Dear Otto and All,
Concerning our meeting location enclosed, please find files (from Amazon) about book of Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse entitled "Microcosm: A portrait of a Central European City".
The book "is an in-depth account of a city now in Poland and presently called Wroclaw. The city has only been Polish since the Second World War. Before that it was the very German city of Breslau. And before that it was, at various times, part of the kingdom of Bohemia, the Hapsburg Empire and the Prussia of Frederick the Great. In different centuries it has been known as Wrotizla, as Wretslaw, as Presslaw and as Bresslau. Its Polish, German and Jewish communities intermingled to produce both a unique city and one that reflected and embodied all the different currents that have flowed together over a millennium to create the story of Central Europe".
Best regards, Adam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Spaniol" spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de To: ifip-tc6@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [ifip-tc6] Statistics + history
Dear all,
our attendance statistics for meeting 2005/2 has improved: already 21 delegates promised to attend (see attachment).
I'm still waiting for responses from some of you; see below. We might or should expect some 10 more attendees out of this sublist, in particular from the different Working Groups(!).
Concerning our meeting location, namely Wroclaw (a really wonderful city, you'll be delighted!), I found a really interesting comment in my absolutely favoured travel guide, i.e. the Lonely Planet, who describes one of Wroclaw's hotels (namely the hotel Monopol - this is not our hotel for the meeting) as follows: "Wroclaw's oldest hotel has seen quite a few famous faces in its century-plus lifetime, not least a certain Herr Hitler, who used to rant from the balcony during the German occupation." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "During the German occupation" of a town who came 1741 to Prussia after having been in the Habsburg empire for more than two centuries..." Who said that history can be interpreted differently depending on the viewpoint of the historian? ;-) ;-) ;-)
Best wishes Otto
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No answers yet received concerning participation from:
Theorode Apostolopoulos Greece Javier Diaz Argentina Hong Doan Australia Imad Sabooni Syria Raouf Boutaba WG 6.6 Lyman Chapin USA, ACM Dominique Gaiti WG 6.7 Elie Najm WG 6.1 Guy Omidyar WG 6.8 Giancarlo Prati Italy Guy Pujolle WG 6.2 Ioannis Stavrakakis WG 6.3 Samir Tohmé France Janez Bester Slovenia John Derrick WG 6.1 Villy Baek Iversen Denmark Dipak Khakhar Sweden Miquel Nicolau i Vila Andorra Harry Perros WG 6.10 Boon Sain Yeo Singapore
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