Friday, February 25, 2011

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Smith & Wesson
Western
Occidente
Panama
Chef
1Cor. 3:13 
"Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is."


Cowboy at Sunset 
 by Mick Roessler
Chess: "Panama" "Chef" "Ferdinand de Lesseps" "Eiffel Tower" "Smith and Wesson" "Western" "Occidente"

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Black Feather

Black Feather
Oscar Wilde
Black Swan
Hull
Cáscara
Dick Sand 
Col. 2:16-17 
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the Body is of Christ "


"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."



 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I  Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)



 Black Swan
by Ocean/ Corbis 


 STEEL HORSE~Brooke Shields Photo by by Sante D’Orazio, 2005


 Chess: "Oscar Wilde" "Black Feather" Black Swan" "Hull" "Cáscara" "Dick Sand"

Saturday, February 19, 2011

L is for Land

L is for Land
Georgia On My Mind
Prov. 19:8 
"He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good."


Bull Elk Standing on Bank of Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming


Chess: "Land" "Georgia"

 






















































































Monday, February 14, 2011

Aquamania

Whiskey River
Aquamania
Brook Shields
Colorado River
Prov. 19:1 
"Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool."



Lindsaye Tshabalala’s Fiery Death


Chess: "Aquamania" "Brook Shields" "Whiskey River" "Colorado River"

Iconic Photos

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/lindsaye-tshabalalas-fiery-death/

During apartheid, South Africa’s white minority government made its goal to encourage Inkatha-ANC divisions to keep its black enemies at each others’ throats. Now, in 1990, as the government of F.W. de Klerk began negotiating with Nelson Mandela’s ANC, these divisions presented a golden opportunity for some. Using the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) as its proxy, some elements within the establishment tried to destabilize the country, thwart the negotiations, and at least delay the majority rule. In 1990 alone, over 3,000 people died as violence escalated; thousands of Zulus were forced out of their homes in ANC-loyal areas in Natal. The Zulus fought back violently, as police struggled to restore order. From July to September 1990, in one of the bloodiest clashes in modern South African history, the Zulus launched raids in the Transvaal townships, where around 800 persons were slain.
A mob murder at Soweto’s Nancetield Hostel put a previously broke freelancer with obsolete cameras named Greg Marinovich on thc road to international reputation. Marinovich felt as if he was “one of the circle of killers, shooting with wide-angle lens”. For the above photo of a man hacking at a burning man with a machete, Marinovich would later win a Pulitzer. A Zulu named Lindsaye Tshabalala was suspected of spying for Inkatha, and was executed by African National Congress supporters. Marinovich remembers: “This was without doubt the worst day of my life, and the trauma remains with me, despite some twenty years and a lot of coming to terms with the incident, my role and what it means to be involved in murder. This mudered happened a month after I had witnessed the one in Nancefield Hostel, and I was determined to redeem myself by not just being an observer. I neither saved him, nor redeemed myself, though at least I did not act shamefully.”
The violent nature of the image garnered some ire from American editors when it was distributed via AP wire. Police approached the AP Johannesburg bureau to ask the photographer hand over his pictures to enable them to identify the killers. Marinovich was convinced that such an action would be one-sided and unfair: the police did not requested the pictures from Nancetield when the perpetrators are their Inkatha allies. Marinovich didn’t want to hand in his other negatives from Tshabalala murder, and fortunately for him, the police were unable to locate and subpoenaed one Sebastian Balic, the pseudonym Marinovich used for his photographs. He fled South Africa before further subpoenas could arrive.
The government saw the violence as an vindication of its earlier predictions that the ANC would not be able to govern South Africa. But violence or not, apartheid was dying. In 1992, the Boipatong massacre derailed the negotiations for a while, but they resumed, and South Africa slowly crawled back from pariah-hood. In the same year, it was permitted to compete in the Olympics following the repeal of all apartheid laws the previous year. In 1993, it finally admitted that it had a nuclear program and that it had halted it permanently. F.W. de Klerk and Mandela shared a Nobel peace prize in 1994, shortly before the all-race elections formally ended four-decade long apartheid.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Wheels

Carson City
Atlas Shrugged
Wheels
Prov. 19:2
"Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth."
Need a Lift  
by Karan Kapoor / Corbis
Chess: "Carson City" "Atlas Shrugged" "Wheels"

Friends

Dolce Vita
Cape Cod
Marcela
Saladin
Salt Lake
Bacalao
Prov. 19:7 
"All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him."


Stilt Fishermen, Weligama, Sri Lanka / by Monica Wells
Chess: "bacalao" "Marcela" "Cape Cod" "Saladin" "Salt Lake" "Friends"

Starship Enterprise

Love Boat
Gorrión
Wernher von Braun
Sunflower
Rockettes
Starship Enterprise
Prov. 19:5 
"A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."






Chess: "sunflower" "rockettes" "gorrión" "Love Boat" "Wernher von Braun" "Starship Enterprise"


Friday, February 4, 2011

El Roble

Ribbon
Yellow Ribbon
Oak
Prov. 19:6 
"Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts."
Toto
by bigsister 861
Chess: "Ribbon" "Yellow" "Oak"

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Tijerino

Tijerilla
Las Vegas
Dobles & Watson
1Chron. 11:22 
"Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day."
Love is in the Air.
by Superstock

Chess: "Snowy Pit" "Scissors" "Tijerilla"  "Dobles & Watson"

Benaiah

Benaiah, from the Hebrew name pronounced ben-aw-yaw (notice how names in the actual Hebrew are often different than their renderings in English; other examples: in Hebrew "David" is pronounced daw-veed, "Moses" is pronounced moe-sheh) meaning built up by The Lord, was a very courageous and loyal officer of King David and then David's son and successor King Solomon (see also Solomon's Kingdom)."Benaiah the son of Jehoiada"
When King David began to reign over all of Israel (i.e. Israel and Judah; see
 Israelite Monarchy - The Civil War and Israelite Monarchy - The United Kingdom), Benaiah was appointed as one of David's primary government officials.

Benaiah's leadership wasn't merely a matter of politics; Benaiah was a truly courageous warrior and leader.
"And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men. He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard." (2 Samuel 23:20-23 RSV)
When Adonijah attempted to usurp the throne of Israel for himself, Benaiah remained loyal to David and to David's known successor, Solomon.
"Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Absalom. He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him. But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan The Prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fatlings by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside Enrogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother." (1 Kings 1:5-10 RSV)
When David learned of the plot, he sent his most trusted men, including Benaiah, to not only protect Solomon from assassination, but to coronate Solomon while David himself yet lived.
"King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." So they came before the king. And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon; and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'" (1 Kings 1:32-34 RSV)
King Solomon then went about removing the threats to him, including his own brother Adonijah (who would surely had done the same to Solomon if he came to power). Solomon sent Benaiah to kill treasonous Adonijah.
"Then King Solomon swore by The Lord, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life! Now therefore as The Lord lives, who has established me, and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died." (1 Kings 2:23-25 RSV)
Solomon then made Benaiah commander of the army of Israel, in place of Joab.
"The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar." (1 Kings 2:25 RSV)