Power

48 LAWS OF POWER Law 1 Never Outshine the Master Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies Law 3 Conceal your Intentions Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit Law 8 Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous Law 19 Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier Law 25 Re-Create Yourself Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal Law 32 Play to People's Fantasies Law 33 Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one Law 35 Master the Art of Timing Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once Law 46 Never appear Perfect Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop Law 48 Assume Formlessness

In The Heart

"Between what matters and what seems to matter,

how will the world we know choose wisely?"

The Grande Armée (French for "the Great Army" or "the Grand Army")

Of the 690,000 men that comprised the initial invasion force of Russia, only 93,000 survived.[32] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arm%C3%A9e

Nefertiti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti

Hail to thee! On thee 'tis meet and right That mortals everywhere should call. From thee was our begetting; ours alone Of all that live and move upon the earth The lot to bear God's likeness. Thee will I ever chant, thy power praise! For thee this whole vast cosmos, wheeling round The earth, obeys, and where thou leadest It follows, ruled willingly by thee.

C=c

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Czech_Republic

Tutankhamun

Howard Carter (May 9 1874 – March 2 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. Born in the London district of Kensington,[1] his childhood was spent primarily in the market town of Swaffham, Norfolk, where he lived with his maiden aunts.[2] He is most famous as the discoverer of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt.

http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Howard+Carter+(archaeologist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

The Fox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
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I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful. Contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.~~~W.C. Fields

Safety/Oswald

"I am only a patsy." ... I didn't shot anyone... a pasty you hear....
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. - Sir William Osler
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year.

Akhenaten

As early as 1899 Flinders Petrie declared that,
If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions,

we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar

system. How much Akhenaten understood, we cannot say, but he certainly bounded

forward in his views and symbolism to a position which we cannot logically improve

upon at the present day. Not a rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging

to this new worship evolved out of the old Aton of Heliopolis,

the sole Lord of the universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Street View

In Da Burbs

Remember what you were saying about people in the 'burbs, Art, people like Skip, people who mow their lawn for the 800th time, and then SNAP? WELL, THAT'S US. IT'S NOT THEM, THAT'S US. WE'RE the ones who are vaulting over the fences, and peeking in through people's windows. We're the ones who are THROWING GARBAGE IN THE STREET, AND LIGHTING FIRES. WE'RE THE ONES WHO ARE ACTING SUSPICIOUS AND PARANOID, ART. WE'RE THE LUNATICS. US. IT'S NOT THEM. It's us.

Prints

Hiroshige

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige

Iwabuchi, 1916

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Bartlett

The Taj Mahal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

GEO

The field of topology, which saw massive development in the 20th century, is in a technical sense a type of transformation geometry, in which transformations are homeomorphisms. This has often been expressed in the form of the dictum 'topology is rubber-sheet geometry'. Contemporary geometric topology and differential topology, and particular subfields such as Morse theory, would be counted by most mathematicians as part of geometry. Algebraic topology and general topology have gone their own ways.

Image

Image by Pablo....

Examples of modern day false prophets are Joseph Smith (Mormonism), Charles Taze Russell (Jehovah's Witnesses), Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), the Pope, (Roman Catholicism), etc.

[foto by Yousuf Karsh]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh

P-38

Bombs Away........

When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

one of my favourite planes the P-38 Lightning

Boney

[this painting fell of the wall, when i was looking at it in the Louvre, never figured out what kind of an Omen it Meant?]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France

The Great, the leave a lot of dead bodies behind in their wake on there climb to Greatness.

