http://www.apcbonn.de/worshipinfo.html
http://www.apcbonn.de/history_smc.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/apc_bonn/church_life.htm
http://www.bahs.org/bahspa/dsp.record.cgi?0133
http://www.jill-sommer.com/en/private/visit.htm
Posted on 08/08/2002 9:05:25 PM PDT by hole_n_one
BERLIN - A wooden chapel bequeathed to Bonn three years ago by former U.S. President Bill Clinton has turned into a liability for the city, which has had to pay 100,000 euros (dlrs 96,700) to save the historic structure from hungry beetles, authorities in the former German capital said Wednesday.
Clinton, who was attending a Group of Eight summit in nearby Cologne in 1999, donated the white colonial-style Stimson Memorial Chapel as a goodbye gesture to the Rhine river city as Germany's government transferred to Berlin.
But the cash-strapped city administration is now complaining it "turned out to be a worn-out and — in parts — rotten present."
"Rhine damp and the voracious longhorn beetles which, with an unquenchable hunger for wood, feasted on the roof and in the tower, had worked hard to destroy the timberwork," the city said in a statement.
Americans living in the former West German capital gathered at the chapel regularly over 50 years. It was named for Henry L. Stimson, the U.S. secretary of war in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Cabinet during World War II.
Restoration work started in May and should be completed at the end of August.
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idiot....
Pretty much sums up the entire 8 years of his term, doesn't it?
Scarab...beetle...Egyptian...plague...
That reminds me......
It appears that a few scarab demons sloughed off and stayed behind to tend the chapel. A gift from Xlintoon is a gift from hell.
What's brown and sounds like a bell?
I rarely do. Heh heh heh. I thought the former could be a chemical in glue or floorpaint, but I'm not a zoologist, and you might be. I would resort to a dictionary but don't have time. The latter above I would guess to be in the beetle family. The former could be something else...even akin to a psycho-ceramic (la crackpot) but I'm only guessing. Please fill in the cracks.
Scarabidae - Scarab beetles, may beetles, june bettles, and others
Both these families of beetles are very large
Ex 10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
Locusts (Heb: arbeh) -- Exodus 10:1-20 -- Against Egyptian deity: Isis: goddess of life; Seth: protector of crops
697. 'arbeh
'arbeh ar-beh'
from 7235; a locust (from its rapid increase):-- grasshopper, locust.
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