Tyrone Sandalphon posted the following comment on my Hexagons post:

I could not help but notice the empty space left at Ground Zero during the “clean up” of the world trade centre in 2002. On a huge electric billboard facing the site, were the Roman numerals for 9 11 written as “IX XI” with the two numbers being separated by a space.

First off the Roman numerals remind me of a Red Ice interview with Santos Bonacci where he explains how over the past two thousand years the Roman cult/empire has set up a system of ownership of all property and souls that exist on this Earth through their Papal bulls and trusts.

I did a bit of research and was amazed at what came up. The Jesuits made IXXI rings in the 17th century:

Left image source / Right image source

Hundreds of these Jesuit rings were recovered from the wreck of La Belle, Louis XIV’s ship that left La Rochelle (the Templars’ port) in 1684. It was La Salle’s ill fated expedition, the same man who two years before claimed the Mississippi River valley for the Sun King, naming the territory Louisiana in his honor.

La Salle’s Expedition to Louisiana in 1684 by Theodore Gudin (1844)

Ian Le Cheminant says the following: “It may be implied but you don’t expressly mention that the two XXs (Dos Equis, muy buena cerveza) form a square and compass between the pillars in the IXXI diagram. This is particularly apparent in the first Jesuit rings you show.”

Some of the Jesuit rings have I’s (ones) that look more like towers, emphasizing the connection with the Twin Towers:

Image source

However the horizontal line running through this ring has led some to speculate that it is a schematized A over an M. A over M means Auspice Maria, or Under the Protection of Mary (Isis). Chris commented on this post and says the “Auspice Maria” symbol uses the two pillars from the visions of St. John Bosco. Note that not all the Jesuit rings have the horizontal line, but if you buy into the A over M theory then take a look at the emblem of the Jesuit Society of Saint Sulpice:

The Society of Saint Sulpice is named for the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris that featured prominently in the Da Vinci code. It’s the place where the Priory of Sion villain Silas killed a Nun and pried up a stone in the floor near the obelisk, searching for the keystone. Interesting fiction but the Dossiers Secrets do mention Saint Sulpice. It’s the only church I’ve heard about that has solar alignments and an obelisk inside. The best fiction is a vehicle for truth.

Image courtesy Daniele Raffo under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

If you bring the IX and XI closer so that the X’s cross the symbol appears very much like the following logo that I wrote about in Arsenic and War:

Interestingly enough, Daniel Liebeskind, the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, designed the Imperial War Museum North in the UK.

Tyrone had more to say in his intriguing comment:

I got the strangest feeling that some kind of message was being relayed. I looked at the sign and wondered what it could mean. At first I thought of “X marks the spot” or “spots” in this case as the “X”s could represent the Twin Towers viewed from above. The “I” reminded me of “pillars” the towers acting as a symbolic doorway, but what really drew my eye in, was the vacant space between the two “X”s. This space forms an invisible “hexagram” and for some reason I felt that this was symbolic of an incredibly dark and foreboding place, something suppressive and imprisoning.

The void between the X’s reminds me of the architect’s Cesar Pelli’s statement on the unveiling of his Canary Wharf Tower (aka One Canada Square) that I talked about in my Red Ice interview:

“According to Lao Tse, the reality of a hollow object is in the void and not in the walls that define it. He was speaking, of course, of spiritual realities. These are the realities also of the Canary Wharf Tower. The power of the void is increased and… with its supporting structure creates a portal to the sky … a door to the infinite.”—Cesar Pelli (1991)

Tyrone tuned into the same thing I did when I wrote my post on Hexagons. Here is what I wrote:

We have seen how the hexagonal shape represents limitation, structure, and authority. If used positively these qualities can help one strengthen willpower, discipline, and perseverance.

If used negatively these same qualities can imprison.

Saturn teaches a hard lesson.

What do governments, the justice system, and religions have in common? They all strive to control the human mind in various belief systems.

Martin wrote a comment on this page revealing how the freemasons use a six-sided coffin in the Third Degree. Incidentally this ritual is the origin of the phrase “stop giving me the third degree”:

Third degree tracing board by Brother John Harris (1845) Source

Incidentally IBM unveiled its neurosynaptic core that mimics the function of neurons in the human brain. Not only does the shape of the chip mimic the logo of the Knights Templar of the York masonic rite (see my Bolton post), but my friend Rick counted the pins and noticed that there are 33 on each side. In addition the voids between each side seem to have the hexagonal masonic coffin shape (like in the above image).

