Tag Archives: Tower of Babel

upstairs downstairs

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dave

To speak of the ups and downs of stairs would sound like punning, had history not left a graphic record of their shifting importance. In the past, stairs always ranked with the noblest elements of architecture. Ascending or descending a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Giambattista Piranesi, Giuseppe Momo design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Piranesi etchings Rome, Sacred Steps Rome, The Vatican Museum, Tower of Babel | Leave a comment

crossing to ophir: who came first?

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dave

Who got here first? Refugees from Atlantis? Phoenicians piloting the children of Israel? Chinese? Egyptians? Or none of them? Is it possible to conceive of the unthinkable with regard to the discovery of America? In 1641 a Portuguese Jew named … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Antono Montezinos Portuguese Jew, King Solomon Ophir, Lord Kingsborough England, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manasseh ben Israel, Mormon Sacred Writings, Pecados artist, Salvador dali, Sargon II Assyria, the Jaredites Mormonism, The Phoenicians travels, Tower of Babel, Wardell Milan | Leave a comment

monkey do : the banana builders

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Dave

What if monkeys descended from us and not vice-versa. Devolution or evolution? It seems to be the case that millions of monkeys typing for millions of years would type zilch. Not even a normal sentence of 40 characters. Not even … Continue reading →