I must admit I don't know how my mind works but it works........ (Thank goodness, what would the alternative be, eh?)
I tuned in to the Movie; 'Wall Street' last night and saw a bit of it. I had forgotten that Daryl Hannah was in the movie and when I saw her, my mind started whirling............ Oh no, not that!!! (1987)
Daryl had been JFK Jr's. girlfriend in the 90's several years after Wall Street. hmmmmmmm, what did JFK Jr. know and when did he know it? What had he learned while he and Daryl were involved? (Charlie Sheen 9/11 and Martin Sheen West Wing??????) hmmm
Ok already, now to the meat of this email......... in my own mind anyways.
If you'll watch the 9/11 Mysteries youtube here......... (you can take the time to watch the all of 9/11 Mysteries but, I think you'll get enuff from the one I've included to get my drift) you'll meet Brad Waddell, the conservative republican.............. and in Family Ties, didn't Michael J. Fox play a very young conservative republican.......... (Didn't we learn from Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars that the elites work toward 'divide and conquer' to rule the world?)
Why not have Michael J. Fox play Brad's part in the first of a movie about 9/11 Mysteries........ or just one segment for the internet? I'm gonna try and get some info on Sophia to put here so you can contact her. (9/11 Mysteries is still my fave of all the 9/11 movies....... Sophia has a way of presenting that helped me stay calm thru the tragedy and learning about it.)
Michael J. Fox has fought long and hard for stem cell research and he's one of US. (I just happened to watch his wife the other night playing Natalee Holloway's mother........... Did you know that Natalee's mother and JonBenet's father were known, after Patsey Ramsey's death to date?
I believed OJ was guilty for a very long time but after realizing the media's slant on the trial, I now have serious doubts. I also got really bad vibes from all the news coverage of JonBenet's parents till I started putting 2 and 2 together.
Why oh why would JonBenet's father date Natalee's mother? I get the feeling that JonBenet's family might have been set up.
There was a lot of really evil things going on in Colorado during that time period. Columbine???????? JonBenet???? .........and you are not going to believe this but not too very long after Columbine, the CEO of a company I worked for moved to Arizona from Denver and there was a hostile takeover of MBA Technologies (Later named by Paul Rajski and Alan Booz CEO & CFO of Hologix......... btw, Arthur Andersen came in and did an audit of MBA immediately after the take over... the Venture Capitalist company that took over has recently taken over Twitter.) hmmmm
I worked directly with the members of Insight Venture Partners in the upside down building in Phoenix during the take over.
Source: Insight Venture Partners Is The New Twitter Investor
by Michael Arrington on September 16, 2009
We’ve been talking to sources all day about that new $1 billion valuation Twitter financing, and more information is coming in. The big missing part of the story was who was actually doing the investing at that massive valuation.
The primary investor in the deal, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the transaction, is New York-based Insight Venture Partners, which has raised over $3 billion since being founded in 1995. They were (or rather their founders were) early investors in Photobucket, which was acquired by News Corp./MySpace in 2007 for around $250 million.
What’s not clear is if Twitter is capping the round at $50 million. One source says they may raise more. With that valuation, who’d blame them? Not me.
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Ass Rush Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox. thumpandwhip.com
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911 Mysteries (Part 1 of 10)
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August 16, 1993 Two of a Kind By Elizabeth Gleick
John F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah Have Fame, Fortune, Fabulous Bone Structure—and Each Other
From PEOPLE Magazine
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PreviousNextIT COULD HAVE BEEN A MAGIC MOMENT FROM A Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie, only the principals weren't staging this fine romance for the cameras. At 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning a few months ago, a longtime New Yorker glanced out her apartment window and noticed a couple dancing cheek to cheek on a rooftop terrace across the way. The man, tall, dark and sculpted, wore boxer shorts and a sensational torso. The woman, clad in a short nightgown, "looked like a Grecian goddess," says the witness. "They were doing this little love play. He was tickling her, and she'd run away. Then he'd catch her, and they'd dance around. Even if you didn't know who they were, you'd be entranced."
