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abookishdreamer · 10 months

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Character Intro: Eikono (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- Koko by her friends and family

Age- 37 (immortal)

Location- Queenstown district, New Olympus

Personality- A quiet intellectual, she's a proud bookworm! She's also a great listener, patient, creative, & loyal. She's a lesbian and is in a relationship.

She has the standard abilities of a goddess. As the goddess of iconography & literature her other powers/abilities include teleportation (through books), melanokinesis (ink manipulation), papyrokinesis (paper manipulation), being able to telekinetically control bookshelves, calligraphy mastery, lexiconicy, storybook mimicry, and bibliokinesis (literary manipulation).

Her natural scent is that of freshly printed paper.

She's fluent in Old Greek, Latin, French, & Minoan.

Other members of her immediate family include her father Logos (god of stories). They have a great working & personal relationship. She's even an executive producer on her father's educational children's television show Metaxý ton Selídon. There's also her uncle Pseudologos (god of lies) who she's not close with as well as her cousin Dolos (god of deception & treachery) who's the father of Pheme (goddess of fame).

Eikono lives on the top floor of The Khrysóthronos Building, a luxury apartment building in the Queenstown neighborhood of New Olympus. The main wide window of the sitting room overlooks Eaglepoint Park. The interior design of her apartment is very chic & minimalist with colors of cream, ivory, lavender, and beige. Her personal library room is immaculately & meticulously organized. Several works of arts and sculptures are found throughout the place. She has a few pet cats & their names are Guinevere, Adelaide, Blair, Cosette, Eloise, and Vivienne. Eikono usually gets around the city by walking, public transportation, or riding her bike. Eikono holds the few remaining copies of books from the days of the Titanomachy very dear to her heart. The texts are in Old Greek & to maintain their pristine condition, she keeps them locked away in a cool safe. Eikono also has a collection of antique typewriters!

A common breakfast for her is a bowl of Earthly Harvest vanilla almond cereal with soy milk. She also likes whole wheat banana pancakes, zucchini hash browns, & various overnight oats (her personal favorite being the apple cinnamon).

There's always a book or two in her bag (if they can fit)!

Eikono was responsible for designing the flags of the respective realms. It was a cathartic moment when she watched the predecessor's flag (Titanius) burn to ashes. The flags of the realms are iconic in their own right! Olympius' flag is an eagle against a gold field holding an olive branch and lightning bolt in each of its talons. The flag of the Underwater realm is that of a hippocampus against a royal blue field with the royal crest in the background. The flag of the Underworld is that of a silver Cerberus against a black field while the flag of the Freshwater Territories is that of a leaping silver trout against a pastel blue field.

A go-to drink for her is homemade lemon infused water. She also likes ginger ale, lemon-lime soda, peppermint tea, white wine, soy milk, pineapple juice, & sugar cookie milkshakes from The Frozen Spoon. She also likes the cafe au lait, vanilla hazlenut latte, olympian sized flat whites, and small pear banana splashes from The Roasted Bean.

Though Eikono loves all formats of books, her personal preference are hardcovers, for aesthetic reasons.

She has a following on social media. On her PanopTube channel she posts videos of book reviews, author interviews, & book hauls. Her bookshelf tour video has four million views!

Eikono has quite a few jobs/businesses. She oversees the New Olympus Public Library downtown, has a publishing company (Inkdrop Press), bookstores (Pterýgio & Kýlisi), a book subscription box service (Page Turners), as well as being an acclaimed writer! She has written many books in a variety of genres geared towards children & adults. She also has an official website where she sells decorative bookmarks! For other means of income she models for/endorses Threads of Wisdom, White Lily Gallery, and Olive Visibly.

She loves the roast chicken sandwich (on ciabatta bread) from The Bread Box.

A guilty pleasure for her are rainbow sushi rolls!

In the pantheon Eikono's good friends with Dimósia (goddess of debate), Litismós (goddess of culture), Pathos (god of emotion), Apheleia (goddess of simplicity), Neicus (god of debate & appeal), Mousika (goddess of studying & music); one of The Horae, Favian (god of philosophy), Eusebeia (Bea) (goddess of piety, loyalty, duty, & filial respect), Porus (god of resourcefulness), Aeschyne (goddess of modesty & honor), Penia (goddess of poverty), Pistis (goddess of trust, reliability, & good faith), Soteria (goddess of safety), Elpis (goddess of hope); her cousin's wife, Praxidike (goddess of judicial punishment), Nomos (god of laws), Mnemosyne (Titaness of memory & language), Ptocheia (goddess of beggary), Themis (Titaness of justice), Aletheia (goddess of truth), and Hestia (goddess of the hearth). She also admires the work of Athena (goddess of wisdom).

She hosts annual book drives on the steps of the library every year.

For her birthday her girlfriend got her the book stack shaped jeweled Diamond Ave. clutch.

She's currently in a relationship with Sophia (goddess of thought). It was said that Eikono was attracted to her brain before anything else. They've been dating for a few months & they both feel really comfortable with each other. She enjoys the many intellectual discussions they have and they way her heart flutters every time Sophia laughs. They sometimes spend the night at each other's place (Sophia is only a thirty minute cab ride away in the Little Athens neighborhood). They're currently planning a month long vacation to Olympia.

Her favorite desserts are the poppy seed cupcakes and kariokes from Hollyhock's Bakery.

She once donated two million drachmas to a small public school in Ithaca whose library was destroyed in a flash flood.

A couple of years ago at the Olympian Gala (there was no set theme), Eikono showed up in a custom made gown known as the "La Bibliotheque" dress. The dress had a full skirt, a mixture of leather & old paper, skillfully intertwined with tulle, rattan, and lace. The spines of old books were used to craft the corset- the complete process taking almost 250 hours! Her short light blonde hair was in a low tight chignon.

Her all time favorite meal is garlic ginger chicken with white rice. She's also a huge fan of Sophia's macaroni salad.

