One of the most famous heroines of Greek mythology was Penelope, who used weaving to keep her suitors at bay while her husband Odysseus was away. She told them she would not choose one to marry until she had finished weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law. Each night she would unravel the work she had done that day, until eventually one of the servants gave her away. Finally Odysseus returned after twenty years and once she recognized him they were happily reunited.
In some versions of the tale, Odysseus arrives home in disguise and Penelope sets an
On September 28, 2024, Spooky Noodles uttered the Clue of the Rouge Thread, when he told me about Penelope. We were doing our PRIVATE radio show, and are now considering coming to Bullhead City to establish our show. There are no real news stations there – there!
I did not know Drew’s middle name was……TAYLOR – which means a cutter of cloth. I have titled the ROSAMOMD family – The Weavers of the World! WOW!
John Presco
Pēnelopē (Πηνελόπη) is usually understood to combine the Greek word pēnē (πήνη), “weft“, and ōps (ὤψ), “face”, which is considered the most appropriate for a cunning weaver whose motivation is hard to decipher.[7] Robert S. P. Beekes believed the name to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops (πηνέλοψ)[8] or pēnelōps (πηνέλωψ).
The surname Taylor is of English origin and is thought to have originated after the Norman invasion. It is derived from the Old French word tailleur, which means “cutter of cloth”. The first recorded instance of the surname was in 1182 in Somerset, England.
The Swiss Presidential Guard
Posted on March 24, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I found in this day The Swiss Templar Guard in order to protect this, and all future Presidents of the United States while they are in Europe supporting the causes of NATO.
The Rosamond family has been traced to the Rougmont family of Switzerland and members of the Rebleutenzuft Guild that is not connected to any armed militia, and is neutral. President Biden will have to present a case of Unity, and inform all American Citizens why it is vital were back Ukraine and support NATO. Some black citizens resent monies given to Ukraine, and believe this money should be used to help the poor in the U.S.
Unity will defeat the common enemy.
John Presco
Joe Biden had his hands full when he walked out the White House to start his four-day swing through Europe. Two cell phones were stacked together in one hand; a pair of his signature aviator sunglasses in the other. Over the thumping rotors of the waiting Marine One helicopter, a reporter asked Biden if he’s concerned about Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine. “I think it’s a real threat,” Biden said, turning toward the spinning blades of the chopper and putting the glasses on.
Folgend einige Impressionen unserer Stube:
In an emotional address to the Swiss people on Saturday — which was livestreamed at a solidarity rally outside the Federal Palace in the capital, Bern — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions on oligarchs and asked, “Why can’t we live like the Swiss?”
Why it matters: Switzerland is famously neutral, but not when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
Driving the news: Swiss President Ignazio Cassis spoke at the rally on Saturday, praising the Ukrainian people’s spirit of resistance but drawing a rebuke from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which provides two of the Swiss government’s seven ministers.
- “A demonstrating federal president is the last thing Switzerland needs,” the SVP said. One of the party’s leading figures has called for a referendum to ban sanctions to preserve Switzerland’s neutrality.
Yes, but: The Swiss population broadly supports the sanctions against Russia, and all three major newspapers published editorials over the weekend calling for additional steps, like ending Switzerland’s reliance on Russian gas.
- Unlike during the 2015 migrant crisis, solidarity with Ukrainian refugees is also high.
During his speech, Zelensky specifically called on Swiss multinational Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, to end its business in Russia.
- “We have stopped all imports and exports from Russia, except for vital products,” a spokesperson told Blick.
- He also called on Swiss banks to freeze oligarchs’ funds and for Switzerland to expel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters.
Worth noting: The Swiss Federal Department of Police and Justice has responded to media reports that Putin’s “secret wife” and their children might be hiding out in a luxury chalet in the Alps, saying it has “no indication of the presence of this person in Switzerland.”
E.E. Zunft zu Rebleuten2 – Im Zeichen des Wolfs (rebleutenzunft.ch)
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The guild was founded in Basel between 1364 and 1366. It was integrated into the municipal guild system as a half or part guild with the gray cloths to form a “split guild” . In 1453, the council ordered the separation of the two half-guilds, with the Rebleute taking over the guild house “zur Glocke” on Freiestrasse that they had jointly acquired.
At that time, great importance was attached to viticulture in and outside of the city. In the Middle Ages, wine was one of the staple foods, like bread and meat. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the thriving city of Basel attracted many newcomers, including winegrowers from the neighboring vineyards and from eastern Switzerland.
Johann Rudolf Wettstein was accepted into the Rebleuten guild in 1610 together with his father, who had immigrated from the Zurich area at the time. In 1620 he became councilor to Rebleuten, in 1635 the council elected him chief guild master and ten years later mayor of the Freistand Basel. The culmination of his statesmanship was his posting to the Peace Congress in Münster and Osnabrück . The Swiss Confederation owes its independence from the German Reich to him. It was solemnly recognized by the great powers in the Westphalian peace treaty of 1648.