But, of course, how could anybody not know who they were? John F. Kennedy Jr., resident of the terrace apartment, can't set Rollerblade to pavement in New York City without leaving a trail of breathless women in his wake. His ladylove, actress Daryl Hannah, may think she's traveling the streets incognito in her trademark bas couture, but tatty jeans and baseball caps can't hide her luminous beauty. Mix his ineffable Kennedy charm, I'm-just-a-regular-guy attitude and dazzling smile with her actress-cum-activist persona and you get an ail-American powerhouse, a red-hot-and-blue combination that has set both coasts abuzz with rumors of pending nuptials.
Rather than marry, however, the pair simply look off for the South Seas, island hopping from Palau to the Philippines. At the same time family members and a California court clerk deny last month's tabloid reports that the couple obtained a confidential marriage license in Los Angeles. "They like each other, but I don't think they're ready to get married," says Hannah's stepuncle, Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who saw the pair recently. And Hannah's mother, Sue Wexler, told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet, "They're adults and can do whatever they please. But I'm sure she would have informed me." As for speculation that Kennedy's mother, Jackie Onassis, disapproves of the match, Sue Wexler scoffed. "The stories I've heard are just unbelievable," she said. "Daryl told me [Onassis] has been very warm and affectionate."
Kennedy, 32, and Hannah, 32, first met in the early 1980s when both were vacationing in St. Martin in the Caribbean with their families, then locked looks again at the 1988 wedding of his aunt Lee Radziwill to director Herb Ross, who had worked with Hannah in Steel Magnolias. Though John and Daryl were seen together after that, Kennedy also continued to date his longtime sweetheart, actress Christina Haag, model Julie Baker and Sarah Jessica Parker, among others.
Hannah too was otherwise engaged. For almost a decade the actress maintained a bicoastal relationship with singer Jackson Browne, 43, whom she first met as a teenager when he pulled her onstage from the audience at one of his Chicago-area concerts.
It was the tempestuous ending to her romance with Browne that seems to have catapulted Hannah into Kennedy's arms. Last September a domestic quarrel at Browne and Hannah's $2.5 million Santa Monica home erupted in violence. According to close friends of Hannah, she ended up with a black eye, a broken finger and numerous bruises, although she never pressed charges against Browne. "I saw her shortly after in the hospital," says Wexler. "I saw the damage that was done to her. The doctor was very concerned. Jackson was a very, very good friend of mine, but when I saw Daryl, I just felt betrayed." Kennedy immediately flew to her side and brought her back to New York City.
Since then it has been John and Daryl biking in Central Park; John and Daryl eating apple pancakes at their favorite Chicago breakfast spot, the Original Pancake House; John and Daryl cooing at Manhattan's China Grill; John and Daryl nuzzling and teasing each other on an Amtrak train headed for Providence, site of his 10th reunion at Brown University (where they played touch football with other alumni); John visiting Daryl on the L.A. set of her latest movie, HBO's Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
Clearly, big changes are afoot for Kennedy. Though he has carefully and gracefully tried to guard his private life while pursuing his low-profile work as one of 600 Manhattan assistant district attorneys, he stepped down from that $40,000-a-year job last month after four years. (He threw a party for six of his male work friends at New York City's Old Homestead steak house, and Daryl later joined the boys for dessert and cigars.) At around the same time, John moved out of his downtown penthouse and into Hannah's sprawling Upper West Side flat—thereby throwing his entire future up for grabs and convincing some observers that he was clearing the decks for marriage.
At first glance, the almost painfully shy actress and the heir apparent to this country's most ceaselessly publicized political family seem an odd match. The truth is that John and Daryl may have more in common than fame and height (he's 6'1", she's 5'10"). Both love all manner of outdoor activity: biking, skiing, camping. Kennedy has always loved acting. He performed in high school and college productions as well as making a cameo appearance in a friend's movie and doing a brief run in an Off-Broadway play eight years ago. Both maintain a commitment to liberal causes. Hannah made numerous visits to Nicaragua in the 1980s and is on the board of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a watchdog group, while Kennedy is active in assorted family and nonfamily charity foundations.
