challenge coins

eithiopia

on top of bell

ceramic button

Daum Frères Carafe with Lorraine crosses

From Musée d'Orsay collection

see more detail

here

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/decorative-arts/commentaire_id/carafe-with-lorraine-crosses-9003.html?tx_commentaire_pi1[pidLi]=846&tx_commentaire_pi1[from]=843&cHash=e81f78f391

in the woods

standard puzzle piece shapes

cross lorraine article

Cross of Lorraine

Monday, Nov. 17, 1958

In the last resort, everything depended on the Prime Minister. He, deep down, could not bring himself to admit the independence of Free France. What was more, Mr. Churchill, each time we came into collision on account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. —Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor

In these pages various severe statements, based on the events of the moment, are set down about General de Gaulle, and certainly I had continuous difficulties and many sharp antagonisms with him. There was however a dominant element in our relationship. I could not regard him as representing captive and prostrate France, nor indeed the France that had a right to decide freely the future for herself. I knew he was no friend of England. —Winston Churchill: The Hinge of Fate

These embittered opinions last week seemed long ago and far away. Mellowed by events, tall, uniformed General Charles de Gaulle, 67, and aging Sir Winston Churchill, 83, met for the first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of France. The grey, windswept day, with leaves blowing across the garden, had an autumnal look, as did the two figures involved—one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers and officials crowded around, De Gaulle pinned to Churchill's overcoat the two-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Order of Liberation, the highest decoration of the Free French forces.*

As if to mock Churchill's famed crack that the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest he had to bear, he was presented with a cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks.

Visibly moved, Churchill thanked his "old friend and comrade, General de Gaulle," and added that he is "the symbol of the soul of France and the unbreakable integrity of her spirit in adversity." Churchill said all this in English, recalling that in wartime he had often spoken to Frenchmen in their own language, but now did not "wish to subject you to the ordeal of darker and sterner days."

De Gaulle, in French, replied: "I want him to know this: he who has just had the honor of decorating him esteems him and admires him today more than ever." De Gaulle ended the brief ceremony by crying: "Vive Churchill! Vive I'Angleterre! Vive la France!"

* Awarded to 1,054 members, including two heads of state—President Eisenhower and King Mohammed V of Morocco as well as to seven listed only as "X," whose names are kept in sealed envelopes against the future day when their services to France can be revealed.

armed forces patch

bottom of vase ?

cross lorraine purse

F. R. Nord the mysterious explorer, author

If you can tell me anything about this author please leave comments.
If you can read German and can translate into english or can tell anything about this pamphlet please do.

I found this in a volume of german weekly magazines from between the great wars.
I can not find anything much in english about this "explorer", although a german fellow told me this is a work of fiction based on explorations in Russian, Tibet, Mongolia, etc.

Who is this "F.R. Nord" ????

On a tin of Hungarian Paprika

map with cross Obama tour

a still from recent tour video from this... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-video-page,0,5438740.htmlstory

Lorraine cross from album "Sparkle in the Rain", by Simple Minds

vietnam patches

Caodai temple Vietnam

Caodaism sees itself as the product of the "Third Alliance Between God and Man," the third and final revelation. Disciples believe that Caodaism avoids the failures of the first two periods because it is based on divine truth as communicated through spirits, which serve as messengers of salvation and instructors of doctrine. Spirits who have been in touch with the Caodai included deceased Caodai leaders, heroes, philosophers, poets, political leaders, as well as ordinary people. Among the contacted spirits who lived are Joan of Arc, Rene Descartes, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Louis Pasteur and Vladimir Illyich Lenin. It is said that Shakespeare hasn't been heard from since 1935.The term "Caodai" means "high tower or palace," and is used to refer to God. According to the Lonely Planet guidebook to Vietnam, Caodaism was founded in 1926 by a mystic man named Ngo Minh Chieu, who widely read Western and Eastern religious works. Around 1919 he began to receive a series of revelations from Caodai in which the tenets of Caodai doctrine were set forth.

unknown,,,,glossary choronzon 33 ?

from, http://ce399.typepad.com/

whore of babylon

Stockhausen "triple T" logo 1929 plain, 1934 w/ owl

three "T" logo

trade names “Terpinopol“ (trademark registered on 3.10.1907), “Tetrapol“ (registered on 5.2.1909) and “Tetralix“ (registered on 15.5.1911). Tetrapol, is a grease solvent

Degesch shield on zyklon b label

http://www.degeschamerica.com/products.html
Degesch company exists in america ,
you can visit their site and see the Chilean and German branches.

dancing with alligator

What next...chain reaction leads to Brasilian Heraldry

I found these images through an odd set of relays...
I was searching "chandra levy talk magazine"
and I on the 3rd page, appox. 24 results in I noticed "Heel Dangling on Fox News Channel" which then after reading this post "http://www.legsandheels.com/cgibin/wwwboard/messages/10784.html"
I renewed my search to this "Paula Zahn and Lisa Depaulo" the interviewer and writer respectively, and you search images and you get these two shields, one has a cross lorraine? with six orbs and it is a Brasilian family Assis. Try it ...

finishing the monument

I forgot where these came from....a theater ?

Symbols in the Jefferson Building

The history of printing, one of the Jefferson Building's principal themes, is elaborately represented on the beautiful bronze doors of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division on the Jefferson Building's second floor. Printing in Europe is depicted on the door on the left, and printing in the New World on the right.
From,
http://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/jeff2.html

What happened to Templar (s) Park , on Spirit Lake, Iowa ?

Post cards from, http://www.pbase.com/luckybreak/okoboji

There must have been a rash of (Good) Templar (Templer) Parks built around the U.S., here are two. Look closely at the Iowa Apt.? building for the Lorraine Cross prominently on the roof top, lightning rod?

I will try to post a recent shot of these buildings if they still exist...