Resurrection of Jesus article, 1954

The headline of this article reads, Are The Stories of Jesus Resurrection Misguided?  Seriously not getting into a religious debate. The Danish professor, N. H. Soe,  has apparently written some scholarly articles on the subject and I can find his name and works cited in other papers, but I cannot find a stinking thing about the man himself. I imagine that someday the Internet will truly be full of absolutely everything we want to know, and much we wish we could take back, but until then, I am stuck with certain limitations. 


The gist of what I have translated seems to revolve around the ethics of interpretation and looking at the gospels of the New Testament from every angle, while taking into account the research and researchers you are getting your information from. Yikes, everything I can find reads like a something I would need a dictionary and thesaurus to figure out what they are saying. And even then only after a large Diet Coke, some frozen M&M's, and some peace and quiet. As if that situation happens very often.



Still, a cool newspaper article that someone thought they should  save. There are some things that will always be scrutinized, debated, interpreted, and reinterpreted. The bible is among them, and I will leave that to the so-called experts. I guess I am a very simple creature, but I think I'll just stick to the love everyone theory, seems to cover all the bases.

Panda Bookmark

A bookmark, I see many, but this one is pretty cool. The black parts of the panda are actually feathers, I believe. Painted black and hardened. And I think the white body of the panda is a leaf of petal of some sort. It has dimension and details that I hope you can see when you click and enlarge it. It's rather beautiful. It says Doris on the back of it and I think Doris had a pretty cool bookmark.

Gottlieb Daimler,1896

I opened up one of my old books today, and out fall these two photos that are folded together at the edge. I thought, oh cool, check out the old cars. I then read the caption at the bottom of the picture, and low and behold, who is driving the car in the second picture? Mr. Gottlieb Daimler himself!

Hahaha, I'm totally kidding. I had no idea who Gottlieb Daimler was before I Googled his name.  I know, I know. Shame on me, right?  

Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer, and industrialist who was German. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He also invented the high-speed petrol engine. He had a business partner, Wilhelm Maybach, and in 1890 they founded the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, DMG. DMG signed a long term co-operation agreement with Karl Benz and in 1926, 26 years after Gottliebs death, the companies merged to become Daimer-Benz AG.

Benz! That I have heard of! That has to count for something, no? So Gottlieb was the inventor of the modern gas automobile. There, now we all know and can breathe a little bit easier around car enthusiasts. These two pictures were taken in 1896. Pretty cool to see the inventor of something using the very thing he invented, right???  I think so as well.

A Fern?

It's brown, falling apart, but still kind of lovely. But, it's a fern. I can see saving a flower, something with color, but this is the first fern I have found. Was it saved because it meant something? A walk with a special someone? A keepsake from a first kiss, a first date, a baby's first step? I certainly like that idea. The cynic in me thinks perhaps someone was reading a book and needed to save their spot in a hurry, so they grabbed the nearest plant and ripped a piece off to save the spot! Oh, that's rotten. It is a keepsake. There, much better.

Nuremberg Postcard 1921

A picturesque image of Nuremberg Main Market Square sometime around 1921. The area has a rich history. Sadly, during WWII, much of the architecture was damaged or ruined completely. It still remains beautiful, however, and is on my list of places to see.

The fountain in the picture was referred to as Jewish Fountain or Neptune Fountain and was ordered to be removed by Hitler. He also went and changed the name of the square to Hitler Square or something, and named a street after himself there as well. Geez. Ego, people, right there. Huge, screaming, ego. To many of us, Nuremberg reminds us of WWII and the trials that went on there after the war, but my reading about this marvelous city has been remarkable and has taught me many things that I will leave you to find on your own. Just know it is well worth your time. I love learning about new places. Oh, I am needing a trip back to Germany! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful....

Doodle on an Envelope

In the last few years I have really learned to appreciate and love art. I can't create it myself, so I ooh and ah over other people's masterpieces. I love when I find other people's doodles on spare pieces of paper in my books. Then I get to play art interpreter extraordinaire!

Here goes. I see a man, he's reclining in bed, one foot on the floor. He's holding a bottle and has a spare, one should always have a spare. Here's the tricky part, I THINK the doodler was trying to portray the man's hand in a come hither kind of attitude, but.....well, hands are difficult to draw, or so I have read. The come hither might still work though. I mean he does have a bottle of something and the spare, who could resist that? Plus he's got the whole beard thing going on which is really in fashion right now. Sure, his bodies a shapeless blob, but none of us are perfect, right?

Winston and the Nazi

 As you can see, this is a newpaper clipping from April 1940. Good 'ol Winston is on puffing away on one side, and we have a cartoon with a Nazi soldier on the other. Winston, the man was a walking heart attack waiting to happen, overweight, smoking and drinking constantly, and I am pretty sure his job was on the stressful side. Haha.  This guy was the quite the character. If you haven't been to the Winston Churchill War Rooms in London, you are missing out. Highly recommended.

The translation is roughly, and I mean very roughly; Can I know? Hansi, your Wiener Child. Now, if anyone out there can make heads or tails of that, I will thank you. To me, and I excel at taking wild stabs in the dark, I think this Nazi wants to join the family. He has his suitcase and he means business. The look on the couples faces is priceless. So is this trying to say, look out world, we are moving in and taking over! 1940 was pretty early in the war, so maybe that is the case.