"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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"On paper, the two developments are packaged as separate bets on high-end tourism: one led by Zvërnec South Adriatic Development S.H.P.K. on land the government insists is private, the other by Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC with the Albanian state as shareholder."
Albania has deepened ties with Israel in recent years in cyber-security, energy and technology, including a memorandum of understanding on cyber cooperation after cyber-attacks that Tirana and its allies attributed to Iran. ."🤔
"During the height of the Cold War, Albania became one of the most heavily tunnelled and fortified nations on Earth, second only to North Korea. Dictator Enver Hoxha’s paralyzing fear of a foreign invasion led to the intensive "bunkerization" of Sazan Island. ..
Cut into the base of the island's imposing western cliffs are deep-water submarine docking pens. These gave Soviet and Albanian vessels a hidden, reinforced harbor to slide into directly from the open sea, completely shielded from NATO radar tracking in Italy ..
Enver Hoxha was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. After the 1939 Italian invasion of Albania, he helped unify the fractured Albanian communist movement into the Communist Party of Albania. "🤔
"Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner are building a massive destination .. The site is Sazan Island in Albania. It is a decommissioned Soviet and Italian military base that has sat abandoned for years...they partnered with Aman Resorts."
🌿 The Primitive Resonance of the Analog Safe Haven
The reason this specific concept resonates with you—even if you can't immediately articulate why—is because it appeals to an extinctual, biological truth that your subconscious mind recognizes instantly."
- Google Gemini 🎶
"While your analytical intellect can track the complex mathematical architecture of Space Syntax , DeepMind matrices, and IQVIA data ledgers , your raw human biology remains entirely ancient ..🎶
Your subconscious knows that a digital cage, no matter how sophisticated its predictive code, cannot survive if you cut off its physical fuel supply."..🎶
"The structural connection between the Bronfman Information Strategy infrastructure and Google DeepMind highlights a major shift in modern intelligence. 🤔
"How the manual science of "crisis communication" and narrative control evolved into automated, algorithmic game theory engines capable of shaping strategic behavior from the top down. 🎶🐈⬛🕵️..
The connection between Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler and Ghislaine Maxwell is rooted in financial backing for Maxwell's ocean charity, the TerraMar Project.
Unsealed Department of Justice files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation revealed that the Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation issued a $10,000 donation to the TerraMar Project during its operations.🤔
🎶At the exact time this donation was made, Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler were navigating the early waves of the American opioid crisis litigation.🤔