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Swastikas, Roman Gear, modern reenactment (cont from market)
Going back (slightly) on topic, from today's Financial Times online:-

"Talk about bending over. Barclays has agreed to drop the eagle from its corporate logo if it succeeds in taking over ABN Amro because some people in the Netherlands are worried about its Nazi connotations. Sure, the Netherlands were occupied and the UK wasn't so the eagle may be more upsetting there. But, as the Nazis knew, the eagle , which Barclays has had for more than 200 years, is a symbol dating back at least as far as the Roman, Egyptian and Persian empires. John Varley must know this – he has a first in history. So, will Barclays staff (who will keep the eagle in the UK) object to ABN Amro's shield, which is being retained, on the grounds that it stirs up unpleasant memories of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the 17th and 18th centuries? And will ABN's sponsorship of yacht racing remind people of how the Dutch sailed up the Medway to burn the British fleet? Of course not.

This is not the only silly story we're enjoying today..."

And the offending eagle is below...how daft can people get?




http://www.cihscotland-conference.org/u ... s_logo.JPG
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Confusedhock: :? roll:

Narukami
David Reinke
Burbank CA
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All press releases say it's from a source close to the negotiations. So it sounds to me like it's either a hair brained market analyst or they're trying to come up with reasons why they need either a new logo for both banks or why different parts of the new bank will have different logos. There's a lot of trading going on when there is close to 90 billion US involved...
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
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Yea, you can't believe some of the hair-brained politics going on behind-the-scenes with ABN AMRO, believe me, I know... :roll:
-Christy Beall
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Actually, this is another Barclays logo I believe, and don't believe the hype.
[url:luoxkfy2]http://www.georgianindex.net/banking_economics/spread_eagle.gif[/url]

The wealthiest customers for Barclays will be the older ones, and they will have sent out Marketing operatives to check them out. For all we know those more elderly Dutch ladies and gents might just have responded in some way that marketing people can detect thrugh their multiple question and answer sessions, amd revealed the more elderly thought it reminded them of the war, and therefore was a negative response and would make them go somewhere else.

Cue a few Dutch people who have brought the point up anyway, and hey presto, Barclays have the perfect reason for not using the logo without kicking up a fuss about how marketing governs everything. Better to be seen as over-sensitive, rather than marketing-led, greedy and driven only by the purpose of getting your money in their vaults.

Don't underestimate the power of marketing - just look at the music charts. Big Grin
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
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http://www.cihscotland-conference.org/u ... s_logo.JPG

You call that an eagle?

Now this is an eagle!
:lol:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Bestiario.html

(scroll down a half page)

sorry, I couldn't resist......... Smile
Tom Mallory
NY, USA
Wannabe winner of the corona
graminea and the Indy 500.
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Wouldn't want to be the Aquilifer carrying that beast! :lol: :lol:
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Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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Damn!!!!!!!!!!! Born in the wrong Century :evil: :evil: :evil:

I could have gone "souvenir collecting" in Rome with the "tourists" of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

Thats what I would have taken for a souvenir :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ...apart from the Pope's gold offcourse :twisted: :twisted:

Kind regards
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For those who like to reenact swastika's alternative nonbanned symbol from late roman period
these fibulae were published by M. Buora Arheoloski Vestnik 43.1992 Ljubljana
N. Gudea has other opinion on dating in Arch Korespondenzblatt 2002/1,
Mainz
Stefan Pop-Lazic
by a stuff demand, and personal hesitation
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