Schloss Braunfels, a stately home that had been built from a castle built in the 13th century by the Counts of Nassau, served as of about 1260 as the Solms-Braunfels noble family’s residential castle. After Solms Castle had been destroyed by the Rhenish League of Towns in 1384, Braunfels Castle became the seat of the Counts of Solms. Many works of art are to be found in the Schloss today, including works by the Dutch Masters, among them van Eyck.Also found there are the historically important Altenberg Altar and Saint Elizabeth’s legendary ring.
Nassau County in New York was named for a previous name for Long Island, named after the Dutch Prince William of Nassau, a member of the House of Nassau, itself named for the German town Nassau. The county colors (orange and blue) are also the colors of the House of Orange-Nassau. In the 1660s the majority Dutch settlers drove out English settlers from Oyster Bay as part of a boundary dispute.
The Nassau bet gets its name from the Nassau Country Club on Long Island, where the format was invented in the early 1900s by club captain John B. Coles Tappan. The game also is known as “2-2-2”, and “Best Nines.”
The Nassau is a type of bet in golf that is essentially three separate bets. Money is wagered on the best match play score in the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.
The USS Nassau (CVE-16) was an escort aircraft carrier that served during WWII. It was launched in 1942 then eventually was scrapped after the war, finally, in 1961. The Nassau was one of thirty-seven Tacoma-built C3 CVEs, of which twenty-six went to the Royal Navy. The Nassau launched from Alameda Naval Air Station and served out of Pearl Harbor, then Palmyra Island, and Nouméa, New Caledonia and Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. She also served in Cold Bay and Attu Island, Alaska, and out of Brisbane, Australia.
In December 2000, most of Palmyra Atoll was bought by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef conservation and research. In November 2005, they established a new research station on Palmyra to study global warming, the disappearing coral reefs, invasive species, and other environmental concerns.
Zenobia, Empress of the Palmyra Empire in 270AD, gave her name to Zenobia “Nobbie” Hopwood, in the Steeple Bumpleigh Horror, one of the entries in Bertie Wooster’s archives of encounters with aunts.
Several landmark antiquities in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra have been deliberately destroyed by Islamic State militants over the past year, including the Temple of Baal, The Lion of al-Lat, and Roman decorative and triumphal arches.
In the NIV (New International Version) translation of the bible, a lion is only mentioned nine times in the New Testament, and six of those are in Revelation. None are in the Gospels.
There are six lions in the Canadian coat of arms: four on the shield, one as a supporter, and one on the crest.
In iconography, the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are represented, respectively, by a man, a lion, a bull, and an eagle. The symbols come from Ezekiel’s vision and are also described in the book of Daniel, and in Revelation.
Iconography, often of aspects of popular culture, is a concern of academic disciplines including Semiotics, Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies and Cultural Studies. These analyses in turn have affected conventional art history, especially concepts such as signs in semiotics. Discussing imagery as iconography in this way implies a critical “reading” of imagery that often attempts to explore social and cultural values. Iconography is also used within film studies to describe the visual language of cinema, particularly within the field of genre criticism. In the age of Internet, the new global history of the visual production of Humanity includes History of Art and history of all kind of images or medias.
Genre is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Speech patterns for comedy would not be appropriate for tragedy, and even actors were restricted to their genre under the assumption that a type of person could tell one type of story best.
Masks served several important purposes in Ancient Greek theater. Their exaggerated expressions helped define the characters the actors were playing. They allowed actors to double or triple parts; every actor would play more than one role (or gender) and would switch masks between scenes. They helped audience members in the distant ampitheatre seats see better. They projected sound somewhat like a small megaphone so that the audience could hear the characters better. In a tragedy, masks were more life-like; in a comedy or satyr play, masks were ugly, ridiculous and grotesque.
[del]In 2003, author Dan Brown introduced many readers to symbology and iconography with his best-selling book, The Da Vinci Code. Brown’s book advanced ideas from other authors, including Clive Prince and his book, The Templar Revelation (1997). His book is fascinating and popular, however, the elements he claims are factual have been debunked, or at least have been found to have no factual basis for their claims. These include (summarized from Wikipedia’s page on the topic):
- Mary Magdalene came from the Tribe of Benjamin
- Jesus married Mary Magdalene
- in the Gospel of Phillip there is a line that says and means that Mary Magdalene is the wife of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene is depicted in Da Vinci’s painting, The Last Supper, as being next to Jesus, at his right
- the early church suppressed the thought of Mary Magdalene being the wife of Jesus and elevated Jesus into a divine being
- Constantine destroyed the Gnostic Gospels and promoted the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which held the Jesus is divine, of God; this, to unify the Roman empire
- Christianity suppressed the sacred feminine, such as Venus or Isis
- Israelites worshipped a feminine goddess, Shekinah, as the equal to God
- the assertion that there were more than 80 Gnostic Gospels written (and ultimately, only four were finally chosen to be included in the bible)
- Opus Dei is a monastic order that is the Pope’s “personal Prelature”
- Pope Clement V burned the Knights Templar and threw them into the Tiber River
- The Da Vinci Code depicts and translated the term for holy grail to be ‘royal blood’
- the brass north-south line in the Church of Saint Sulpice in Paris is not part of the Prime Meridian
- Paris was founded by the Merovingians
- a small number of people living today are descendants of Jesus - this is, statistically, flawed
While The Da Vinci Code is a fascinating work of fiction, it is fiction and all of the above have been debunked, or have no established factual basis, or are wrong.[/del]
Ninja’d. Still in play:
Bullitt, a very wise priest once told me, “There’s a reason you’ll find The Da Vinci Code in the ‘Fiction’ section of bookstores.”
In play:
In the February 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Masks,” an ancient alien cultural archive begins remaking the Enterprise in the image of the archive’s lost civilization.
To counter the theory advanced in The Da Vinci Code, that Leonardo included Mary Magdalene in his depiction of the Last Supper, a German researcher compiled an archive of 190 images depicting St. John and other young men in the art of the 1300s-1600s, clearly showing that the supposedly “feminine” “female” figure was actually typical of the artistic depictions of young men in that era.
http://home.arcor.de/berzelmayr/st-john.html
Great post above, Bullitt! I’m happy to join you to fight the ignorance promoted by Dan Brown
John Rhys-Davies, perhaps best-known for playing Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, played Leonardo da Vinci in a November 1997 episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
In April 1999, Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, married politician Tim Hagan, a former Ohio gubernatorial candidate and a former commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In an interview on April 15, 2015, Mulgrew stated she and Hagan were divorced, something she regrets. On March 18, 1976, Tim Hagan had celebrated his 30th birthday in the home of Panache45’s parents.
Kate Mulgrew is a devoutly religious Catholic (though she differs from the church’s official position on some issues). When she became pregnant out of wedlock in her early 20s she did not consider abortion an option but gave the child up for adoption. When they were reunited by phone when the child, a daughter, was herself in her early 20s, the first three things Kate Mulgrew asked her were “Are you pretty?”, “Are you happy?”, and “Do you believe in God?”
Kate Mulgrew was born with a full set of neonatal teeth.