Epstein’s Volcanoes, Public Domain, Peaches, and Santa’s Clause

Maxwell BOOM = Volcano BOOM, Public Domain, Balls of Fire: Lewis & Lewis, PEACHES: The First Millionaire + Child Scandal, Santa’s ClauseWhen I say BOOM! BOOMI’m not always just speaking in symbols!12/18/2023 Federal Judge rules Epstein associate list and victims must be unsealed and go public!12/18/2023 Iceland Volcano Erupts: "Amongst the most spectacular ever seen".BOOM! = BOOM!A symbolic BOOM is marked with a literal BOOM!Symbolism comms are remarkably simple at times.Not the first tim...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Was the “Forbidden Fruit” in the Garden of Eden Actually an Apple?

The forbidden fruit reference in the Bible and the story of how Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden is well known and used in all kinds of modern contexts. But was the forbidden fruit an apple or some other fruit? Why was the apple chosen to represent the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Here are a few explanations for this ancient and puzzling question. These words, from Chapter II of The First Book of Moses or Genesis, have become synonymous ...

Knowledge as Taste - and sentience as experiences

The United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company By Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land, the delicate waist of America. It rechristened its territories as the ‘Banana Republics’ and over the sleeping dead, over the restless heroes who brought about the greatness, the liberty an...

A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’

‘A Sound of Thunder’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). A time-travel story about how changing the past could bring about momentous and catastrophic changes to the future, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is often taught and studied in schools and remains a classic of 1950s science fiction. The story was first published in Collier’s magazine in 1952 and then collected a year later in Bradbury’s short-story collection, The Golden Apples of the Sun.You c...

SAINT-JOHN'S-BREAD - JewishEncyclopedia.com

SAINT-JOHN'S-BREAD: Fruit of the carobtree. It is not mentioned in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, though Cheyne assumes that in three passages (II Kings vi. 25, xviii. 27 = Isa. xxxvi. 12; Isa. i. 20) ("carob-fruit") should be read instead of ("Expositor," July, 1899). In the New Testament St.-John's-bread is called swine's food (Luke xv. 16); and it is mentioned as such in the Mishnah. The law regarding the edge of the field that may not be harvested applied to the caro...

America's Gone Bananas: Here's How It Happened : NPR

America's Gone Bananas: Here's How It Happened June 2, 20126:20 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday NPR Staff Today, bananas are cheap and ubiqui...

No Sense of Proportion

Attributions here:  No Sense of Proportion - direct from The-Solute web siteWhen I was a child, I was in a program called Reading Is Fundamental. In practical terms, this meant free books. One of the first cookbooks I owned was from that program, and I quite regret having at some point lost it, because it was another theme cookbook. Specifically, it was a cookie recipe for each month of the year, tied in to that month’s holiday. I forget what the August cookie was, but it pointed out that the...

Ketchup as Catch Up - and more cinesemiotic insights from Tom Conley

Johnny Appleseed (idea) by sabby - Everything2.com

Notice that the given name of Johnny Appleseed was Johnny Chapman. J C Jesus Christ ? -zasJohnny Appleseed (idea)See all of Johnny Appleseed, there are 3 more in this node. by sabby (5.2 mon)CCRep: 86 ( +93 / -7 ) (Rep Graph) (+)Fri Feb 02 2001 at 8:57:54(idea)3 C!s · C?by sabby (5.2 mon)Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman was born September 26, 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts and died of pneumonia ("the winter plague") near Fort Wayne, Indiana on March 18, 1845. His epitaph was "He lived for ot...

Isaac and the apple – the story and the myth

MenuSkip to primary contentHomeAboutBiographies IndexContactSubject Index:The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaicThe transition to heliocentricity: The Rough GuidesSearchThe Renaissance MathematicusJust another WordPress.com webloghttps://thonyc.wordpress.com/Isaac and the apple – the story and the mythThe tale of Isaac Newton and the apple is, along with Archimedes’ bath time Eureka-ejaculation and Galileo defiantly mumbling ‘but it moves’ whilst capitulating before the Inquisit...

Donna R. Pawlowski

Return to index. Donna R. Pawlowski Rubber Bands and Sectioned Oranges: Dialectical Tensions and Metaphors Used to Describe Interpersonal Relationships   Abstract This study explored dialectical tensions and metaphors throughout relational development. Participants identified stages of relationships with stages of "beginning/attraction," "insecurity/decision-making," and "contentment/stability" ...

Autofiction and History Section clips - TLS MAY 2019 - incl Ferocious Blueberries

Moses and Homer Were Color Blind?

Moses and Homer Were Color Blind A Brief History of Color in Literatureby Justin Rice, published on 06/19/2017 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.—from the King James Bible, 1611 It was red and yellow and green and brown And scarlet and black and ochre and peach And ruby and olive and violet and fawn And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve And cream and crimson and silver and rose And azure an...