Image by IBM

The hexagonal coffin is the ultimate prison of the body. Note the skull and crossbones as we will see this symbol again later in this post. Remember Saturn itself has a hexagon on its North pole:

Image courtesy of NASA

Roman Saturn is the Greek Cronus.

Cronus had been conflated with the name of Chronos, the personification of time in Classical Antiquity. In the Renaissance, the combination of Cronus and Chronos give rise to “Father Time” wielding the harvesting scythe.

Rik Clay’s research on time and numerology was outstanding. Here are some of the facts he brought to light:

• In the Mayan calendar, it was said that there would be 20 years of no-time. A period of unrest where the planet is making a transition from one age to another. 9/11 stood 9 years from the start of this no-time and 11 years from the end.
• The World Trade Centre stood like an 11; 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
• September 11th is 111 days until the end of the year
• The first plane to hit the World Trade Centre was Flight 11; total crew on Flight 11 was 11
• 9/11/01 stands 11 years from 2012
• The World Trade Centre took 11 years to build
• On 9/11/90 at 9.09PM, 11 years prior to 9/11/01, George Bush Senior made a speech to Congress entitled Toward A New World Order
• On 9/11/41, 60 years prior to 9/11/01, the soil was broken and the foundations set for “The Pentagon” in Washington DC
• A book written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, called “The Birth of Christ Recalculated”. The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ’s birth based on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ’s birth, based on the famous Star of Bethlehem, is calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C.
• According to Hebrew Scriptures 9/11/99 was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation, and year 1 on the Hebrew calendar.

Saturn rules not only over 9/11 but over all illuminist time codes. There are precisely 66 years between these dates:

• 29 April 1945 Adolph and Eva were married in the Führerbunker
• 29 April 2011 William and Kate were married in Westminster Abbey

Goro Adachi is a master at decoding illuminist time signatures. The Royal Wedding began precisely at 11:11 Universal Time. At that precise moment looking due South from Westminster Abbey, the center of the Phoenix constellation reached culmination just below the surface of the horizon in the underworld and the planet Venus simultaneously reached culmination directly above.

In Latin from which the English word is derived, Lucifer means “light-bearer” (from the words lucem ferre). It was the name given to the dawn appearance of the planet Venus which heralds daylight. For this meaning, English generally uses the names “Morning Star” or “Day Star”, and rarely “Lucifer”.

Prince William resonates with rising Lucifer energy at his wedding. William was born of the moon goddess Diana on the summer solstice. See my post on Egyptian Royals.

The end of the Mayan Calendar ends on 21 Dec 12 at 11:11 Universal Time. Coincidence?

Image courtesy Goro Adachi

Hexagons also represent cubes in isometric view. What does Reflecting Absence actually reflect? The Black Cube in Mecca. See my post on the Freedom Tower for background.

Image courtesy Mark Gray

“The Cube” in Astor Place Manhattan is yet another black cube in isometric emphasizing the connection with the hexagon. Astor Place is named for John Jacob Astor, at one time the richest person in the United States.

Image courtesy “I, DavidShankbone” under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Saturn is many things but the correlation many don’t want to see is with Satan. His scythe identifies him as the grim reaper. Don’t be afraid to look into the shadows or the people in the shadows will only get stronger.

Painting by Franklin LaVoie (1992)

George W Bush read The Pet Goat to a bunch of kids on the morning of 9/11/01. Here is the scene when the White House Chief of Staff whispered in his ear that the second plane had just hit the World Trade Center:

GW continued reading The Pet Goat to the kids for 7 more minutes before concluding the story and getting up. I recently read a fascinating article by Nila Sagadevan on this very subject:

“Sir, let’s for a moment say you were president of your country. One morning you find yourself in a classroom reading to a group of little children a story about a pet goat…I continued, “Your Chief of Staff rushes up to you and whispers in your ear, ‘Mr. President, terrorists have flown a plane into the Parliament Building; the nation is under attack.’ Now, I ask you, sir, how would you respond?”

Intending the question to be rhetorical, I continued with barely a pause. “I’ll tell you what my reaction would not be: It most certainly would not be the reaction demonstrated by the president of the United States on the morning of 9/11. I would be concerned for the thousands of my fellow citizens burning to death in an inferno. But I suspect before I would have a moment to react, my highly trained security detail would be whisking me out of that school to my limousine to put as many miles between the school and I as possible.

