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Re: Luis Senares and Verne

From: Davor Sisovic <davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:21:22 +0200
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> > ROBUR means POWER in Latin, if I am not mistaken.

Just for the record, recently at some exhibition of the old bicycles, I saw
a nice bike from 1920-ties, red painted, with pretty large sign "ROBUR".
Bike was Italian production. Could it be related with that "power" meaning,
or with the Verne's Robur?

Davor Sisovic
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http://bookaleta.blog.hr
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