Word: rotenburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorable. The remarkable thing about it is that either of its extremes are short-cuts to glory. A well-known instance of the way a man wrote his name into history by the alternative of excess is that which came to pass one day in the German city of Rotenburg. General Tilly was about to sack the place when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon...
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