“Why? My location that morning common public knowledge, it was widely televised. So I — and my security team — would be very concerned these clearly well-organized ‘terrorists’ would be targeting me next by diving one of their aircraft into the school where I was located. But on 9/11, the President sat in that classroom for the next ten minutes narrating a tale about some pet goat — even after he was informed again, for the second time, that a second building had been hit.

What does the Commander-in-Chief then do in the midst of what is clearly a full-blown attack on the country? He stands up and casually drifts around the classroom taking advantage of a photo op by posing with some of the teachers, smiling as if he didn’t have a care in the world.”

I slowly surveyed my audience before continuing. To a man they were riveted.

“Gentlemen, that’s what I call confidence — confidence not for this President’s ability to remain calm under fire, but confidence that he wasn’t a target of the terrorists! Mr Bush, his staff, and his entire security detail had to have known with a good deal of certainty that the president was safe, because no effort whatsoever was made to get him out of that classroom in accordance with standard emergency procedures. And when he did eventually leave the school, the presidential motorcade casually drove back to the airport along the pre-determined route — also televised and widely known in advance — instead of following standard emergency procedure and taking an alternate route. I ask you, gentlemen: How could the president have been so absolutely sure he wasn’t a target when the nation was under a massive, concerted, clearly well-planned and ruthlessly executed attack?”

Everything with these people is symbolic.

Baphomet at a Freemason Session by Eliphas Levi (1890s)

Here’s another cube in isometric, this time red with a hole through it. Isamu Noguchi’s Cube is located in front of 140 Broadway, across the street from 33 Liberty (home of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York). See my post on 33.

Image courtesy Corn Fed Chicks under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

140 Broadway has a leasable area of 111,000 square meters. It is reported as being approximately 688 and then 677 feet in height in the same article. I submit that this building is likely to actually be 666 feet in height.

The building’s main tenant is Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) which leases 40,000 square meters of the building. The firm has 40 partners and 4,000 staff globally. BBH is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. -Source

This reminds me of the Canon of 400 I discussed in my Paris Part 3 video. Here’s a quote from it:

For example, consider a solar eclipse. When one happens the Moon completely covers the Sun disc. The only reason this can occur so precisely is because the Moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun and happens to be 400 times closer than the Sun during the eclipse.

Also the moon rotates at a rate of 400km per earth day and the earth rotates 40,000km a day.

On January 1, 1931, Brown Brothers And Company merged with Harriman Brothers & Company, an investment company started in 1912 with railway money. When TIME magazine announced this merger in its December 22, 1930 issue, they noted that of the company’s 16 founding partners a total of 11 were graduates from Yale University. Eight of the ten initial partners were members of Skull and Bones. -Source

The logo of Skull and Bones

Prescott S. Bush (George W. Bush’s grandfather) was one of BBH’s 10 initial founding members.

Prescott S. Bush was also one of seven directors of the Union Banking Corporation, an investment bank controlled by the Thyssen family (one of Germany’s leading industrial families). In October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II. -Source

Just an interesting coincidence, the Totenkopfring (“Death’s Head Ring”), was an award of Heinrich Himmler’s SS. It was not a state decoration, but rather a personal gift bestowed by Himmler. The ring shows skull and crossed bones – the SS symbol – on its top.

It is always wise to follow the money:

A German real estate fund has paid a whopping $465 million for 140 Broadway, giving a huge vote of confidence to the downtown market. The sale of the fully tenanted building last week ranked second to the record $610 million sale of 60 Wall Street in 2001. -2004 article

See my post on the Stars of Lower Manhattan for my bit on 60 Wall Street. Of course the sale of 666 Fifth Ave for $1.8 billion in 2006 blew away the aforementioned records. See my post on 666.

In any case 140 Broadway was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Bunshaft had originally proposed a monolith type sculpture to go in front where Noguchi’s Cube ended up, but it was deemed to be too expensive. -Source

Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey featured a monolith on Saturn.

Image from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick changed the location of the monolith to Jupiter in the film version of 2001 because the rings of Saturn were too hard to make with the special effects of 1968. Never mind that he was too busy filming the Apollo 11 moon landings.

