Holland

Holland

Netherlands 

Heartbeat

Drummer Boy

Drum

Northwest

Dutch Baby

El Bebé Holandés

1John4:6

"We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."

Laura Tobón

 

 

 

 

Kenneth Clark: Civilisation: Ch 8 The Light of Experience

“When Berckheyde painted his picture of the square at Haarlem [136] he appears to have seen almost exactly what we see, if we stand there today at about three o'clock on a sunny afternoon with the wind from the north- west. The architecture is relatively little changed, the sense of space is what we have come to regard as normal, the light is accurately observed. We feel that we could walk into that picture. Nothing strange in that; but like so many things we take for granted, it goes back to a revolutionary change in thought - the revolution that replaced Divine Authority by experience, experiment and observation."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bercheyde, Groote Kerke at Haarlem

Chess: "Holland" "Netherlands" "Heartbeat" "Drummer Boy" "Drum" "Northwest" "Dutch Baby" "El Bebé Holandés"

 

 

 

Debi Nova - Drummer Boy

Cubismo

Everest

Cubismo

Azúcar

LAS CUBAS

The Sugar Interest

 

Mark 11:23

 "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."

 

 

 

 

Portrait of a Woman (Dora Maar), Pablo Picasso

Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany

 

 "As Sir Hugh studied the excellence of his plantation he reflected on what a superior island his Jamaica was. The last rough census had shown some 2,200 whites of the master-mistress category, about 4,000 whites of lower category, and 79,000 slaves. As he had told a recent visitor from England: ‘We never forget that we whites, counting every one, are outnumbered six to seventy-nine. It makes us careful how we act, very careful how we manage our slaves, who could rise up and slay us all if so minded.’ But he also confessed that he himself earned substantial profits from the slave trade: ‘Last year in Jamaica we were able to import some seven thousand slaves from Africa, and we could have sold twice that many: we immediately forwarded more than five thousand of the newcomers on to Cuba and South Carolina, and on their sale we made a tremendous profit.’ " ~~~James A. Michener : CARIBBEAN Ch.7 The Sugar Interest 

 

 

 

This book is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world.

 

 

Cuba

 

 

Chess: "Everest" "Cubismo" "Azúcar" "LAS CUBAS" "The Sugar Interest"

 

 

Ionic Order

Ionic Order

Orden Jónico

Fort Worth

Fortuna

La Fortuna

Forward

 

Prov.31:15

"She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We all do no end of feeling and we mistake it for thinking"~~~Mark Twain

 

"I will tell you no more at present, guess forwhy."~~~Swift 

 

 

 

 

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

Fort Worth, Texas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Fortuna

Ancient Roman statue found at Ostia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Fortuna de San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Chess: "Ionic Order" "Orden Jónico" "Fort Worth" "Fortuna" "La Fortuna" "Forward"

 

IBM

Providence

IBM

Mine

Mackintosh

Cruz Azul

Cement

Cemento

Minuteman

 

Job 28:4

 "The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men."

 

Prov.31:8

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"the mind of man...(is)...the mirror of the fairest and most interesting qualities of nature"~~~Wordsworth
 

 

Raquel Castro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Raquel Castro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Laura Tobón

Minuteman

Lincoln Memorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Sharapova

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess:  "Providence" "IBM" "Mine" "Mackintosh" "Cruz Azul" "Cement" "Cemento" "Minuteman"

 

 

The Crystal Ceiling

Crystal Ceiling

 

Job 28:12

"But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?"

 

Job 28:17

"The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crystal Ceiling 

 

 

 

Chess: "Crystal Ceiling"

Star Wars

Star Wars

Strategic Defense Initiative

Central Bank

Cake

Café

Precision

Scissors

Abscissa

Concise

Tijeras

Caelum

Chisel

Cincel

Sincelejo

Cement 

Cajamarca

Peas

Chícharos

Petit Pois

Queque Moka 

Jarro de Café

Hard Rock Cafe

Prov.31:27

"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Seen as “Cela Sculptoris” in the lower right of this 1825 star chart from Urania's Mirror

 

 Caelum /ˈsiːləm/ is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name means “chisel” in Latin, and it was formerly known as Caelum Sculptorium (“the engravers’ chisel”); It is a rare word, unrelated to the far more common Latin caelum, meaning “sky, heaven, atmosphere”

 

 

 

 

 Luke Skywalker

 

“I saw a cadaverous face appear at small window”~~~Dickens

 

“his waistcoat is pea-green, imparting a most cadaverous hue to his melancholy countenance”~~~R. S. Surtees

 

"Ha habido tres grandes inventos desde el comienzo de los tiempos: el fuego, la rueda y los bancos centrales."~~~Will Rogers

Epigrama al Cap.17 :La Política Monetaria del Banco Central del libro de PAUL A. SAMUELSON: Curso de Economía Moderna

 

 

“THERE have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel and central banking,” quipped Will Rogers, an American humorist. Yet central banking as we know it today is an invention of the 20th century. The first recorded reference in English to a “central bank” was in 1873 by Walter Bagehot, then editor of The Economist, who used it to refer to a bank with a monopoly on the issue of bank notes, and its headquarters in a nation's capital. But it is only in the past 50 years or so that the term has become widely used. At the start of this century the world had only 18 central banks; today there are 173.

Central banks' original task was not to conduct monetary policy or support the banking system, but to finance government spending. The world's oldest central bank, the Bank of Sweden, was established in 1668 largely as a vehicle to finance military spending. The Bank of England was created in 1694 to fund a war with France. Even as recently as the late 1940s, a Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Stafford Cripps, took great pleasure in describing the Bank of England as “his bank”. Today most central banks are banned from financing government deficits.

 

 

 

 

Desirée Vargas Wrigley

 

 

“Drink deep,

Or taste not the Pierian Spring”~~~Pope

 

 

 

 

 

“And she shall be sole victress, Caesar’s Caesar.”~~~Shakespeare

 

 

 

  

Jasmine Tookes

Chess: "Star Wars" "Strategic Defense Initiative" "Central Bank" "Cake" "Café" "Precision" "Scissors" "Tijeras" "Abscisse" "Concise" "Caelum" "Chisel" "Cincel" "Sincelejo" "Cement" "Cajamarca" "Peas" "Chícharos" "Petit Pois"