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ARCHIVE 2022
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Cosmic Universe in 2022
ThemesOn Writing
The Harlequin Tea Set
Eugenics
Slough of Emotions
East of Eden - As a polictal allegory
The Catcher in the Rye
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Waverley
Threads To Follow
Slaughter House chapter 1
How Do You Keep Track of Your Notes For A Read?
The Sea Wolf
The Body Keeps the Score
Great Expectations
Alice in Wonder Land Complete Collection
A Room of Ones Own
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Tess of the D'urbervilles
Inglorious Empire
Carissa by Samuel Richardson
The Rogue Hypnotist
The Possessed
Whisper's Mussings
Foucault's Pendelium
GroupsWhat music do you listen to? Anything you'd recommend?
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WW2 Spy Group
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Thomas Hardy Group
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Agatha Christie Group
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Hefty Reads
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The Possessed
The Glass Bead Game
Discussion > 2022 Monthly Genre Challenge
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Book Monopoly
Book Monopoly Partner Picks
My list
Poetry January The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Privateer's Voyage Round the World
Where he got the ice and albatrose
Poetry
The Darkling Thrush
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Poetry appreciation
https://poemanalysis.com/william-word...
Good_King_Wenceslas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ki...
Challenges for 2023German Authors:
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Authors from Around the World
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Short Story Collection
The Stories of Ray Bradburywith Karen USA
Italian Folktales Italy
Snow Country Japan
Hefty/Husky reads
Dante
Dante in Translation with Giuseppe Mazzotta Yale
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Favorite Groups:
Bookworm Buddies Group
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Books ReadingMaybe the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium
23 chapters
PLAGUE
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Solar Behavior: How Solar- and Geomagnetic Conditions shape Human History, the current Self- Destruction Attempt of the West and the new Golden Age 22 chapters
Challenge:
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Hindu Mathmatics
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GoalsI want to read 5 books related to the French Revolution.
1The ChouansHonoré de Balzac 12 hours
2La VendéeAnthony Trollope
3No Surrender!: A Tale of the Rising in La Vende
4Barnaby Rudge read 2022
5The Gods Will Have Blood
6.Shirley
7. Sir Walter Scott's Napoleon war books
I want to read 5 books that are about reading and writing.
1Confessions of a Young Novelist
2Zen in The Art of Writing
3Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
4Lectures on Literature
5
I want to read 6 books that are non-fiction.
1Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in 19th Century Central Asia, India and Tibet
2.The Money Power: Pawns in the Game and Empire of the City - Two Books in One
3Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
4 KetoFast: Rejuvenate Your Health with a Step-by-Step Guide to Timing Your Ketogenic Meals started January 4th
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I want to read 3 Science Fiction books
12010: Odyssey Two read 2022
22061: Odyssey Three
33001: The Final Odyssey
I want to read 3 Children Tall Tales or Fairy Tales
1. The Jack Tales 2022
2 The Arabian Nights
3Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
I want to read 2 books by Umberto Eco
1Foucault's Pendulum
2The Name of the Rose read 2022
3The Prague Cemetery
4The Island of the Day Before
I want to read 2 mysteries
1.The ABC Murders
2. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Extras
The Woodlanders
The Devil's Advocate
The Devil's ElixirsE.T.A. Hoffmann
poetry:
The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
The Rape of the Lock
Free books online
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Non Fiction Monthly Reading Schedule
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Books related to Diaries or Journals
Dickens Incognito
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Writers and Their Notebooks
JanuaryTBR Twins, January
East of Eden
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February
Sybil, or the Two Nations Jacquie
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Walden Catherine
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity with Edite
Tea for Two The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices
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March
Barnaby Rudge Tracey March -May
Kristin Lavransdatter the wreath Alexandra Daw
15th The Dangerous Old Woman with Cynda
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
One rule a month with Karen and Edite
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Edite
March: Mystery and Suspense (Genre Challenge)
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm with Barny
April
Waverley discuss with Penelope
May
The Jack Tales
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June
The Wind and the Willows
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Toads and Shakespeare
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The Scapegoat finished 6/11/2022
Breakfast at Tiffany's 6/16/22
They Do It With Mirrors 6/20/22
Pawns in the Game
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The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
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July
Five Children and It
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Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Har...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
War and Peace
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July - Books 1 - 3
August - Books 4 - 6
September - Books 7 - 9
October - Books 10 & 11
November - Books 12 - 14
December - Book 15 and both Epilogues
* Board Game Ultimate Challenge 2022 Sign Up
2022 Ultimate Challenge > Cosmic's Ultimate Game Board Challenge 2022
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Hawaii 5-0 A Month at the Beach
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The Glass Bead Game
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August
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Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
what is in a name > Back To The Classics
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The Journal of John Woolman: And a Plea for the Poor Finished 8/8/22
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Maud Finished 8/4/22
Twin Read
A Room of One's Own 8/19/22
Twin Two
Great Expectations
Twin Three
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Finished August 19, 2022
September
Finnegans Wake
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Masterwork Revealed
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
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September Twin Read:
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
India Under British Rule: From the Foundation of the East India Company
https://www.amazon.com/India-Under-Br...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2021...
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September (Genre Challenge)
Science Fiction/Dystopia
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Finished Sept 4, 2022
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Fall BINGO Challenge
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October
The Possessed Tracey
What is on your month to be read list for October
Back to the Classics
Halloween Tree
Mademoiselle de Scudéry October 26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKceP...
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The Sandman E.T.A. Hoffmann
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The Lair of the White Worm / The Lady of the Shroud
group read:
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November
The Blithedale Romance
International Book Festival
11/2/2022
December
Foucault's Pendulum
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full unabridged audio;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scoye...
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
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Spoiler
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Variety Hour Holiday Special - Back to the Classics
List of Genres for 2022
January: General Fiction(Novels)
February: Plays and Poetry and Romance!
April: Western/Humour/Adventure
May: Female Authors
June: Fantasy/Graphic Novels
October: Supernatural, Thriller, Horror
November: Historical Fiction and any Non-fiction
December: Classics, Short Stories, Fairy Tales
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Challenges:Oh The Places You'll Go Challenges
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Finished:
East of Eden
Walden Starting January 24
The Jew of Malta
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Notes:
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Notes on book:
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Jerusalem Delivered
Game Night
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Chess
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Listopia
Books About Storytelling
Author ChallengeA-Z Authors
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022
0/26
A
B Ray Bradbury The Halloween Tree
C
DFyodor DostoevskyThe Possessed
E
F
G
H
I Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler
J
K
L
M
N
O
P Charles PerraultThe Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Q Jacques Ellul Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
R
S
T Henry David ThoreauWalden
U
V
W
X Alexander Pushkin Alexander Pushkin: Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance
Y
Z
A-Z Titles
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A
B
C
DDemonsFyodor Dostoevsky
E
F
G
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I India Under British Rule From The Foundation Of The East India Company James Talboys Wheeler
J
K The King in Yellow and Other Horror StoriesRobert W. Chambers
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M The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha Christie
N Ninety-ThreeVictor Hugo
O The OutsiderH.P. Lovecraft
P Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes Jacques Ellul
Q The Queen of SpadesAlexander Pushkin
R
S
T
U Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
V The Beast with Five Fingers William Fryer Harvey
W
X The Devil's Elixir Vol. I E.T.A. Hoffmann
Y
Z The Zeppelin's PassengerE. Phillips Oppenheim
The 12 Tasks are:1. In honor of Don Quixote, read a book with a buffoon, character.The Jack Tales
2. Read a book with the theme of money.The Jew of Malta
3. Read a book set in a country with a volcano. Victory: By Joseph Conrad - Illustrated
4. Read a book that is a poem Epic. Jerusalem Delivered
5. Read a book series with at least three books in it.2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Read a book that is set in the 1600's. The Betrothed
7. Read a book with a collection of fairy tales. The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
8. Read a book set in the French revolution.Barnaby Rudge
9. Read a book where Solar Weather is a theme.Solar Behavior: How Solar- and Geomagnetic Conditions shape Human History, the current Self- Destruction Attempt of the West and the new Golden Age
10. Read a book with a map in the title. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
11. Read a book with a reference to space.Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium
12. Read a book with a character that is fake. Goodbye to Berlin
Juxtapose
Derbyvilles vs de Urbervilles
Gnostism and the Maypole Dance
Jacobean vs victorian
Lanuage
Tess went to school. She knows her parents and she went to school.
