"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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According to Erik Prince, Unplugged's CTO built a phone that controls most of the world's pacemakers. 🤔
MIT Technology Review
"Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true
MIT Technology Review obtained Prince’s investor presentation for the “RedPill Phone,” which promises more than it could possibly deliver." technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/105…
The Times :
" Andrew Tate gets no love from his Cork cousins.
Tate’s Irish ancestry traces back to his great-great-grandfather Arnold Ashleigh, a British soldier stationed in Ireland" archive.is/eBsgN
" Tate’s mother, Eileen Tate, née Ashleigh, was born in Luton to Douglas Patrick Ashleigh, an Irish expat who moved from Limerick to Luton in the 1950s."
BBC : "Andrew Tate's first Romanian address is a far cry from the glitzy lifestyle he paraded in Bucharest before his detention - it's a squat, three-storey building with yellow walls, a short drive from the village of Sacele."..
"The villa at the end of Strada Narciselor sits at the end of a perilous road, ...
Inside it's divided into small functional apartments. This is where, in apartments 9 and 17, the Tate brothers began building their Romanian business empire.. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
"Vasile Mezdrea, a local developer, sold them the properties ..
"They paid in instalments ..," he said. "They had no car in those days - they used to take their girlfriends out shopping in taxis.""👀🎶
"Low-cost carrier Wizz Air announced three new routes from Bucharest, two additional aircraft, and a permanent base that will be established in the Romanian capital at the Băneasa Airport. The new base will open starting April 1, 2025"
Bucharest Pipera Airfield was located in the Pipera neighborhood of Bucharest, Romania..The airport no longer exists. A small military base, which also hosts the National Museum of Romanian Aviation, remains in the location where the airport used to be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipera_Ai…
"During WW2, Pipera Airport was the main military airport in the Bucharest area. Some units of the Romanian Air Force units were flying IAR 80 fighters , while a unit under the command of Mihail Romanescu was flying Messerschmitt Bf 109s from there." rumaniamilitary.ro/general-de-esc…
"Musk and Thiel are just two among the 6,000 by virtue of being welcomed into the “superclass” by behind-the-scenes oligarchs who do not feature on the published lists of the world’s wealthiest men and women"
Links to the Pallavicini family 🍿