Tyrone Sandalphon posted the following comment on my Hexagons post:

I could not help but notice the empty space left at Ground Zero during the “clean up” of the world trade centre in 2002. On a huge electric billboard facing the site, were the Roman numerals for 9 11 written as “IX XI” with the two numbers being separated by a space.

First off the Roman numerals remind me of a Red Ice interview with Santos Bonacci where he explains how over the past two thousand years the Roman cult/empire has set up a system of ownership of all property and souls that exist on this Earth through their Papal bulls and trusts.

I did a bit of research and was amazed at what came up. The Jesuits made IXXI rings in the 17th century:

Left image source / Right image source

Hundreds of these Jesuit rings were recovered from the wreck of La Belle, Louis XIV’s ship that left La Rochelle (the Templars’ port) in 1684. It was La Salle’s ill fated expedition, the same man who two years before claimed the Mississippi River valley for the Sun King, naming the territory Louisiana in his honor.

La Salle’s Expedition to Louisiana in 1684 by Theodore Gudin (1844)

Ian Le Cheminant says the following: “It may be implied but you don’t expressly mention that the two XXs (Dos Equis, muy buena cerveza) form a square and compass between the pillars in the IXXI diagram. This is particularly apparent in the first Jesuit rings you show.”

Some of the Jesuit rings have I’s (ones) that look more like towers, emphasizing the connection with the Twin Towers:

Image source

However the horizontal line running through this ring has led some to speculate that it is a schematized A over an M. A over M means Auspice Maria, or Under the Protection of Mary (Isis). Chris commented on this post and says the “Auspice Maria” symbol uses the two pillars from the visions of St. John Bosco. Note that not all the Jesuit rings have the horizontal line, but if you buy into the A over M theory then take a look at the emblem of the Jesuit Society of Saint Sulpice:

The Society of Saint Sulpice is named for the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris that featured prominently in the Da Vinci code. It’s the place where the Priory of Sion villain Silas killed a Nun and pried up a stone in the floor near the obelisk, searching for the keystone. Interesting fiction but the Dossiers Secrets do mention Saint Sulpice. It’s the only church I’ve heard about that has solar alignments and an obelisk inside. The best fiction is a vehicle for truth.

Image courtesy Daniele Raffo under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

If you bring the IX and XI closer so that the X’s cross the symbol appears very much like the following logo that I wrote about in Arsenic and War:

Interestingly enough, Daniel Liebeskind, the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, designed the Imperial War Museum North in the UK.

Tyrone had more to say in his intriguing comment:

I got the strangest feeling that some kind of message was being relayed. I looked at the sign and wondered what it could mean. At first I thought of “X marks the spot” or “spots” in this case as the “X”s could represent the Twin Towers viewed from above. The “I” reminded me of “pillars” the towers acting as a symbolic doorway, but what really drew my eye in, was the vacant space between the two “X”s. This space forms an invisible “hexagram” and for some reason I felt that this was symbolic of an incredibly dark and foreboding place, something suppressive and imprisoning.

The void between the X’s reminds me of the architect’s Cesar Pelli’s statement on the unveiling of his Canary Wharf Tower (aka One Canada Square) that I talked about in my Red Ice interview:

“According to Lao Tse, the reality of a hollow object is in the void and not in the walls that define it. He was speaking, of course, of spiritual realities. These are the realities also of the Canary Wharf Tower. The power of the void is increased and… with its supporting structure creates a portal to the sky … a door to the infinite.”—Cesar Pelli (1991)

Tyrone tuned into the same thing I did when I wrote my post on Hexagons. Here is what I wrote:

We have seen how the hexagonal shape represents limitation, structure, and authority. If used positively these qualities can help one strengthen willpower, discipline, and perseverance.

If used negatively these same qualities can imprison.

Saturn teaches a hard lesson.

What do governments, the justice system, and religions have in common? They all strive to control the human mind in various belief systems.

Martin wrote a comment on this page revealing how the freemasons use a six-sided coffin in the Third Degree. Incidentally this ritual is the origin of the phrase “stop giving me the third degree”:

Third degree tracing board by Brother John Harris (1845) Source

Incidentally IBM unveiled its neurosynaptic core that mimics the function of neurons in the human brain. Not only does the shape of the chip mimic the logo of the Knights Templar of the York masonic rite (see my Bolton post), but my friend Rick counted the pins and noticed that there are 33 on each side. In addition the voids between each side seem to have the hexagonal masonic coffin shape (like in the above image).