This book is about two different cultures.
The Hunchback of Notre-DameThe Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier
The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
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Chess Story
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GROUPS 2022Never too late to read the classics
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BACK TO CLASSICS JAZZY
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Genre & Novelist Reads for 2022:
January: Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders
February: Historical Fiction/Romance
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Daniel Derondaby George Eliot
March: Jane Austen
Suggested read: Persuasion
April: Action/Adventure
Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A is for April Challenge
1Aesop's Fables
2. A Rogue's Life
May:
The MagicianJune: Family Saga
The Magic MountainJuly:
The Scapegoat Daphne du Maurier
August: Mystery: Thriller/Spy:
Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel about Graham Greene
September:
Agatha Christie
October: Nautical/Sea
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
For Whom the Bell TollsThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
November: Wilkie Collins
Suggested read:No Name
December: Comedy
The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse
Sword of Honor TrilogySword of Honor by Evelyn Waugh
A List of Writing Books.https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://nanowrimo.org/pep-talk-from-a...
The Mayor of Casterbridge.37-39: after the Muslims recaptured the city of Acre in
40 the Holy Land in 1291, ending any effective presence of
Crusading Europeans in the Levant, the Knights of St. John
shifted their headquarters to Rhodes, until they were
expelled from that island by the Turks in 1522; Charles V of
Spain presented Malta to the Knights to be their new
headquarters in 1530. Notes for The Jew of Malta
47: the Holy Roman Emperors had owned the island since
the 12th century. Charles V served simultaneously as the
Roman Emperor and the King of Spain
For, when their hideous force environed Rhodes, = ie. the Turks'. = immense.1
= surrounded.
64 Small though the number was that kept the town, = defended.1
They fought it out, and not a man survived
66 To bring the hapless news to Christendom. = unfortunate.2
63-66: the Ottomans Capture Rhodes: the Ottomans
besieged and repeatedly attacked Rhodes in 1522, losing
(according to the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911) 90,000
men out of a total of 200,000. The Knights were not in fact
wiped out, but surrendered after six months, and were
allowed to evacuate the island with military honours.
68 Fern. So will we fight it out: come, let's away. − = "let's go".
Proud daring Calymath, instead of gold, 69-71: Ferneze apostrophizes to the absent Calymath.
70 We'll send thee bullets wrapt in smoke and fire:
Claim tribute where thou wilt, we are resolved, − = determined.
72 Honour is bought with blood, and not with gold.
Kinghts Hospitaller
Knights Hospitaller (/ˈhɒspɪtələr/),[1] was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headquartered in the Kingdom of Jerusalem until 1291, on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522, in Malta from 1530 until 1798 and at Saint Petersburg from 1799 until 1801. (201)
Though it possesses no territory, the order is a sovereign entity of international law and maintains diplomatic relations with many countries.
Its modern-day role is largely focused on providing humanitarian assistance and assisting with international humanitarian relations, for which purpose it has had permanent observer status at the United Nations General Assembly since 1994.[8]
The order employs about 42,000 doctors, nurses, auxiliaries and paramedics assisted by 80,000 volunteers in more than 120 countries,[note 1] assisting children, homeless, handicapped, elderly, and terminally ill people, refugees, and lepers around the world without distinction of ethnicity or religion.[note 1] Through its worldwide relief corps, Malteser International, the order aids victims of natural disasters, epidemics and war. In several countries, including France, Germany and Ireland, local associations of the order are important providers of medical emergency services and training. Its annual budget is on the order of 1.5 billion euros, largely funded by European governments, the United Nations and the European Union, foundations and public donors. The Order has 13,500 Knights, Dames and auxiliary members.
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black plague
https://abruptearthchanges.com/2017/0...
As we’ll see below, these weather anomalies correspond well with the reduction in solar magnetic output and an increase in volcanic eruptions.
Hormones
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Poe
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Faust
https://www.faust.com/legend/cagliostro/
Modernism and post modernism
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Classics list of books for children.
http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/b...?
Sir Walter Scott
https://walterscott250.com/
Satan S Stratagems Translated From Jacopo Acontio Satanae Stratagemata 1565 With An Introduction By Charles D O Malley Translated By Walter T Curtis
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textsLife And Opinions Of The Tomcat Murr
Topics Tomcat Murr
Collection opensource
Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own
autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally
mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As
the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly
different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident
scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac
genius Kreisler. In his exuberant and bizarre novel, Hoffmann
brilliantly evokes the fantastic, the ridiculous and the sublime within
the humdrum bustle of daily life, making The Life and Opinions of the
Tomcat Murr (1820-22) one of the funniest and strangest novels of the
nineteenth century.
The ancient mariner
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East of EdenAs a polictal allegory.
How did Cathy become evil? How did Cyprus get his wealth? What do Cathy and Cyprus have in common?
(If you come to a bad link copy link address and paste into a web browser, delete the 'goodreads' junk and you will be able to go to the link. Don't let the 'disinformation monkeys' stop you from thinking for yourself!)
Teleology
In the beginning of the book he writes a letter to his editor and talks about carving something and the editor wanting him to make him something like a box. Steinbeck says that he has made a box and put everything in it...and this book or novel holds those things.
The 'Science of Teleology' is the study of 'the final cause.' If you have a piece of wood you have the potential of carving it into something. That something is the Final Purpose. The Reason. The Goal. If the scuplter does NOT have the reason to act with an End In Mind, A Purpose, A Goal then nothing is actualized. But The Science of Teleology asks "what is the End Served? What is the Purpose Of - Something being brought into being under the Plan of (God or some other force ...the artist, the government, the religious sect, the institutions) Think about the difference between having gold and making an assassins dagger or a cross. Form Matters. What is the difference between a Saint and a Sinner?
What I am thinking about when I read this is how war has been an instrument that has changed society. What were the goals and who was shaping society for what end? The End Justifies the Means.
The book starts out with how the Catholics came first and started naming the place after their saints. Then they started naming things after events, and then after descriptions of the land. Giving something a label changes it...This reminds me of Francis Bacon, who wrote The New Atlantis.
