Thursday, January 25, 2024

The Bronze Age

The Bronze Age
360°
Gamut
Roundabout
Wheel 
Disco
Tortilla Flat
 
Gen.1:2
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
 
Jer.4:4  
"Circumcise yourselves to the LORD"
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 "So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur:
But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him
Three times, and drew him under in the mere."~~~
Tennyson: Morte d'Arthur
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 "this conclusion was reached in a roundabout but nevertheless perfectly reliable way"~~~George Gamow
 
"He traverses the gamut of lovers feelings everywhere"~~~Edith Hamilton
 
 
 
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 A 1470 reproduction of Évrard d'Espinques's illumination of the Prose Lancelot, showing King Arthur presiding at the Round Table with his Knights
 
 
 
 
 

 
Chess: "Bronze Age" "Gamut" "Roundabout" "Wheel" "Disco" "Tortilla Flat"

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Round Table

The Round Table
Arthur
The White Knight
Sir Galahad
Plane
Plano
Rota
Rotary Club
 
Gal.5:22-23
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."
 
Gen.1:2
 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
 
"the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun"~~~Virginia Wolf
 
 
"Costa" Kary 
 
 
"1900 is a good round date to choose"~~~Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Brit
 
 
 
 
 
Chess: "The Round Table" "Arthur" "The White Knight" "Sir Galahad" "Plane" "Plano" "Rota" "Rotary Club" "Rotisserie"
 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Yellowknife

 
Yggdrasil
Yellowknife
Copper
Chile
Huacas del Toro Amarillo
Butter
 
Psalm 10:17
"LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:"
 
 
 
 

 
  "Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument"~~~John Stuart Mill
 
 
 

 
 
 "There are millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know."~~~Locke
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
  
 
 
 
 
"Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument"~~~John Stuart Mill
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 "There was a long line outside, milling and pushing and squirming to get at the ticket window"~~~Henry Miller
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Chess: "Yellowknife" "Copper" "Chile " "Huacas del Toro Amarillo" "Butter"  "Yggdrasil"
 
Yellowknife is the capital and the largest community in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
The name “Yellowknife” comes from a local Dene tribe, known as the “Copper Indians” or “Yellowknife Indians”, who are now incorporated as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. These indigenous people traded TOOLS made from COPPER deposits near the Arctic Coast. The term ‘YELLOWKNIFE’ was coined by European explorers and cartographers over 200 years ago in honor of the Indigenous Dene that they met in the 1700s. The Europeans named the nearby river and the city after the copper tools the Dene carried. 
 
 
 
 

Friday, January 19, 2024

ARMADILLO

Purdey
Armadillo 
Mississippi
Rainbow
Jesse Jackson
YES!
YEAH! 
Marshmallow
Marshall Plan
 
1Pet. 3:15  
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:"




"little Sulie, a bedraggled mite in this wide bush"~~~Conrad Richter
 
 


 










Chess: "Mississippi" "Rainbow" "Jesse Jackson" "YES!" "YEAH!" "Marshmallow" "Marshall Plan" "Purdey" "Armadillo"

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hidalgo

Hidalgo
SeeMen
Saldaña
Washington
Obelisk
 
Psalm104:24
"O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches."
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Chess:  "Hidalgo" "SeeMen" "Saldaña" "Washington" "Obelisk"
 
 
 
"DON RAMÓN DE SALDAÑA, ELDEST SON OF COMMANDANT ALVARO and Benita, was sixty-six years of age and sprightly in mind and limb. Often he reflected upon the three great joys in his life and the two inconsolable tragedies.
He was sole owner of the vast Rancho El Codo, twenty-five thousand acres named after an elbow of the Medina, that river which marked the boundary between the two provinces of Coahuila and Tejas. It was a rich and varied parcel, well watered, and stocked with thousands of cattle, sheep and goats. Most important, it bordered a segment of Los Caminos Reales, that system of royal highways which reached out like spokes from Mexico City, the hub of New Spain. This portion reached from Vera Cruz through Mexico City to San Antonio de Béjar, as the town was now called, to the former capital of Tejas at Los Adaes, and its presence along the ranch meant that Don Ramón could sell provisions to the royal troops that patrolled the vital route; Rancho El Codo was an inheritance of which he was justly proud.
He was also inordinately pleased that he had, like his grandfather in Spain, sired seven sons in a row without, as he boasted, ‘the contaminating intrusion of a single daughter.’ The humorous honorific, Hidalgo de Bragueta, Sir Knight of the Codpiece, was not customarily used in Mexico, but Don Ramón liked to apply it to himself.
His third and chief pride in these declining years of a long frontier life was his granddaughter Trinidad, thirteen years old and as charming a child as could be found in the northern provinces. Petite and dark-haired, she was a lively young lady with a wonderfully free and outgoing nature better suited to a canter over the mesquite range than to an afternoon of sipping hot chocolate with the mission friars, and although she was not a vain girl, preferring at this stage in her life a good horse to a pretty dress, she did like to look trim and paid attention to her appearance."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS Ch.3 El Camino Real
 
 

Sunday, January 14, 2024

QUID PRO QUO

QUID PRO QUO
COCONUT
Texas Instruments
Instrumental 

Luke 17:4
"And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him."