In her free time Eikono prefers reading to watching TV. She also loves working on her writing (while classical music is playing in the background). Outside she enjoys jogging, bike riding, going to museums, football (soccer), and horseback riding.

"Books are the mirrors to the soul."

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wingodex · 3 years

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Sourcing Copley’s Sociogram

so this started out because i recognized some of the photographs and art on copley’s wall, and got curious about everything else. i know that the dates and locations of the original pictures don’t necessarily have anything to do with what they’re supposed to be in the movie but i thought it was interesting enough to share. plus i spent a not insignificant amount of time tracking down some of these images. the organization is a mixture between chronologically in the show and from a timeline perspective. the rest is under the cut

So we start out with this mosaic that you see when Andy looks at the sociogram for the first time while confronting Copley. This is a Roman mosaic found in Antioch, which is near modern-day Antakya, Turkey. It’s from the 4th century CE and shows an Amazon Warrior in mounted combat against a Greek soldier. Mosaics were found in both private and public buildings throughout the Roman empire. They’re made up of small cut pieces of marble, tile, glass, pottery, stone and shells called tesserae.

Here you have the title page of the 1668 edition of Andromaque, a play written by Jean Racine. It was first performed in November of 1667 for the court of Louis XIV by a company of actors called “les Grands Comédiens.” The play follows the story of Andromache after the Trojan War when her husband Hector has been killed and she has been taken prisoner.

The portrait of Andromache is from the book “Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum” by Guillaume Rouillé. The book was published in Lyon, France, in 1553. The book is made up of portraits designed as medals, along with brief biographies for notable figures. The art was done using woodcut and there are 950 woodcut portraits in the book.

This is a fresco of Mycenaean woman bearing gifts. It’s from Thebes and was reconstructed by H. Reusch in 1956. The original fresco is from 1400-1200 BCE. Frescos were popular decoration, not just in palaces and tombs but in storerooms, kitchens and workshops. Fresco painting is a technique where the drawing is made on wet plaster. When the plaster dries, the image becomes a permanent part of the wall.

You also have a map by Bernardus Sylvanus (Bernardo Silvano) of Northern India and Central Asia. It’s one of the earliest obtainable maps of the area and the first printed in two colors. This map first appeared in Silvanus’ “Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae” published in Venice in 1511.

This is a photograph of an ornamented, golden Minoan double-axe, or a “labrys.” In ancient Crete, the double axe was an important sacred symbol of the supposed Minoan religion. In Crete the double axe only accompanies female goddesses, never male gods. In Roman Crete, the labrys was often associated with the mythological Amazons.

This is a picture of the Holyland Model of Jerusalem in the Israel Museum. It’s a 1:50 scale model of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period. It was originally commissioned in 1966 by the owner of the Holyland Hotel and was eventually relocated to the Israel Museum in 2006.

The first image is the cover of the book “Heroines of the Crusades” by C. A. Bloss. I don’t know if this is the original cover, but it is certainly an older edition. The book was originally published in 1853 and contains biographies of notable women who were involved with the crusades, as well as a general overview of the first through to the eighth crusade.

And then hey, it’s The Hague Map of Jerusalem! This is one of the artworks that I knew before. The original map is from 1190-1200 CE. The map takes some liberties with the layout of the city, prioritizing aesthetics decisions like making it have the layout of a cruciform. Circular maps are also like a thing from this time. It also uhhhhh mislabels some things, such as the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, but that’s maybe expected. At the bottom you can see some mounted crusaders chasing after Muslim fighters. It’s drawn on vellum.

I’m grouping these two images together for clarity, because they’re both by the same painter. From the moment I saw the paintings, I thought that this was kind of a weird pull for Copley, but not necessarily for us as viewers. These paintings were done by Italian painter Paolo Domenico Finoglia (known as Finoglio) and are from a series of large paintings based on the poem “Gerusalemme Liberata” (Jerusalem Delivered) published in 1581. These paintings are baroque in style and were commissioned in 1634. The first painting is “The Duel of Raymond of Toulouse and Argante” and the second painting is “The Duel of Tancred and Clorinda”. Now, when I say this choice of paintings makes sense to us, what I mean is that parts of the poem Jerusalem Delivered are about a Christian crusader falling in love with a Muslim defender who he then kills on the battlefield (that’s the second painting of Tancred and Clorinda). It’s a fun parallel, although Clorinda converts to Christianity before she dies. Sidenote, but Joe and Nicky probably hated Jerusalem Delivered if they ever read it

This motherfucking painting. Finding out where this painting came from was an absolute nightmare. Not the worst to find, but certainly frustrating. So this painting can be found in the Borodino Panorama museum, although it’s not part of the panorama. The artist is unknown. The year it was painted is unknown. For all we know fucking Joe painted it. This is such a deep dive, I don’t know how Copley found this image. This painting shows French soldiers in Moscow as it burned. It’s called “Французы в Москве” or “The French in Moscow”.

Did you think we were finished talking about Napoleon? Well, we’re not! Copley has a lot of paintings from Napoleon’s Russian campaign on his board. There might be more on his eastern Europe wall too, but unfortunately, I can’t see it well enough to identify any.

The counterfeits potentially made by Booker show the 40 franc gold coin, known informally as the double Napoleon. These coins were first issued by Napoleon in 1803 to replace the earlier Louis coins. They were originally minted in two denominations: 20 francs and 40 francs, although they were minted in denominations of 5, 10 and 50 at various other times. The coins were designed and engraved by Jean Pierre Droz, and Pierre-Joseph Tiolier respectively. In the particular image of the coin that I found, you can actually see Droz’s signature. Tiolier’s signature appears in full on the dies that he cut himself (these coins only have a monogram). From screenshots of the end credits, I can’t actually see the specific denomination, nor can I see the date clearly, however I do know that the coins were minted sometime between 1807 and 1808. There were many different issues of these coins during Napoleon’s reign, and the fact that Napoleon has a laurel crowned head and that the coin says République Française rather than Empire Français narrows the timeline a bit. I might revisit this topic at a later date so watch out for that.

