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Monthly Archives: April 2010
HIGHWAY 1761 REVISITED
”Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé Raynal (1713-1796) was an Enlightened historian who wrote on the Dutch Stadholderate and the English Parliament. His most famous work was the 8 volume Histoire philosophique et politique, des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, battle of yorkton, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin West, Comte de Buffon, Francis Bacon, General Sullivan, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Isaac Newton, Jacques LeMoyne, James Fenimore Cooper, James Gillray, Jan Verelst, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Mix Stanley, Last of the Mohicans, Louis Maurer, Sir Francis Bacon, Theodor de Bry, www.firstpeople.us
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ANXIETY AS SHARP AS A TOOTHPICK
What me worry?The Beats, the banks, the bulls and the bears. That the world might suddenly end is not a new anxiety, but an eternally recurring old anxiety that is continually renewed. The testimony of Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman-Sachs … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poets, Ben Bernanke, Bloomberg Business news, Compendium Maleficarum Guazzo, Fabrice Tourre, Getty Images, Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Matthias Grunewald, Michael Daly, Patricia Cohen, Patricia Cohen New York Times
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SEVENTH WARD BEGGARS
However whatever what one may conclude about the dubious ethics of Goldman-Sachs,CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s appearance among lawmakers on Capitol Hill was at least long on entertainment as was his entire troupe of well rehearsed players as seen by their choreographed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Abduction, Andrew Jackson, Andy Borowitz, Ben Bernanke, borowitzreport.com, Carl Levin, Carl Sagan, Fred G. Cooper, George S. Kaufman, Goldman Sachs, Henry R. Robinson, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Moss Hart, President Andrew Jackson, The Financial Times, Woodrow Wilson, Zoe Brennan
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MONTEZUMA & THE LAST SUPPER
”Through cannibalism, the Aztecs appear to have been attempting to reduce very particular nutritional deficiencies. Under the conditions of high population pressure and class stratification that characterized the Aztec state, commoners or lower-class persons rarely had the opportunity to eat … Continue reading
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Tagged Aztec Cannibalism, Aztec Human Sacrifice, Bernal Diaz, Bernardino de Sahagun, Claude Levi-Strauss, Cortez, Gallo Gallina, Gary Hogg, Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, Michael C. Meyer, Michael Harner, Montezuma II, Quetzalcoatl, Robert Carneiro, Sherburne Cook, William L. Sherman, Woodrow Borah
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WHEN IN ROME
Rome, as the freshly abdicated ex-queen Christina saw it on her arrival, was a city in the process of being transformed by the genius of Bernini. Everywhere, churches and palaces were being rebuilt, and handsome piazzas laid out, in all … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Azzolino, Cardinal Mazarin, Charles X of Sweden, Correggio, Decio Azzolino, Duke of Parma, Francis Haskell, Galerie des Cerfs, Joanne mattern, Louis D'orleans, Marquis Monaldesco, Miguel de Molinos, Palazzio Riario, Palazzo Farnese, Paolo Veronese, Pope Alexander VII, Pope Clement IX, Queen Christina of Sweden, Raphael, Scarlatti, Suzanna Akerman, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, Veronese paintings, www.linesandcolors.com, www.windweaver.com
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GYPSY QUEENS & ALCHEMY KINGS
One was quite homely and unfeminine, and the other a beauty.Queen Christina of Sweden and Greta Garbo. Yet their destinies crossed into a fusion of karmic proportions that continues to invite question and pique curiosity. For both, the determination to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexia Sinclair, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Descartes, Faith Compton Mackenzie, Garbo, Greta Garbo, Gustavus Adolphus Sweden, Ivan Michael Praetorius, Jason Kovar, Johann Adler Salvius, Johannes Franck, John Gilbert, Louis de Geer, Mata Hari, mata Hari Garbo, Oxenstierna, Queen Christina of Sweden, Rosicrucians, Rouben Mamoulian, Salka Viertel, Sybil of the North, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, William Daniels, www.doctormacro.com, www.garboforever.com, www.goodfight.org, www.windweaver.com
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