The Catalogue has copies of the 1502 plans that Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci produced for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople as a civil engineering project for a single span 720-foot bridge intended to span an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus known as the Golden Horn. Beyazid did not pursue the project because he believed that such a construction was impossible. Leonardo's vision was resurrected in 2001 when a smaller bridge based on his design was constructed in Norway (Wikipedia).
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
In the catalogue's index of great artists Mantegna, El Greco and Picasso are the recipients of the Silver Award, but with respect to the work of John Dewey only Time and Memory are credited as true artists as 'they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.'
For some reason the catalogue cannot identify the writer of the quote “Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.” The best candidate seems to be Rosalind Azulai.
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. (Moshe Sharett)
For all those who have contacted this Blog and expressed concern about the fate of the tree at the centre of the 2013 Great Elm crisis that spawned the whole alternative Seven Dials universe, we can assure readers that the Great Elm is still alive and well.
(Some avid followers of the blog have been arranging guided tours of the Seven Dials area. In the interest of avoiding punitive action by the local trading standards agency who act to protect consumer rights, it should be stressed that this imaginery Seven Dials is located roughly in the area of Hove, East Sussex, and has no connection with any other imaginery Seven Dials such as may be located in the Covent Garden area of London).
A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. The term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a "nautical phrase". It is now also often used as an exclamation to mean nonsense or gibberish.
When referring to a person, a humbug means a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle. In modern usage, the word is most associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, though latterly Professor Mundeign has been heard to use it seasonally.
Since there was considerable disagreement amongst the the Index editors about the section on inland waterways, it was decided to avoid any unpleasantness by publishing the following article in Catalan.
El Portsmouth and Arundel Canal era un canal al sud d'Anglaterra que corria entre Portsmouth i Arundel , que va ser construït el 1823 , però mai va ser un èxit financer i va ser abandonat en 1855 ; l'empresa es va acabar en 1888. El canal era part d'un pla més ampli per a la construcció d'una ruta segura cap a l'interior del canal de Londres a Portsmouth , que va permetre a les embarcacions per moure entre els dos sense haver de endinsar-se al Canal Anglès i possiblement trobar naus enemigues o desastre natural . Va ser construït per l'empresa Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation.