The first painting is “The Battle of Borodino, 7 September 1812” by Louis-François Lejeune in 1822. It’s oil on canvas. This painting depicts the attack on the Shevardino Redoubt, seen from the French side. While it was a French victory, it was a costly battle for both sides. During the Russian Campaign, Lejeune was général de brigade, although he ended up abandoning his post because of frostbite during the retreat and got arrested. He actually kept his paintbrushes with him on the battlefield. This painting was his masterwork. Now, with regards to the actual content of the painting, Booker would have been in the Battle of Borodino, as he didn’t try to desert until after the Battle of Smolensk.

The second painting is “Die Schlacht bei Borodino” (The Battle of Borodino) by Peter von Hess. It was painted in 1843 and is oil on canvas. Von Hess was a German painter who specialized in historic paintings of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. This painting depicts the same battle as the previous one, although the focus is on the Russian and Lithuanian soldiers, rather than the French. This also shows an event from later in the battle; the counterattack on the Rayevsky Battery.

The last image is “The Boasted Crossing of the Niemen at the Opening of the Campaign of 1812 by N. Bonaparte” by John Heaviside Clark and Matthew Dubourg. The painting was based on a sketch by an officer, then painted by Heaviside Clark and engraved by Dubourg. It’s a coloured aquatint and was published in 1816. The crossing of the Niemen marks the beginning of the Russian Campaign in June of 1812.

There are actually quite a few photos of ToG during the Crimean war (1853-1856). These are actually some of the first war photographs ever taken, which is kind of neat, I guess. These photos were taken by Roger Fenton, a British photographer. These photos would have all been taken in 1855, so the tags on the photos are anachronistic but we can let it slide. The first image with Joe and Nicky is of Croat labourers. The second image of Andy is of a vivandière, a French woman attached to military regiments as a sutler. The last image (also of Joe and Nicky) is of British soldiers and is on of the covers of the book Victorians at War by Ian Beckett.

The photograph from the American civil war was originally of Union Generals, including General Philip Sheridan. At the time of this picture, Sheridan lead the Cavalry Corps, and the flag that you see in the picture is cavalry, so ToG rode horses during the American Civil War, according to this picture. It was taken in 1864.

I find the pictures of Haiti to be very interesting. First off, (and unrelated to the photographs themselves) because there was literally a coup d’état about every two years during this period in Haiti and unlike some of the other photos, these ones don’t even try to pretend they were all taken at the same time, or that they’re related at all. They’re just some pictures of Haiti during the early 20th century and it’s funny. All of photographs were taken in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The first picture (from the upper left corner) is of the Market Square between 1909-1920. The second image is a street scene, between 1890 and 1901. Now the third photograph is making me lose it because in the movie it’s all mysterious, with a figure circled and a question mark, but in the original image it’s just a little kid standing on a public fountain. He’s not a member of the old guard. He’s not even 10 years old. This picture was also taken between 1890 and 1901. The last photo is another street scene, taken in 1901. I have to say, I’m very glad that the people in charge of the sociogram didn’t edited any of the guards’ faces on to anyone in these photos considering every single person in them is Black.

Okay, so now we’re getting into the First World War photos. There are A Lot of WW1 photos. This photo of Andy is actually from Gallipoli and was taken in 1915 by Ernest Brooks, an official war photographer. The Gallipoli campaign was an attempt by the Entente to weaken the Ottoman Empire by taking control of the Turkish Straits. All invasion attempts were unsuccessful and eventually they evacuated the area at the end of 1915. Andy seems to be wearing an Anzac uniform.

As for the rest of the photos in this shot, they’re also all from the Gallipoli campaign. The first photo is from War Illustrated in June of 1915 and shows Australians soldiers dragging an artillery piece into position at Anzac during the Battle of Gallipoli. The second image is also from 1915 and shows soldiers bringing supplies to the Australian camp. The last image is of Anzac cove shortly after the landing there in 1915.

Originally I didn’t notice that this was an edited picture, but since I was already looking, I decided to track this one down too, and turns out it is edited. I honestly can’t tell whether it’s Booker or Joe, but that kind of looks like Matthias Schoenaerts’ nose, so I’m gonna say that’s Booker. This photograph was taken in May 1917 by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke in Arras, France. These are British troops at the Battle of Arras, which at the time achieved the honor of longest advance in trench warfare. The battle was very costly on both sides, with around 290,000 casualties total. Warwick Brooke was an official British war photographer.

On the very right-hand side, you can see two pictures. The first one is of infantry of the 1st Canadian Division having a meal in the trenches at Ploegsteert, March 1916. It was taken by another official British war photographer, Lieutenant Ernest Brooks.

The next photo is from a series of photos of a raiding party of the 10th Battalion. It’s of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) waiting in nap for the signal to go. John Warwick Brooke, the photographer, followed them in the sap, where a shell fell short killing seven men. It was taken near Arras in March 1917. This photo takes place after the Battle of the Somme, during the German withdrawals to the Hindenburg line.

This fucking image. I’m so angry about this image. I spent hours going through World War 1 photo databases and then when I found the original source of the image it told me absolutely nothing!!! A waste of time!!! This is an image of a British soldier assisting two little French girls who had just escaped death but I knew that already, that’s how I found it in the first place. This photo was from the Haig “Official Photographs” series, which were from 1916 onwards. Edit: I found it again!!! This photo was taken in Bethune in May 1918. It was taken by war photographer Ernest Brooks. In April of 1918, the German Sixth Army tried to attack Bethune during the Battle of Lys (Fourth Battle of Ypres) but were repulsed. It was taken between offensives on the Western Front during the German spring offensive. The next major battle on this part of the Western Front began weeks after this picture was taken.