The Act of 1871: The “United States” Is a Corporation – There are Two Constitutions
Books:
The Autobiography of General Ulysses S Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War by Ulysses S. Grant
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
The history of Herodotus — Volume 2
by Herodotus
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 2
William James
Characters
Cyprus
Cain and Abel
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Cosmic's Translated Classics
1.Nikolay GogolDead Souls (audible)(Russian)
2. Ivan TurgenevFirst Love and Other Stories (audible) (Russian)
3. Kafka FranzThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories (audible) (German)
4. Marcel Proust Swann's Way(French)
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky The Possessed(Russian)
6 Jacob Grimm The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (German)
7.Gustave FlaubertSentimental Education (French)
8. Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile, or On Education (French)
9. Baruch SpinozaEthics
10. Jean-Paul SartreNausea (French)
11. Sigrid UndsetThe Wreath (Norwegian) March 2022
12. Alessandro ManzoniThe Betrothed (Italy)
13. Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose (Italy)April 2022
14. Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum (Italy)
15. The Complete Fairy Tales (Scandinavia)
16. Quo Vadis (Polish)
A Good List For Authors Around The World
The Rime ancient marinerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter...
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1827-1834
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
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The Jew of MaltaThe motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial (the "bailey").[1] The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position.[2][3] Upon retreating to the motte, the arguer can claim that the bailey has not been refuted (because the critic refused to attack the motte)[1] or that the critic is unreasonable (by equating an attack on the bailey with an attack on the motte)
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Equivocation
For other uses, see Equivocation (disambiguation).
In logic, equivocation ('calling two different things by the same name') is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses within an argument.[1][2]
It is a type of ambiguity that stems from a phrase having two or more distinct meanings, not from the grammar or structure of the sentence.[1]
45-47: Barabas will show (shew) that he can be insidious
46 that is, more knave (the serpent) while pretending to be mild (the dove), than fool
The Slough of Emotionshttps://comebackbrighter.com/2018/08/... Obligation and Guilt
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children
East of EdenWhat hotel did Cyprus live in?
What does Cyprus and Cathy have in common?
The Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878 was a secret agreement reached between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire which granted administrative control of Cyprus to Britain (see British Cyprus), in exchange for its support of the Ottomans during the Congress of Berlin.[1] Provisions in the Convention retained Ottoman rights over the territory of Cyprus.
This agreement was the result of secret negotiations that took place earlier in 1878. The Convention was abrogated by the British on 5 November 1914, when Britain and the Ottoman Empire found themselves at war with each other.
Cyprus Convention, by which "His Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the island of Cyprus to be occupied and administered by England."
The island served Britain as a key military base on the sea route to British India, which was then Britain's most important overseas possession. In 1906, a new harbour at Famagusta was completed, increasing the importance of Cyprus as a strategic naval outpost protecting the approaches to the Suez Canal. Early in the First World War the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, and on 5 November 1914 Britain annexed Cyprus, bringing an end to the Convention.
5 November 1914 the British formally annexed Cyprus as a Crown colony.
A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony administered by The Crown within the British Empire. There was usually a Governor, appointed by the monarch of the UK on the advice of the Home (UK) Government, with or without the assistance of a local Council. In some cases this Council was split into two: an Executive Council and a Legislative Council, and was similar to the Privy Council that advises the Monarch.
New England colonies
Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire, established in the 1620s, chartered as crown colony in 1679
Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts, a crown colony established 1692
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, established 1636, chartered as crown colony in 1663
Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut, established 1636, chartered as crown colony in 1662
The administration of Crown colonies changed over time and in the 1800s some became, with a loosening of the power of royal governors, self-governing colonies, within which the Sovereign state (the UK Government) delegated legislation for most local internal matters of governance to elected assemblies, with consent of the governor. Over the centuries in some Crown colonies, more independent authority was given.
Early English colonies were usually established and administered by companies under charters granted by the monarch. The first "royal colony" was the Colony of Virginia, after 1624, when the Crown of the Kingdom of England revoked the royal charter it had granted to the Virginia Company and assumed control of the administration.
The term Crown colony continued to be used until 1981, when the British Nationality Act 1981 reclassified the remaining British colonies as "British Dependent Territories".
Cyprus (The Crown) was talking about wars he had never fought in. He was a fraud. He didn't have residency in Washington D.C. He traveled a lot (to England?) He probably had people that were blackmailed in Washington D.C. (a whore house)
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The famous Pirate that had a wooden leg: Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick or, the Whale made of whale bone.
Pegleg Senator:
Gouverneur Morris
He wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution and has been called the "Penman of the Constitution."
In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states.
Morris was born into a wealthy landowning family in what is now New York City.
After losing re-election to Congress, he moved to Philadelphia and became the assistant U.S. superintendent of finance.
He represented Pennsylvania at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, where he advocated a strong central government. He served on the committee that wrote the final draft of the United States Constitution.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce established formal diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and France during the American Revolutionary War. It was signed on February 6, 1778 in Paris, together with its sister agreement, the Treaty of Alliance, and a separate, secret clause allowing Spain and other European nations to join the alliance.
As a result, John Adams began drafting conditions for a possible commercial treaty between France and the future independent colonies of the United States, which declined the presence of French troops and any aspect of French authority in colonial affairs.[10] Congress sent Silas Deane to France to negotiate.
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It is said by some that Morris was "an aristocrat to the core," who believed that "there never was, nor ever will be a civilized Society without an Aristocracy".[10] It is also alleged that he thought that common people were incapable of self-government because he feared that the poor would sell their votes to the rich and that voting should be restricted to property owners. Duff Cooper wrote of Morris that although he "had warmly espoused the cause of the colonists in the American War of Independence, he retained a cynically aristocratic view of life and a profound contempt for democratic theories."
Morris was "the only foreign representative who remained in his post throughout the worst days of the Terror."[19] On one occasion, when Morris "found himself the centre of a hostile mob in favour of hanging him on the nearest lamp-post, he unfastened his wooden leg, brandished it above his head, and proclaimed himself an American who had lost a limb fighting for liberty", upon which "[t]he mob's suspicions melted into enthusiastic cheers" (even though, as noted above, Morris had in fact lost his leg as a result of a carriage accident).
The Catcher in The RyeThe hair reference
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
phoebe...naïve
Barnaby Rudge
A Jewish State
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Haas
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author...
Elkton Maryland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkton%...
metaliterary dimension
The most enjoyable thing about this book for me, though, was its metaliterary dimension. Some of the obscure literary figures who haunt Isabel’s miscued romantic dreams were unfamiliar to me, and I had a lot of fun looking them up (I’d recommend the Oxford World’s Classics edition, which has good notes). I was especially taken with Eugene Aram, a real-life eighteenth-century philologist and murderer (d. 1759), and the subject of a long-forgotten novel by Bulwer-Lytton. He is definitely ripe for a biopic.
