RIVER CRUISING - DID YOU KNOW ?

Here are some interesting, quick and fun tidbits on European rivers ...

* The Danube is famously mentioned in the Strauss waltz Blue Danube, but it was Romanian composer Ion Ivanovici who took the world by storm when his waltz titled
* The Waves of the Danube was performed at the 1889 World Exposition in Paris.
* The name “Rhine” comes from the Celtic Renos, literally “that which flows,” from the Proto-Indo-European root rei- (“to flow, run”), which also gave birth to the verb “to run” in English.
* The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the sixteenth century.
* The winding course of the Main River is the reason for its considerable length— 239 miles. If it were straight, it would be probably be less than half its current length.
* At the end of WWI, the Rhineland was subject to the Treaty of Versailles, which created quite a bit of bitterness in Germany and was one of the many reasons for WWII. The reoccupation of the Rhineland by Nazi Germany increased Hitler’s popularity in Germany.

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