Articles tagged: "antiques"
1: Chinese Antiques, Marco Polo And The Silk Road
In times of Chinese antiques, Marco Polo and his father and uncle carved a new more northern Silk Road between Europe to China.
2: Chinese Antiques, China Now: More Glorious, More Rich
It is glorious to have a rich and civilied culture, and it is even more glorious to become rich today as well.
3: Chinese Antiques Compared To Achievements Of China Today
The China of Ming dynasties past was very different than China of today. Or was it?
4: The Enjoyment of Collecting Antiques
Collecting antiques is an intoxicating pastime which not only allows you to explore and quest after an object that you avowedly love, it thereby allows you to cultivate a worldview in which any old object can suddenly assume the gleam and dignity of being the object of your love.
5: Antique Collecting- How To Get Started
Tips to get started with antique collecting and investing.
6: American Antiques, Legacies - How Ben Franklin 's Humor Was Almost The Death of Him
The healing power of an unexpected laugh during a tense situation can relax you, your mates, your heart; and increases your social intelligence.
7: American Antiques, Founding Values - Knocking on Heaven 's Door
American youth have been sent off to die in war by old men in suits, comfortable in Washington, once more. Time, gentlemen, once again to bring them home.
8: American Antiques History - Inspiration, Dedication, Renewal
American history shows that it took determined waves of people to settle and create the America of today, and while pressures mount, the beat goes on.
9: American Antiques, Values, Virtues - A Norman Rockwell Renewal?
American values bring to mind the historic feel of a Norman Rockwell painting of a loving group of extended family. And we need to extend that again.
10: American Antiques, American Rebirth - Another Roosevelt Era Coming?
Never since the era of the great depression have the American people seemed so ready to welcome a change from disastrous policies of conversatives in power.
11: Rare Antiques Moments Live On - Peaks of Love, Depths of Despair
English artist John Constable changed modern art and enjoyed great love amidst poverty. When his beloved wife died, leaving him 7 children, his art darkened.
12: American Antiques - Roman Swords, Greek Heroes, How America Comes Back Every Time
American history shows when violence and hatred boils over into war, here and abroad. Always, after, more needed is the healing soul of a Lincoln from us all.
13: American Antiques Hero Legacies In Need Of Update - Big John!
President John F. Kennedy, both warrior and peace maker, as leader of the free world, stared down The Evil Empire at Cuba. He also created the Peace Corps.
14: Chinese Antiques, China 's Olympics - It Is Not Glorious To Get Arrogantly Rich
Chinese antiques historically were produced by the most gifted artisans saved for their talents. Now China prizes wealth and power, gloriously above all.
15: Buy Chinese Antiques, Still Vitally Alive - Ignore New Dragon CO2 Bargains
As Chinese antiques reached the west all were in awe of such exquisite works created in a pristine ancient world. Now, coal dust in our eyes, we buy their junk.
16: Purchase Chinese Antiques, Bypass Modern Dragon Death Buys
Chinese antiques, exquisite, delicate statements from long ago, in a civilized time. Yet daily China belches more noxious CO2 coal into the air that now reaches us, making cheapest goods we buy, need them or not.
17: Chinese Antiques Are Wise Buys - Dirty Coal China, Pass On By
Chinese antiques are exquisitly crafted artifacts from a glorious past. Modern China, in contrast, spews out noxious fumes to create cheap goods and acts the bully.
18: Chinese Antiques, China 's Olympics - Less Athens, More Roman Circus?
That China is a glorious civilization in no need of democracy is what we hear from their leaders today, as always. Why the Olympic Freedom Torch from Athens?
19: Japanese Antiques, Modern Japan - Less Samurai, More Buddha
The recent actions of Japanese against the Chinese Olympic torch run through Japan shows a nation closer to the civilized world; brave people shaming China.
20: Chinese Antiques, China Today - Ancient Elegance, Now Brutal Bully
The exquisite Chinese antiques of long ago were lovingly crafted into a Ming vase for a noble; today 's coal factories belch out copies we all line up to buy.