Goodbye to Berlin
Breaking The Code to the Catcher in the Rye
ARCHIVE 2021 > The Catcher in the Rye
East of EdenCain and Abel
Cain is a "tiller of the ground"; Abel is a "keeper of sheep"
(Gen. 4:2, KJV). Gematria 42
God rejects Cain's gift of crops in favor of Abel's lamb (Gen. 4:3, KJV). Gematria 43
After rejection from God, Cain kills Abel (Gen. 4:8, KJV). Gematria 48
God put a mark on Cain to deter others from killing him (Gen. 4:15, KJV).
Another issue I have with John Steinbeck telling of Cain and Abel. He said that we all descended from Cain. This is not true. Cain had a mark put on him so people could tell who he was from afar. Now Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years and had many children... And perhaps though they were the first that God created they may not been the only ones.
But there is something else about this story that John didn't include. He doesn't tell us about the descendents of Cain. To me this is a much more interesting part of the story and also explains why his gift was not acceptable to God.
Cain brought a gift from agriculture! Agriculture is the beginning of civilization. Then you needed laws and lawyers... And cities...and armies....and Kings and gold.
Now Abel on the other hand lived directly off the land, like the Indians in North America. Because in order for sheep to thrive they need green pasture they need to move them around.
Carrots can't be moved.
Now these men, in the East of Eden, are landowners and they are talking about Cain like civilization has always looked like "their" California. But what ultimately happened to Cain's race? It led to The "Tower of Babel" and "The Days of Noah".
The American Indians thought that the White man owning land was crazy. To them it was like owning the air we breathe... How can you own that and sell what God has given... Or The Great Spirit has provided.
Just trying to show you some different levels of meaning in this story.
Ideally in the old testament... Under Moses (after this Cain and Abel incident... It was to be a first born. So last years lamb gives you this years sacrifice. That is over a years worth of labor.
I have been listening to the story of Cain and Abel now in the book. I was thinking about what they said about the offering of a lamb compared to vegetables and also that of "faith" which Lee mentions. I don't agree with Samuel's interpretation. So the difference between the offerings is this. Which one was really worth more? When you think about offering a lamb you have had to raise a sheep and then mate that sheep and then birth a lamb. You have to take a lot more care and tending to raise a lamb than to grow vegetables. You are not tied to the earth but perhaps you are nomadic. You don't have fences so you have more dangers. Raising a lamb cost more than raising a carrot. It will make a different kind of person out of you as well. Sheep are not easy to raise. You can't leave them. You have to be intuitive. They are kinda dumb animals.
"Western Civilization: a concise history"
East of EdenAlexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804)
Notable pegleg wearers
Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American politician
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist who is best known as the author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth Of Nations (1776), one of the most influential books ever written.
East of EdenThe CIA’s Operation ‘Midnight Climax’ Was Exactly What It Sounded Like
The CIA attempted to destroy all records of the program, leaving behind only seven boxes of official files overlooked during the document purge. But a few stories survived. One of the strangest revolves around a series of uncontrolled experiments named Operation Midnight Climax.
CIA operatives involved with Midnight Climax hired prostitutes in San Francisco to lure clients back to brothels. Once there, the agents secretly drugged their targets and watched them engage in sexual activities from behind a two-way mirror.
America’s spies began searching for mind-control substances during World War II. As the conflict raged, the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA, implemented a truth-drug program in hopes of discovering a means to coerce prisoners-of-war to reveal their secrets during interrogations.
The OSS initially toyed with a concentrated liquid form of marijuana rather than the newly discovered LSD, according to journalist Gary Kamiya writing in the San Francisco Chronicle. George White, an OSS captain and ex-federal narcotics agent, gave the first dose to a New York mobster in 1943.
“Every (subject) but one — and he didn’t smoke — gave us more information than we had before,” one of White’s colleagues recalled. However, the results were ultimately deemed “inconclusive,” Kamiya wrote.
As World War II ended and the Korean War intensified, the CIA and the Pentagon grew concerned over reports that foreign intelligence agencies had developed brainwashing methods of their own. These rumors inspired the classic Cold War film The Manchurian Candidate.
MKULTRA was, at least in part, a response to this perceived threat.
UlyssesComment about Sentimental Education
By friend William2
The Alhambra sequence here is reminiscent in the phantasmagoric “Nighttown” chapter in Ulysses. James Joyce knew Sentimental Education well. A later costume ball echoes the Alhambra scene, and it’s just as wild, just as frenetic. In other ways, in how it deals with the tribulations of Frederic’s desire, the book reminds me of Knut Hamsun’s Pan.
Twin Read Suggestions:Sentimental Education
The Woman in the Dunes
Foucault's Pendulum
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Camp of the Saints
Free book on line
Sybil, or the Two Nations https://www.victorianweb.org/authors/...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil...
Sybil is a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman...
"A Roman à thèse (French: 'thesis novel') is a novel which is didactic or which expounds a theory.Scholar Susan Suleiman talked about "authoritarian fiction"
Example:
List of romans à thèse Edit
Candide by Voltaire
Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.
Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms. (Thomas Carlyle sums up the movement in his 1839 book Chartism.[1]) Chartism failed as a parliamentary movement (three petitions to Parliament were rejected); however, five of the "Six Points" of Chartism would become a reality within a century of the group's formation.
Chartism demanded:
Universal suffrage for men
Secret ballot
Removal of property requirements for Parliament
Salaries for Members of Parliament (MPs)
Equal electoral districts
Annually elected Parliament
Characters Edit
Sybil Gerard
Charles Egremont
Lord Marney
Lord Henry Sydney
Lord de Mowbray
Rigby
Taper
Tadpole
Lady St. Julians
Marchioness of Deloraine
Baptist Hatton
Aubrey St. Lys
Sidonia
Devilsdust
Dandy Mick
Walter Gerard (Sybil's father)
Stephen Morley
Mr. Mountchesney
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unive...
Burke is mentioned at the same place Warren is...
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In 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, England’s famed statesman, published a novel entitled Coningsby, or the New Generation. It was well known as a thinly disguised portrayal of his political contemporaries. In it, he wrote: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” Felix Frankfurter, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, restated this in an American context when he said: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”
https://www.maier-files.com/council-o...
First Novel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conin...
His philosopy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-n...
Jamaica
Slavery was abolished in the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act in 1834.[8] Following a period of intense debate, the native and African populace of Jamaica were granted the right to vote; as the 19th century continued the government allowed some of them to hold public office. Despite these accomplishments, the white members of Jamaican colonial society continued to hold the real power.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism
Chartism was a movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857. It took its name from the People's Charter of 1838 and was a national protest movement, with particular strongholds of support in Northern England, the East Midlands, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Black Country, and the South Wales Valleys. Support for the movement was at its highest in 1839, 1842, and 1848, when petitions signed by millions of working people were presented to the House of Commons. The strategy employed was to use the scale of support which these petitions and the accompanying mass meetings demonstrated to put pressure on politicians to concede manhood suffrage. Chartism thus relied on constitutional methods to secure its aims, though some became involved in insurrectionary activities, notably in South Wales and in Yorkshire.
Moral Force
https://www.lexic.us/definition-of/mo...
Corn laws
https://intriguing-history.com/corn-l...
History and historians in the nineteenth century
https://books.google.com/books?id=D2M...
Chapter 8
Sybil...perhaps a reference to him:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinr...
Ultramontanism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra...
