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Golf comms

November 17th, 2023

Golf/Gold, Arnold Palmer, Spalding, Tembo, Macho Man, Tiger Woods, Objectivity, Little League, Bosco, Moonwalker, UpdatesThe biggest stories right now are connected in a way you may not have noticed.06/10/2023 Trump looming indictment for handling of Classified docs at his Bedminster Golf resort.06/11/2023 Saudi Arabia Completes Its Hostile Takeover of U.S. GolfWhy Golf?Time to decode Pro Golf!GOLF = ?This takeover by Saudi Arabia is something Donald Trump has supported!PGA tour cancelled Tru...

The Yellow Brick Road Around The World

November 17th, 2023

Update: Hamish Harding, Harding: Money Bill, Harding: Tonya, Update: Wyndham, Sulla, UglyFast, Ick, Update: Farewell, Update: Elephant Mario, Sentai, Spy JobsAll of my posts are a mixture of highly confident solid comms and mere hypothesis. I’d love to only include the best, but all of what I do is a work in progress. Every decode confirmed 100 different ways began as a hypothesis, sometimes built from nothing more than 1 tenuous connection.I say that because among my most confident decodes i...

One Thousand Ounces of Gold

October 9th, 2023

ameriwire | Log Out | Preferences | Drafts | Help | Random You have 1 C! and 47 votes left today. Yay! You gained 1 GP. chat | inbox Near Matches Ignore ExactFull TextFull Text Everything2 One Thousand Ounces of Gold Classic (thing) See all of One Thousand Ounces of Gold Classic, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by chappyzoodle (11.6 y) Rep: 31 ( +31 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Nov 22 2007 at 23:59:36 One T...

Golden Legend - Life of Saint Augustine

May 29th, 2023

THE LIFE OF ST. AUSTIN, OR AUGUSTINE, DOCTOR Chapter 28 of the Golden Legend by Jacobus Voragine (1275), translated by William Caxton, 14831 St. Austin the noble doctor was born in Africa in the city of Carthage, and was come of noble kindred. And his father was named Patrick and his mother Monica. He was sufficiently instructed in the arts liberal, so that he was reputed for a sufficient philosopher and a right noble doctor, teacher o...

Journey to the Golden Age

April 13th, 2023

There on a plain, a multitude. From a distance—a hill or the eye of a soaring bird—one could see numberless little dots in the shape of men assembled around a lesser crowd in the middle. There was a great distance separating them. Focusing the gaze, one could make out the silhouettes: a great many feathers brandished in the air over a palette of colors that gave the frenzy an almost carnival atmosphere. A pointillist would have had a field day with the scene, were it not for the shimmering, a...

Facts About Marcus Aurelius - Life and Reign

January 29th, 2023

One of Rome’s most famous rulers, the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is widely considered a model stoic, an ideal representative of virtue and manliness. Thus, it may come as a shock to many to discover that Marcus Aurelius, the author of the famous Meditations, spent nearly all his reign on the battlefield. Conflict with Parthia in the east, wars on the Rhine and the Danube in the north, and a violent uprising by one of his governors, threatened to plunge Rome into chaos. On t...

sugar - madeira - and the canaries

January 17th, 2023

Today's encore selection -- from Sugar: The World Corrupted by James Walvin. Sugar followed gold and silver as the most important commodity in the New World. Sugar had long been a small-scale luxury, limited by the lack of the right soil and climate for growing sugar cane. That changed dramatically with the discovery of the New World, leading to the establishment of large-scale plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean. But the tragedy of dependence on African slaves, as well as the pattern of ...

Paul T. Goldman Is a Meta Journey That’s More Cruel Than Dazzling

December 28th, 2022

In the spirit of the work of Nathan Fielder comes "Paul T. Goldman," a hybrid docuseries about a genuine weirdo. Jason Woliner, a director of multiple episodes of Fielder’s "Nathan for You" as well as of the 2020 "Borat" sequel, encountered his subject after Goldman tweeted at Woliner indicating that he had a story that badly needed dramatization. Taking inspiration from Goldman’s book, which makes outsized characterizations of his ex-wife’s motives and behavior, Woliner begins shooting a fic...

Hue and cry, or the mystery of red gold

October 26th, 2022

https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/_/oupblog/~https://blog.oup.com/2022/10/hue-and-cry-or-the-mystery-of-red-gold/As a student, I read Homer in English and ran into the phrase wine-colored sea. At that time, I did not know that in Old English, waves were sometimes called brown and only wondered what kind of wine the Ancient Greeks drank. No one in my surroundings could enlighten me. Since that time, I have read many articles and books on the history of color perception and in 2014 even reviewe...

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

September 13th, 2022

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...

Gutenberg and Goldsmithing

July 27th, 2022

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Twin Peaks Coin Magic --- Lynchian Numismatics - 25YearsLaterSite.com

May 23rd, 2022

Magical coins appear throughout Twin Peaks and in other Lynch projects. Henry in Eraserhead, for example, keeps a little wishing well full of coins in the top drawer of his dresser. In Wild At Heart, silver dollars play a coded role in hiring assassins. In the Secret Diary, a gold coin appears to Laura after she, perhaps possessed by BOB, rapes Harold Smith. On the way out of Harold’s, Mrs. Tremond’s grandson, Pierre, saw me and came up to me and pulled a gold coin out of my e...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

May 19th, 2022

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

Gold, Money, 666 and The Mark of the Beast

April 29th, 2022

Gold, Money and The Mark of the Beast 666 One of the most convincing characteristics that suggests that the Mark of the Beast is a physical object is its requirement to buy and sell. In contrast, it's very difficult to imagine how a spiritual symbol could be used for such purposes. There's an important verse in the Old Testament that supports the Mark of the Beast's close connection to money and 666. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and ...

