"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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THR : "it’s hard to imagine [Cedars-Sinai] was founded as a 12-bed facility in a Victorian house near downtown in 1902. Then called Kaspare Cohn Hospital, it was run by the Hebrew Benevolent Society...
Later renamed Cedars of Lebanon, an Old Testament reference to the timber used for Solomon’s Temple, it expanded into a grand Art Deco building on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood [1930] & tapped the wallets of film moguls Jack Warner and Joseph Schenck, as well as Will Rogers...
"In 2010 the Mappins decided to hold a birthday celebration in honour of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Camelot Castle, to “express our tremendous appreciation for what the President of Kazakhstan has done for our family”"..🤔
(exactly what this had been was not revealed). Bizarrely, the local Salvation Army were somehow recruited to sing Happy Birthday to the notoriously corrupt autocrat."..🤔
Mappin discovered Scientology while trying unsuccessfully to become a Hollywood star in the 1990s (the only part he succeeded in landing was in a softcore porn movie, alongside the unfortunately named Julie Strain)...
May 12, 2000
"The Vatican named Bishop Edward M. Egan yesterday to be the ninth archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal John O'Connor as head of the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic diocese...🤔
As bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., and as a Vatican jurist, Egan proved himself part intellectual, part populist, and a man comfortable with the press.".. web.archive.org/web/2017082820…
Egan, 68, has split his time between the United States and Rome. He served for almost four years under O'Connor in the mid-1980s before moving on to Bridgeport, where he is credited with bringing in new priests and shoring up church finances.".. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27…
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, England.
The name Hackremco was a temporary company name used during the corporate restructuring that led to the formation of the modern InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) PLC in 2005
Robert E. Grady was noted early in his career by Newsweek as “one of three thirty-somethings to watch” (along with Condoleezza Rice and Robert Zoellick) and the “polished No. 2” at the Office of Management and Budget in George H. W. Bush administration..