After the Protestant Reformation in France, the concept was revived but with its directionality reversed to indicate the man "beyond the mountains" in Italy: the Pope. The term ultramontain was used to refer to Catholics who supported papal authority in French affairs – as opposed to the Gallican and Jansenist factions, who did not – and was intended as an insult implying lack of patriotism.[1] From the 17th century, ultramontanism became closely associated with the Jesuits.[2]
In the 18th century the term came to refer to supporters of the Church in any conflict between church and state . In Austria ultramontanists were opposed to Josephinism, and in Germany to Febronianism. In Great Britain and Ireland ultramontanists resisted Cisalpinism, which favored concessions to the Protestant state in order to achieve Catholic emancipation.
From The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
von Bismarck, and the Prussian army would repeat their triumph, this time over the French in the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871, a united German state and empire had emerged that was poised to become the colossus of Europe and the fulfillment of Hegel’s dream. Germany would soon pass both Britain and France as a producer of iron and steel and coal. Its scientists pioneered the industrial development of drugs, synthetic dyes, and chemicals, while its universities became major centers of research and learning (the chief reason Albert Michelson
came to Berlin in 1881). Its finest minds became cultural legends, from Goethe and Beethoven to Kant, Leibniz, and Hegel himself. To be German (or barring that, at least of Germanic racial stock) was to be in some degree a participant in Western civilization at its highest trajectory. Meanwhile, the efficiency of Germany’s Hegelian-inspired government bureaucracy became the envy of Europe. Its offer of unemployment insurance to workers in 1881 forced virtually every other country to take the first tentative steps to creating the modern welfare state. At the same time, its disciplined and invincible army became an inspiration to military gurus around the world—while its navy aspired to be a global presence as powerful as that of Britain’s Royal Navy.34 By 1880, British statesman Benjamin Disraeli pronounced “the German revolution” a greater event than the French Revolution of the previous century. Rousseau’s revolution, after all, had ended in terror and blood. Hegel’s revolution in Germany, by contrast, seemed on the brink of universal fulfillment. History—and the march of the Absolute—were clearly on the Germans’ side.
Continued:
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Wow, this is some massive planning!Good luck with your challenge, Cosmic!
Waverleyhttps://www.maier-files.com/goethe-th...
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'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap doors and dark lanterns.
Perhaps a reference to Faust part 1 which was printed in 1808
Abbot Johannes Trithemius Was mentioned in the article above.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan...
https://www.faust.com/legend/cagliostro/
A Model for Goethe’s Faust?
Said to be the last of the real European sorcerers, the infamous Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (17 May 1748? – 26 August 1795) died in an Italian Inquisition prison after a series of strokes throughout a hot August day in 1795. His books and manuscripts had already been burned by the Church, and his reputation destroyed.
Balsamo
There’s an article about Giuseppe Balsamo here: Balsamo
https://www.faust.com/legend/cagliostro/
Cagliostro (pronounced “kally-o-stro”) was famous throughout Europe in the late 18th century as a mystic, magician, Freemason, alchemist and a healer. With his wife, the young “Countess” Seraphina, Cagliostro traveled throughout Europe promoting his own brand of occult-based Freemasonry, and selling elixirs and creams to extend life and preserve youth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg...From
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization:
For forty years, from 1795 until his death in 1831, Hegel taught first at the University of Jena and then in Berlin. A remote, even glacial figure, he was the German Sphinx—but also the first truly global philosopher. From America to Russia, Hegel was as controversial as he was influential. Schopenhauer attacked him as a “flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.” A century later, Karl Popper called his writings a “despicable perversion of everything that is decent.”8 Nonetheless, he dominated the continental academic mind like no one since Descartes. Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, Bergson, Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida: All of them carry, to one degree or another, the mark of Hegel, if only in some cases as a symbol of everything they detested. His written works, like The Phenomenology of Mind, are monuments of intellectual synthesis. But the real secret of Hegel’s success was his skill in fusing the moral fervor of Rousseau with the rigorous philosophizing of Plato, all expressed in a dense, almost incomprehensible, prose. If Hegel didn’t always know what he was talking about (as when he discussed planetary orbits9 or economics), he certainly sounded as though he did—and sounded as though he were also saying something new and profound. In fact, it was a shrewd reshuffling of a worn-out Neoplatonist metaphysics, cast as universal history. “Let us begin,” Rousseau wrote at the start of his Discourse on Inequality, “by setting aside all the facts.” This is precisely what Hegel does in his Philosophy of History and his Philosophy of Right, his most influential works. His subject was the history of civil society made famous by Scots like Adam Smith, or what the nineteenth century called “universal history.” Like Plato, Hegel was interested not in what happened, but why. Unless you could give a reason why something happened, Hegel argued, then it was of no interest: certainly not to the philosopher. Because then it had no significance in the story that Hegel really wanted to expound: the march of Absolute Reason toward perfection. Another term for Absolute Reason was Idea, or Spirit: for Hegel, he dominated the continental academic mind like no one since Descartes. Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, Bergson, Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida: All of them carry, to one degree or another, the mark of Hegel, if only in some cases as a symbol of everything they detested. His written works, like The Phenomenology of Mind, are monuments of intellectual synthesis. But the real secret of Hegel’s success was his skill in fusing the moral fervor of Rousseau with the rigorous philosophizing of Plato, all expressed in a dense, almost incomprehensible, prose. If Hegel didn’t always know what he was talking about (as when he discussed planetary orbits9 or economics), he certainly sounded as though he did—and sounded as though he were also saying something new and profound. In fact, it was a shrewd reshuffling of a worn-out Neoplatonist metaphysics, cast as universal history. “Let us begin,” Rousseau wrote at the start of his Discourse on Inequality, “by setting aside all the facts.” This is precisely what Hegel does in his Philosophy of History and his Philosophy of Right, his most influential works. His subject was the history of civil society made famous by Scots like Adam Smith, or what the nineteenth century called “universal history.” Like Plato, Hegel was interested not in what happened, but why. Unless you could give a reason why something happened, Hegel argued, then it was of no interest: certainly not to the philosopher. Because then it had no significance in the story that Hegel really wanted to expound: the march of Absolute Reason toward perfection. Another term for Absolute Reason was Idea, or Spirit: for Hegel,
....Like Plato’s Ideas or Forms, Hegel’s are more real than the material world they direct or reflect.† For Plato Ideas exist prior to material reality. For Hegel they emerge as part of material reality over time, like an image painted on the spokes of a wheel that becomes visible only when the wheel is in motion. The painter in this case is God or Providence, who has decided to make human history “the unfolding of Spirit in time,” until Spirit, Nature, and History are One. Once man knows this, Hegel proclaimed, he will finally achieve his freedom.11
Devil's Dust name of one of the characters that eventually becomes a 'capitalist'.
https://www.academia.edu/53523169/His...
1 Introduction
"And so the hours dragged by until the sun stood dead above our heads, a huge white ball in the noon sky, beating, blazing down, and then it happened—suddenly, a whirlwind! Twisting a great dust storm up from the earth, a black plague of the heavens filling the plain, ripping the leaves off every tree in sight, choking the air and sky. We squinted hard and took our whipping from the gods.” Thus speaks a sentry in the play ‘Antigone’, written by Sophocles in Greece around450 BCE (e.g. Bowker 2011), capturing a scene that many dust devil researchers two and a half millennia later will doubtless appreciate. Dust devils are therefore a phenomenon that has been documented for as long as there has been documentation of anything, and short of finding a prehistoric sketch of a dust devil on a cave wall, appears to be the first meteorological report in the West of this phenomenon
"Ecclesiastical Commissioner of 1530"
Book1 chapter 3
https://www.blueletterbible.org/study...
