Here is a curiosity for you Lit fans and otherwise illiterate. jeje

Book: The Pocket Kipling
"The Day's Work"
Doubleday,Page and Co. 1924
printed in the United States

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http://www.kipling.org.uk/facts_swastik.htm

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Ralph

1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...

Nice Article. Thanks.

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1979 300D 220 K miles
1995 C280 109 K miles
1992 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe 57K miles SOLD
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1979 240D 140Kmiles (bought for parents) *SOLD.
SAN FRANCISCO/(*San Diego)
1989 300SE 148 K miles *SOLD

The plain fact is the Swastika was a good luck charm used,not only by those in India and Indochine,but in the American southwest among the navahos and Hopis.

Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna,wife of Nikolai II also adopted it as her personal talisman,as did several German and American World War I aces,who had it painted upon their fighter planes,this,while Herr Hitler was still employed as a lowly messenger in the German trenches,so there.........

Question: Do you like Kipling?

Ans: I don't know, I've never kipled.

It was, and still is, used on the planes and airforce planes in Finland.
It predated the Nazi Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") which is forbidden on models anjd pictures in Germany today. (The replica first replica ME262 flew in Germany this year - see www.stormbirds.com )

Even though Finland turned to the Nazis for help from the Nazis after Stalin bombed Helsinki and then invaded Finland in 1939, when ALL of the allied forces turned a deaf ear to their cries for help. Finland recaptured its lost territory (sought nothing more than that), and Hitler visited Finnish President Mannerheim and presented him with a beautiful Mercedes 770K, but the Soviets forced an armistice upon the Finns in 1944 and forced them to drive out the German forces through Lappland, and give up 10% of their entire nation to Russia (mostly the land around Murmansk to get the nickel mines at Petsamo, and all of the Eastern Karelia territory to have more land around Leningrad)

Has nothing to do with the German National Socialist symbol though. Althouogh neither of them trusted the communists of Russia

But it did give me a jolt the first time I went into a hanger North of Helsinki and saw one (a blue one) on a plane

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On a Chinese map it indicates a temple.

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

In India, the swastika was a fertility symbol, and is known in heraldry as the fylfot ("four feet").

The Austrian corporal ruined a perfectly good symbol.
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Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

Yeah I've seen North American Indian baskets with the swatstika. Two crossed S shapes also were forerunners of that symbol or concurrent.

but what does that have to do with halloween???

:fork_off:

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1979 300D 220 K miles
1995 C280 109 K miles
1992 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe 57K miles SOLD
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1979 240D 140Kmiles (bought for parents) *SOLD.
SAN FRANCISCO/(*San Diego)
1989 300SE 148 K miles *SOLD