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The Beast is a figure in the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. There are two beasts described in Revelation 13; the First Beast arises out of the sea, having seven heads and 10 horns. The Second (Lamb-like) Beast arises out of the earth, having the appearance of a lamb while speaking like a dragon. This Beast exercises authority on behalf of the first beast, causing the Earth-dwellers to make an image of the First Beast, and worship him. It is able to give life to this image so that it could speak and kill anyone who doesn't worship the First Beast. This Beast is later called “The False Prophet” (Rev. 16:13; Rev. 19:20; Rev. 20:10). In Christian eschatology the Beast together with the Dragon (Satan) and the First Beast.

self-doubt

Lack of confidence can take the wind out of your sails, so believe in yourself even when others don't. Sail straight and true through the currents of self-doubt and ignore the sometimes jealous remarks of others who would see you give up. Small, multiple moves are favored over big leaps, they mount up and you go just as far.

Water

It turns out there's lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last month. "Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, the mission's principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center.

U/are the.....

"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture." — Hannes Alfven
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." — Nikola Tesla

"Experimental" redirects here. For types of music labeled 'experimental', see Experimental music.
For other uses, see Experiment (disambiguation).
In scientific research, an experiment (Latin: ex- periri, "to try out") is a method of investigating causal relationships among variables, or to test a hypothesis. An experiment is a cornerstone of the empirical approach to acquiring data about the world and is used in both natural sciences and social sciences. An experiment can be used to help solve practical problems and to support or negate theoretical assumptions.

SPECtrum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum

RED&black

A wonderful painting is the result of the feeling in your fingers. If you have the feeling of the thickness of the ink in your brush, the painting is already there before you paint. When you dip your brush into the ink you already know the result of your drawing, or else you cannot paint. So before you do something, "being" is there, the result is there. Even though you look as if you were sitting quietly, all your activity, past and present, is included, and the result of your sitting is also already there. - D.T. Suzuki

Blue

The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, bleu or blwe, which came from an Old French word bleu of Germanic origin (Frankish or possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). Bleu replaced Old English blaw. The root of these variations was the Proto-Germanic blæwaz, which was also the root of the Old Norse word bla and the modern Icelandic blár, and the Scandinavian word blå, but it can refer to other non blue colours. A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue", from the Old English blæd). Ancient Greek lacked a word for blue and Homer called the colour of the sea "wine dark", except that the word kyanos (cyan) was used for dark blue enamel.

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FACEs

Did U Smile ToDay????

APEmang

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude. - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

Lobo

"Ever since Lobo," Seton was later to write, "my sincerest wish has been to impress upon people that each of our native wild creatures is in itself a precious heritage that we have no right to destroy or put beyond the reach of our children."
Seton's story of Lobo touched the hearts of many both in the US and the rest of the world and was partly responsible for changing views towards the environment and provided a spur for the starting of the conservationist movement. The story had a profound influence on one of the world's most acclaimed broadcasters and naturalists Sir David Attenborough and inspired the 1962 Disney film, The Legend of Lobo. Lobo's story was the subject of a BBC documentary directed by Steve Gooder in 2007.

FULLmoon

The Hunter's Moon is so named because plenty of moonlight is ideal for hunters shooting migrating birds in Northern Europe.[1] The name is also said to have been used by Native Americans as they tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead.[2] The Hunter's Moon and Harvest Moon are not brighter, smaller, or yellower than during other times of the year, but all full moons have their own special characteristics, based primarily on the whereabouts of the ecliptic in the sky at the time of year that they are visible. The full moons of September, October, and November, as seen from the northern hemisphere — which correspond to the full moons of March, April and May as seen from the southern hemisphere — are well known in the folklore of the sky.

The/Object

In philosophy, an object is a thing, an entity, or a being. This may be taken in several senses. In its weakest sense, the word "object" is the most all-purpose of nouns, and can replace a noun in any sentence at all. (In ordinary usage, the word has something like this effect, but not as extreme.) Thus objects are things as diverse as the pyramids, Alpha Centauri, the number seven, my disbelief in predestination, and your mother's fear of dogs. Philosopher Charles S. Peirce defines the broad notion of an object as anything that we can think or talk about.

The new Milky Way panorama

http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/

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Hans Holbein

Henry The 8th

Hans Holbein's Christ in his Tomb