In the 17th century there was a lack of young people among the Rebleute. Representatives of other professions were accepted into the Rebleutenzuft: merchants, officers, scholars. In 1678 the last Rebmann was elected guild master. Without exception, his successors were members of the families involved in the municipal government. In 1798, the Confederation of States broke up in the wake of the French Revolution. The mayor and council transferred their functions and powers to the new National Assembly. This was the end of the political function of the Basel guilds. However, the compulsory guild was able to hold on for the time being. Anyone who wanted to practice a craft in Basel had to be a master craftsman and belong to the relevant guild. Only due to the revision of the Federal Constitutionunrestricted freedom of trade and commerce also achieved a breakthrough in Basel in 1874.
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In addition to the vine workers, the following professions are referred to the guild: upholsterers, merchants, shepherds, typographers. The guild of Rebleuten maintains the traditions handed down. It is a community of Basel citizens committed to improving the quality of life for the residents of the city of Basel. The guild is politically and denominationally neutral. However, it is clearly committed to the principles of a free, democratic society. She maintains the sociability among the guild members and the hospitality with professionally related guilds in the city, in the rest of Switzerland and in the region. She wants to support the members of the guild in social, economic or health emergencies, maintain contact with them and enable them to actively participate in the guild’s activities.
It promotes an awareness of responsibility for the city of Basel. If possible, she tries to contribute to the maintenance of the local language, the «Baseldytsch». It owns a historical guild treasure and uses its proceeds for the benefit of the guild and non-profit, charitable purposes. It gives education grants for sons and daughters of guild members, support payments to needy widows of guild members and burial funds for deaths in families of guild members.
Vogel Gryff 2020 im Live-Ticker – Telebasel
Zunftstube – E. E. ZUNFT ZU SCHUHMACHERN
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Penelope
One of the most famous heroines of Greek mythology was Penelope, who used weaving to keep her suitors at bay while her husband Odysseus was away. She told them she would not choose one to marry until she had finished weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law. Each night she would unravel the work she had done that day, until eventually one of the servants gave her away. Finally Odysseus returned after twenty years and once she recognised him they were happily reunited.
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| ‘Penelope and her Suitors’ – John William Waterhouse, 1912. |
In some versions of the tale, Odysseus arrives home in disguise and Penelope sets an archery challenge to the suitors saying the winner will have her hand in marriage. The disguised Odysseus wins the challenge and they are then reunited. Penelope became a symbol of patience and marital fidelity, and she became the subject of many famous artworks, a selection of which follow.
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| ‘Penelope at her Loom’-Sidney Harold Meteyard. |
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| ‘Odysseus and Penelope’ – Francesco Primaticcio, 1563. |
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| ‘Penelope at Her Loom’ – Angelica Kauffmann, 1764. |
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesU.S. President Joe Biden walks towards Marine One prior to a departure from the White House on March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden is traveling to Europe to meet with NATO and EU leaders to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Every Dog Should Eat Fresh Food Not Burnt, Brown Balls.
The stakes are high for Biden’s trip. There are growing concerns inside the White House that Russia may escalate the war and cause massive civilian casualties in Kyiv or in the coastal city of Mariupol, which Russia has been shelling for weeks. The U.S. has pushed back against requests for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries to enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine over worries that such direct combat could escalate into a broader war. But experts warn that a Russian escalation inside Ukraine could change that calculus for Western allies.
In the meetings in Europe on March 24 and 25, Biden will discuss Moscow’s potential use of chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, how countries should respond to possible Russian cyber attacks, and how to deal with recent Russian rhetoric on nuclear weapons. He’s attending an emergency summit at NATO headquarters in Belgium and meeting with leaders of G7 countries and the European Union. Before returning to the U.S., Biden will visit President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on the eastern edge of the NATO alliance. Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine and Russia’s ally Belarus, has borne the shockwaves of Russia’s month-long war, taking in 3 million refugees and becoming the main pathway of weapons moving through to bolster Ukrainian defenses.
On the trip, Biden will also be trying to get allies to make sure financial punishments they’ve already put in place continue to pinch the Russian economy. The sanctions on Russian industry and financial transactions won’t mean much if Russia finds ways around them. Biden wants to see European allies tasking investigators and prosecutors with robust sanctions enforcement actions. “What we would like to hear is that the resolve and unity we’ve seen for the past month will endure for as long as it takes,” Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on March 23 aboard Air Force One on the way to Belgium.
