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- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
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- Subject: Re: Trademark legends
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.000050.8755@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:00:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.143853.4472@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec24.090824.20013@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec28.035056.28763@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.035056.28763@samba.oit.unc.edu> Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey) writes:
- >The Bayer pharmeceutical company was based in the southern German state of
- >Bayern, which is the German term for Bavaria.
-
- Give this one an "F". Encyclopaedia Brittanica says it's named for its
- founder, Friedrich Bayer, and was originally based in Weppertal-Barmen (sic,
- don't they mean Wuppertal-Barmen?), and is now headquartered near Cologne,
- neither of which is anywhere near Bavaria. They're both in what is today
- the Bundesland of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
-
- >Mike "I'll have another "Hefe-Weizen" Oniffrey - Chapel Hill, NC, USA
-
- Meet me at Southern Season sometime and I'll buy you one.
-
- Bruce "Na ja" Tindall
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