21: Buy Chinese Antiques Mings, Help Clean China 's Coal Sky - Don't Buy Dragon Breath New
To ever enjoy simple natural blue sky again, we need to refine some of our proud industrial progress. Coal to China needs filters as it now fouls air in North America, we are all now so connected.
22: Chinese Antiques, Ming 's , Delicate Things - While Wrecking Ball Swings
Scenes of bulldozers and wrecking balls smashing over historic sites in China; the looting, loss of Chinese antiques is happening now, for cement factories.
23: Buy Chinese Antiques, Ignore China 's Olympics and Modern Products
Chinese dignitaries defend their polluted air and smoke stacks that spew incredible volumes of unfiltered coal ash into the air; which we now breath on the west coast of America, fouling our lungs and plants. Such progress!
24: Buy Chinese Antiques, Silks, Mings - Not Modern China, CO2 Coal Cancer Kings
After Marco Polo, Mighty Khan swept his golden hordes west; their layers of silk were able to absorb, twist around our arrows, which they could twist back out,toss aside. Now it is their CO2, absorbing into our lungs.
25: Chinese Antiques, Filthy Modern China - Oliver 's Deathly London?
Chinese antiques are as delicate and intricate as any on earth, whether a Ming vase or miniature figure. Yet this land of such grace and elegance is at the moment rather like the hellish London in the Victorian era of Oliver.
26: Chinese Antiques, Dirty Skies - Filters on Coal, Plant a Tree
China is most polluted, yet doing much to clean while it dirties; we need a cleaner mother earth. Time for green;less acid rain, dirty coal burning, dying species and a future we fear. Each small step to the next, one baby tree at a time.
27: Chinese Antiques Brilliance, Coal Plants CO2 - Filters, or Hell on Earth
An irony of carbon is how it can graduate from common dirty coal into diamonds from the inner fires of mother earth. Problem is, China 's growth has too many carbon burning coal plants, none of whom have the new filters.
28: Chinese Antiques, Blue Skies - Now World 's Dirty CO2 Coal King
Diamonds may be the touch of God, but their dirty carbon cousin coal reigns supreme in China, now the world 's greatest polluter, announced today. Filthy air, batons on skulls, not an ideal Olympics atmosphere, cough, ouch.
29: Japanese Antiques - Samurai Swords, Delicate Grace
The amazing contrast of Japan seems to be in the example of the sword and the silk curtain: fierce warfare outside, yet shoes off and quiet tea in the home in Buddhist bliss.Did he who made the lamb make thee?
30: Roman Antiques to Now - German Hans Sacked Rome, China 's Hans Sack Tibet
It is an irony to consider that the Germanic chaps with the name of Hans would have destroyed a civilization in Rome. And now Chinese Hans destroy the Buddhist civilization of Tibet. All named Hans, stop, and go home.
31: Greek Antiques, Democracies, China Today - More on Web than America - But Watch What You Say
This is a rather limited victory, the fact just reported, that more Chinese will be on the web this year than Americans. But try to type in words such as Tibet.Will there be a knock at your door by a man with a club?
32: Roman Antiques, Science - Archimedes, Rome Lives On In Scotland
Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby.
33: Greek Antiques, Democracy, Modern China - Brutal Panda In Tibet
The recently released television actions by Chinese police seen beating fallen Tibetan monks in their sacred city makes the blood boil of millions of us around the world.
34: Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia
The amazing stories of Greek Amazon women warriors have always seemed as of legend. However, scientists have shown that there exists today golden haired blue eyed Mongol peoples with DNA matches to these Amazon women. They hold an amazing story of ancient survival against all odds.
35: Egyptian Antiques, The Wiser Promised Land - If Moses Had Wandered West
As the Jews were driven out of the lush lands of the Nile river delta, they headed north into the desert. If they had gone west, and then applied their genius, here indeed was a much more promising land with no enemies.
