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On this day in history, construction commenced on the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia to house the expanding U.S. War Department. It was completed in 1943. According to Mental Floss:
The first site chosen for the building was Arlington Farms, which was pentagon-shaped. But planners figured out that the building would block the view of Washington from nearby Arlington National Cemetery. So another site was chosen (where Hoover Field used to be). By this time, planning was so far advanced that the shape couldn’t be changed. Also, President Roosevelt liked the design—an important factor in keeping the original layout. ‘I like it because nothing like it has ever been done that way before,’ Roosevelt said of the design.”
The War Department Office building, better known as the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., shown under construction, Jan.17, 1942.
Today, the Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. As a symbol of the U.S. military, “The Pentagon” is often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense. (Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.)
The Pentagon is one of the world’s largest office buildings, with about 6,500,000 sq ft, of which 3,700,000 sq ft are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi of corridors. Each of its five sides is 921 feet long, which means a lap around the outside of the building is almost a mile. It also includes a five-acre central plaza, shaped like a pentagon and informally known as “ground zero,” a nickname originating during the Cold War.
Picture of the Pentagon showing the central plaza
Sixty years later to the day from the groundbreaking for the Pentagon, 184 airplane passengers, civilians and military personnel perished when terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the building’s west side. Today, there are exactly 184 benches outside the Pentagon’s southwest side to commemorate those who died in the attack.
https://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/september-11-1941-%E2%80%93-groundbreaking-of-the-pentagon/ |
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- Jan. 17 is the "Good Luck Day" - the festival of Felicitas (the Roman goddess of good luck) - (see '1999: Final Solution' for the importance of the notion of 'good luck')
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THE SWASTIKA
The swastika, hackenkreuz, gamma cross, gammadion, St. Brigid's cross, or fylfot cross is a symbol found around the world. It not universally drawn either clockwise or counterclockwise, and it occurs in both curved and squared forms.
This postcard, copyright 1907 by E. Phillips, a U.S. card publisher, speaks for the universally high regard in which the swastika was held as a good luck token before use by the Nazis corrupted its meaning.
The text on the card back reads:
GOOD LUCK EMBLEM
"The Swastika" is the oldest cross and emblem in the world. It forms a combination of four "L's" standing for Luck, Light, Love and Life. It has been found in ancient Rome, excavations in Grecian cities, on Buddhist idols, on Chinese coins dated 315 B.C., and our own Southwest Indians use it as an amulet.
It is claimed that the Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers of Mexico, Central America consider "The Swastika" a charm to drive away evil and bring good luck, long life and prosperity to the possessor.
It should be noted that this text is not entirely accurate: The Mound Builders inhabited the Ohio River Valley and the Cliff Dwellers lived in the Southwestern United States; however, both did use the swastika, as did the Mayas of Mexico. Furthermore, although the swastika may look like four "L's" to one who uses the Roman alphabet, in Greek it forms four Gammas ("G's"), in Hebrew it can be seen as four Daleths ("D's"), and among the non-literate people of North America, it corresponded to no letters at all. Thus the ascription of Luck, Light, Love, and Life to the amulet is simply an English mnemonic, although it is prettily reinforced on this card by images of a horseshoe (luck), the rising Sun (light), twin hearts (love), and Earth (life). Finally, not mentioned in the text is the swastika's use as the specific emblem of Ganesha, the Hindu god of good luck, who is also represented as an elephant.
At left is a very nice American-made beaded item from the 1920s that bears the initials J.B.Y. and a black swastika on a white background. It is a simple strap-woven seed-bead piece of the type often made for a merit badge by Girl and Boy Scouts, or, as in this case, woven on a "while you wait" basis by American Indians for tourists at places like the Fred Harvey hotel chain in Arizona and New Mexico. It was found in an estate collection of Native American bead-work that had been put away and wrapped in 1929-dated newspapers. The twisted cotton threads terminate in a brass pin for hanging.