But while Biden has largely kept NATO allies unified in their response so far, this trip will test the group’s resolve. There are disagreements among the U.S. and its allies on the extent of the current sanctions against Russia and the next steps. Finding ways to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas has been the subject of “intense back and forth” over the past fews days, Sullivan said, and is another “substantial topic of conversation” for Biden on the trip.
Biden banned U.S. purchases of Russian oil and gas on March 8. Germany and other European countries that rely more heavily on Russian energy imports have largely kept Russian fuel flowing. The Biden White House thinks Europe can do more to wean itself off from Russian energy. The U.S. wants Germany, for example, to go further in cutting off Russian energy purchases. White House officials have considered closing the U.S. banking system to electronic transfers paying for Russian energy but won’t take that harsh step without agreement from allies whose domestic energy supply is reliant on Russian gas and oil.
Germany, for its part, is looking for ways that the U.S. and other allies could ease the impact on the German economy if there are further reductions in the purchase of Russian energy. The U.S. has surged delivery of liquified natural gas to Europe in recent weeks, but European leaders want more assistance for investing in alternatives to Russian supplies. European countries also want to share the expense and effort of resettling refugees fleeing Ukraine. More than 10 million people have fled Ukraine in the fighting, and Europe is looking to the U.S. and other allies for ways to share the cost and impact of such a rapid mass migration.
Looming over Biden’s meetings is the question of how far China will go to prop up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and how allies should respond. So far, the White House has not seen evidence of China providing weapons or ammunition to Russia to help with the invasion, Sullivan said. But there’s increasing concern that China could take financial steps to blunt the longer-term impact of sanctions on the economy in Russia, a close trading partner. Biden wants to talk to allies to ensure “there isn’t systematic sanctions busting,” Sullivan said. “I don’t want to use the microphone to threaten, I just want to say this is something we are vigilant about.”
Putin’s aggression on NATO’s doorstep in Ukraine has clarified the alliance’s mission to protect Europe from invasion. Now, Biden wants to see NATO allies follow through on their commitments to boost military spending and deployment of troops and equipment in Eastern Europe. Military commanders from NATO countries are looking at what size troop deployments are needed over the next several months to protect Europe’s borders with Russia.
Given that Poland’s border with Ukraine is being used to resupply weapons from European countries to Ukrainian forces, Poland is one NATO ally currently in Russia’s crosshairs. Biden’s visit to the country at the end of his trip carries powerful symbolic weight for reaffirming the U.S. commitment to NATO and to Poland, says Steven Durlauf, a professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. “They’re on the firing line; If Russia goes crazy and actually crosses a NATO border, it’s going to be theirs,” he says. Biden clasping hands with Poland’s president in Warsaw at this moment, “is largely symbolic,” Durlauf adds, “but this is the time when symbols carry weight.”
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The Wolfen Guild of Rosemondt
Posted on October 1, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have immortalized my family. Above are photos of the EE Zunft Rebleuten Guild of Basel whose emblem is a dancing wolf. Fremasonry has its roots in the guilds. Notice the cote of arms behind glass in top photo. William Morris said the sons of the House of Wolfen are best suited to tell the tale of their battle with the slave masters of Rome.
Jon Rosamond Wolferose
“Erhart de Rougemont who bought in 1495 “the house called Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle in the Freistrasse.’
Peter Rosemond had seen in print the letters from Erasmus to Gotschalk Rosemondt. He noticed that a seal used by a
Rosemont in Holland, bearing a jumping fox, was like an emblem he had noticed in a wall of the house Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle. This seal
dated back to 1430,
This James (or Jacob, for these names were once interchangeable) was the son of Hans Ulrich
Rosemond, born 1623, a weaver; who was a son of Hans, a weaver, born
1581; who was a son of Fred Rosemond, born 1552, a weaver, member of
town council and a local captain; who was the son of another Hans
whose date of birth is not known, but he too, was a weaver and became
a citizen of Basle in 1534. His father was Erhart de Rougemont who
bought in 1495 “the house called Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle in the
Freistrasse.’ Peter Rosemond further reported information from the
Records Office in Basle that “before Basle the family resided in
Holland up to 1338, and it is said they descended from the estate
Rosemont, near Belfort, in France, where also the village Rougemont
is found.” A family coat-of-arms was registered in Basle about 1537
when the first Hans became a resident there. A reproduction of this
coat-of-arms in the writer’s possession shows a weaver’s crook
conspicuously, and it will be remembered that in Ireland our people
were linen weavers and farmers, and that Edward, the elder, was a
weaver in this country. Peter Rosemond had seen in print the letters
from Erasmus to Gotschalk Rosemondt. He noticed that a seal used by a
Rosemont in Holland, bearing a jumping fox, was like an emblem he had
noticed in a wall of the house Rebleuten-Zunft in Basle. This seal
dated back to 1430, whereas the coat-of-arms above mentioned dates
from 1534, it seems. Peter Rosemond died September 22, 1930. This is
but a sketch of what he wrote.”
