#Henry George Liddell

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Elysium is a lovely sounding word which in English means "a place or state of ideal happiness," but its primary original definition comes lifted straight from Greek mythology, where Elysium was the name of the home of the blessed souls after death. This word in Ancient Greek was Hλύσιον, Ēlúsion. This same mythical location was also referred to as the Isles of the Blessed.

In older writings, it was specifically reserved for those singled out and favored by the gods. Heroes and other immortals would be rewarded with a place here to pass the rest of their eternity in bliss. As time went on, the concepts of punishment and reward in the afterlife became more widespread, which eventually merged Elysium more deeply into the concept of afterlife for all people. It became one of several possible levels of Hades which departed souls might find themselves in, depending on a favorable judgement passed on their conduct by the Underworld judges Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus.

Importantly though, Ancient Greek religion was hugely varied and constantly evolving, so this wasn't the only theory or iteration.

There doesn't seem to be any agreement on the etymology of the word beyond the Ancient Greek, but one source I found suggested that it might have something to do with another Greek word, which is the verb meaning "to relieve or release." In that interpretation, Elysium might have been the paradise which promised relief from the pain and burdens of living.

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some ancient greek epithets of hera

μεγιστοάνασσα (megistoanassa), greatest of queens

λευκώλενος (leukōlenos), white-armed

χρυσοπέδιλος (chrysopedilos), gold-sandalled

γαμοστόλος (gamostolos), preparing a wedding

ὑπερχειρία (hypercheiria), protectress

source: Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

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"ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣ" (the word on the sign on the wall)

εὔχαρ-ις , neut. εὔχαρι, gen. ιτος,

A. charming, gracious, esp. in society, Democr. 104, Pl.R.486d, 487a, X.Cyr.7.4.1; ἀστεῖοι καὶ εὐ. ib.2.2.12; εὔ. κατὰ τὰς ἐντεύξεις, ἐν ταῖς ὁμιλίαις, Plb.22.21.3, 23.5.7; τὸ εὔ. urbanity, X.Ages.8.1, 11.11, M.Ant.1.16.5; of Aphrodite, gracious, E.Heracl.894 (lyr.), Med.631 (lyr.); of animals, Arist.HA592b24: Comp. -“τώτερος” Plot.3.6.6: Sup. -“τώτατος, ἐς τὸν δῆμον” App.BC2.26.

II. of places, pleasant, Arist.Pol. 1331a36.

(Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.)

Athens, July 2024

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The real Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired the Alice character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, is related to Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret are 3rd cousins 3x generations removed of Alice Liddell. John Lyon (Later John Lyon-Bowes) is her great-great uncle/great-uncle. Thomas Lyon (1704-1753) is her great-great grandfather. Charlotte Lyon is the mother of Henry George Liddell (II) and grandmother of Alice Liddell.

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Birthdays 5.4

Beer Birthdays

George Marti (1856)

Heather Kozar; St. Pauli Girl 2002 (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Frederick Church; artist (1826)

Maynard Ferguson; jazz trumpeter, bandleader (1928)

Keith Haring; artist (1958)

Audrey Hepburn; actor (1929)

Sharon Jones; singer (1956)

Famous Birthdays

Will Arnett; actor (1970)

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari; Persian mystic and poet (1006)

Lance Bass; pop singer (1979)

Gustav Bergmann; Austrian-American philosopher (1906)

Alison Britton; English sculptor (1948)

John Broome; author (1913)

Franklin Carmichael; Canadian painter (1890)

Ron Carter; jazz bassist (1937)

Ed Cassidy; jazz and rock drummer (1923)

Mihail Chemiakin; Russian painter (1943)

Edward T. Cone; pianist and composer (1917)

Robin Cook; writer (1940)

Bartolomeo Cristofori; Italian instrument maker, piano inventor (1655)

Dick Dale; rock guitarist (1937)

Howard Da Silva; actor (1909)

Tyrone Davis; blues and soul singer (1938)

Jean-Charles de Borda; French mathematician, physicist & sailor (1733)