The use of the swastika in domestic ornament was fairly common in the 19th century. I have seen a beautiful white wedding dress, circa 1900, covered all over with embroidered swastikas. It came from the trousseau of a Polish-German immigrant woman, a "mail-order-bride" who was married in the U.S.
The swastika or hackencreuz was not a Nazi symbol originally, but was adopted by them as a "lucky" logo. (Imagine a political party of butchering madmen adopting the four-leaf clover as their symbol!) Some people believe that the swastika has been permanently co-opted or ruined by its brief appropriation by the Nazis -- who stood it up diagonally and placed it in a circle rather than running it four-square, and gave it their brand-logo colour scheme of black, white, and red, thus making THEIR swastika a national seal, unlike the non-Nazi swastikas of varied colour and form one finds all around the world.
It is a common misconception, almost an urban legend of sorts, to impute directional or positional preference or meaning to the swastika, and to claim that the Nazis "reversed the swastika" or "rotated it backwards" and therefore rendered it "evil." But this idea that directionality is important in the history of swastika usage is demonstrably untrue: counter-balancing (bilaterally symmetrical) arrays of clockwise and counterclockwise swastikas are common in both ancient and modern Indian art.
I believe that these considerations concerning the left- and right-turning swastika arose after the Nazis adopted the device -- and were part of a failed attempt to salvage at least a part of its former meaning by establishing a "good swastika versus bad swastika" dichotomy. Unfortunately, this swastika purity restoration attempt failed because ancient monuments and steles do not bear the theory out: The swastika appears in both left- and right-turned models in virtually all past cultures with no "deosil" and "widdershins" thought behind the direction, nor with "good" or "evil" concepts attached. The Nazis tipped the swastika up on end (diagonally), but it is even found that way in some old historical artifacts as well, such as this lovely example of the lucky swastika -- an embossed and airbrushed American postcard of the 1905 - 1910 era, bearing the legend "To Darling Baby," accompanied by a lavender swastika and a bunch of Lily-of-the-Valley flowers.
Some people believe that the display of any sort of swastika should be forbidden because it is offensive to Jews. From first-hand experience, i can assure you that dozens of elderly German Jews i personally know who lived through or escaped the holocaust, were and are well aware that the swastika pre-dated the Nazis and do not consider it a Nazi symbol. One thing most of them have learned -- and have taught to me -- is that RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE is a key to preventing future holocausts. Therefore they honour and respect the religious iconography of others. including the Jains and the Hindus, who revere the swastika as a symbol of a symbol of long life, good health, and good luck, and the special symbol of the Hindu elephant headed god Ganesh. My own mother, a Jew raised in Germany in the early 20th century, tells me that her family's sun-porch had an inlaid tile design of swastikas on the floor -- and her mother once told her it was "wrong" of Hitler to use the symbol as a political emblem. The swastikas were still there on the floor when she and her family fled Germany to escape.
For more information on the swastika, see Will's Cigarette Card #24: The Swastika. For more images of good luck swastikas see:
swastikas on good luck coins
swastika on Lucky Mon-Gol Curio Number XI
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- Projected Key Date: Jan. 17~19, '99
- Symbolic Basis/Implication:
- Jan. 17 is the "Good Luck Day" - the festival of Felicitas (the Roman goddess of good luck) - (see '1999: Final Solution' for the importance of the notion of 'good luck')
- Jan 18-19 are dates of an 'Ark of the Covenant'-related festival ('Timkat'). The fact that it immediately follows the 'Good Luck Day', combined with the nature of President Clinton's scandal (which correlates with the pattern of the 'big picture') and the fact that Clinton is from 'Ark.' (i.e. Arkansas), may suggest this could be a key period for Clinton.
- "Whatever the case, I feel it is a good 'window' for key events and there is a good chance that the (engineered) events during that time period will give some significant clues as to the 'big picture'."
- Other significance of the date Jan 17: the Gulf War began on Jan. 17 ('91), and the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal began on Jan 17 ('98) as the news first broke on this date.