On the top of the screen there are two photographs. The first is a photo by Ernest Brooks from the Battle of Broodseinde (October 1917). The battle was part of a larger offensive - the third Battle of Ypres - engineered by Sir Douglas Haig to capture the Passchendaele ridge. This is an anti-aircraft gun in action during the battle.

The next photograph is also from the German spring offensive, between the Battle of Lys and the Battle of the Third Battle of the Aisne. It shows a 12-inch gun (named "Bunty") of the Royal Garrison Artillery firing at Louez in May 1918. This is another photograph by John Warwick Brooke.

This image of Andy was also originally a photograph taken by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke. This photo is of the 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (51st Division) feeding a French refugee child in their improvised trench near Locon, France in 1918.

There are so many WW1 photos. The rest of these don’t have any of the characters in them as far as we know, so I’ll go over these quickly. The first picture is from the Western Front in France and was likely taken by John Warwick Brooke. This photograph was taken at night and shows two teams of machine gunners, strategically positioned behind some vegetation. The ground behind them looks sandy, suggesting they might be near the coast. Directly in front of the gunners a mine has just exploded, showering the men with debris. This picture was taken in sometime between 1916-18.

The next photo was also taken by John Warwick Brooke in 1917. This picture is of the Battle of Cambrai and shows a 'C' Battalion tank bringing in a captured 15 cm naval gun. Cambrai is an interesting battle because it was a tank/artillery fight mostly, and the British used a lot of new tank/infantry maneuvers. It also ended very badly for the British.

The third photograph was taken by Ernest Brooks. It shows soldiers of the 8th East Yorkshire Regiment moving to the front near Frezenberg in October 1917 prior to the assault (Battle of Broodseinde) the following morning. It was a victory for the British, which eventually led to the Germans withdrawing from the Belgian coast.

The last photograph was taken by Lieutenant William Ivor Castle, the Canadian official photographer in September 1916. It shows a shell being loaded into a 15 inch howitzer. This photograph is from the Battle of the Somme. The Somme was a Franco-British victory but of the 3 million men who fought in it, around 1 million were either injured or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history.

So there’s actually photographic evidence of almost all of ToG being involved with the Spanish Civil War, but I’ll get to those in a second. The image that we see of Nicky in the credits places him at the Battle of Irún in 1936. He is with the Spanish Republican People’s Army. This was a major battle at the beginning of the war, as it allowed the Nationalist Army to capture the province of Gipuzkoa after Irún fell, which had been held by the Republic. It allowed the Nationalist Army to control supplies. The photographer is unknown.

Jumping forward a bit here, but I can’t believe I found this photo, like I wasn’t even looking for it and I found it, but still. Wow. So on the board, it’s shown that Nicky was in the Congo in 1964 during the Simba Rebellion. The original image is of mercenary Gerry Moggach, from Scotland, with self-made guns (Molotov cocktails lmaoo) in November 1964. The Congo Crisis was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (which is now the DRC) and involved a bunch of civil wars that also served as a proxy conflict in the Cold War.

Now, back to Spain and the rest of the guard. From this BTS image of Copley’s sociogram we know that both Booker and Andy were involved in the Spanish Civil War as well. The first image, which Andy is apparently in, was taken in 1936 and shows her with a miliciana, which were battalions of woman who fought to defend the Republic. The photographer is unknown. The second image is of Republican soldiers and civilians. Booker is in this image. The original was taken in 1937 by an unknown photographer.

Now we get into the World War II photographs. This photo of Booker from WW2 was originally taken at Mount Tambu, New Guinea in July of 1943, by Gordon Short. The photo is of Leslie “Bull” Allen, an Australian soldier who was awarded the US Silver Star for rescuing 12 US soldiers while under fire. The battle was fought between Japanese and Allied forces. Australian forces eventually secured the area in August of that year.

This photo frustrates me. First, it doesn’t even look like they manipulated it, but also because “pacific” is written in the near the bottom right corner. Now, I’m not saying that Nicky wasn’t in the Pacific Theatre but now that I know where this image was actually taken it’s like. Ugh. This photo was not taken in the Pacific Theatre, it was taken of American soldiers at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Omaha was the codename given to one of the five sections during the Allied invasion of Normandy. D-Day is the largest seaborne invasion in history, and it eventually led to the liberation of France and the Allied victory on the Western Front. Now personally, I think Nicky being there is very interesting and the timeline meets up better with his other WW2 picture. If you’ve ever seen Saving Private Ryan (1998), that movie opens with the invasion of Omaha Beach.

This photo of Nicky excites me for several reasons but also brings up some important questions about what the fuck Nicky was up to in 1944. The original photograph shows Private G.R. MacDonald giving first aid to a French boy in Brionne on August of 1944. The interesting part for me is the uniform though. MacDonald was part of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (75th Battalion). The Toronto Scottish Regiment were actually part of Operation Jubilee, although they weren’t able to land because of the tide and only had one fatal casualty, which good for them considering what happened to everyone else at Dieppe. Although Nicky probably wasn’t a part of that considering he was with American soldiers earlier in 1944.

Next to Nicky, on the right, you can see a picture of a plane and an explosion behind it. That picture is from Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The picture is taken at the Ford Island seaplane base and you can see the USS Shaw (DD-373) explode in the center background. USS Nevada (BB-36) is also visible in the middle background, with her bow headed toward the left. Several planes are in the foreground, a consolidated PBY, Vought OS2Us and Curtiss SOCs. The wrecked wing in the foreground is from a PBY.

This photograph is of French resistance fighters and was taken in September of 1944. The French resistance was a movement that fought against the occupation of Nazi Germany after 1940. The resistance engaged in guerilla warfare, published underground newspapers, acted as spies for the Allied forces and kept up escape networks for trapped soldiers and airmen. Although the woman in the original picture isn’t identified, there were many other women involved with the French resistance like Simone Segouin, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, Lucie Aubrac, and Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux.