Thomas Dewing; painter (1851)

Al Dexter; country singer-songwriter (1905)

Ana Gasteyer; actor, comedian (1967)

François Gérard; French painter (1770)

Paul Gleason; actor (1944)

Richard E. Grant; actor (1957)

Richard Graves; English minister and author (1715)

David Guterson; novelist, short story writer & poet (1956)

Jane Howard; writer (1935)

Thomas Henry Huxley; biologist (1825)

Richard Jenkins; actor (1947)

Alice Pleasance Liddell; person Alice in Wonderland was based on (1852)

William H. Prescott; historian (1796)

Horace Mann; educator (1796)

Edo Murtić; Croatian painter (1921)

Manuel Benitez "El Cordobes" Perez; bullfighter (1936)

Graham Swift; English novelist (1949)

Eric Sykes; British actor and comedian (1923)

Randy Travis; country singer (1959)

John Watson; British race car driver (1946)

Dennis Weaver; actor (1924)

George Will; conservative columnist (1941)

Pia Zadora; actor (1954)

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Алиса Лиддел: Редкие фото настоящей Алисы из Страны чудес, 1858-1872

Alice Liddell: the real Alice in Wonderland. Alice Liddell was the middle daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, first met Lewis Carroll on April 25, 1856, as he and a friend were setting up to photograph Christ Church Cathedral from the garden of the Dean’s residence. Continue reading Untitled

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Monday, 16th October 2023

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National Poetry Month: Explore Acrostic Poems

An acrostic poem is where the first letter of each line spells out a word, phrase, or name. They don’t need to rhyme and there isn’t any specific rhythm to follow. Usually the word, phrase, or name chosen will involve the theme of the poem. This poem by Lewis Carroll, Acrostic[1], spells out Lorina Alice Edith—the daughters of Henry George Liddell, a friend of Lewis Carroll. Little maidens,…

[senderonegroyt]

ALICIA EN EL PAIS DE LAS MARAVILLAS.

La niña que inspiró una obra maestra y vivió para odiarla.

Alice Liddell inspiró a Lewis Carroll a escribir Alicia en el país de las maravillas, pero su relación con el escritor y su obra se fue agriando con los años.

Lewis Carroll, cuyo nombre real era Charles Dodgson, fue el autor de un célebre libro hace más de 150 años atrás que dejó una marca indeleble en la literatura mundial, Alicia en el país de las maravillas. Aquella historia, que inspiró una secuela y decenas de adaptaciones fílmicas y teatrales, tuvo una musa inspiradora: una niña llamada Alice Liddell.

Alice Pleasance Liddell nació el 4 de mayo de 1852 en Westwinster, Inglaterra, y fue la cuarta hija de 10 hermanos del matrimonio entre el académico Henry Liddell y Lorina Reeve, hija menor de terratenientes vinculados a la nobleza. Poco después de su nacimiento, la familia debió mudarse a Oxford por la carrera del padre, que fue nombrado decano del College de Christ Church.

En esa universidad trabajaba como profesor de matemáticas Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, que más adelante adoptó el seudónimo Lewis Carroll. Desde pequeños, Alice y sus hermanos eran arrastrados por sus padres a exclusivos eventos con el objetivo de que se codearan con miembros de la alta sociedad.

Sin embargo, como se relata en el diario de Dodgson, las más pequeñas de la familia amaban realizar viajes y travesías campestres en los alrededores de Oxford, buscando nuevas aventuras. En uno de estos viajes, nació la inspiración para el primer boceto del emblemático libro.

- El vínculo con Carroll.

Dodgson era un aficionado a la fotografía y solía acompañar a la familia Liddell a las aventuras por las afueras de la ciudad, donde aprovechaba para tomar retratos que luego les regalaba.

El profesor quedó fascinado con las tres pequeñas hermanas porque eran muy fotogénicas. En sus recorridos, les contaba cuentos de fantasía que, con el tiempo, empezaron a tener una protagonista excluyente: Alice.

