RE: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA

2008-01-08 Thread Louise Power
Mary Thiesse wrote: When I was there in 1988 they told the same story to the English speaking groups and the Slovenians, however, the same story was not told to the German group. I was with people that were listening to each of the different tours. Does that mean it didn't happen? Or they just

Re: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA

2008-01-08 Thread Mary Thiesse
Louise wrote> >During the tour the guide told our group a story that during WWII, the Germans >headquartered in the nearby castle and stored their ammunition in the entry >way of the cave. The story further went that partisans came into the cave >through another entrance and blew up the ammuni

RE: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA two

2008-01-08 Thread Fritz Holt
We probably have one that hasn't been discovered yet. Jean, where are you? Fritz -Original Message- From: Gill Ediger [mailto:gi...@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:40 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA two OK, everybody, h

RE: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA two

2008-01-08 Thread Louise Power
:57 -0500> To: texascavers@texascavers.com> From: gi...@worldnet.att.net> Subject: [Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA two> > OK, everybody, here's what I want you to do. Just plug Postojna Jama > into your search engine and hit enter. There are many hits, most of > them interesti

[Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA two

2008-01-08 Thread Gill Ediger
OK, everybody, here's what I want you to do. Just plug Postojna Jama into your search engine and hit enter. There are many hits, most of them interesting, which should offer an hour or two's worth of reading and looking--LOTS of NICE pictures. I didn't get very far into the history part but I'm

[Texascavers] POSTOJNA JAMA

2008-01-07 Thread Louise Power
In the 1979, I was in Europe and traveled along the Dalmatian Coast through what was then Yugoslava (now Slovenia) on my way to Greece. During that portion of the trip, I had the priviledge of going through Postojna Jama which, at 20,570 m long , is the longest cave system in the country. The b