And, like Kennedy, Daryl Hannah comes from a wealth, prominent and politically active family. Born in Chicago in 1960, the second of three children of Sue, a former schoolteacher, and Don Hannah. owner of a tugboat and barge company, she was 7 when her parents divorced. Daryl was so upset by the split that school counselors thought the young girl was "semiautistic," Hannah has said. "I used to see witches and leprechauns and stuff," she told an interviewer in 1986. "I kind of like to leave that time alone and not rip it apart."
In the late '60s, her mother married Jerrold Wexler, a financier and real estate magnate who, before his death last year at 68, helped build an estimated $2.5 billion empire. Suddenly, Hannah found herself living in a huge duplex penthouse apartment on Lake Shore Drive. "I had what you might call a paranoid imagination that it wasn't real," she once explained. The change made her retreat further into what she once called her dream world. Her mother hit upon an unconventional remedy: She look her daughter to the Bahamas for an indefinite period to do whatever Daryl wanted. "I'd bring my teddy bear to the beach and to dinner," she said. "Mom let me work it all out." They didn't return home until Hannah was ready.
Hannah eventually grew to love her stepfather and her large extended family, which includes four stepsisters and a half sister. (Her older brother. Don, lives in New York, and her sister Page, 29, is an actress living in L.A.) The Wexlers were famously generous, throwing lavish catered parties for their children's classmates from Chicago's elite Francis W. Parker School and flying them out to the family's house in Telluride, Colo. When Jerry Wexler died of lymphoma last November. Daryl spoke at the Chicago memorial service, which John attended.
As a child, Daryl studied ballet in Chicago with former New York City Ballet star Maria Tallchief and soon decided she wanted to act. At age 12, she had a small part in a Chicago production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool? Even as a teenager, her lanky good looks made her stand out (though Hannah, typically, insists that she never thought she was beautiful). "I remember walking into the Pump Room [a noted Chicago restaurant] with her, and every guy's head whipping around to look at her," says a schoolmate. David Manilow, who had dinner there with the Wexlers. "And in my senior year, Daryl was one of the few girls who had two dates to the prom." Chris Bensinger, now in real estate, will never forget their first kiss, during junior year. "Daryl initiated it," he says. "She grabbed me. It was a bit awkward, and we almost fell into the bushes, but after that things worked out fine."
In 1979, after high school, Hannah moved to Los Angeles to study literature at the University of Southern California and to try to break into movies. It didn't take her long. Two months after she arrived she went to a party at the Beverly Hills Hotel and walked out with 25 business cards from producers and agents. "I must have looked like I just got off the bus, which I had," she has said. "But one thing they do well in L.A. is smell out fresh meat."
She landed small roles in seven films, including Blade Runner, before making her big Splash in 1984. Since then, she has wobbled between some notable hits (Wall Street, Roxanne) and misses (Clan of the Cave Bear, Memoirs of an Invisible Man). "She's able to do a lot better than the roles she's [gotten]," says her stepuncle. "Unfortunately, she's encased in the kind of body and face that stops people from seeing beyond it."
Kennedy too may be in search of a better role. He was well liked and diligent at the district attorney's office, where he most recently worked in the trials division arguing low-level crime cases. And lately he has been more visible in Kennedy family affairs, going out of his way to promote the annual John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award.
Since giving up his job, Kennedy has been seen in Washington several times lately, touring the Labor and Justice Department offices, fanning speculation he has been offered a job by the Clinton Administration. And he recently admitted that he thinks about running for office. But as he told a friend last year, "If your father was a doctor, and your uncles are doctors, and all your cousins are doctors, and all the family ever talks about is medicine, there's a good chance maybe you're going to be a doctor too. But maybe you want to be a baker."
