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For a second there I thought this had something to do with Bertha, the tropical storm.

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/tropical-stor...




More likely http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Krupp, from there (disputed) to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer), and from there to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha


Here's the official namesake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Knight_Landes


I couldn't help thinking about Bertha, the huge machine from the early '80s British children's TV series.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=coZfzTcv4bA




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