El 4 de julio de 1862, Carroll y las tres niñas emprendieron una nueva travesía por el río Támesis con el objetivo de llegar a Godstow, que quedaba a cuatro kilómetros de su hogar.

Como era costumbre, las niñas le pidieron que les narrara alguna de sus historias pero, a diferencia de las ocasiones anteriores, Alice le pidió que escribiera un cuento para ella. Al retornar a Christ Church, las chicas se dirigieron a su casa, mientras que Dodgson trazó las líneas iniciales de lo que se convertiría en Alicia en el país de las maravillas.

Según sus diarios, Dodgson emprendió un viaje en tren esa misma noche y, durante el trayecto, escribió las primeras páginas de su obra maestra. Mientras el avanzaba en la redacción, se lo mostró a varios amigos y colegas, entre ellos el escritor George MacDonald. Según contó él mismo en su diario, todos ellos lo instaron a publicarlo en reiteradas oportunidades.

Por eso, desde hace algunos años, todos los 4 de julio los entusiastas de Lewis Carroll celebran el Día de Alicia.

- El ocaso de la relación.

Carroll tardó casi dos años y medio en completar su historia. Según relata la página web The Lewis Carroll Society, el autor culminó ese boceto el 10 de febrero de 1863 con sus propias ilustraciones y lo llamó Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Las aventuras de Alicia bajo tierra).

Finalmente, en la Navidad de 1863 se lo regaló a Alice. Pero la relación entre el flamante escritor y los Liddell ya se había quebrado.

Karoline Leach, autora de In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll (A la sombra del niño de los sueños: un nuevo entendimiento de Lewis Carroll), señala que el malestar se debió a un supuesto romance entre Dodgson con la institutriz de los niños y con Lorina, la mayor de las hermanas.

De esta manera, tras recibir el obsequio en la Navidad de 1963, Alice fue la primera lectora del manuscrito que se publicaría en julio de 1865, con ilustraciones de John Tenniel. A diferencia del original, el libro recibió el nombre de Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas y Dodgson utilizó seudónimo de Lewis Carroll.

Con el paso del tiempo, la relación se fue desvaneciendo aunque el autor y Alice se reencontraron en varias ocasiones posteriores. Según relata su diario, en 1870, Alice fue a su estudio acompañadas por su madre, donde el escritor les realizó los últimos retratos fotográficos. Además, el profesor y la protagonista de su obra se escribieron en reiteradas oportunidades hasta 1892 que fue la última carta que se halló entre ellos.

Dodgson murió el 14 de enero de 1898 por una neumonía a causa de la influenza, en el pueblo de Guildford, Inglaterra. Su funeral se llevó a cabo en la iglesia de Santa María y su cuerpo fue enterrado en el cementerio de esa ciudad.

Por su parte, Alice formó una familia con Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, un estudiante de Christ Churh e hijo de una familia poderosa, y se casaron en la Abadía de Westminster. Tuvieron tres hijos, dos de los cuales murieron combatiendo en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

El manuscrito original que Carroll le regaló a la pequeña niña fue adquirido por un empresario de Estados Unidos llamado Eldridge R. Johnson, quien lo donó a la Biblioteca del Museo Británico después de la Segunda Guerra.

El 16 de noviembre de 1934, Alice Liddel falleció en el pueblo de Westerham a los 82 años por causas naturales. En sus últimos años, le confesó a una de sus hermanas que estaba harta de ser constantemente asociada al libro.

“Me estoy cansando de ser Alicia en el país de las maravillas -sostuvo-. ¿Suena ingrato? Lo es”.

