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Alam & Alad. In Egypt, Babylon and China, the whole culture was built on the ideas of the stargazers. Each nation was ruled by the incarnation or representative of some sort of Sun God or Son of Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots...
...from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second letter of the alphabet. Beth, means "a house," or "a daughter." The second...
...Shameful Weakness. When the Irish took over their country in 1922, the nation had only one hospital that was less than 80 years old. Most hospitals were forbidding-looking piles, built as poorhouses and stand-by barracks in the prime ministry of Sir Robert Peel (who also helped make other medical history-see below). Now the Irish have built or completely rebuilt 82 hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have...
Swiss Artist Hans Fischer has built a major career out of a wealth of minor achievements. He began with posters and cartoons, went on to postage-stamp designs, children's-book illustrations, sets and costumes for cabaret shows, and, lately, murals for primary schools (see cuts). Because Fischer approaches each job with the wholehearted enthusiasm most artists reserve for self-expression on the grand scale, he gets results that will easily outlive the general run of more pretentious work. He also succeeds in expressing his own amiable nature with wit and grace...
Schoolhouses, Fischer explains, "are not built to last for centuries. So instead of trying to raise a monument to himself, the artist can concentrate on giving pleasure to young people. Children have much more imagination than we assume. It's a good idea to paint when school is open and the place is teeming with kids. If the children start climbing the ladder to offer advice and criticism, you know you're on the right track...