Lil Picard Lil Picard Lil Picard, (born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick October 4, 1899 – May 10, 1994) was a cabaret actress, artist and critic born in Landau, Germany in 1899, who took part in several generations of Counterculture and Avant-garde art in Berlin and in New York City. Lil Picard was born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick October 4, 1899 in Landau, Germany. She was the only child of Jakob, a wine producer and merchant, and Rosalie Benedick. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Strasbourg, Germany, which is now in France. Seeking solace from her parents, Lil found meaning in books. Westermann's "Monashefte"
Name of the Franks Vliet and his 17th century contemporaries inherited the name and the concept "Teutonic". "Teutones" and "Teutoni" are names from classical Latin referring to the entire population of Germanics in the Proto-Germanic era, although there were tribes specifically called Teutons. Between "Old Dutch" (meaning the earliest Dutch language) and "Old Teutonic", Van Vliet inserted "Frankish", the language of the Old Franks. He was unintentionally ambiguous about who these "Old Franks" were linguistically. At one point in his writing they were referred to as "Old High German" speakers, at another, "Old Dutch" speakers, and at another "Old French" speakers. Moreover, he hypothesized