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The hidden movie little girl

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL MOVIE

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL TRIAL

Most of the story was based on situations and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church. Two years later he did just that, and on 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of what he then called "Alice's Adventures Under Ground," illustrated by his own drawings. The three girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. As they rowed, Dodgson made up and told the girls a story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The journey started at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. In 1862, Dodgson, together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, rowed in a boat up the River Thames with three young girls, Lorina Charlotte Liddell, aged 13,Īlice Pleasance Liddell, aged 10, and Edith Mary Liddell, aged 8, the daughters of Henry George Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church College, as well as headmaster of the nearby, private, Westminster School. She described her findings (well, since we are in the realm of literary interpretation here, I'd better say "her theory") in an article titledĪlice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved, published in New Scientist, 16 December 2009.īefore I relate what Bayley has to say, let me summarize the history of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Now Melanie Bayley, of the University of Oxford in England, has taken the analysis a lot further.

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL TRIAL

Though others had looked for political and social allusions in the Alice books, most notably Martin Gardner, whose The Annotated Alice was published in 1960, followed by a sequel More Annotated Alice in 1990, perhaps the first scholar to look in depth for possible mathematical inspirations for Alice was Helena Pycior of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who in 1984 linked the trial of the Knave of Hearts with a Victorian book on algebra. (Or was it the Red Queen? Carroll's two books had different queens that over the years tend to merge in our memories.) In the film, an adult Alice, now a disturbed young woman mourning the death of her parents, returns to the land we are familiar with from Carroll's original tale, a strange place where animals talk, the Cheshire Cat has a grin, and the Queen of Hearts is wicked. (Actually, the memories of the Alice story we all have from our childhood are based on two books, Alice in Wonderland and the later Alice Through the Looking Glass.) Rather, Burton takes as his inspiration a computer game called American McGee's Alice.

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL MOVIE

(At least, that is the entirely reasonable assumption everyone makes Dodgson himself provided no commentary to that effect.)īefore I go any further, I should note that the new Alice movie is not based on Lewis Carroll's original book. For, as readers of MAA Online will doubtless know, Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church College, Oxford, and most mathematicians are probably aware that elements of the Alice story were inspired by mathematics. As for Alice? Well, I'll let you make up your own mind.įor mathematicians, the real story is not so much whether Burton's movie will be a hit, rather it's not often that a mathematical allegory makes it to Hollywood blockbuster status in the first place! So I can't let the release of Alice go unnoticed in the mathematical literature - to whit Devlin's Angle. Millions loved Cameron's tale, but personally I (and apparently many others) thought that, although it had all the plot ingredients to have been good, it ended up annoyingly adolescent and cloyingly banal. Also like Avatar, I suspect audiences will be uniformly thrilled with the visual spectacle, yet be divided when it comes to the story. Like James Cameron's recent blockbuster movie Avatar, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, released this month, is in 3D. The Hidden Math Behind Alice in Wonderland The hidden math behind Alice in Wonderland Devlin's

[thinksandthings]

peryton

This isn't quite a real word, but since that has never stopped me before, I looked around to see what I could find about its usage. A peryton is a mythical beast, composed of the body of a stag and the wings of a bird. They're actually quite majestic in a lot of the artwork depicting them. Also fairly irrelevant, but I think it's interesting it is an anagram for entropy.

The term was coined in a very interesting book, the title of which is A Book of Imaginary Beings in English, by Jorge Luis Borges and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Its original Spanish title from the first 1957 printing is Manual de zoología fantástica. The book received a few updates over the next couple of decades before landing on the final Spanish title, El libro de los seres imaginarios, in 1969.

There is a fairly long, but very interesting passage on them in the book. Their most pertinent details are originating from Atlantis, having the shadow of a man until they manage to kill a human, at which point their shadow is restored to their own figure, and being very bloodthirsty, violent creatures.

I found fleeting mentions of similar beasts before Borges' book, but none especially substantial, suggesting there was either predecessor to his creation or some inspiration for it. Either way, this particular version of the concept came from Borges, who originally penned it as the Spanish peritio.

However, this word has gone on to accumulate more meaning, and after a publication by S. Burke Spolaor et al., the term was adopted into astronomy as meaning "a terrestrially originating burst of radio waves." (As someone who is very not an astronomer, I can't explain what this means, but apparently you can produce them by opening a microwave door prematurely).

