Capricorns born on January 10 have heightened perception and fiercely held likes and dislikes. They are not shy about dealing with others in a direct and honest manner. They have no secret agenda. They are proud of their forthright approach to life and may even flaunt it.Pretty much true, if I may say so myself.
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
...specialise[s] in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.The company is named after the Flemish scholar Antoon Sanders (who "Latinized his name to Antonius Sanderus").
...richly illuminated...form[ing] an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity. Some of them were also decorated with jewelled covers, portraits, and heraldic emblems. Some were bound as girdle books for easy carrying, though few of these or other medieval bindings have survived. Luxury books, like the Talbot Hours of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, may include a portrait of the owner, and in this case his wife, kneeling in adoration of the Virgin and Child as a form of donor portrait. In expensive books, miniature cycles showed the Life of the Virgin or the Passion of Christ in eight scenes decorating the eight Hours of the Virgin, and the Labours of the Months and signs of the zodiac decorating the calendar. Secular scenes of calendar cycles include many of the best known images from books of hours, and played an important role in the early history of landscape painting.Many astrological explanations focus on the "goat" of Capricorn, but there is also the tail:
[W]hile Capricorns are able to climb life’s mountain peaks and succeed, they’re also able to plumb the emotional oceans of life and one of the least known qualities about a Capricorn, is how spiritually in tune they are. Many Capricorns have an inexplicable sixth sense that comes from this aspect of their nature. Capricorn is a complex and contradictory Sign and this comes from it being part goat, part fish.
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
...specialise[s] in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.The company is named after the Flemish scholar Antoon Sanders (who "Latinized his name to Antonius Sanderus").
...richly illuminated...form[ing] an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity. Some of them were also decorated with jewelled covers, portraits, and heraldic emblems. Some were bound as girdle books for easy carrying, though few of these or other medieval bindings have survived. Luxury books, like the Talbot Hours of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, may include a portrait of the owner, and in this case his wife, kneeling in adoration of the Virgin and Child as a form of donor portrait. In expensive books, miniature cycles showed the Life of the Virgin or the Passion of Christ in eight scenes decorating the eight Hours of the Virgin, and the Labours of the Months and signs of the zodiac decorating the calendar. Secular scenes of calendar cycles include many of the best known images from books of hours, and played an important role in the early history of landscape painting.Many astrological explanations focus on the "goat" of Capricorn, but there is also the tail:
[W]hile Capricorns are able to climb life’s mountain peaks and succeed, they’re also able to plumb the emotional oceans of life and one of the least known qualities about a Capricorn, is how spiritually in tune they are. Many Capricorns have an inexplicable sixth sense that comes from this aspect of their nature. Capricorn is a complex and contradictory Sign and this comes from it being part goat, part fish.
Dear...Correspondent:
[H]ere is an email I sent to Michael Coren, who has written a new book titled Hatred: Islam's War on Christianity, and whose lecture I attended last week at the Jewish Defense League. I wrote this reply to his email after he told me to say he cannot find any way to have me on his nightly show.
I gave him good reviews [here and here] for his book at my website, since I didn't want to pick too much at the details.
But, unfortunately, he is of the same ilk as Robert Spencer, Jamie Glasov, David Horowitz, et al. The Islam apologists/Islam destroyers, who never quite took it seriously enough to take what the Koran said as what Muslims really do believe, and who would say things like "destroy radical Islam."
It was a long shot, trying to contact Coren, and perhaps to guage if he really can go the distance with Islam, conservatism, etc, since I really do need supporters here in Canada, and links to publishers. But, it looks like I will have to keep focused on what I'm doing, and doing it as authentically as possible.
Best,
Kidist
I don't know much about this Coren fellow, but much of what drives commercial broadcasting, Tv, and print, is very specific and needs to fit their niche and attract viewers. Perhaps you're viewed as not controversial enough, or too controversial, or too-much-this-and-not-enough-that. It's hard to know. You're not famous and controversial, two things which can help drive media attention. But do keep plugging away. Recall those authors who submitted their book to 30 publishers and were turned down by all, and then one publisher picks it up and has some success. Persistence pays off. Your follow up to Coren is very good. Maybe you could get yourself arrested, or something, to drive some media attention. Just kidding. It is difficult to penetrate the media barrier....Kidist:
I think I'm TOO nice and proper! When I breach out of that, people are actually surprised. Even Laura (of The Thinking Housewife) once said to me that I was full of surprises, and someone else said (it was actually at Jim's (Kalb) dinner) that I don't look like my blog...And here, my correspondent goes through my email, giving his views, and advice:
Yes, I will start to be difficult, obnoxious etc. I thought of reporting Coren for "racism" or better "discrimination" or something. He is discriminating against me because I dare to say that Islam has no place in Canada. He daren't have me say what I think we should do about that (i.e. present Larry's carefully outlined program for how to deal with immigration and Muslims, and Islam). Coren has all kinds of other "minority" groups on his show. How about an Ethiopian, Christian, Westerner!!! I will send an email to that Jamie Glasov of Horowitz and Frontpage Magazine, and other pseudo conservative sites which Coren idolizes.