Image by IBM

The hexagonal coffin is the ultimate prison of the body. Note the skull and crossbones as we will see this symbol again later in this post. Remember Saturn itself has a hexagon on its North pole:

Image courtesy of NASA

Roman Saturn is the Greek Cronus.

Cronus had been conflated with the name of Chronos, the personification of time in Classical Antiquity. In the Renaissance, the combination of Cronus and Chronos give rise to “Father Time” wielding the harvesting scythe.

Rik Clay’s research on time and numerology was outstanding. Here are some of the facts he brought to light:

• In the Mayan calendar, it was said that there would be 20 years of no-time. A period of unrest where the planet is making a transition from one age to another. 9/11 stood 9 years from the start of this no-time and 11 years from the end.
• The World Trade Centre stood like an 11; 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
• September 11th is 111 days until the end of the year
• The first plane to hit the World Trade Centre was Flight 11; total crew on Flight 11 was 11
• 9/11/01 stands 11 years from 2012
• The World Trade Centre took 11 years to build
• On 9/11/90 at 9.09PM, 11 years prior to 9/11/01, George Bush Senior made a speech to Congress entitled Toward A New World Order
• On 9/11/41, 60 years prior to 9/11/01, the soil was broken and the foundations set for “The Pentagon” in Washington DC
• A book written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, called “The Birth of Christ Recalculated”. The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ’s birth based on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ’s birth, based on the famous Star of Bethlehem, is calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C.
• According to Hebrew Scriptures 9/11/99 was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation, and year 1 on the Hebrew calendar.

Saturn rules not only over 9/11 but over all illuminist time codes. There are precisely 66 years between these dates:

• 29 April 1945 Adolph and Eva were married in the Führerbunker
• 29 April 2011 William and Kate were married in Westminster Abbey

Goro Adachi is a master at decoding illuminist time signatures. The Royal Wedding began precisely at 11:11 Universal Time. At that precise moment looking due South from Westminster Abbey, the center of the Phoenix constellation reached culmination just below the surface of the horizon in the underworld and the planet Venus simultaneously reached culmination directly above.

In Latin from which the English word is derived, Lucifer means “light-bearer” (from the words lucem ferre). It was the name given to the dawn appearance of the planet Venus which heralds daylight. For this meaning, English generally uses the names “Morning Star” or “Day Star”, and rarely “Lucifer”.

Prince William resonates with rising Lucifer energy at his wedding. William was born of the moon goddess Diana on the summer solstice. See my post on Egyptian Royals.

The end of the Mayan Calendar ends on 21 Dec 12 at 11:11 Universal Time. Coincidence?

Image courtesy Goro Adachi

Hexagons also represent cubes in isometric view. What does Reflecting Absence actually reflect? The Black Cube in Mecca. See my post on the Freedom Tower for background.

Image courtesy Mark Gray

“The Cube” in Astor Place Manhattan is yet another black cube in isometric emphasizing the connection with the hexagon. Astor Place is named for John Jacob Astor, at one time the richest person in the United States.

Image courtesy “I, DavidShankbone” under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Saturn is many things but the correlation many don’t want to see is with Satan. His scythe identifies him as the grim reaper. Don’t be afraid to look into the shadows or the people in the shadows will only get stronger.

Painting by Franklin LaVoie (1992)

George W Bush read The Pet Goat to a bunch of kids on the morning of 9/11/01. Here is the scene when the White House Chief of Staff whispered in his ear that the second plane had just hit the World Trade Center:

GW continued reading The Pet Goat to the kids for 7 more minutes before concluding the story and getting up. I recently read a fascinating article by Nila Sagadevan on this very subject:

“Sir, let’s for a moment say you were president of your country. One morning you find yourself in a classroom reading to a group of little children a story about a pet goat…I continued, “Your Chief of Staff rushes up to you and whispers in your ear, ‘Mr. President, terrorists have flown a plane into the Parliament Building; the nation is under attack.’ Now, I ask you, sir, how would you respond?”

Intending the question to be rhetorical, I continued with barely a pause. “I’ll tell you what my reaction would not be: It most certainly would not be the reaction demonstrated by the president of the United States on the morning of 9/11. I would be concerned for the thousands of my fellow citizens burning to death in an inferno. But I suspect before I would have a moment to react, my highly trained security detail would be whisking me out of that school to my limousine to put as many miles between the school and I as possible.