Or maybe you just want to get away from it all. Still, even on the remote beaches of Palau in Micronesia last week, the scuba-diving sweethearts were dogged by paparazzi as they began a long Asian adventure holiday. Whether the trip is a precursor to a life journey together isn't at all clear. "I think there's a pretty good chance," says an acquaintance, "that even John and Daryl don't know."
Filming, in Cape Town, South Africa, was an emotional experience for Pollan. "There were scenes that were very hard to shoot," she says, "just really touching and sad."
Her three-episode guest appearance next month on NBC's spooky drama "Medium" was a lighter assignment. Pollan plays a "corporate intuitionist" determined to persuade Allison DuBois, the psychic played by Patricia Arquette, to ditch the police force and join her company.
The character isn't exactly what she seems, says Pollan. "I have ulterior motives," she says. "I play someone who's very aggressive and trying to get ahead by using Allison."
"They share common interests and concerns related to their children, particularly with respect to the actions of law enforcement and the media in response to those tragic losses," according to Wood.
But it also appears they may be more than just friends. Though Ramsey lives in Michigan and Twitty in Mountain Brook, Ala., the two have been seen holding hands and kissing in her hometown, as well as attending art shows and eating in restaurants together.
On Monday, Ramsey downplayed the talk of a romance, telling Denver's Channel 9, according to the Denver Post: "The tabloid rumors are totally exaggerated. I have great respect for Beth and how she's handled her terrible situation. We've developed a friendship of respect and admiration."
Ramsey's wife, Patsy, died of cancer a year ago. The unsolved murder of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, took place in the family's Bolder, Colo., home on Dec. 26, 1996.
Twitty and her husband, George Twitty, divorced earlier this year. Her daughter, Natalee Holloway, 18, disappeared in Aruba in May 2005 during a high-school trip. Her body has never been recovered and no criminal charges have been filed in the case.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
PEACE and the Anderson/Akerland names
Great Seal > Peace > The Dove
The Dove and Olive Branch as a Symbol of Peace
At the time of the American Revolution, the olive branch had a stronger association with peace than did the dove. In fact, a dove was suggested as part of the third committee's design for the Great Seal (May 1782) which specified a natural-colored dove perched on the hand of "the Genius of America." (Shown here is a detail of the actual drawing.)
But that dove did not symbolize peace. Instead it was "emblematical of Innocence and Virtue."
A dove with an olive branch was the emblem on North Carolina's £2 note (1771). The accompanying motto meant: "Peace restored." It was also on Georgia's $40 note (1778) along with a hand holding a dagger. The motto meant: "Either war or peace, prepared for both."
The dove and the olive first appeared together in the biblical story of the Noah and the Ark. But how did this symbolize "peace"? If you'd been on that Ark for nearly a year, and then saw the dove return with an olive leaf, would "peace" be the first word that comes to mind?
In this case, "peace" must have a deeper meaning that includes profound emotions such a sight would trigger – forgiveness, gratitude, hope, love – not simply the absence of war (unless you felt at war with God or nature's God).
The actual symbol of peace is the olive leaf, not the dove, which brought the leaf back to Noah. Perhaps this is the origin of offering an olive branch to signify peaceful intentions, like in The Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem about the founding of Rome.
The olive branch is a dynamic symbol of the human desire for peace, as shown in political drawings before the American Revolution.
Olives are naturally associated with peace because, practically speaking, one cannot cultivate an olive grove in a war zone. Many years of peace are necessary to grow olive trees, which take several years to produce their first fruit (and can live for 500 years). Farming itself is a peaceful occupation, but the olive has special qualities that can be associated with peace and harmony:
Olives provide oil for lamps, so they bring light.
The cleansing power of olive oil brings purification.
The hardiness of the olive tree suggests fertility and vital energy.
Hercules gained protection by wearing a wreath of olive leaves.
Olive wreaths signified victory in the Olympic Games.
The mythological origin of the olive tree's association with peace goes back to a contest between Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom*, and Poseidon, the god of the sea. Whoever could produce the gift most useful to mortals would win.