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🔎 Bible Contradictions: In Using the Term “Arnion,” Does the Book of Revelation Contradict John’s Gospel Which Uses the Word “Amnos” Instead? 🔍

By Award-Winning Goodreads Author and Bible Researcher Eli Kittim 🎓

This short essay is a brief reply to a question that was posed by a member of my “Eli Kittim Theology” group on MeWe.

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The member’s name is Marlo Bliss. This was his Question:

The writer of the Book of Revelation used

the term "Lambkin" / ARNI'ON <G721> for

Jesus Christ instead of "lamb" / AMNO'S <>

(lambkins require feeding). He did so 26

times. Why this contradiction to John 1.29

and 1.36?

Thanks for any reply.

*I use the DLT (Dabhar Literal Translation)

software in hebrew, greek, english and

german.*

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He’s basically asking the following question: if John’s Gospel uses the Greek term Ἀμνὸς twice to refer to Jesus, then why does the Book of Revelation repeatedly use the word ἀρνίον instead? Isn’t that a deviation from the canonical context? Doesn’t that constitute a Biblical contradiction? The implication is that the Book of Revelation appears to be wrong and contradictory in its terminological usage.

First of all, it is important to establish at the outset that both ἀμνός (amnós) and ἀρνίον (arníon) mean the same thing. These terms are not self-contradictory, but rather interchangeable and complementary. Whereas **ἀμνός** (amnós) has the connotation of a consecrated or sacrificial lamb, especially a one-year old lamb, **ἀρνίον** refers to a “little lamb,” under a year old (Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940). According to J. Thayer, the connotation of ἀρνίον (arníon) is that of pure innocence, with virgin-like (gentle) intentions.

Second, John’s Gospel uses both amnós and arníon. It’s true that John chapter 1 and verses 29 & 36 use the term Ἀμνὸς (lamb) to refer to Jesus Christ. But this term occurs only twice. And yet, the exact same gospel of John uses the alternative ἀρνία (lambs) in chapter 21 verse 15—-which is the plural form of the singular term ἀρνίον (lamb)——to refer to the *Christ-like* followers, namely, the saints of God who are becoming like Christ.

Third, the use of the word ἀρνίον (arníon) in a “messianic canonical context” is in fact scriptural, as can be seen, for example, in the Book of Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 11.19, the Septuagint (LXX) uses the Greek term ἀρνίον in an overtly messianic context:

ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς ἀρνίον ἄκακον ἀγόμενον τοῦ

θύεσθαι οὐκ ἔγνων ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἐλογίσαντο

λογισμὸν πονηρὸν λέγοντες δεῦτε καὶ

ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον εἰς τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ καὶ

ἐκτρίψωμεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ γῆς ζώντων καὶ τὸ

ὄνομα αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μνησθῇ ἔτι.

English translation by L.C.L. Brenton:

But I as an innocent lamb led to the

slaughter, knew not: against me they

devised an evil device, saying, Come and let

us put wood into his bread, and let us

utterly destroy him from off the land of the

living, and let his name not be remembered

any more.

This is reminiscent of Isaiah 53. In fact, Jeremiah’s aforementioned verse is a parallel to——and presents a near-verbal agreement with——Isaiah 53.7 (LXX):

καὶ αὐτὸς διὰ τὸ κεκακῶσθαι οὐκ ἀνοίγει

τὸ στόμα· ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη

καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείροντος αὐτὸν

ἄφωνος οὕτως οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα

αὐτοῦ.

Translation (NRSV):

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb

that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep

that before its shearers is silent, so he did

not open his mouth.

In Jeremiah 11.19, the L.C.L. Brenton translates ἀρνίον “as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter,” while the NRSV similarly renders it as a “gentle lamb led to the slaughter.” The theological idea in Jeremiah 11.19 is consistent with that of Isaiah 53.7—-which says “like a lamb that is led to the slaughter”——even though Isaiah employs the terms πρόβατον (lamb) and ἀμνὸς (sheep) instead of Jeremiah’s use of the word ἀρνίον (lamb). These thematic parallels demonstrate that the above terms are interchangeable.

