own. The smoke cleared. A Red Cross truck lumbered across the field to pick up the fallen, all of them victims of heat exhaustion...