The first image is of a Boeing B-29A-45-BN Superfortress 44-61784 6 Bombardment Group G 24 BS. It was taken in June of 1945 while it was firebombing Osaka, Japan.

The next two images are of the smoke from the atomic bombs. The first picture is of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and was taken by George R. Caron on August 6th, 1945. The second image shows the cloud over Nagasaki and was taken by Charles Levy on August 9th, 1945.

Okay, so this is my absolute fav manipulation in the whole movie, because it looks so good. Here we have Nicky, Joe and Booker as guerrillas during the Cuban Revolution. If you saw this image and thought “wait is that Fidel Castro?” you’d be right! The man gesturing to the ground with a stick is in fact Fidel Castro. Now, what you might have missed is the man next to Castro who has been edited to look like Booker... yeah I’m like 95% sure they put Booker’s face on Che Guevara.

This image of Nicky during the American Civil Rights Movement is from the March on Washington which happened in August of 1963. 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to call for fair treatment and equal opportunity for Black Americans. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a Dream” speech.

This picture of Andy, Joe and Nicky is of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at UC Berkeley in May of 1967. The speech was attended by about 7000 students and he spoke against the Vietnam war. Photograph by Michael Ochs (?)

This photo was taken of US soldiers in Huế during the Vietnam War. The photo was taken in 1968 during the Tet Offensive. Booker is the one behind the medic. There’s a post it note that you can see fully in a BTS image of the sociogram that confirms it’s Booker. The Tet Offensive, which was launched in January of 1968, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, and the largest up to that point. It was a campaign of surprise attacks by the VC and PAVN against military and civilian command and control centers in South Vietnam (ARVN and the USA). The Battle of Huế lasted over a month and resulted in the destruction of the city and the massacre of thousands of civilians.

This photo of Andy helping with Operation Babylift was originally taken in 1975. Operation Babylift was an evacuation of orphans from Saigon in the face of a North Vietnamese Offensive. 3000 orphans were evacuated and at the end of April, Northern Vietnamese forces launched rockets at Saigon.

This image of Andy shows her on the Berlin Wall. The original photo was taken near the Brandenburger Tor in November of 1989. The photo shows West Berliners helping East Berliners climb the Berlin Wall after the opening of the wall was announced by the East German Communist government. The photo was taken by Jockel Finck.

tw ethnic cleansing, tw islamophobia, tw genocide. The photos of Booker in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a combat medic indicate that Booker was in Sarajevo for the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, however the original photo was taken of the Cheshire Regiment (1st Battalion) in Ahmići, in April of 1993. The Ahmići Massacre was committed by the Croats during the conflict and was part of a larger series of attacks called the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, and targeted Bosnian Muslim civilians. Around 120 people were murdered in Ahmići.

These last images are all from wars within the last 20 years. The first image was taken in Daychopan, Afghanistan by Sgt. Kyle Davis in September, 2003. The photo is of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. They were searching for Taliban fighters and weapon caches.

The next image is of two aerial photos of the ISIS command and control Centre in Syria, before and after it was bombed by a US F-22 fighter jet in September 2014.

The last image is of a US soldier assisting a wounded Iraqi civilian in Fallujah, Iraq in November, 2004. Photograph was taken by Cpl. Theresa M. Medina.

As for the rest of the photos, (Joe and Nicky saving the man in the cave, Joe in the DRC, some WW2 photos and some background photos in the BTS images and during the movie) I haven’t been able to find them because they’re not clear, I don’t want to look at historical archives anymore or I don’t even know where to start with searching for them. I might pick up searching again later if I decide to become even more like Copley than I already am. If you have any additional info about some of the missing photos let me know! Also if you want any of the original photos or resources just let me know and I can send them to you!

edit: I just want to make this very clear, but some of TOGs involvement here is suspicious as hell. Obviously we don’t know the exact circumstances, but things like Nicky being shown as a mercenary during the Simba rebellion, Booker as an American soldier during the Vietnam War and the images of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have some incredibly negative and incriminating implications. I worry that in my excitement about finding some of these images I glossed over pretty horrific details and context. It’s important to be conscious of some of the very real tragedies and atrocities being shown here.

#the old guard #Andromache the Scythian #Yusuf al Kaysani #Nicolo di Genova #the old guard meta #tog meta #tog posts #Sebastien Le Livre #long post #tog history #also i will say #if anyone does want to track down the original joe in the congo pic #please look after yourself #i stopped trying to find it because going through pictures from the DRC can be very disturbing #i think it's also worth noting that in terms of the context of each image i decided to go for picture specific #while leaving the broader cultural context more vague #like i'm not about to explain the crimean war or the congo crisis on this post #this is just a jumping off point about certain events!! do your own research too!!#also lmaooo do you know who was also in the congo in the 1960s? fucking che guevara #i am also like 80% sure the cave rescue picture was staged #i simply cannot find it #anyway now that this is done comparative timeline drops soon

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magica-pseudoacademica · 5 years

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Minoan

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Articles

Gesell, Geraldine C. “From Knossos to Kavousi: The Popularizing of the Minoan Palace Goddess.” Hesperia Supplements 33 (2004): 131-150.

Chapters

Pelon, Olivier. “Aegean Religions.” In Religions of Antiquity, edited by Robert M. Seltzer, pp. 151-162. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.

Websites

* Rutter, Jeremy R. “Minoan Religion.” Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology. http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eprehistory/aegean/?page_id=720 (accessed January 25, 2020).

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The Voynich Manuscript Interprupted as Tibetan- Juniper Publishers

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The Voynich Manuscript is written in Tibetan. The Hebrew tribe of Manasseh likely passed through Tibet on their way to North America. The left behind the script that was detained by the Tibetan Monks. This is why the American Indian Language reflects the mysterious language. It is also why it appears to be Semitic. Abraham was Semitic. The paper presents a table that will allow the interested reader to translate the entire document. It could more easily be read simply by someone who reads Tibetan handwriting.

