"It very rapidly became the political and ambassadorial district of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, housing the Portuguese embassy among others..
In film, fiction and the media :
The square is the setting of the third part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, The System of the World
A key scene in A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh , takes place in a nightclub in the fictional Sink Street, "off" Golden Square en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Handful…
" Confessions Of An English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey sees the protagonist part from the square and for the last time from Anne, the prostitute with whom he falls in love"
36 Tavistock , Edgar Allen Poe and the beatniks
Golden Square
In film, fiction and the media :
A verbal tradition was seized upon for the Hulu series Harlots to host the home and business of fictional "bawd" (brothel keeper) Lydia Quigley;..Multiple characters utter the square's name as shorthand to refer to her business.
Golden Square
In film, fiction and the media :
Charles Dickens' works " David Copperfield " and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
In the latter it is the square where Ralph Nickleby lives in a spacious house and has his "establishment."
Golden Square Soho
Current residents
Phonographic Performance Limited and the Absolute Radio stations are based at №1. After acquisition of which station Bauer Radio consolidated there its regional holdings including Planet Rock
Digital Cinema Media (DCM) &the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) simultaneously occupied №12. Most of the cinema advertising in Britain was controlled from this building, until December 2013 ..
The global head- & London offices of M & C Saatchi Group &its subsidiaries -
M&C Saatchi, M&C Saatchi Performance, M&C Saatchi Export, LIDA, Clear, TALK PR, Play*, Studio 36, & 5th Element occupy №36 (formerly known as 34 to 36)
"Monsignor Keith Newton, the ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham Ordinariate, and Fr. Mark Elliott Smith, rector of Warwick Street church, banned the Rev. Calvin Robinson from filming an Easter special at the Ordinariate's central church after complaints..
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Let's see what Scientific American has to say about that Ishtar meme👆
" it is well known that under the Roman Empire, Christianity did indeed adopt the pagan rituals of conquered peoples..
" in an effort to help convert them. It worked pretty well as a strategy ..However, there are a few things wrong with the Ishtar meme .. Ishtar was the goddess of love and war and sex, as well as protection, fate, childbirth, marriage, and storms..
Her cult practiced sacred prostitution, where women waited at a temple and had sex with a stranger in exchange for a divine blessing (and money to feed hungry children or pay a debt)."
Sacred prostitution? 🤔Do go on..
"Ishtar's symbols were the the lion,
the morning star [aka Venus ],
and eight or sixteen pointed stars—again, symbols of power."..
"The word Easter does not appear to be derived from Ishtar, but from the German Eostre, the goddess of the dawn—a bringer of light...
Three Hares Notes📔🤫🤫🤫
Scientific American : "Ancient Egyptians believed in a primeval egg from which the sun god hatched. Alternatively, the sun was sometimes discussed as an egg itself, laid daily by the celestial goose, Seb, the god of the earth. The Phoenix is said to have emerged from this egg. .
"The cosmic egg, according to the Vedic writings, has a spirit living within it which will be born, die, and be born yet again. .
Brahma does likewise, and we find parallels in the ancient legends of Thoth and Ra ..
"The Phoenix was adopted as a Christian symbol in the first century AD. It appears on funeral stones in early Christian art, churches, religious paintings, and stonework. .."..
"Even the act of coloring eggs is tied to the idea of rebirth and resurrection. .. the link between life and eggs was traditionally made by using a red coloring. Among Christians, red symbolizes the blood of Jesus.."
Article ends rather insipidly "I love the Easter traditions at Church. .. blah, blah"
Written by Krystal D'Costa , an anthropologist working in digital media in New York City.
Kinda reminded me of this
Oh wait.. just for fun
as Princess Leia as Ishtar
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" A Byline Times review of X and Telegram posts by the Brotherhood of Academists, a Russian ultranationalist youth movement which operates under the leadership of the US-sanctioned Tsargrad Society [Konstantin Malofeev]" 🤔
GG : "No direct operational link exists between the Brotherhood of Academists and Brunswick Capital (the 1990s investment bank). However, they are connected through the broader history of post-Soviet finance and the career trajectory of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev."🤔
"The sight of Princess Beatrice dancing on tables at a birthday party in Rome last week, and then appearing with Princess Eugenie at the wedding of Peter Phillips, suggests that it’s business as usual for the York daughters...
This is despite last week’s National Audit Office report, which revealed that Queen Elizabeth II & now the King have long been covering a subsidised rent for Beatrice’s 4-bedroomed apartment at St James’s Palace and Eugenie’s three-bedroom Ivy Cottage.. archive.is/l34C3
The pair have their own successful and lucrative careers. Beatrice handles client relations for Afiniti, a multinational data and software firm specialising in AI-driven customer experience solutions,
Colin was traumatised with grief after the murder of his six-year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas, ex-wife Sheila, and her parents Nevill and June Bamber. They were all shot dead at White House Farm, the Bambers’ quiet country home in Essex." islingtontribune.co.uk/article/loss-a…
Colin Caffell, incidentally, is convinced of Bamber’s guilt.
In the book Colin describes how, in a distraught state, he seeks solace in the paranormal, taking advice from the late entertainer Michael Bentine whose son Stuart died in a plane crash aged 21 in 1971."..
GG : "Aquino was brought to the Birmingham studios explicitly to be interviewed as a subject for the 1989 documentary The Devil's Work. In 1988–1989, journalist Tim Tate and presenter Roger Cook were investigating the "Satanic Panic". ..
The legal document Aquino v. Stone (1991)details how Michael and Lilith Aquino became subjects of a 1987 federal investigation into child abuse at the Presidio Child Development Center after a child identified them following a chance encounter with a suspect named Gary Hambright.
" The structural relationship between Herman Gref, the Agalarovs, and the Russian state energy apparatus forms the literal foundation for today’s macro-economic maneuvers:
1. The 2013 Moscow Nexus: Gref , Agalarov , and Trump 🕵️♂️🎶🐈⬛
GG : "The dinner hosted on the night of the Miss Universe 2013 pageant in Moscow was not merely a celebrity gala; it was a high-level corporate networking summit:
During the late 1950s & 60s, Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco ,completely sidelined the old fascist wing of his government & handed the economy over to a team of elite, highly educated economists and lawyers who were prominent members of Opus Dei ."..
Known historically as the Tecnócratas (The Technocrats), these Opus Dei members used rigorous data, market liberalization, and top-down engineering to trigger the "Spanish Economic Miracle"".. cambridge.org/core/books/abs…