To Arms Ye Wolfens
Posted on February 28, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have failed to get the Mayor and City Council of Eugene and Springfield interested in the real connection between the Miller Brothers, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, and J.R. Tolkien. This would be a boon for all of Lane County – and Oregon! I am not sure what the problem is, but, if I press The Mighty Proud & Ignorant’ they will try to hurt me, like the Kimites and Alleyites, who insist they own all the answers.
“No need to look anywhere else – buster! The days of your curiosity are over. so get back in your little cell, Old Man! Prophet – my ass!”
I think jealousy in involved, because this looks like Big Stuff, and, it is not being presented and exploited by Big People, thus the Wee Ones can own permission to get on board in a safe and puny way. I will pay a penalty for making them look – small! If I would just die, or, go away, then there tiny input will suffice. The feeding frenzy over Nothing, will go on. The ongoing homeless problem will define us. They are all powerless! Not I. I came up with a solution for one homeless person. I did my Civic Duty. Consider Gulliver’s Travels.
J.R. Tolkien was deeply influenced by William Morris’s The House of Wolfen. Morris was a Pre-Raphaelite and great friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti whose last name is translated thus in French…..ROSAMONDE. I will be safely accused of self-grandizing by invoking this name that was popular amongst the Brotherhood. Rossetti painted a version of Fair Rosamond, and his friend, Swineburne wrote…..ROSAMUND QUEEN OF THE LOMBARDS.
I have been so busy running my little town newspaper, and being a real prophet out to thwart the Mad Man in The White House, that I have neglected the little essay Joaquin Miller wrote about his Dinner with Rossetti. I had not noticed the mention or the poem Evangeline written by Longfellow the friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about my ancestor, John Wilson, in The Scarlet Letter. This work, and the writing of Washington Irving inspired me to write ‘A Rose Among The Woodwose’ which is a continuation, a splicing, a Time Machine that takes up where Longfellow left off….the telling of the Great American Tale and Spirit…that the Mad Woodwose and Wood Master, Jaquin Miller took to England, at the suggestion of Ina Coolbrith, the head of the Oakland Library. Did she know Jack London?
Cease! I have written too much! The Candy-coated Consumer can only take so much. They want QUICK BITES of candy full of Stars. Many want Quick Jesus Candy from a Con Artist and Lunatic. They want A Hit and a Toke! They want to swallow The Ring, then, go for The Ten Minute Ringtone Crown.
Miller’s dinner with Rossetti preceded Tolkien’s discussions with his friend C.S. Lewis. This is my discovery that connects Lane County with Britain. This is an amazing cultural link that has to be ignored and rejected because it makes me powerful.
John Presco
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THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers,—
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands,
Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!
Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o’er the ocean.
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion,
List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;
List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.[16][17][18]
To me a poem must be a picture,” I answered.
Proud I was when a great poet then said: “And it must be a picture–if a good poem so simple that you can understand it at a glance, eh? And see it and remember it as you would see and remember a sunset, eh?” “Aye,” answered the master, “I also demand that it shall be lofty in sentiment and sublime in expression. The only rule I have for measuring the merits of a written poem, is by the height of it. Why not be able to measure its altitude as you measure one of your sublime peaks of America?”
He looked at me as he spoke of America, and I was encouraged to answer:”Yes, I do not want to remember the words. But I do want it to remain with me a picture and become a part of my life. Take this one verse from Mr. Longfellow:
“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.’”
“Good!” cried the fat cynic, who, I am sure, had never heard the couplet before, it was so sweet to him; “Good! There is a picture that will depart from no impressible clay. The silent night, the far sweet melody falling on the weary mind, the tawny picturesque Arabs stealing away m the darkness, the perfect peace, the stillness and the rest. It appeals to all the Ishmaelite in our natures, and all the time we see the tents gathered up and the silent children of the desert gliding away in the gloaming.”
A transplanted American, away down at the other end by a little man among bottles, said: “The poem of Evangeline is a succession of pictures. I never read Evangeline but once.” “It is a waste of time to look twice at a sunset,” said Rossetti, sotto voce, and the end man went on: “But i believe I can see every picture in that poem as distinctly as if I had been the unhappy Arcadian; for here the author has called in ail the elements that go to make up a perfect poem.”
“When the great epic of this new, solid Saxon tongue comes to be written,” said one who sat near and was dear to the master’s heart, “it will embrace all that this embraces: new and unnamed lands; ships on the sea; the still deep waters hidden away in a deep and voiceless continent; the fresh and fragrant wilderness; the curling smoke of the camp-fire; action, movement, journeys; the presence–the inspiring presence of woman; the ennobl- ing sentiment of love, devotion, and devotion to the death; faith, hope and charity,- and all in the open air.”
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