Thus, the Septuagint (LXX) uses 3 alternative terms to refer to this so-called messianic “lamb” of God who “was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; … and by his bruises we are healed” (Isaiah 53.5). Two of the three terms that the LXX uses for this *slaughtered messiah* are found in Isaiah 53.7, namely, πρόβατον and ἀμνὸς. Incidentally, πρόβατον (probaton) means ἀρνίον, which comes from ἀρήν (meaning “lamb”). Thus, ἀμνός (amnós), πρόβατον (próbaton), and ἀρνίον (arníon) are essentially interchangeable terms.

The word πρόβατον (probaton), which means ἀρνίον, is also used in Gen 22.8 by the LXX to refer to the sacrificial lamb of God:

Abraham said, ‘God himself will provide the

lamb for a burnt offering, my son.’ (NRSV)

The Septuagint also uses the Greek term πρόβατον (which means ἀρνίον) to refer to the sheep which is slaughtered as a “sin offering” in Lev 4.32.

Therefore, the Book of Revelation uses the exact same term that is found not only within the Biblical canonical-context itself (Jn 21.15), but also within the writings of the Septuagint as well. So how is it contradictory? It is not!

Conclusion

As you can see, the way in which the Koine Greek language has been used in both the Septuagint (LXX) and the New Testament clearly shows that the words ἀμνός (amnós), πρόβατον (próbaton), and ἀρνίον (arníon) are essentially interchangeable and complementary terms. These 3 words have all been used in terms of a “messianic sin offering,” that is, in reference to an innocent lamb that is led to the slaughter (cf. Rev. 5.6 ἀρνίον ἑστηκὸς ὡς ἐσφαγμένον/“a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered”). Although these terms have slightly different nuances, nevertheless they have been used consistently within a “messianic scriptural context” across the board. This is based on the principle of expositional constancy, the idea that similar terms and images are used consistently throughout scripture.

Since most scholars don’t think that John’s Gospel and the Book of Revelation were written by the same author, this would explain why they don't use the exact same terminology. Different biblical authors use different vocabularies. This fact alone doesn’t preclude their books from being seen as authoritative or inspired. On the contrary, if we look at the 27 New Testament books, this seems to be the rule rather than the exception!

Thus, Mr. Marlo Bliss’ accusation——that “the writer of the Book of Revelation [who] used the term "Lambkin" / ARNI'ON … for Jesus Christ instead of "lamb" / AMNO'S” was contradicting “John 1.29 and 1.36”——is unwarranted and without merit!

Incidentally, I looked at the so-called “DLT” (Dabhar Literal Translation) that Mr. Bliss uses, but unfortunately it is not faithful to the original Greek New Testament text. Besides, there is no disclosure or commentary about which text-types were used or if there even was a committee of scholars who edited it, which I seriously doubt, given the poor quality of the translation. I’ve also come across some YouTube videos, that are put out by the same sect, which endorse the Dabhar Literal Translation. Unfortunately, this English translation is of an inferior quality. Adherents of this cult further claim that the Book of Revelation is a “spurious” book. This sounds like a sect that has drifted away from sound Bible teaching!

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.4

362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire. 836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed. 993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint. 1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death. 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre. 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz. 1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. 1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island 1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War. 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada). 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts. 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign. 1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. 1818 – US Flag Act of 1818 goes into effect creating a 13 stripe flag with a star for each state. New stars would be added on 4th of July after a new state had been admitted. 1827 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York. 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities. 1832 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women. 1832 – Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier. 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized. 1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement. 1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn. 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces repulse a Confederate army at the Battle of Helena in Arkansas. The Confederate loss fails to relieve pressure on the besieged city of Vicksburg, and paves the way for the Union to capture Little Rock. 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee. 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. 1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel. 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days. 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. 1898 – En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives. 1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines. 1903 – The Philippine–American War is officially concluded. 1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured. 1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. 1918 – Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front. 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega. 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. 1941 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. 1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement. 1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka. 1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives. 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland. 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. 1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts. 1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor. 1954 – Rationing ends in the United Kingdom. 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)). 1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years. 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year. 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists. 1976 – The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial. 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit. 1982 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown. 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city. 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. 1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. 2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.[4] 2002 – A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing 28. 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City. 2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history. 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. 2006 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day. 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks. 2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao. 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. 2015 – Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.