Poseidon offered the horse, useful in warfare. Athena's gift was the olive tree, which the gods judged to be the more useful. Athena was awarded the city of Athens.
One place where a dove works better than an olive branch is as a weather vane.
Made in 1787, George Washington's prized weather vane (right) still sits atop his home Mount Vernon. Shaped as a dove of peace, the bird is 40 inches long with a wingspan of 35 inches.
The dove's bill was painted black and the olive branch green. The weather vane is now covered with gold leaf to deter corrosion of its copper body.
The white dove is an international symbol of peace, thanks in good part to the fame of Pablo Picasso's 1949 lithograph for the International Peace Congress in Paris.
The Great Seal of the United States illustrates a founding principle:
"The power of peace" is superior to the power of war.
The American Eagle looks toward the olive branch
held in its stronger right talon.
Detail of the United Seal of America.
See visions of peace after the Revolution and visit the Temple of Peace.
Check out the great Seals on Indian Peace Medals.
here
Olive 4
Definition: The oyster catcher.
here
............ and another thing; my g'mother's married name was Olive (PEACE) Anderson. (Her maiden name is Olive Ackerland) ......as in
Olive Acre Land.........
EXCERPT:
After Pentecost, Andrew taught in Byzantium, Thrace, Russia, Epiros, and Peloponnese. In Amisos, he converted the Jews in the temple, baptized them, healed their sick, built a church, and left a priest for them. In Bithynia, he taught, healed their sick, and drove away the wild beasts that bothered them. His prayers destroyed the pagan temples, and those who resisted his words became possessed and gnawed at their bodies until Andrew healed them.
My maiden name is Anderson ..........Andrew's son.
(My father was searching much the same as I do and he never knew that maybe his famale child would be here doing this, neither did I.)
Maybe that's why 'the one' in the Matrix name is Thomas Anderson, eh?)
here
LIFE OF THE HOLY APOSTLE ANDREW THE FIRST CALLED
Andrew was at first a disciple of John the Baptizer along with John the Theologian. When the Forerunner pointed out Jesus as the Christ, they both became His disciples. Andrew took his brother, Saint Peter, to meet Jesus. He is called the Protokletos (the First Called) because he was the first Apostle to be summoned by Jesus into His service. Andrew and his brother Peter made their living as fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. Both men became Apostles, and while Peter symbolically came to represent the Church of the West, Andrew likewise represents the Church of the East.
The First Called, Apostle to Greece and Beyond
According to ecclesiastical tradition, Andrew began his missionary activity in the Provinces of Vithynia and Pontus on the southern shores of the Black Sea. Later he journeyed to the City of Byzantium and founded the Christian Church there, ordaining the first Bishop of Byzantium, Stachys, who was one of the 70 disciples of the Lord.
After Pentecost, Andrew taught in Byzantium, Thrace, Russia, Epiros, and Peloponnese. In Amisos, he converted the Jews in the temple, baptized them, healed their sick, built a church, and left a priest for them. In Bithynia, he taught, healed their sick, and drove away the wild beasts that bothered them. His prayers destroyed the pagan temples, and those who resisted his words became possessed and gnawed at their bodies until Andrew healed them.
The First Called, Wonderworker
In one of his several missionary journeys to Greece, Andrew visited the City of Patras. Through his preaching and the miracles of healing he performed, in the name of Jesus, many persons were converted to Christianity. Among those healed was Maximilla, the wife of the Roman Proconsul, Aegeates. Seeing this miracle of healing, Stratoklis, the highly intellectual brother of the Proconsul, also became a Christian, and Andrew consecrated and enthroned him as the first Bishop of Patras.
As a prophet, he foretold of the greatness of Kiev as a city and a stronghold of Christianity. In Sinope, he prayed for the imprisoned Apostle Matthias, and his chains fell from him and the cell door opened. The people beat Andrew, breaking his teeth, cutting his fingers, and left him for dead in a dung heap. Jesus appeared to him and healed him, telling him to be of good cheer. When the people saw him the next day, they were amazed and they believed. At another time, he raised a woman's only son from the dead.
