Featured Amber Bear Amulet is 3500 Years Old

I thought Pomeranians were a horse breed. probably the same problem as with the English royal household - when you look at people like Princess Ann you know where the house of Hanover comes in...
just coming back from a tour of Poland I can tell you also the rest of their wording doesn't come near the spelling and it's nigh to impossible to program the navi. so I stayed with Glatz, Breslau, Danzig, Marienburg (an absolute must !), Rastenburg etc.

 

I would say, it was made in West Pomerania, it was found in West Pomerania, it is part of West Pomeranian culture and identity, and should return to West Pomerania. West Pomerania was returned to Poland as part of the war reparations, so should West Pomerania national symbols.
Not that it would work, the Germans are not very good at giving things back. They are not the only ones, most countries don't want to give things back because they would lose a large chunk of their museum collections. But this also has to do with being good neighbours, and both being members of the EU. (For the time being.)

 

I've never been to Poland, but it must be beautiful. I feel Poland is shifting its borders once again, so many Poles are here (Netherlands) now. I even find drunken Poles sleeping in our front yard occasionally. The first time I thought it was a dead body, now I know the dead body is probably a sleeping Pole.

 

Yeah, I hear you but, nations don't have permanent friends or good neighbors, nations only have permanent interests...........Lord Palmerston

 

I thought they were dogs:


One for the cute factor

 

"I feel Poland is shifting its borders once again, so many Poles are here (Netherlands) now." that's what the English thought as well before voting Yes...

 

And they thought we would join them and vote for a Nexit, well, no way! We're staying put.
Besides, when they're not drunk, they are very good builders, etc. We need them. And they are polite, except when they're drunk....

 

Beloved England .. Joy.

 

Beloved England .. Joy.

 

It was actually alors who said that, but I agree, no politics.

 

I agree also ... Joy.

 

Yeah! LOL, Let us get back to THE BEAR! Immigration is a tricky subject, even here in America where we are all immigrants, mostly legal though. Generally speaking i would say immigration has to be a WIN - WIN to be successful, good for the immigrant, good for the nation taking them. Once you get off that win-win path, you are going to have issues, simple as that.

 

And no, Germany ain't gonna give back that Bear, they have a decent historical claim if Davey info is correct.

 

perhaps that bear was an immigrant ?

 

Tell you what, immigrant or not, that Bear is cool as can be! Similar to William the Hippo at the MET. COOL!

 

William is 4000 years old.

 

That was made by Prussians and gifted to Russia.
The Germans stole it during WWII and took it to a castle in Königsberg, East Prussia. The castle was bombed, but most of the amber room probably survived.
Königsberg became part of the USSR and was renamed Kaliningrad. The castle ruins were demolished by the Soviets under Brezhnev, it is thought that is when the amber room disappeared forever. They have made a reconstruction however.
The reconstruction: