just plain weird

[xatalantax]

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=976482003

AN EXTRAORDINARY 19th- century plot by German nobility to take over Texas and turn it into a German country has been uncovered by a historian looking through old records of some of Germany’s oldest families.

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[xenoglaux]

Crazy germans!

[mvoid.livejournal.com]

i wish they had followed through! texas (in general) is a pain in the ass...

[jedi.livejournal.com]

If they succeeded.. would we be listening to angry german industrial country music now?

Or cheesy techno remixes of Shania Twaine?

...or worse... cowboys in lederhosen!

[cosinezero.livejournal.com]

That's an almost brilliant plot for it too... i wonder if it'd still work. Hrm...

[damiel.livejournal.com]

But instead of that, he was met by a US spy who drank him under the table and intercepted the information that was then sent to the White House."

F*ck! *SO* close!

[fudjo.livejournal.com]

Wow...This puts the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) under a whole new light.

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

In Gore Vidal's Burr, it is mentioned that Burr was planning to settle Texas with German colonists. I wonder if in his researches, Vidal came across the same documents.