The Crucifixion of the First Called
The conversions to the Christian Faith by members of his own family infuriated the Proconsul Aegeates, and he decided, with the urging of the idolators who advised him, to crucify Andrew. The crucifixion was carried out on an X-shaped cross with the body of the Apostle upside down so that he saw neither the earth nor his executioners, but only the sky which he glorified as the heaven in which he would meet his Lord. Aegeates had him tied to the cross in this manner so that he would live longer and suffer more.
Twenty thousand of the faithful stood by and mourned. Even then, Andrew taught them and exhorted them to endure temporary sufferings for the kingdom of heaven. Out of fear of the people, Aegeates came to remove Andrew from the cross. Andrew, however, said that Aegeates could still become a Christian, but that he had already seen Jesus and he would not allow himself to be removed from the cross. Many tried to undo the knots, but their hands all became numb. Suddenly, a heavenly light illumined Andrew for about a half hour. When it left, Andrew had given up his spirit.
His body was tenderly removed from the cross by Bishop Stratoklis and Maximilla, and buried with all of the honor befitting the Apostle. Soon countless numbers of Christians made their way to Patras to pay reverence to the grave of Andrew, and when Aegeates realized that the man he had put to death was truly a holy man of God a demon fell upon him and tormented him so powerfully that he committed suicide.
Re-burial in Constaninople
In the month of March in the year 357 the Emperor Constantine (son of Constantine The Great) ordered that the body of Saint Andrew be removed from Patras and be reinterred in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. With all the magnificence and honor of the Byzantine Empire and the Great Church of Christ at Constantinople, Saint Andrew was returned to the City that had first heard the message of Jesus Christ from his lips. Thus he became in death, as well as in life, the founder of the Great Church of Christ in Constantinople. His relics are in Constantinople along with the Apostle Luke and Timothy, the disciple of Paul, in the Church of the Apostles.
Patron Saint of Scotland
The deeds and preaching of Andrew became known in all parts of the world. According to tradition a part of the remains of Andrew were taken to Scotland, and he was chosen as the Protector of the Scottish people. The Cross of Saint Andrew also adorns the British flag where it was placed after the union of Scotland and England. The skull of Andrew was kept in Patras until the year 1460 when Thomas Paleologos, the last ruler of the Morea, brought the skull to Rome. In 1967, under the orders of Pope Paul of the Roman Church, the skull was returned to Patras with all of the pomp and dignity of the Papal State. He remains the patron saint of Russia, Scotland and Romania to this day.
The Call of Saint Andrew
Today the voice of Saint Andrew continues to call on all Christians, especially the Orthodox Christians throughout the world, who celebrate his memory on November 30th in the liturgical year. His unstilled spirit beckons across the centuries proclaiming: "The Saviour of the world has come! He is the Christ, the Son of God!" This is the call of Saint Andrew to all men for "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow" (Hebrews 13:8).
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The Dove and Olive Branch as a Symbol of Peace
At the time of the American Revolution, the olive branch had a stronger association with peace than did the dove. In fact, a dove was suggested as part of the third committee's design for the Great Seal (May 1782) which specified a natural-colored dove perched on the hand of "the Genius of America." (Shown here is a detail of the actual drawing.)
But that dove did not symbolize peace. Instead it was "emblematical of Innocence and Virtue."
A dove with an olive branch was the emblem on North Carolina's £2 note (1771). The accompanying motto meant: "Peace restored." It was also on Georgia's $40 note (1778) along with a hand holding a dagger. The motto meant: "Either war or peace, prepared for both."
The dove and the olive first appeared together in the biblical story of the Noah and the Ark. But how did this symbolize "peace"? If you'd been on that Ark for nearly a year, and then saw the dove return with an olive leaf, would "peace" be the first word that comes to mind?
In this case, "peace" must have a deeper meaning that includes profound emotions such a sight would trigger – forgiveness, gratitude, hope, love – not simply the absence of war (unless you felt at war with God or nature's God).