Augsburg Confession of 1530: Article XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power.
ARTICLE XXVIII: OF ECCLESIASTICAL POWER.
There has been great controversy concerning the Power of Bishops, in which some have awkwardly confounded the power of the Church and the power of the sword. And from this confusion very great wars and tumults have resulted, while the Pontiffs, emboldened by the power of the Keys, not only have instituted new services and burdened consciences with reservation of cases and ruthless excommunications, but have also undertaken to transfer the kingdoms of this world, and to take the Empire from the Emperor. These wrongs have long since been rebuked in the Church by learned and godly men. Therefore our teachers, for the comforting of men’s consciences, were constrained to show the difference between the power of the Church and the power of the sword, and taught that both of them, because of God’s commandment, are to be held in reverence and honor, as the chief blessings of God on earth.
"people without power or education, had been induced to believe themselves the freest and most enlightened nation in the world, and had submitted to lavish their blood and treasure, to see their industry crippled and their labour mortgaged, in order to maintain an oligarchy, that had neither ancient memories to soften nor present services to justify their unprecedented usurpation."
Knights Templarhttps://web.archive.org/web/201107200...
Edgeller, Johnathan (2010). Taking the Templar Habit: Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order (PDF). Texas Tech University. pp. 62–66. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011.
Theme of Sybil, or the Two Nations"The domestic feeling is fast vanishing among the working classes of this country," said Gerard; "nor is it wonderful—the Home no longer exists." "But there are means of reviving it," said Egremont; "we have witnessed them to-day. Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions, If all men acted like Mr Trafford, the condition of the people would be changed." "But all men will not act like Mr Trafford," said Morley. "It requires a sacrifice of self which cannot be expected, which is unnatural. It is not individual influence that can renovate society: it is some new principle that must reconstruct it. You lament the expiring idea of Home. It would not be expiring, if it were worth retaining. The domestic principle has fulfilled its purpose. The irresistible law of progress demands that another should be developed. It will come; you may advance or retard, but you cannot prevent it. It will work out like the development of organic nature.
Washington DeCoded
https://mysteryoftheinquity.wordpress...
The Pentagon is a broken pentagon...
"The broken pentagram is used by black magicians to conjure up demons in order to control them for their selfish desires…."
It can also represent VENUS!
https://joedubs.com/seven-alchemical-...
The Woman in the DunesGrains of sand
https://youtu.be/k_JQTe09_YY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortho...
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight', and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grasshoppers, locusts, and close relatives; and Ensifera – crickets and close relatives
Rhynchota—
https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/c...
Species: Cicada pennata (Distant, 1881)
https://youtu.be/FUnsxOUm2Qg?list=PLM...
https://plantscience.psu.edu/research...
Billbugs are a complex of weevils (Coleoptera:Curculionidae) or “snout beetles" that are capable of damaging turfgrass in North America. Billbugs can develop in turfgrasses found in all types of turfgrass systems such as home lawns, athletic fields, parks, and golf courses.
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/category...
Inflamation of the eye
https://www.tepezza.com/thyroid-eye-d...
Wood borer
https://www.fs.fed.us/r3/resources/he...
a long-horned saw beetle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longh...
iridescent beetle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupre....
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera.
The larger and more spectacularly colored jewel beetles are highly prized by insect collectors. The elytra of some Buprestidae species have been traditionally used in beetlewing jewellery and decoration in certain countries in Asia, like India, Thailand and Japan.
Egg of Columbus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_o...
An egg of Columbus or Columbus' egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new trade route was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. After his challengers give up, Columbus does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip.
Columbus Breaking the Egg by William Hogarth
The story is often alluded to when discussing creativity.[1] The term has also been used as the trade name of a tangram puzzle and several mechanical puzzles. It also shows that anything can be done by anyone with the right set of skills; however, not everyone knows how to do it.
Ingredient in Onions Found Effective in Treatment of Radiation Injuries
https://en.mapleplainfc.com/1520-onio...
Onions or garlic also help to better absorb radioactive radiation. After the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Russian scientists had found that even relatively small doses of radiation caused changes in the blood vessels such as arteriosclerosis and disorders in lipid metabolism. On the other hand, they recommended onion and garlic, as their ingredients increase blood flow and lower cholesterol levels.
If the Möbius man had not had the same reaction as his other colleagues, it was doubtful whether he would have been so obstinate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%...
"He was indeed a Möbius circle—in both a good and a bad sense. On the good face of it, he really deserved praise."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%...
Muscina stabulans
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30877...
Muscina stabulans (Fallén 1817) is a disease vector and a species of forensic value, particularly in the case of buried bodies. In this study, M. stabulans was reared under a total of seven constant temperatures at 16-34 °C, and the developmental duration, accumulated degree days, and larval body length were studied.
Centipedes
https://animalcorner.org/animals/cent...
Columbus Voyage Tied to Syphilis Spread?
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/ma...
This is the first time that all 54 of these cases have been evaluated systematically," said study co-author George Armelagos, an anthropologist at Emory, in the news release. "The evidence keeps accumulating that a progenitor of syphilis came from the New World with Columbus' crew and rapidly evolved into the venereal disease that remains with us today."
The researchers suggested someone sailing with Columbus brought Treponema -- the bacteria that causes syphilis -- to Europe. This type of bacteria also causes other diseases that are spread through skin-to-skin or oral contact in tropical climates. Their theory is that the bacteria mutated into the sexually transmitted form to survive in the cooler and more sanitary conditions of Europe.
THE MOEBIUS STRIP OF SEXUAL CONTRACTS
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the...
We can easily recognize here yet again the reversal that characterizes the Moebius strip: the only way to reach emancipation is to progress to the end on the path of commodification, of self-objectivization, of turning oneself into a commodity. A free subject emerges only as the remainder of this self-objectivization.
"When he asked him for just a swallow of water, the man scowled at him, making a face like a grasshopper, and rushed off."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass...
At high population densities and under certain environmental conditions, some grasshopper species can change color and behavior and form swarms. Under these circumstances, they are known as locusts.
He sat down on the shovel and lit a cigarette. The flame caught at last with the third match. His fatigue spread out into a sluggish circle, like India ink dropped in water—it was a jellyfish, a scent bag,
diagram of an atomic nucleus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomi...
One Way Ticket To The Blues
https://youtu.be/gRPKDbEX3bI
River of Hades
There are five rivers in greek mythology. Each has to do with death and is associated with a god.
https://www.thoughtco.com/rivers-of-t...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades
“Hell of Loneliness”
https://radiopatriot.net/2020/06/22/p...
In his beautiful commencement speech “This Is Water,” at Kenyon College, author David Foster Wallace talked about the day-to-day and how “the so-called ‘real world’ will not discourage you from operating on your own default settings, because the so-called ‘real world’ of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self.”
