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Old 27-05-2005, 01:39 PM   #9
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Heh... one of the most popular children stories (Martin Krpan) is based on a simple Slovene farmer who was smuggling English salt from the coast inland (at the time the Habsburgs closed their ports to England at the request of Napoleon)...
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