All That Glisters Is Not Gold: Copper and Value in Precolonial Africa

January 17th, 2022

Clip source: %28PDF%29%20All%20That%20Glisters%20Is%20Not%20Gold%3A%20Copper%20and%20Value%20in%20Precolonial%20Africa%20%7C%20David%20Yoon%20-%20Academia.edu All That Glisters Is Not Gold: Copper and Value in Precolonial AfricaANS Magazine, 2020 David Yoon Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.Find new research papers in:PhysicsChemistryBiologyHealth SciencesEcologyEarth SciencesCognitive ScienceMathematicsComputer Science

Bad Signs, Worse Decisions

December 7th, 2021

Plutarch, Moralia 168f-169a "Superstitions make many moderate sufferings deadly. That ancient Midas, as it seems, was so disturbed and troubled by some dreams that he became upset enough to kill himself by drinking the blood of a bull. And the king of the Messenian, Aristodêmos, in that war against the Spartans, when the dogs were howling like wolves, the grass began to grow up over his ancestral hearth and some of the seers were frightened by the signs, was completely disheartened and ext...

Henry Every

September 30th, 2021

Henry Every (b. 1653), also known as Henry Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, ‘Long Ben’ and (incorrectly) John Avery, was one of the most savage and successful pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Capturing a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor in 1695 with a cargo worth over $95 million today, he promptly disappeared and was never seen again. Thanks to his jackpot capture of the Ganij-i-Sawai, Every gained the nickname ‘Arch Pirate’. It has long been said that Every’s huge success inspired ma...

Carson McCullers

September 27th, 2021

Early Life A renowned American Novelist, playwright, and essayist, Carson McCullers, was born on the 19th of February in 1917 in Georgia, the United States. She was a precocious daughter of Lamar Smith, a jeweler by profession, while her mother, Marguerite Waters, was a homemaker. Carson shared the aesthetic and unique creative abilities of her parents from a very young age; she took piano lessons when she was five. Later, after recognizing her unique writing abilities, her father gifted C...

Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!

September 9th, 2021

Lucy Dallas and Michael Caines are joined by Dennis Duncan, the author of ‘Index, A History of the’, to discuss how we navigate the contents between books' covers, taking in alphabets, concordances, ancient search engines and much more; What is Substack: a publishing start-up or a reboot of a nineteenth-century literary idea?; and the writer and translator Miranda France discusses a new book by the famed psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which takes us to Peru, in the footsteps of his great-gra...

A History Of Cars In Films

August 17th, 2021

Cars have been highlighted in films throughout history, inspiring many generations and influencing the latest trends. The cars we see on screen have often become our dream cars, that we long to buy or even just rent for a day.So, from James Bond (1964) all the way through to John Wick (2014), here is a shortlist of some of the most iconic cars in films throughout history. One thing is for sure – these cars are so legendary that they will have you researching how to get them on car finance wit...

Coins, the Overlooked Keys to History | The New Yorker

July 28th, 2021

Clip source: Coins%2C%20the%20Overlooked%20Keys%20to%20History%20%7C%20The%20New%20Yorker Skip to main content Under ReviewCoins, the Overlooked Keys to HistoryA delightful new book argues that numismatics—the study of coins—is the "beautiful science of civilizations." By Casey Cep July 28, 2021https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?&display=popup&caption=Coins%2C%20the%20Overlooked%20Keys%20to%20History&app_id=1147169538698836&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fbooks%2Funder-review%2Fc...

Golden Eagle the book

May 7th, 2021

Golden Eagle the book Contents Preface Picking up my first satellite Sources and methodsTracking Soviet reconnaissance satellites Tracking Soviet piloted spacraft on shortwavesHearing cosmonauts talk from spaceTracking Salyut-4, -5, -6 A cosmic conundrumOn the trail of three space sta...

Alchemy and Colour | The Fitzwilliam Museum

January 23rd, 2021

Alchemy and Colour Alchemy, a discipline that prepared the ground for early modern chemistry and experimental science, focused on the transmutation of ‘base’ metals (lead, tin) into ‘noble ones’ (silver, gold). Since metals were commonly associated with celestial bodies, some artists’ recipes used the names of planets and metals interchangeably: for instance, the Sun for gold, the Moon for silver and Venus for copper. The transformation of artists’ materials was often understood in alchemica...

Something alchemical

November 27th, 2020

Though I have already twice suffered chains and imprisonment in Bohemia, an indignity which has been offered to me in no other part of the world, yet my mind, remaining unbound, has all this time exercised itself in the study of that philosophy which is despised only by the wicked and foolish, but is praised and admired by the wise. Nay, the saying that none but fools and lawyers hate and despise Alchemy has passed into a proverb. Furthermore, as during the preceding three years I have used g...

Cry of the Werewolf (review) by JD - Everything2.com

October 11th, 2020

Cry of the Werewolf (review) See all of Cry of the Werewolf, no other writeups in this node. Universal ruled the horror genre during Hollywood's Golden Age, but other film companies crept onto Gothic grounds. In 1935, MGM borrowed Bela Lugosi and made Mark of the Vampire. Columbia put out this low-budget lycanthropic offering in ’44. We're in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the old Latour Mansion has been transformed into a museum of the supernatural. It also apparently has drawn unw...