He’s talking about how, if we’re not careful, we can start to go on autopilot, which can greatly diminish our experience of the world. During Reflection, we get in the habit of switching off our autopilot by examining our experience. This form of inquiry requires us to ask questions and not take things at face value. It encourages us how to think about ourselves and the world in a more considered way. Through consistently engaging with our experience, we become aware that even the dullest moment can have a hidden depth. As you cultivate your awareness, “it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars—compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things.” from The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
Q2 - LORE OF YORE Opens March 25 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...This quarterly challenge takes inspiration from our quarterly theme, "Examining the Mysteries of History."
Despite advances in knowledge and technology throughout the history of our world, numerous mysteries and curiosities have remained unsolved. For this challenge, choose books that relate in some way to eleven mysteries that continue to refuse easy answers.
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A. Jack the Ripper: Who was this serial killer?
Read a book:
1. Set in the Victorian era (1837-1901 ), when the serial murders took place.
2. Featuring an unknown killer.
B. The Shroud of Turin: Its uncanny, negative imprint of the face and outline of a man's body shows injuries consistent with crucifixion.
Read a book:
3. Involving religion.
4. Set in a location regarded as a holy center.
C. Amelia Earhart: What happened to this female aviator?
Read a book:
5. Involving flight or a woman in a typically male career.
6. With missing people as its main theme.
D. Stonehenge: How and why was it built in 3,000 BCE?
Read a book:
7. Featuring a character who is a Druid.
8. About a builder or set on or near a quarry.
E. Mayan Calendar: How was such a complex and rather accurate calendar created?
Read a book:
9. Involving an ancient culture.
10. Involving astronomy or set in Latin America.
F. Atlantis: Did it actually exist?
Read a book:
11. Set in a location in or on water.
12. Featuring a mythical element.
G. King Arthur: Real or legend?
Read a book:
13. Set in medieval times.
14. Featuring a search for an artifact, such as the Holy Grail.
H. UFOs: Are aliens fact or fiction?
Read a book:
15. Featuring an extraterrestrial alien or someone considered to be an illegal alien.
16. Involving government secrets or a secret government facility, such as Area 51.
I. Moai statues on Easter Island: How were they transported? Read a book:
17. Featuring a protagonist who travels somewhere or deforestation.
18. Set in Oceania or involving the transport of goods.
J. Mystery of Oak Island and the Pirate Captain Kidd
Read a book:
19. About pirates or involving a curse.
20. Set in Canada.
K. Salem Witch Trials: Devil possession, witchcraft, or fungus-induced delusions?
Read a book:
21: Featuring a witch or a character who suffers delusions.
22. Featuring a character who is wrongly accused or suffers discrimination.
Bleak House was Charles Dickens’s ninth novel, written when he was between 40 and 41 year of ageInstallment—Date of publication—Chapters:
I - March 1852 - chapters 1–4 (2022)
II - April 1852 - chapters 5–7
III - May 1852 - chapters 8–10
IV - June 1852 - chapters 11–13
V - July 1852 - chapters 14–16
VI - August 1852 - chapters 17–19
VII - September 1852 - chapters 20–22
VIII - October 1852 - chapters 23–25
IX - November 1852 - chapters 26–29
X - December 1852 - chapters 30–32
XI - January 1853 - chapters 33–35
XII - February 1853 - chapters 36–38
XIII - March 1853 - chapters 39–42
XIV - April 1853 - chapters 43–46
XV - May 1853 - chapters 47–49
XVI - June 1853 - chapters 50–53
XVII - July 1853 - chapters 54–56
XVIII - August 1853 - chapters 57–59
XIX–XX - September 1853 - chapters 60–67
The Name Of The RoseUmberto Eco
On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess" by Milo Temesvar
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Albertus Magnus
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Dead Men's Trousersit’s the sound of you dying — you’re a prisoner of your own self-confirming, self-restraining algorithms, allowing Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon to bind you up in psychic chains and force-feed you a crappy, one-dimensional version of yourself, which you embrace as it’s the only affirmation on offer — these are your friends — these are your associates — these are your enemies — this is your life — you need chaos, an external force tae shock you oot ay your complacency —
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The first clear reference to Baba Yaga (Iaga baba) occurs in 1755; Mikhail V. Lomonosov's Rossiiskaia grammatika ('Russian grammar'). In Lomonosov's grammar, Baba Yaga is mentioned twice among other figures largely from Slavic tradition. The second of the two mentions occurs within a list of Slavic gods and beings next to their presumed equivalence in Roman mythology (the Slavic god Perun, for example, appears equated with the Roman god Jupiter). Baba Yaga, however, appears in a third section without an equivalence, highlighting her perceived uniqueness even in this first known attestation.[4]
In the narratives in which Baba Yaga appears, she displays a variety of typical attributes: a turning, chicken-legged hut; and a mortar, pestle, and/or mop or broom. Baba Yaga frequently bears the epithet Baba Iaga kostianaia noga ('bony leg'), and when inside of her dwelling, she may be found stretched out over the stove, reaching from one corner of the hut to another. Baba Yaga may sense and mention the russkim dukhom ('Russian scent') of those that visit her. Her nose may stick into the ceiling. Particular emphasis may be placed by some narrators on the repulsiveness of her nose, breasts, buttocks, or vagina.
Russian Fairy Tales
I bought the book...if anyone out there wants to buddy read (after May).
This is definitely a Dangerous (old) Woman.
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I like her creativity. Have wanted to use the tarot to inspire story telling. I am like the coyote that goes head first and then realizes there is nothing under him. I have enthusiasm but haven't embraced the process fully.
First fairy tale is Snow White. She uses The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. The wording and telling is hers.
What is interesting about The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm is the witch is not a step mother! It is Snow White's Mother.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés is painting these tales as part of the psyche that is in each of us.
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" But be forewarned, these stories are so rich and decadent that, like eating chocolate truffles, consuming more than one or two at a time can be a surfeit."
"For example, the characters speak sometimes of the properties of herbs, clearly referring to the book of secrets attributed to Albertus Magnus, which underwent countless revisions over the centuries."The Name of the Rose
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Astronomy Edit
Albert was deeply interested in astronomy, as has been articulated by scholars such as Paola Zambelli[29] and Scott Hendrix.[30] Throughout the Middle Ages –and well into the early modern period– astrology was widely accepted by scientists and intellectuals who held the view that life on earth is effectively a microcosm within the macrocosm (the latter being the cosmos itself). It was believed that correspondence therefore exists between the two and thus the celestial bodies follow patterns and cycles analogous to those on earth. With this worldview, it seemed reasonable to assert that astrology could be used to predict the probable future of a human being. Albert argued that an understanding of the celestial influences affecting us could help us to live our lives more in accord with Christian precepts.[30] The most comprehensive statement of his astrological beliefs is to be found in a work he authored around 1260, now known as the Speculum astronomiae. However, details of these beliefs can be found in almost everything he wrote, from his early De natura boni to his last work, the Summa theologiae.[31]
Alchemy
In the centuries since his death, many stories arose about Albert as an alchemist and magician. "Much of the modern confusion results from the fact that later works, particularly the alchemical work known as the Secreta Alberti or the Experimenta Alberti, were falsely attributed to Albertus by their authors to increase the prestige of the text through association."[22] On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle. For example, in his commentary, De mineralibus, he refers to the power of stones, but does not elaborate on what these powers might be.[23] A wide range of Pseudo-Albertine works dealing with alchemy exist, though, showing the belief developed in the generations following Albert's death that he had mastered alchemy, one of the fundamental sciences of the Middle Ages. These include Metals and Materials; the Secrets of Chemistry; the Origin of Metals; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.[24] He is credited with the discovery of the element arsenic[25] and experimented with photosensitive chemicals, including silver nitrate.[26][27] He did believe that stones had occult properties, as he related in his work De mineralibus. However, there is scant evidence that he personally performed alchemical experiments.