The actual symbol of peace is the olive leaf, not the dove, which brought the leaf back to Noah. Perhaps this is the origin of offering an olive branch to signify peaceful intentions, like in The Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem about the founding of Rome.
The olive branch is a dynamic symbol of the human desire for peace, as shown in political drawings before the American Revolution.
Olives are naturally associated with peace because, practically speaking, one cannot cultivate an olive grove in a war zone. Many years of peace are necessary to grow olive trees, which take several years to produce their first fruit (and can live for 500 years). Farming itself is a peaceful occupation, but the olive has special qualities that can be associated with peace and harmony:
Olives provide oil for lamps, so they bring light.
The cleansing power of olive oil brings purification.
The hardiness of the olive tree suggests fertility and vital energy.
Hercules gained protection by wearing a wreath of olive leaves.
Olive wreaths signified victory in the Olympic Games.
The mythological origin of the olive tree's association with peace goes back to a contest between Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom*, and Poseidon, the god of the sea. Whoever could produce the gift most useful to mortals would win.
Poseidon offered the horse, useful in warfare. Athena's gift was the olive tree, which the gods judged to be the more useful. Athena was awarded the city of Athens.
One place where a dove works better than an olive branch is as a weather vane.
Made in 1787, George Washington's prized weather vane (right) still sits atop his home Mount Vernon. Shaped as a dove of peace, the bird is 40 inches long with a wingspan of 35 inches.
The dove's bill was painted black and the olive branch green. The weather vane is now covered with gold leaf to deter corrosion of its copper body.
The white dove is an international symbol of peace, thanks in good part to the fame of Pablo Picasso's 1949 lithograph for the International Peace Congress in Paris.
The Great Seal of the United States illustrates a founding principle:
"The power of peace" is superior to the power of war.
The American Eagle looks toward the olive branch
held in its stronger right talon.
Detail of the United Seal of America.
See visions of peace after the Revolution and visit the Temple of Peace.
Check out the great Seals on Indian Peace Medals.
here
Olive 4
Definition: The oyster catcher.
here
............ and another thing; my g'mother's married name was Olive (PEACE) Anderson. (Her maiden name is Olive Ackerland) ......as in
Olive Acre Land.........
EXCERPT:
After Pentecost, Andrew taught in Byzantium, Thrace, Russia, Epiros, and Peloponnese. In Amisos, he converted the Jews in the temple, baptized them, healed their sick, built a church, and left a priest for them. In Bithynia, he taught, healed their sick, and drove away the wild beasts that bothered them. His prayers destroyed the pagan temples, and those who resisted his words became possessed and gnawed at their bodies until Andrew healed them.
My maiden name is Anderson ..........Andrew's son.
(My father was searching much the same as I do and he never knew that maybe his famale child would be here doing this, neither did I.)
Maybe that's why 'the one' in the Matrix name is Thomas Anderson, eh?)
here
LIFE OF THE HOLY APOSTLE ANDREW THE FIRST CALLED
Andrew was at first a disciple of John the Baptizer along with John the Theologian. When the Forerunner pointed out Jesus as the Christ, they both became His disciples. Andrew took his brother, Saint Peter, to meet Jesus. He is called the Protokletos (the First Called) because he was the first Apostle to be summoned by Jesus into His service. Andrew and his brother Peter made their living as fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. Both men became Apostles, and while Peter symbolically came to represent the Church of the West, Andrew likewise represents the Church of the East.
The First Called, Apostle to Greece and Beyond
According to ecclesiastical tradition, Andrew began his missionary activity in the Provinces of Vithynia and Pontus on the southern shores of the Black Sea. Later he journeyed to the City of Byzantium and founded the Christian Church there, ordaining the first Bishop of Byzantium, Stachys, who was one of the 70 disciples of the Lord.
After Pentecost, Andrew taught in Byzantium, Thrace, Russia, Epiros, and Peloponnese. In Amisos, he converted the Jews in the temple, baptized them, healed their sick, built a church, and left a priest for them. In Bithynia, he taught, healed their sick, and drove away the wild beasts that bothered them. His prayers destroyed the pagan temples, and those who resisted his words became possessed and gnawed at their bodies until Andrew healed them.