Coconut cake
 
 
 
 
 
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Isla del Coco, Costa Rica 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Coconut
 

Chess: "Quid pro quo" "Coconut" "Texas Instruments" "Instrumental"
 
 
COCONUT FLAN!
FLAN DE COCO!
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Russian Instrumental Case
Welcome to the final lesson about Russian cases. The sixth and final case is the instrumental case. The instrumental case is used to illustrate the concepts of 'with' and 'by means of'. Another way to think about it is that it represents the ‘instrument’ that was used to carry out the action.
Unfortunately it is hard to learn Russian without first learning about the cases. But after this lesson you will be able to recognise and form all six Russian cases, so we can start concentrating on more practical Russian such as vocabulary and using verbs.
Using the Intrumental Case: By means of
The instrumental case is used to express the concept of “by means of”. In English this is normally done using the words “using” or “with”. In English these words can have different meanings, so it’s important to recognise when they are meaning “by means of”.
Examples.
Иван пишет карандашом - Ivan writes with a pencil.
Я ем суп ложкой - I eat soup with a spoon.
Олег режет мясо ножом - Oleg cuts the meat with a knife.
 

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Hart

The Deer Hunter
Keeper
Hart
Heart
El portón rojo
Salmon
Rosa
Rose
 
Eccles.3:5 
"A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"
 
 Luke10:5
" And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house."
 
John 15:20 
"Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."
 
"Have you had quiet guard"~~~Shakespeare 
 
 
 
 

 


 
 
Chess: "Keeper" "Hart" "El portón rojo" "Salmon" "Rosa" "Rose"

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Masschusetts

Massachusetts 
Boston
Heart and Mind

Rom.5:8
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
 

 




Chess: "Massachusetts" "Boston" "Heart and Mind"

Friday, January 5, 2024

Marble

Marble
Apollo 

Psalm 19:1
"[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."
 
 "the idea ...has bearing and APPLICATION upon the POINT made"~~~Dewey
 
 
The sarcophagus that does not belong to Alexander, but is known as the "Alexander Sarcophagus" because there are reliefs on the wars of Alexander the Great with the Persians. This magnificent work, made in the 4th century BC, is thought to belong to King Abdalonymos of Sidon. It was unearthed during the excavations in the Lebanese Kings Necropolis of Sidon (1887) with the great effort of Osman Hamdi Bey. Istanbul Archeology Museum.
 
Chess: "Marble" "Apollo" "Fog" "Niebla" 
 
 
THESE TESTIMONIES ARE DECLARATIONS OF INTENT OF A LIVING WILL!
Me costó llegar a entender el significado de estas declaraciones de Voluntad de Vida que estos artefactos representan. Llegué a entenderlas cuando la barbarie empezó a abandonarme, conforme me fui CIVILISANDO!
Me costó entender que esto también significa:
Fil.1:6
"estando persuadido de esto, que el que comenzó en vosotros la buena obra, la perfeccionará hasta el día de Jesucristo;"
Phil.1:6
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:"
 

Scientific

Scientific
Science
Carve
Effective
Cash
Cashew
David Hume

Matt.7:7
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"


Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.


"OF THE VARIOUS NATIONAL GROUPS THAT SETTLED IN TEXAS, and there were more than twenty—Germans, Czechs, Poles, Wends —the one which gave the area its basic character came from Ireland. They arrived in great numbers, filtering down the famed Natchez Trace from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS Ch5 The Trace






“The bright share carved out the furrow clean.”~~~William Morris




Himeji Castle




David Hume





Chess: "Scientific" "Carve" "Science" "Effective" "Cash" "Cashew"


Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bridge

Bridge
America
Fine
Brooklyn Bridge
Captain America 

Jas. 1:12
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."



"A cup of wine that's brisk and fine"~~~Shakespeare





"In spite of storms brewing on every frontier"~~~John Dos Passos





Chess: "Bridge" "America" "Fine" "Brooklyn Bridge" "Captain America"


Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Piazza San Marco

St. Mark's Square
Plaza San Marcos
Piazza San Marco
Alaska
Mount McKinley
 
 Rom.12:14
"Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not." 

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"Mark what radiant state she spreads"~~~Milton




May be an image of 1 person, fire, beach and ocean
 
 "In our marine the case is entirely the reverse"~~~Henry Fielding

"I grew familiarly acquainted with ... the best mariners of our nation."~~~Richard Hakluyt


"Flushed with purple grace
He shows his honest face"~~~Dryden
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Chess: "St. Mark's Square" "Plaza San Marcos" "Piazza San Marco" "Alaska" "Mount McKinley"