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"
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