Keywords: Vaaaaoynich Manuscript; Tibetan Language; American Indian; Manasseh; Israel; Script; Tablets; Handwriting; Mother Nature; Microbiology; Astrology; Astronomy; Anatomy; Biology; Polymer; Scriptures; Letters; Alphabet

Introduction

On December 10, 2014, I was looking for a new unsolved problem. I came across a bright webpage that list 25 of the most intriguing Mysteries of the present time. I spotted the Voynich Manuscript riddle, which I had not heard of before hitherto. I thought to myself, that is the next problem for me. I had already decoded the Minoan Tablets. It was exciting. So, I gave the Voynich Manuscripts a try.

At first glance, the print looked to be German to me on the internet site “Voynich Manuscript Images.” [1]. Then I realized that all the illustrations pointed to Biology, Anatomy, Microbiology, Astrology, perhaps Astronomy, and Greek goddesses. The whole thing spoke to me as a work on Mother Nature. I thought perhaps it was written by a woman, a Lesbian (Lesbo), or a witch. I realized that there were sometimes 7 women or 8. I looked up the Greek goddesses. There are 7 of them. That was a clue. Then I realized that one of the diagrams (page 74) had three concentric circles. I knew that the Hebrew Alphabet could be converted to the alphanumeric. So, could the Greek. When I counted the number of figures in that diagram, I counted 2 Fish, 10 and 19. I thought of prime numbers. I knew from my Mathematical Physics that Egypt had encoded in their pyramids a lot of complex Mathematics, including calculus. I knew that Hebrew people learned this mathematics from Moses and Joseph when they sojourned into Egypt as we know from the Hebrew Scriptures. From my previous research knew that the Hebrews took this cosmic information everywhere they went including the UK (Stone Henge) and Ireland (St Columba’s Psalter) and as far as the Americas as the Mayans in the Tribe of Manasseh (twin son to Ephraim of Joseph the patriarch). As any good Mormon at your door will tell you the Native North American peoples descend from Manasseh. So, if Manessah went East, they crossed India and china likely. They are Haplogroup “D” which is Chinese or Native North Americans. (I have that DNA too).

Of course, Tibet (Tibit) is between India and China in the Himalayan Mountains. The area is most famous for political unrest with china and its Tibetan Buddhist Monks. The manuscript figure I focussed on first was the one that translated to BIT or TIB. I realized going inward it is TIB, and outward BIT. That spells TIBIT or Tibet. I looked up the Tibetan “alphabet” online. After studying it for about 10 minutes, I figured that alphabet contains the cursive handwriting found in the manuscript. I found an online Tibetan to English translator Tool which proved extremely important in deciphering the manuscript.

It takes imagination to see how the cursive handwriting relates to the formal “letters” (They are actually not letter per say; they are symbols dor words in a primitive language. It is perhaps advanced beyond the Hebrew Ten commandments symbolism I uncovered, but not as advanced as the Hebrew Alphabet. Moses of course was given the Ten Commandments c.1200 B. C.E. The tribe of Manasseh had a parcel of land among the tribes of Israel. When or why they left, I do not know.

I also knew from examination of the illustrations that whomever wrote the manuscript had access to a microscope and human cadavors. The Chinese are known to have had the microscope since c 2000 B.C.E. They could see small bacteria like creatures. They deciphered DNA in stringy semen and knew there was a code in that DNA. The scripter also knew of Evolution from Octopus to Horse. Of course, many plants were illustrated. In addition to all the biology, there was the Astrology. The Sun was illustrated, as well as the 4 Seasons. The cosmos was illustrated as a circle with many stars of no pattern that I could discern except for the numerology. I don’t know anything about Astrology nor Astronomy except Cosmology. Still the message is clear in the manuscript: it was about Nature- Mother Nature judging from the Nymphs who appear pregnant.

My purpose is not to detail these illustrations; it is to attempt to decipher the mysterious script [2]. Once I knew that TIBIT was the key, I just had to translate the cursive to the formal Tibetan Alphabet chart also available on line under Images. It became clear when I could read the script that the Tibetan Language was the key and the book was likely the Tibetan Monks “Bible”. If Roger Bacon wrote it, then he knew Tibertan language well enough to write a book in it. When I uncovered on Wikipedia that the Qing Dynasty fell in Tibet in 1912, the year Voynich bought the script in Italy, the picture was becoming clear. Someone had smuggled out a copy of the Tibetan Book of Knowledge. What they call it I do not know.

As I translated the script letter by letter, I could see that first, the text did not directly refer to the illustrations; and second that the letters are words much like the Chinese script. Letter became words, and words became sentences which made sense for a “Tibetan Bible”. The only proof I have is in the fact that the script can be read. I don’t have advanced linguistic training and tools to offer. Things such as radio carbon dating, chemical analysis of the pigments, etc could rule out my theory. As it stands, I suggest the manuscript is a Tibetan Bible written by someone who knew how to write their language. I suspect, it was an unknown Tibetan Monk who wrote the manuscript in the 15 Century. I can’t see why Western Scientist oger Bacon would write such a primitive script, although one hidden from the Churchmen of the day.

What I present here is the Tibetan translation of a few words that give a feel for the manuscript. I figured out 19 out of 42 characters or about 45% of them. I don’t intend to translate the entire book as perhaps any Tibetan Monk could read it handily. Admittedly, there is the odd character I can’t explain. Perhaps a Tibetan Monk can. Thanks to Prof Shell of Harvard for his useful comments. The theory, right or wrong is entirely mine (Figure 1). My guess is that the Vioynic Manuscript (Mother Nature’s Manusrcipt) was written in German (False) perhaps by a woman (FALSE)? The alphabet used is Greek and Latin because that is where the Nymph myths come from Greek Mythology. It is about the Universe as she projected it. There are illustrations on the Sun, (24 hours of the day), Cosmology (Astrology or Astronomy), Mathematics (Prime numbers), the cell (they had a microscope), Anatomy (Aorta, Myan Sheath) microbiology, DNA (the coding and the polymer), Botany, Evolution (octopus and the elephant). Its a book on the universe, and life. Its about “Mother Nature” as a religion. There must have been 7 famous nymphs plus the one who wrote the manuscript totaling 8.