- Event Occurred:
- On Jan. 16/17, the leading news was the massacre in Kosovo. (This was the ignition point that directly lead to the military action against Serbia by U.S./NATO)
- On Jan. 17, Russian President Yeltsin was hospitalize (seemingly hinting at the relevance of Russia in the Kosovo situation, as Russia is Serbia's major ally)
- Clinton's 'State of the Union' speech occurred on Jan 17 or 18
- Symbolic Links:
- By late March, it seemed everywhere you look the Kosovo situation was compared to the Nazis' "ethnic cleansing"/"genocide" during "WWII" (for example, see news articles: Kosovo exodus reminiscent of WWII; Refugee exodus 'straight out of Schindler's List'). And the Serbs too often compared NATO/US to the Nazis.
- The ethnic cleansing activity by Serbia was named "Operation Horseshoe", and a 'horseshoe' is a symbol of 'good luck' in various cultures, and 'good luck' is also symbolized by the swastika used by the Nazis who also committed ethnic cleansing
https://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/1999-sirius.htm |
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Sion, Switzerland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Swiss city. For the district, see Sion District.
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Coordinates:  46°13′52″N 7°21′34″E |
| Country |
Switzerland |
| Canton |
Valais |
| District |
Sion |
| • Executive |
Conseil municipal
with 9 members |
| • Mayor |
Président (list)
Phillippe Varone FDP/PRD/PLR
(as of November 2016) |
| • Parliament |
Conseil général
with 60 members |
| • Total |
29.81 km2 (11.51 sq mi) |
| Elevation
(gare)
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491 m (1,611 ft) |
| • Total |
34,708 |
| • Density |
1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi) |
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| Time zone |
UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) |
UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) |
1950 Sion, 1958 02 Uvrier, 1962 Pont-de-la-Morge (Sion), 1967 Bramois, 1991 00 Salins, 1991 02 Arvillard (Salins), 1991 03 Pravidondaz (Salins), 1991 04 Turin (Salins), 1991 05 Misériez (Salins), 1992 00 Les Agettes, 1992 01 Les Mayens-de-Sion, 1992 02 La Vernaz (Les Agettes), 1992 03 Crête-à-l'Oeil (Les Agettes), 1993 Veysonnaz
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| SFOS number |
6266 |
| ISO 3166 code |
CH-VS |
| Surrounded by |
Ayent, Conthey, Grimisuat, Grône, Mont-Noble, Nendaz, Saint-Léonard, Savièse, Vex |
| Website |
www.sion.ch
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Sion (French pronunciation: [sjɔ̃] ⓘ, German: Sitten [ˈzɪtn̩] ⓘ; former Italian: Seduno; Latin: Sedunum) is a Swiss town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Valais and of the district of Sion. As of December 2020 it had a population of 34,978[3] (known as Sédunois(es)).[4]
On 17 January 1968, the former municipality of Bramois merged into the municipality of Sion.[5] On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Salins merged into the municipality of Sion, and on 1 January 2017, Les Agettes did the same.
Landmarks in Sion include the Basilique de Valère and the Chteau de Tourbillon. Sion has an airfield for civilian and military use, which serves as a base for air rescue missions.