36: Egyptian Antiques, What Would Archimedes Do With Fresh Water, Desert?
In watching a television documentary of the desert of north Africa, is an insight into unknown lands with huge potential, and they may soon be part of Europe.
37: American Antiques, Democracy - Thoreau, After Patton
American history has been one of the great stories of the growth of democratic values in the world. A new free people create a new free nation for all. Well, all white men, but now all.Why bomb others?
38: Greek Antiques, Alexander, Hannibal, Attila and Ataturk Are New Europe !
The Europe coming may include the African side and the Asian side as well as now most of the European side of the Greek and later Roman Empires, if E.U. delegates have their way. As well it has all the Germanic and Hun bits up to the Arctic, and Celtic Ireland and Scotland, who with the Germans had been beyond the pale. That is, too feisty.
39: Roman Antiques, Teutonic Knights, Charlemagne, Wenceslas, Ataturk- New Europeans
The coming together of so many new nations to create a greater, or Metro Europe just keeps surprising us. Now a Europe from the Arctic to north Africa and West Asia is the talk of the halls in Brussels. What are they putting in their lunchtime brownies? We think the idea is great, the wider Europe.
40: Chinese Antiques, Confucian Respect - Best With Athenian Free Speech
Chinese antique wisdom flows from Confucian respect for the Emperor, all serve He who could behead you at his whim or will. Thomas Jefferson has some vintage Greek vintage democracy that would go well over that.
41: Chinese Antiques, Modern China - The Children Show The Way
An occasional glimpse of modern China can be enlightening. We do not see this on our local television but international news interviews with family life and with the children to school shows free young minds.
42: Greek Warriors Taught the Basics to American Fighter Aces
The most obvious battles between aircraft were during the Korean and Vietnam police war actions. Each time superior Soviet MIG fighter planes were shot down by superior trained pilots in less perfect jets.
43: American Antiques, Heroics And Follies - President Custer, Stop!
A summary of the life and death of George Custer can remind, yet contrast that curious George and his rash acts with that of the incumbent George and his. Which George has cost the most lives so far?
44: Roman Antiques, Modern Europe - Who Are The Sting Rays In The Boat?
Some visionaries see a wider Europe that combines the old Roman Empire around the sea with the Germanics and Baltics to the Pole, and the Slavs to the east and Moors from Morocco to Turkey. Do we see any problems? Alas yes.
45: American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision - How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts
The vibrancy of trade agreements between nations shows that some are hurt, most are helped much more, and the nation thrives. NAFTA has enriched America, Canada and Mexico, even as we each struggle with low cost China.
46: Chinese Antiques, Napoleon - Let the Dragon Sleep. Who Listened?
Even mighty Napoleon, who got to the Pyramids of Egypt and to the burning ruins of Moscow, at his greatest said of China it was a sleeping dragon and best to let it sleep.
47: Greek Antiques, American Heroes - Alexander, Washington, to Patton
Brave and wise acts can be undone by foolish acts of vanity over common sense, as was the case with General Custer. In contrast, Alexander and Washington held a sway over their men that saw them through to many a narrow victory. And then there was General Custer.
48: American Antiques, Abraham Lincoln - Inspiration to Battle Hymn of The Republic
During the darkest moments of the Civil War, the ragged Union soldiers freshly from battle tried to put on a parade in Washington. Their song about John Brown and his body mouldering in the grave had a sound tune, but the words.
49: Greek Antiques, New Europeans - Hannibal, Cleopatra, Ataturk
This amazing group from Greek antiques times and later leaders of their lands could now meet in peace as their ancestors evolve so all may join in that early European model of democracy in Greece. Wow, how we evolve.
50: Greek Antiques - Athens was Venus, Rome was Mars
Life in Athens was a struggle from day 500 B.C.E. and seems to stayed that way throughout the history of Greece. Beset by much more powerful Persia from the East for hundreds of years, these democratic pioneers fought until they were finally overcome from Rome in the west. So much for democratic ideals for centuries on earth.
