"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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"The "Manchester Model" was heavily shaped by Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership. Weeks after his initial 2017 mayoral election, Andy Burnham attended an intensive leadership program in New York funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies ..
Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership focuses on running cities like data-driven corporations rather than traditional political machines.
The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment directly translates this philosophy of data-driven governance
into academic research and actionable municipal policy.
The connection between Michael Bloomberg’s executive leadership style & UCL Bartlett is concrete, driven primarily by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) within the faculty:
GG" The progression of Rick Rubin > Diddy > Rick James charts a spectrum from zen minimalism to unhinged maximalism, both in musical production style and lifestyle."
Jack Dorsey operates with the exact same philosophy of "extreme reduction" in the tech world that Rick Rubin
pioneered in the music studio. The two are close personal friends and frequent creative collaborators."
GG: "The Graphene Flagship is a European Union scientific research initiative. ..Europe's direct counterweight to the U.S. quantum funding strategy: the Quantum Technologies Flagship, which operates alongside the Graphene Flagship and the Human Brain Project."..🤔
This creates a high-stakes, cross-continental competition between two fundamentally different economic and scientific models:
1. The U.S. Commercial/Venture Model (Howard Lutnick) 2. The European Union Collaborative Model (The Flagships)
GG : "If you'd like to continue, let me know if we should zoom in on a specific person from this summary, explore the technical code behind Keras and OSINT tools, or map out another institutional overlap?"
The invitation-only networking dinner is an exclusive, high-level gathering tied to The Responsible AI Forum. This event brings together global elite figures to discuss artificial intelligence governance, regulation, and its societal impact.. "🎶
The dinner is traditionally hosted at Spencer House in St. James's, London.🎶
Spencer House is a magnificent 18th-century aristocratic palace. The late Lord Jacob Rothschild (through his family’s business empire and charitable vehicles, including RIT Capital Partners and..
Interesting that Kurt Lewin studied the use of terror to achieve mind control., and that Ole Miss where Saad has a position as a vising scholar, is also involved with trauma studies, given that Saad often refers to his own Lebanese family trauma fleeing war-torn Lebanon.
Gemini : "This synthesis binds the historical evolution of social psychology to the personal history of the intellectuals studying it today. ..
1. Kurt Lewin,"Unfreezing," & the Psychology of Terror
Kurt Lewin —the founder of modern social psychology who worked in that exact MIT/Harvard nexus linked to Tavistock—pioneered the study of how extreme psychological stress can be used to completely restructure human behavior.