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- eleutheria (Greek) freedom, liberty
- dendron (Greek) tree hence the "spare, Woodmann" comment
- Liberty Tree: a famous elm tree that stood in Boston near Boston Common, in the days before the American Revolution. Ten years before, colonists in Boston staged a protest against the Stamp Act under the tree. The tree then became a rallying point for the growing resistance to British rule.
- Luther: started the Protestant reformation