Prehistoric settlement
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 Necropolis at Le Petit-Chasseur  Menhir at Le Petit-Chasseur
Sion is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Europe. The alluvial fan of the river Sionne, the rocky slopes above the river and, to a lesser extent, Valeria and Tourbillon hills have been settled nearly continuously since antiquity. The oldest trace of human settlement comes from 6200 BC during the late Mesolithic. Around 5800 BC early Neolithic farmers from the Mediterranean settled in Sion. The settlements remained small until about 4500 BC, during the middle Neolithic, when the number of settlements increased sharply. To support the population increase, farming and grazing spread throughout the valley. They also began burying their dead in Chablandes-type stone burial cists with engraved anthropomorphic stelae. The individual graves changed at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC in large, dry stone wall communal tombs (such as the Dolmen of Le Petit-Chasseur). During the Beaker culture period in the second half of the third Millennium, dolmens were built once again, but they were smaller and had no podium. Stelae continued to be carved, though these were rich with geometric patterns and sometimes built out of old dolmen. At the beginning of the Early Bronze Age (around 2300 BC) the last stelae were erected.[6]
The early settlements have been well documented. There are huts from the Middle Neolithic period found near Le Petit Chasseur and under Ritz Avenue. Late Neolithic sites have been found at Bramois and the early Early Bronze Age site is at Le Petit Chasseur. The Middle Bronze Age, however, is poorly documented. From the subsequent epochs, the great necropolis of Don Bosco (the "aristocrat" tumulus of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age) and the necropolis of Sous-le-Scex from the La Tène culture.[6]
Celtic and Roman town
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At the end of the 1st century BC, Sion was the capital of the Seduni, one of the four Celtic tribes of the Valais.[7] Julius Caesar mentions them as Nantuates Sedunos Veragrosque.[8] They were conquered by the Romans in the 10s BC. By 8–7 BC, Emperor Augustus praised the tribe (civitas) of the Seduni with an inscription. The town-hall is said to contain several Roman inscriptions, one of which found at Sion commemorates the Roman presence: Civitas Sedunorum Patrono.[8] Under the Romans it was known as Sedunum.[citation needed]
The Roman settlement stretched mainly from what is now St. Theodul, between the Sionne and to the west side of the hill, Valeria. Under the church, a large bath complex was discovered and partially excavated. Near La Sitterie, Sous-le-Scex and in the upper part of the Avenue du Petit Chasseur, portions of several villae suburbanae were found. In the 1st century AD, the Claudii Vallensium Forum, in what is now Martigny, became the capital of the civitas Vallensium. Sedunum lost political importance, but still remained the home of many notable families. Grave stelae attest to the presence of duumviri (magistrates of the civitas), of flamines (priests of the imperial cult), a Roman knight and a former consul in the town. In the 4th century praesides (provincial governors) are mentioned living in Sedunum, including a man named Pontius Asclepiodotus, who rebuilt an imperial building and, according to an inscription, converted to Christianity in 377.[6]
Seat of a Catholic bishop
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 Valais between 1260 and 1337
The Roman Catholic diocese of Sion is the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps. At first, the see was sited at Octodurum, now called Martigny/Martinach. The first authentically historical bishop was Saint Theodore or Theodolus (died 391), who was present at the Council of Aquileia in 381. He founded the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in Agaunum, with a small church in honor of Saint Maurice, martyred there c. 300, when he united the local hermits in a common life, thus beginning the Abbey of Saint-Maurice, the oldest north of the Alps. Theodore rebuilt the church at Sion, which had been destroyed by Emperor Maximinus at the beginning of the 4th century. At first the new diocese was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Vienne; later it became suffragan of Tarentaise.[9]
In 589 the bishop, St. Heliodorus, transferred the see to Sion, leaving the low-lying, flood-prone site of Octodurum, where the Drance joins the Rhône. Though frequently the early bishops were also the abbots of Saint-Maurice, the community of canons was jealously watchful that the bishops should not extend their jurisdiction over the abbey. Several of the bishops united both offices: Wilcharius (764–780), previously archbishop of Vienne, whence he had been driven by the Moors; Saint Alteus, who received from the pope a bull of exemption in favor of the abbey (780); Aimo II, son of Count Humbert I of Savoy, who entertained Leo IX at Saint-Maurice in 1049.[9]
The first cathedral probably dates from the 6th century. It was halfway up the hill, where later the church of St. Peter stood, until the 19th century when that church was demolished.[6]
The fortunes of the city grew when the bishop settled there. In 999, King Rodolphe III of Burgundy granted the entire County of Valais to the bishop, and Sion became the capital of this county. The prince-bishop had the rights of high and low justice, the right to his own regalia and to appoint his own vassals. The residents of Sion were ruled by three appointees of the bishop, the maior, the vice dominus or Viztum and the salterus.[6]
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