The First Called, Wonderworker
In one of his several missionary journeys to Greece, Andrew visited the City of Patras. Through his preaching and the miracles of healing he performed, in the name of Jesus, many persons were converted to Christianity. Among those healed was Maximilla, the wife of the Roman Proconsul, Aegeates. Seeing this miracle of healing, Stratoklis, the highly intellectual brother of the Proconsul, also became a Christian, and Andrew consecrated and enthroned him as the first Bishop of Patras.
As a prophet, he foretold of the greatness of Kiev as a city and a stronghold of Christianity. In Sinope, he prayed for the imprisoned Apostle Matthias, and his chains fell from him and the cell door opened. The people beat Andrew, breaking his teeth, cutting his fingers, and left him for dead in a dung heap. Jesus appeared to him and healed him, telling him to be of good cheer. When the people saw him the next day, they were amazed and they believed. At another time, he raised a woman's only son from the dead.
The Crucifixion of the First Called
The conversions to the Christian Faith by members of his own family infuriated the Proconsul Aegeates, and he decided, with the urging of the idolators who advised him, to crucify Andrew. The crucifixion was carried out on an X-shaped cross with the body of the Apostle upside down so that he saw neither the earth nor his executioners, but only the sky which he glorified as the heaven in which he would meet his Lord. Aegeates had him tied to the cross in this manner so that he would live longer and suffer more.
Twenty thousand of the faithful stood by and mourned. Even then, Andrew taught them and exhorted them to endure temporary sufferings for the kingdom of heaven. Out of fear of the people, Aegeates came to remove Andrew from the cross. Andrew, however, said that Aegeates could still become a Christian, but that he had already seen Jesus and he would not allow himself to be removed from the cross. Many tried to undo the knots, but their hands all became numb. Suddenly, a heavenly light illumined Andrew for about a half hour. When it left, Andrew had given up his spirit.
His body was tenderly removed from the cross by Bishop Stratoklis and Maximilla, and buried with all of the honor befitting the Apostle. Soon countless numbers of Christians made their way to Patras to pay reverence to the grave of Andrew, and when Aegeates realized that the man he had put to death was truly a holy man of God a demon fell upon him and tormented him so powerfully that he committed suicide.
Re-burial in Constaninople
In the month of March in the year 357 the Emperor Constantine (son of Constantine The Great) ordered that the body of Saint Andrew be removed from Patras and be reinterred in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. With all the magnificence and honor of the Byzantine Empire and the Great Church of Christ at Constantinople, Saint Andrew was returned to the City that had first heard the message of Jesus Christ from his lips. Thus he became in death, as well as in life, the founder of the Great Church of Christ in Constantinople. His relics are in Constantinople along with the Apostle Luke and Timothy, the disciple of Paul, in the Church of the Apostles.
Patron Saint of Scotland
The deeds and preaching of Andrew became known in all parts of the world. According to tradition a part of the remains of Andrew were taken to Scotland, and he was chosen as the Protector of the Scottish people. The Cross of Saint Andrew also adorns the British flag where it was placed after the union of Scotland and England. The skull of Andrew was kept in Patras until the year 1460 when Thomas Paleologos, the last ruler of the Morea, brought the skull to Rome. In 1967, under the orders of Pope Paul of the Roman Church, the skull was returned to Patras with all of the pomp and dignity of the Papal State. He remains the patron saint of Russia, Scotland and Romania to this day.
The Call of Saint Andrew
Today the voice of Saint Andrew continues to call on all Christians, especially the Orthodox Christians throughout the world, who celebrate his memory on November 30th in the liturgical year. His unstilled spirit beckons across the centuries proclaiming: "The Saviour of the world has come! He is the Christ, the Son of God!" This is the call of Saint Andrew to all men for "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow" (Hebrews 13:8).
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