My guess is that Homer is a big clue. You’ll find these 7 names below in the text I suspect. That will decode your alphabet (Figure 2). So there are 2 fishes (B), 10 animals (I), and 19 women (T). That decodes from the Greek alpha numeric to “BIT” or “TIB”. Is that Mother Nature’s Son? (TIBET) Beatles: It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India The Quing dynasty collapsed in 1912 the year the Polish Votnich purchased the manuscript. Prime Numbers=2,3,5,7,11,17,19 2+10+400=412 OR: 2+20+400=422=Pi-e=0.4233 1/412= 0.588 1/0.588=1.7 (Chemistry Chemistry) =delta=d TIBIZ=TIBET This Manuscript is a Tibetan Monk’s Book on Mother Nature.

TIBIT=2^40=1.099 Trillion

IO 10+70 =71

1/71=0.1408 1/0.1408=859

ECHO 5+20+8+70=103

8572=HEOC(?) (Figures 3-7)

I’ll never forget when I went to an interview at Irving Oil, the largest employer in the city. The mature 45-year-old woman said to me, I started at the bottom in a call center with a degree in Psychology, why shouldn’t you? It was for an Engineering/ MBA position. Then she said, you’ve proven you can learn from a book. What else can youuuuu doooooo? So, then I went to an interview at Ocean Steel, another Irving company. The 22-yearold girl asked me why I wasn’t a member of the Association (of Professional Engineers)? I said on page 1 of my 2-page resume, on the first line is my name in big black letters with P.Eng. after my name. That means I’m a member of the Association. Oh that’s what that means. Then on page 2 I said, it states at the bottom of the 2-page resume Memberships: Association of Professional Engineers. Good thing she wasn’t hiring doctors. What does Dr stand for anyway? (Table 1) There has got to be a Newfoundlander joke in there somewhere! (Figures 8 & 9) DM isa the goddess Demeter.

I think they are right: Roger Bacon wrote it. He wrote it in the Tibetan Alphabet to hide the science from the church. Ah, Mother Church. Bacon had the instruments to see bacteria, he had an interest in medicine and science, and astrology. How did he get access to Egyptian Secrete? Through Aristotle who had access to Egyptian secrets, the secret of secrets. Whoever wrote the Voynich Manuscript (Tables 2 & 3), had access to three things: firstly, Instruments such as a microscope, secondly knowledge of the Ancient Egyptian Mathematical “secrets”; and thirdly, knowledge of the Tibetan Alphabet [3]. I might decipher the manuscript. I purchased a copy of the book on Kindle. It is too small to read. You can pick up my collected works at LULU. com. They will be valuable in years to come as I plan to let only a few copies go for sale.

81=0.012345679 In french, 81 is quatre vignt et une 4 X 20 +1=81 421 That is TIBIT If you consider that a 3-credit hour course is 3402 hours of lecture plus another 3402 hours of home study, that is 6804 hours of study. 1/6.804= 0.1469=1- 0.853=1-Sin 1=1- Cos 1 So 6804 hours of study is what is need at a minimum to understand the universe. I’ve studied for 48 years. The two pole problem is knowledge vs ignorance. I’ll let this blog go until it hits 50,000 viewers. I’m told by an eminent Harvard scholar that these sorts of things must be checked and verified by the scholarly community. He’s right. I hope some takes an interest in every sphere that I’ve deviled into and finds all my mistakes and corrects them. I can’t get published or even reviewed for a scholarly Journal. I’ve sent dozens of papers to 16 professors at the local universities without one comment back. Apparently, they are not interested. Neither am I. I’m not getting paid. They are! I’ve tried more than a dozen universities around the world. All I got back were my expensive books. University is big business. their customers are unwitting young people. They really are not interested in cutting edge research. They are too jealous. That’s what I;’ve learned after 48 years of study.

This blog has a life of its own. We’re up to 519 readers today already. Enjoy! I’m going to bury myself in mathematica (Figure 10) (Tables 4 & 5).

TIB-BIT

400+10+22+10+400

= 421+421

=842~0.8415

=Sin 1=Cos 1

Human knowledge is converging rapidly now thanks to the transistor, the computer, internet, and Wikipedia. Western civilization is arrogant. We live in an abstract world that disregards nature. “Tis a sick bird that shits in its own nest.” Humans had more knowledge with far less technology that I mentioned. It went slower, but they had figured out more than our scientists did. The West has been at it for 2000 years. The Buddhist have been at it for 7000. The Hebrews have been at it for 6000. The Egyptians have been at it for 4500 years. I’ve been at it for 47 years, but I was schooled in western thought for 18 years. Now it comes to an end at just over 3000 posts. I wonder how many days we have remaining? 10? We’re close to the end anyhow. The Jews taught us all. did they get it from the Egyptians or the Babylonians? All of humanity is connected. Let’s live in peace (Figures 11-15).

Greek Linear B. I decoded this as a Hebrew tablet. The Tibetan Alphabet comes from the Hebrew alphabet I think. The Hebrews come from the Egyptian. As the Hebrews spread around the world, they took Egyptian knowledge about the universe with them. Should be exciting to read the Nymph book. Its the Tibetan Bible. The Jewish Tribe of Manasseh floated through Tibet or china on their way to North America. Manasseh got their knowledge from Moses who was educated by the Egyptians. All this cosmology spring from the Egyptians (Babylonians?) who recorded it in their pyramids. So, did the Mayans (Figure 16).