“Why? My location that morning common public knowledge, it was widely televised. So I — and my security team — would be very concerned these clearly well-organized ‘terrorists’ would be targeting me next by diving one of their aircraft into the school where I was located. But on 9/11, the President sat in that classroom for the next ten minutes narrating a tale about some pet goat — even after he was informed again, for the second time, that a second building had been hit.

What does the Commander-in-Chief then do in the midst of what is clearly a full-blown attack on the country? He stands up and casually drifts around the classroom taking advantage of a photo op by posing with some of the teachers, smiling as if he didn’t have a care in the world.”

I slowly surveyed my audience before continuing. To a man they were riveted.

“Gentlemen, that’s what I call confidence — confidence not for this President’s ability to remain calm under fire, but confidence that he wasn’t a target of the terrorists! Mr Bush, his staff, and his entire security detail had to have known with a good deal of certainty that the president was safe, because no effort whatsoever was made to get him out of that classroom in accordance with standard emergency procedures. And when he did eventually leave the school, the presidential motorcade casually drove back to the airport along the pre-determined route — also televised and widely known in advance — instead of following standard emergency procedure and taking an alternate route. I ask you, gentlemen: How could the president have been so absolutely sure he wasn’t a target when the nation was under a massive, concerted, clearly well-planned and ruthlessly executed attack?”

Everything with these people is symbolic.

Baphomet at a Freemason Session by Eliphas Levi (1890s)

Here’s another cube in isometric, this time red with a hole through it. Isamu Noguchi’s Cube is located in front of 140 Broadway, across the street from 33 Liberty (home of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York). See my post on 33.

Image courtesy Corn Fed Chicks under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

140 Broadway has a leasable area of 111,000 square meters. It is reported as being approximately 688 and then 677 feet in height in the same article. I submit that this building is likely to actually be 666 feet in height.

The building’s main tenant is Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) which leases 40,000 square meters of the building. The firm has 40 partners and 4,000 staff globally. BBH is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. -Source

This reminds me of the Canon of 400 I discussed in my Paris Part 3 video. Here’s a quote from it:

For example, consider a solar eclipse. When one happens the Moon completely covers the Sun disc. The only reason this can occur so precisely is because the Moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun and happens to be 400 times closer than the Sun during the eclipse.

Also the moon rotates at a rate of 400km per earth day and the earth rotates 40,000km a day.

On January 1, 1931, Brown Brothers And Company merged with Harriman Brothers & Company, an investment company started in 1912 with railway money. When TIME magazine announced this merger in its December 22, 1930 issue, they noted that of the company’s 16 founding partners a total of 11 were graduates from Yale University. Eight of the ten initial partners were members of Skull and Bones. -Source

The logo of Skull and Bones

Prescott S. Bush (George W. Bush’s grandfather) was one of BBH’s 10 initial founding members.

Prescott S. Bush was also one of seven directors of the Union Banking Corporation, an investment bank controlled by the Thyssen family (one of Germany’s leading industrial families). In October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II. -Source

Just an interesting coincidence, the Totenkopfring (“Death’s Head Ring”), was an award of Heinrich Himmler’s SS. It was not a state decoration, but rather a personal gift bestowed by Himmler. The ring shows skull and crossed bones – the SS symbol – on its top.

It is always wise to follow the money:

A German real estate fund has paid a whopping $465 million for 140 Broadway, giving a huge vote of confidence to the downtown market. The sale of the fully tenanted building last week ranked second to the record $610 million sale of 60 Wall Street in 2001. -2004 article

See my post on the Stars of Lower Manhattan for my bit on 60 Wall Street. Of course the sale of 666 Fifth Ave for $1.8 billion in 2006 blew away the aforementioned records. See my post on 666.

In any case 140 Broadway was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Bunshaft had originally proposed a monolith type sculpture to go in front where Noguchi’s Cube ended up, but it was deemed to be too expensive. -Source

Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey featured a monolith on Saturn.

Image from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick changed the location of the monolith to Jupiter in the film version of 2001 because the rings of Saturn were too hard to make with the special effects of 1968. Never mind that he was too busy filming the Apollo 11 moon landings.