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George Square, Edinburgh.

George Square is a leafy and bustling place at the heart of the University of Edinburgh’s campus, with students heading to the library or visitors to the Spielgeltent during the Festival Fringe in the summer.

The square was planned in 1766 by architect James Brown, and at the time represented the most ambitious new development yet attempted in the city. It was the first development outside the old city walls, and as a precursor to the New Town, offered an exclusive setting for Edinburgh’s professional classes. Sir Walter Scott’s father, a prominent lawyer, was one of the first to have a house built there. His neighbours were a distinguished set, including the Countess of Sutherland, Lord Braxfield, the Justice-Clerk of the Court, and Henry Dundas, the future Lord Melville.

Before long, George Square had its own Assembly Rooms at numbers 14-16 for social gatherings, with a ballroom 92 feet long, lit by eleven crystal chandeliers. It was noted that people would stand on the High Street and shout loudly for a sedan chair to take them to George Square, ensuring that everyone in earshot would be suitably impressed.

Some of the original Georgian housing still exists and has very distinctive ‘cherrycock’ pointing, a line of small stones in the mortar joints between the blocks. Also look out for the plaques marking the homes of famous residents, including the authors Sir Walter Scott, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the athlete Eric Liddell.

In 1914 the University of Edinburgh bought its first property in the square, and gradually increased its ownership until by the 1940s it owned the entire place. Then in 1949 a controversial programme of major development was planned, involving the demolition of much of the square.

Despite a huge public outcry the development started, but the destruction proved to be a turning point in focusing public attention on the plight of Edinburgh’s historic buildings. The western side of the square was saved and the remnants of many demolished houses were later used to repair buildings in the Georgian New Town.

Ironically, many of the new university buildings are themselves now protected. The David Hume Tower, built in 1963, is a category A listed building, regarded as one of the key examples of Scottish Modernist architecture. It is amongst the very few buildings of the 1960s designed by Sir Robert Matthew, one of the most important British architects of the 20th century.

The architecture is of a very high standard of design with materials of exceptional quality, reflecting Matthew’s interest in a distinctively Scottish building. He used traditional slate roofing material cut into thick slabs as cladding for the tower, along with stone rubble on walls at lower levels. In 1967 the new University Library was built, designed by Sir Basil Spence and now seen as one of the finest buildings of its type in Europe.

George Square has changed dramatically since its beginnings as a quiet exclusive enclave. Today it represents not only the city’s success as a place of learning, but also a reminder of how close Edinburgh came to losing its losing its unique character.

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Saturday, 22nd July 2023

Welcome, Benvenuta, こんにちは, שלום 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Auchonvillers Military Cemetery" to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Auchonvillers Military Cemetery "The Auchonvillers Military Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I. The cemetery contains soldiers who died manning the Allied front line near the village of Auchonvillers...."

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Step 1️⃣ 👣: Cemetery "A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον 'sleeping place') implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: A Greek–English Lexicon "A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott () or Liddell–Scott–Jones (LSJ), is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language originally edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie and published in 1843 by the Oxford..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) "Alice is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). A child in the mid-Victorian era, Alice unintentionally goes on an underground adventure after falling down a rabbit..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910 film) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 10-minute black-and-white silent film made in the United States in 1910, and is based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book of the same name. Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice. Being a..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 1972 British musical film directed by Australian filmmaker William Sterling, based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel of the same name and its 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. It had a distinguished ensemble cast and a musical score composed by John Barry with..."