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George Washington in a 1785 letter to James Duane, NYC Mayor, called New York "the Seat of the Empire". Washington is said to have used the phrase"Pathway to Empire"when referring to the state in conversation w/ George Clinton, the NY Governor in the 1790s
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James Duane was born in 1733, in NYC, in the Province of New York, to Anthony Duane and his second wife, Althea Ketaltas. Anthony Duane was a Protestant Irishman from County Galway who first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698..
"After his first wife's death, Anthony married Althea Ketaltas (Hettletas), the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant. By the time of James' birth, his father had become a wealthy colonial settler.. When Anthony died in 1747, James became the ward of Robert Livingston,
the 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor, where he completed his early education.
The Dutch roots of the NY mayor are not surprising as, prior, during the 17thC, the Dutch East India Company developed the town New Amsterdam which is present-day New York City
The city of New York was recaptured by the Dutch in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) and renamed New Orange.
It was returned to the English under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster a year later
"The 1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War was the result of commercial rivalry and Orangist support for the exiled Charles II , uncle of William of Orange "
In 1524, it was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, who explored the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor
Francis I of France was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy ..
A prodigious patron of the arts, King Francis I promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired...
Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World ..
The succession of his great rival Emperor Charles V to the Habsburg Netherlands and the throne of Spain, followed by his election as Holy Roman Emperor, led to France being geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy..
In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, Francis sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold .. When this was unsuccessful..
King Francis I formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time ..
Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent"...
Grok : "Adding an immersive digital ecosphere, like VR environments synced to trance rhythms, could amplify the MDMA-trance combo into hyper-real altered states, where visuals morph with beats for total sensory envelopment and ego-blurring unity...🤔
"At the beginning of Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi novel Foundation, Hari Seldon introduces his idea for a massive project.. Using the science of psychohistory, Seldon has predicted that the current Galactic Empire will fall and a dark age will follow" reactormag.com/the-encycloped…
In Asimov's Foundation (1951), famed mathematician and psychologist Hari Seldon has developed the science of psychohistory, which uses sophisticated mathematics and statistical analysis to predict future trends on a galactic scale.
Wiki : "Although there is no explicit admission to this effect, it is not uncommon to find claims in the media that the various Deep Thought, Deep Blue, and DeepMind are named after the Deep Thought supercomputer imagined by Adams..
Elon Musk was among the first funders of DeepMind , and has often admitted that Adams was fundamental to its formation.".. 🤔
"The DOD is Using Military Bases & Leased Airliners to Spray 40–60 Million Tons of Toxic Nanoparticles Yearly .... supplied by firms like American Elements Corp."?
The following is translated from a Chinese thread:
Zhu Qiaolin graduated from Northeast Yucai School, which was once directly under the Shenyang Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army—a school that,from its establishment, has served the children of CCP military.
In 2006, Li Chunming, the Deputy Political Commissar of the Naval Aviation Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, visited Northeast Yucai School and wrote a letter to Li Keqiang, .., suggesting the renovation of the Memorial Hall of Zhou Enlai's Former Reading Place