According to legend, Albert is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it on to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death. Albert does not confirm he discovered the stone in his writings, but he did record that he witnessed the creation of gold by "transmutation."[28] Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albert's death, this legend as stated is unlikely
May the Lord grant me the grace to be the transparent witness of the occurrences that took place in the abbey whose name it is only right and pious now to omit, toward the end of the year of our Lord 1327, when the Emperor Louis came down into Italy to restore the dignity of the Holy Roman Empire, in keeping with the designs of the Almighty and to the confusion of the wicked usurper, simoniac, and heresiarch who in Avignon brought shame on the holy name of the apostle (I refer to the sinful soul of Jacques of Cahors, whom the impious revered as John XXII).The Name of the Rose
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Scion of an important merchant and banking family in Cahors, Jacques Duèze studied medicine in Montpellier and law in Paris, yet could not read a regal letter written to him in French.[5]
Duèze taught both canon and civil law at Toulouse and Cahors. On the recommendation of Charles II of Naples he was made Bishop of Fréjus in 1300. In 1309 he was appointed chancellor of Charles II, and in 1310 he was transferred to Avignon. He delivered legal opinions favorable to the suppression of the Templars, but he also defended Boniface VIII and the Bull Unam Sanctam. On 23 December 1312, Clement V made him Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina.[2]
By the bull Ad conditorem canonum of 8 December 1322, John XXII declared it ridiculous to pretend that every scrap of food given to the friars and eaten by them belonged to the pope, refused to accept ownership over the goods of the Franciscans in future and granted them exemption from the rule that absolutely forbade ownership of anything even in common, thus forcing them to accept ownership. On 12 November 1323, he issued the bull Quum inter nonnullos, which declared "erroneous and heretical" the doctrine that Christ and his apostles had no possessions whatsoever
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Meanwhile in March 1312 Philip IV held a general assembly of his kingdom in Lyons, his object being to disturb and steamroller the minds of the council fathers and of the pope himself. Secret bargains had been made between Clement V and the envoys of Philip IV from 17 to 29 February 1312; the council fathers were not consulted. By this bargaining Philip obtained the condemnation of the Templars. It is most likely he used the threat that he would bring a public action against Boniface VIII. The king of France made for Vienne on 20 March, and after two days Clement V delivered to the commission of cardinals for approval the bull by which the order of Templars was suppressed (the bull Vox in excelso). In the second session of the council, which took place on 3 April 1312, this bull was approved and the pope announced a future crusade. The Templars’ property, of immense value, was entrusted to other persons by the bulls Ad providam of 2 May and Nuper in concilio of 16 May. The fate of the Templars themselves was decided by the bull Considerantes of 6 May. In the bulls Licet dudum (18 Dec. 1312), Dudum in generali concilio (31 Dec. 1312) and Licet pridem (13 Jan. 1313) Clement V gave further treatment to the question of the Templars’ property.
Then came the intervention of our dear son in Christ, Philip, the illustrious king of France. The same crimes had been reported to him. He was not moved by greed. He had no intention of claiming or appropriating for himself anything from the Templars’ property; rather, in his own kingdom he abandoned such claim and thereafter released entirely his hold on their goods. He was on fire with zeal for the orthodox faith, following in the well marked footsteps of his ancestors. He obtained as much information as he lawfully could. Then, in order to give us greater light on the subject, he sent us much valuable information through his envoys and letters. The scandal against the Templars themselves and their order in reference to the crimes already mentioned increased. There was even one of the knights, a man of noble blood and of no small reputation in the order, who testified secretly under oath in our presence, that at his reception the knight who received him suggested that he deny Christ, which he did, in the presence of certain other knights of the Temple, he furthermore spat on the cross held out to him by this knight who received him. He also said that he had seen the grand master, who is still alive, receive a certain knight in a chapter of the order held overseas. The reception took place in the same way, namely with the denial of Christ and the spitting on the cross, with quite two hundred brothers of the order being present. The witness also affirmed that he heard it said that this was the customary manner of receiving new members: at the suggestion of the person receiving the profession or his delegate, the person making profession denied Jesus Christ, and in abuse of Christ crucified spat upon the cross held out to him, and the two committed other unlawful acts contrary to christian morality, as the witness himself then confessed in our presence.
The property should become forever that of the order of the Hospital of saint John of Jerusalem, of the Hospital itself and of our beloved sons the master and brothers of the Hospital, in the name of the Hospital and order of these same men, who as athletes of the Lord expose themselves to the danger of death for the defence of the faith, bearing heavy and perilous losses in lands overseas.
In order that we may grant them increased support, we bestow on them, with the approval of the sacred council, the house itself of the Knights Templar and the other houses, churches, chapels, oratories, cities, castles, towns, lands, granges, places, possessions, jurisdictions, revenues, rights, all the other property, whether immovable, movable or self-moving, and all the members together with their rights and belongings, both beyond and on this side of the sea, in each and every part of the world, at the time when the master himself and some brothers of the order were arrested as a body in the kingdom of France, namely in October 1308. The gift is to include everything which the Templars had, held or possessed of themselves or through others, or which belonged to the said house and order of Knights Templar, or to the master and brothers of the order as also the titles, actions and rights which at the time of their arrest belonged in any way to the house, order or persons of the order of Knights Templar, or could belong to them, against whomsoever of whatever dignity, state or condition, with all the privileges, indults, immunities and liberties with which the said master and brothers of the house and order of Knights Templar, and the house and order itself, had been legitimately endowed by the apostolic see or by catholic emperors, kings and princes, or by other members of the faithful, or in any other way. All this we present, grant, unite, incorporate, apply and annex in perpetuity, by the fullness of our apostolic power, to the said order of the Hospital of saint John of Jerusalem and to the Hospital itself.
The property includes that which the Templars had of themselves or through others, and anything belonging to them in any way, with all their rights, privileges, indults, immunities, liberties, honours and charges. We donated and united all this forever to the Hospital and incorporated it into the Hospital, with the approval of the sacred council and from the fullness of our apostolic power, for the help of the holy Land. However, whatever rights belonged to kings, princes, prelates, barons, nobles and any other Catholics, before the arrest of the master of the former order of the Temple and of some other brothers, were to remain. We excepted from the said donation, union and incorporation the property of the former order of the Temple in the kingdoms and lands of our beloved sons in Christ, the illustrious kings … of Castile, … of Aragon, … of Portugal, and … of Majorca, lying outside the kingdom of France, which we reserved with good reason for the disposal of the apostolic see.
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