Now that I'm over the disappointment, I will just "have fun," as the saying goes. And keep on plugging.
I think I'm TOO nice and proper!Correspondent:
You do come across as being nice and proper, and a fine thing it is, too, in our liberal culture of abrasive and improper women. I wouldn't like to see you as yet another loud-mouthed, obnoxious chick. A proper conservative man, in a proper conservative society, would properly deplore that. But then, this is hardly a proper conservative society. And then, there was Joan of Arc. And I think Phyliss Schlafly is a fine model of a woman who stands up for civilized values against the rising tide of liberation.KPA:
When I breach out of that, people are actually surprised. Even Laura [of the Thinking Housewife] once said to me that I was full of surprises, and someone else said (it was actually at Jim's [Kalb] dinner) that I don't look like my blog...
Yes, I will start to be difficult, obnoxious etc.Correspondent:
I think you can be effective without having an obnoxious manner. Larry was a good example of that. He always (well, almost always) said what he had to say in a calm, deliberate voice, reasonable, factual, and with great conviction.KPA:
I thought of reporting Coren for "racism" or better "discrimination" or something. He is discriminating against me because I dare to say that Islam has no place in Canada.Correspondent:
We shouldn't try to use illegitimate leftist arguments like "discrimination" against our opponents. It would look like a cynical ploy.KPA:
He daren't have me say what I think we should do about that (i.e. present Larry's carefully outlined program for how to deal with immigration and Muslims, and Islam). Coren has all kinds of other "minority" groups on his show. How about an Ethiopian, Christian, Westerner!!! I will send an email to that Jamie Glasov of Horowitz and Frontpage Magazine, and other pseudo conservative sites which Coren idolizes.Correspondent:
You're at the place Larry arrived at long ago -- the greatest obstacle to defeating liberalism is our own so-called-conservatives, who accept liberal principles like diversity and non-discrimination and merely try to ameliorate the worst symptoms rather than opposing liberalism on fundamental ground.KPA:
Now that I'm over the disappointment, I will just "have fun," as the saying goes. And keep on plugging.Correspondent:
You do have the unique advantage of being a non-Westerner, and a woman, who opposes liberalism. We tend to feel guilty when one of our own, a white man, tries to defend us. But people will be more open to listening when one of the "other" -- a chick! an Ethiopian chick!! -- says non-liberal things. Say it in a quiet, yet firm voice of conviction -- "you so-called-conservative leaders are one of the reasons we're losing". Unfortunately, you'll find the liberals are especially hate-filled towards anyone they perceive to be one of "their own" (and that includes Ethiopian chicks) who goes off the reservation and starts denouncing them and their false religion. It really gets under their skin. Oh, you could get yourself arrested on hate charges, don't you think, in Canada?KPA:
Agreed, 100%.Correspondent:
Thanks for the reality check.
Getting arrested in Canada for hate charges? The sheer confusion would just kill everyone!
"The sheer confusion would just kill everyone!"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, and you'd probably get a lot more hits at your blog! And then Coren and the rest would be falling all over themselves to get you on their shows. Asrat, La Cause Celebre!
:-)
East Kent Mercury, Thursday June 3, 1976-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kidist (13) wins Collegs award
The 13-year-old head girl of Betteshanger School, Kidist Asrat, has won a scholarship at Dover College
Until last year the College was for boys only. But there are now an increasing number of girls being accepted, and Kidist is the first girl to win such a scholarship at the College.
She gained the award at the recent Scholarship Examinations at the College, and it is to a maximum of 500 per year.
Called the Astor Scholarship, it was awarded to Kidist for her all-round qualities of work, music and character. She plays the piano and violin, and she also sings.
Kidist comes from Ethiopia.
Decades ago, I was very much interested in astrology and studied it deeply. Then I dropped it. My view of the matter was and is as follows: The symbols of astrology represent a certain dimension of the universe, they are a window into certain constitutive principles of human personality and character, often showing us profound truths about people and personality types.He then writes about the limitations of astrology, and horoscopes
At the same time, the insights that one gets from astrology are so subjective (and its terminology so specialized and so different from normal language) that it is not really useful for general purposes of understanding and discussing human character. It tends to become a silly distraction from true understanding, an intellectual game of classification and labeling that in the final analysis doesn’t go anywhere.But he doesn't quite fully dismiss horoscopes, noting some of their strengths:
The truth or falsity of astrology cannot be determined by abstract arguments over whether it is plausible that the positions of the planets could affect earthly events. The truth or falsity of astrology can only be determined by people who learn its principles and study the birth charts of people they know well or of famous people. Why the correspondence exists between the configuration of the solar system in relation to the earth at the time of a person’s birth and that person’s traits is not known; but the correspondence does exist, often to an incredibly detailed degree. The planets and signs, in a manner we cannot understand, represent structural principles of the universe and vital principles of the human psyche, and to learn about these principles and see them in operation in human personality is a legitimate area of knowledge.So, in true Larry Auster fashion, we get the whole picture of the argument, from a detached/involved perspective. We know that if anything, Larry will be fair, while at the same time not tolerating any silliness.
