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  • It was originally a military airfield during the war, which explains why there are bombs in the ground.

    Eh, at my local train station in a bigger city in Austria they still find American and English bombs every year. Whenever something is dug up for repairs or to expand the train station or for whichever other reason, a bomb specialist is examining the area first, when they find a bomb they either safely remove it to detonate it somewhere else, or if its too unstable (roughly every five years if my memory serves me right) we get radio broadcasts warning us when it will be detonated so we can prepare (close all windows, sometimes those living near it have to leave their houses).

    That train station wasn’t involved with the military (apart from soldiers using trains for transport, but by that logic you can bomb anything because soldiers use houses for sleeping and hospitals for medical treatment etc.), but sadly both Germany and the UK tried to destroy as much as possible in the other country.









  • Euouae

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae

    Euouae (/juː.ˈuː.iː/; sometimes spelled Evovae)[1] is an abbreviation used as a musical mnemonic in Latin psalters and other liturgical books of the Roman Rite. It stands for the syllables of the Latin words saeculorum Amen, taken from the Gloria Patri, a Christian doxology that concludes with the phrase in saecula saeculorum. Amen. The mnemonic is used to notate the variable melodic endings (differentiae) of psalm tones in Gregorian chant.

    In some cases, the letters of Euouae may be further abbreviated to E—E.[2] A few books of English chant (notably Burgess and Palmer’s The Plainchant Gradual) make use of oioueae for the equivalent English phrase, “world without end. Amen”.

    According to Guinness World Records, Euouae is the longest word in the English language consisting only of vowels, and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels.[3] As a mnemonic originating from Latin, it is unclear that it should count as an English word; however, it is found in the unabridged Collins English Dictionary.[4]