Dec 21, 2012+4 BCE-1 (No year zero) =Dec 21, 2015But the Hebrews count the first day as 1 year. So, subtract another year. I leave it to you to play with these numbers. Tibetan Alphabet. Look in the manuscript for the goddess IO and ECHO above. So, if you use Tibetan Alphabets, you van read about Mother Nature and the peak of the Tibetan Culture. They must have used natural hallucinogens to determine that the human mind functioned at 31.8 ~32 Hz.

Conclusion

What the Voynic Manuscript reveals is that the culture of the world is intertwined. From the Egyptians in Africa, to the UK on Europe, to Khazachstan in Cenbtral Asia, to Tibet, to the Mayans in the Americans, the same religious knowledge has been transferred to all the peoples of the world thanks largely to the Israelites. Philosophically, God is available to everyone. The Voynich Manuscript is just one piece of that large puzzle of human knowledge.

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Sophia Kokosalaki, Who Gave London Fashion a Grecian Spin, Dies at 47

LONDON — Sophia Kokosalaki, a widely admired London-based clothing designer who drew on her Greek heritage in highlighting classical silhouettes and artful drapery, died on Sunday in London. She was 47.

Her death was confirmed by Antony Baker, her partner and the managing director of her brand, Sophia Kokosalaki. No cause was given.

Over more than two decades Ms. Kokosalaki became one of the most prominent Greek designers of her generation, respected by such star peers as Alexander McQueen and Kim Jones for her balancing a cutting-edge feminine look with ancient Greek, Minoan and Byzantine motifs.

She had earlier been a forerunner of a new wave of European fashion designers who moved to London to study, then stayed to set up their businesses.

“After Sophia came a stream of Europeans as integral to London’s fashion cultural renaissance in the 2000s,” Sarah Mower, Vogue.com’s chief fashion critic, said in an email, “including Roksanda Ilincic, Marios Schwab, Peter Pilotto, Mary Katrantzou and Marques Almeida.”

In a signal honor, Ms. Kokosalaki was chosen to be chief clothing designer for the summer Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. Ms. Katrantzou, a fellow Greek designer who also works in London, said in a statement that she was “eternally grateful to Sophia for making us all feel proud to be Greek and communicating the values of our culture far beyond our borders.”

Ms. Kokosalaki was born in Athens on Nov. 3, 1972, to Vasilios and Stella (Leonidaki) Kokosalakis. Her mother was a journalist, and her father was a civil engineer. Initially wanting to be a writer, Ms. Kokosalaki studied literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but all the while, she later said, she had been resisting an internal call to pursue a career in fashion. When she was 3 she had started drawing dresses with price tags, she said, and at 11 she had taken notice of how people dressed.

“Back then in Greece — we’re talking the mid-1990s — it wasn’t considered serious to do fashion,” she told the London newspaper The Evening Standard in 2010. “In England, you have art colleges and you take it seriously. But the examples I had growing up were few, and they weren’t necessarily inspiring. Being a designer was a last resort. It was not the thing you did if you were a model academic.”

Ms. Kokosalaki decided to move to London, where she earned a master’s degree at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Among her professors was Louise Wilson, then the kingmaker of British fashion. She graduated in 1998 and debuted her first woman’s wear collection at London Fashion Week a year later. Her blend of draping and plissé with rock star energy gave birth to an aesthetic that would be her signature.

“Sophia was the first designer to emerge from Central Saint Martins who fused a European heritage — classical drapery, Hellenic folk craft — with a minimalist sense of how that could be worn on the street or in a club,” Ms. Mower said in a tribute to Ms. Kokosalaki that was published in Vogue. Ms. Mower recalled watching Mr. McQueen — then one of the most revered designers in the world — shouldering his way through crowds outside Ms. Kokosalaki’s show in 2002 to see her new work.

After a stint as a guest designer at the Italian leather company Ruffo Research, and after winning the new Generation Designer prize at the Fashion Awards in Britain in 2003, she was given an even more distinguished accolade: the appointment as chief designer of the 2004 Olympics. A source of immense national pride, the Games marked the return of the Olympics to Athens, where the modern competition began in 1896.

Ms. Kokosalaki dressed the more than 7,000 performers and athletes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, creating clothes to represent different periods of Greek culture and art. She also designed the uniforms for the Games information attendants and officials.

Two years later she was made creative director of the Parisian fashion house Vionnet, as part of a turnaround effort by the brand’s new owner, but the appointment lasted only a year. In 2007, her own brand — by then worn by celebrities like Jennifer Connelly and Kirsten Dunst — was bought by the Italian fashion conglomerate Only the Brave, run by Renzo Rosso. But that association, too, was short-lived. Ms. Kokosalaki bought her label back two years later.

She also became the creative director of Mr. Rosso’s high-end Diesel Black Gold label, which represented a move away from time-consuming and expensive hand work and toward mass production and slick commercial appeal. She remained in that post from 2009 to 2012 — a period of “intense business education,” as she called it.

That experience prompted her, in 2012, to start Kore, a cheaper line that was sold through ASOS, one of Britain’s largest fashion e-commerce retailers. She also started a chic bridal collection.

In addition to her partner, Mr. Baker, Ms. Kokosalaki is survived by her daughter, Stelli.

The Greek culture minister, Lina Mendoni, noting that it was “extremely sad when a young person dies,” called Ms. Kokosalaki “a dynamic and self-made woman who starred in the harsh and competitive world of international fashion.”

As her health wavered, according to people around her, Ms. Kokosalaki chose to spend more time in Crete, where she had always found inspiration. In 2015, she designed cabin crew uniforms for Aegean Airlines, and in 2017 she turned to fine jewelry.

Those collections, mostly in gold, retained her hallmark of incorporating ancient and mythical patterns with a modern twist. It was all in keeping with how she liked to define herself — as a “Greek woman, but an English designer.”

Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

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