...specialise[s] in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.The company is named after the Flemish scholar Antoon Sanders (who "Latinized his name to Antonius Sanderus").
...richly illuminated...form[ing] an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity. Some of them were also decorated with jewelled covers, portraits, and heraldic emblems. Some were bound as girdle books for easy carrying, though few of these or other medieval bindings have survived. Luxury books, like the Talbot Hours of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, may include a portrait of the owner, and in this case his wife, kneeling in adoration of the Virgin and Child as a form of donor portrait. In expensive books, miniature cycles showed the Life of the Virgin or the Passion of Christ in eight scenes decorating the eight Hours of the Virgin, and the Labours of the Months and signs of the zodiac decorating the calendar. Secular scenes of calendar cycles include many of the best known images from books of hours, and played an important role in the early history of landscape painting.Many astrological explanations focus on the "goat" of Capricorn, but there is also the tail:
[W]hile Capricorns are able to climb life’s mountain peaks and succeed, they’re also able to plumb the emotional oceans of life and one of the least known qualities about a Capricorn, is how spiritually in tune they are. Many Capricorns have an inexplicable sixth sense that comes from this aspect of their nature. Capricorn is a complex and contradictory Sign and this comes from it being part goat, part fish.
Dear KidistI hardly post on myself, and less so on my early childhood years. They were a little magical (that magical land of my birth and childhood, which is forever relegated to memory) and also difficult, since we were abruptly uprooted from the only home we knew when we moved to Paris. It takes a lot to rebuild a new life, even for young children. That is why I don't blame immigrants for their desire to revive the country they knew in the new country they've entered. And that is why I tell them to "go back," especially those immigrants (e.g. Ethiopians) with little affinity to the western cultures of America or Canada.
What amazing photos!
How many people can say they have met an Emperor, let alone held his hand?
Thank you for sharing these photos.
Mark
Upon Hope Blog - A Traditional Conservative Future
On the invisibility of Washington in America, I think this is a major factor in our loss of national identity. He is the largest and most important (as well as the most interesting as far as I’m concerned) figure in our history. For Americans (including conservatives) to know next to nothing about him, the father of our country, is a mark against us. It is as though someone knew and cared nothing about his own father, who just happened to be one of the greatest men who ever lived. There’s something seriously amiss here.Washington tried to be a father to John Parke Custis, the son of his wife Martha. But he was disappointed by this young man, and:
...betrayed the exasperation of a hard-working man coping with a spoiled and rich boy. [Ron Chernow. Washington: A Life. P. 156]Chernow writes about Washington's bid for presidency:
As his name was bruited about for president, Washington as caught in an excruciating predicament. Merely to broach the topic, even in strict confidence with friends, might seem to betray some secret craving on his part. As he later confessed to Hamilton, he dared not seek advice: "For situated as I am, I could hardly bring the question into the slightest discussion, or ask an opinion, even in the most confidential manner, without betraying, in my judgment, some impropriety of conduct."...The sad family affair with his step-son Custis notwithstanding, Washington became a father, after all.
Washington had to undergo this ritual of spurning the proffered crown [of the presidency as introduced by ...Hamilton]. "On the delicate subject with which you conclude your letter, I can say nothing," Washington replied. "For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you, it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm...while you and some others who are acquainted with my heart would acquit, the world and prosterity might probably accuse me of inconsistency and ambition." So among those whose opinion Washington considered was posterity. He portrayed himself as paralyzed by indecision an referred to the "dreaded dilemma of being forced to accept or refuse" the presidency. Whenever he mused about the problem, he told Hamilton, he "felt a kind of gloom upon my mind."...
Hamilton contended that Washington's refusal to become president would "throw everything into confusion." This was what Washington yearned to hear: that overwhelming necessity demanded that he make the supreme sacrifice and serve as president...
The public clamor for Washington to become president arose from his eroism, his disinterested patriotism, and his willingness to surrender his wartime command. Another, if minor factor, was his apparent sterility and lack of children, which made it seem that he had been divinely preserved in an immaculate state to become the Father of His Country. In March 1788, in listing the arguments for electing Washington, the Massachusettes Centinel include this one: "As having no son - and therefore not exposing us to the danger of a hereditary successor."This was a plausible fear at a time when monarchs routinely made dynastic marriages and when people worried that European powers would subvert the new republican government...To sway Washington to run, Gouverneur Morris slyly alluded to his childless state: "You will become the father to more than three millions of children." Washington: A Life. Ron Chernow. Pp. 548-550.
By: John C. McRae, act. 1850-1880
George Gorgas White (1835-1898) (after)
John C. McRae (act. 1850-1880) (engraver)
"Father, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree."
John C. McRae, New York: 1867
Engraving, uncolored
14.75 x 21.5 inches image
19.75 x 26 inches overall
