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标题: Economist, May 18, 2013 [打印本页]

作者: choi 时间: 5-25-2013 10:42
标题: Economist, May 18, 2013
(1) Free exchange | The Humble Hero; Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade.
http://www.economist.com/news/fi ... -freer-trade-humble

Quote: "Speed and reliability of shipping enabled just-in-time production, which in turn allowed firms to grow leaner and more responsive to markets as even distant suppliers could now provide wares quickly and on schedule. International supply chains also grew more intricate and inclusive. This helped accelerate industrialisation in emerging economies such as China, according to Richard Baldwin, an economist at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. Trade links enabled developing economies simply to join existing supply chains rather than build an entire industry from the ground up. But for those connections, the Chinese miracle might have been much less miraculous.

作者: choi 时间: 5-25-2013 10:43
(2) The Walpole masterpieces | Wall Candy; A legendary British art collection, snapped up by Catherine the Great, returns after 250 years—but only for a few months.
http://www.economist.com/news/bo ... t-returns-after-250

Note:
(a) The title a word play on "eye candy."

(b) "IN 1742 Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first and longest-serving prime minister, finally retired to the country."
* Robert Walpole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole
(1676-1745; "generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although the position of "

rime Minister" had no recognition in law or official use at the time, Walpole is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the office de facto because of his influence within the Cabinet")
* Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom
(section 3 Foundations of the office of Prime Minister)

(c) "In the Palladian mansion he built on the site of his father’s house, at Houghton in Norfolk, Walpole gathered together the pictures that had graced his various London houses."
* Palladian architecture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladian_architecture
(derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580))
* Houghton Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Hall
* Houghton, Norfolk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton,_Norfolk
(is the location of Houghton Hall, a large country house built by Robert Walpole)
(v) The English surname Houghton came from names of various places, including that of Norfolk: "from Old English hoh ‘ridge’, ‘spur’ (literally ‘heel’) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement.’"
* spur (n): "a pointed device secured to a rider's heel and used to urge on the horse"
* For the pronunciation, see Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt
(Henry Oscar Houghton)

(d) Paolo Veronese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese
(1528-1588; an Italian painter)
(e) Catherine the Great (1729-1796; reign 1762-1796)
(f) National Gallery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery
(Established 1824)
(g) Nicolas Poussin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin
(1594-1665; Nationality French; "the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome")

(h) "The heroic ancestral portrait of Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, in Garter robes, by Anthony Van Dyck, complete with a patch to cover a duelling wound to the face, was presented by Joseph Danvers, who went on to be given a baronetcy."
* Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Danvers,_1st_Earl_of_Danby
(1573-1643; a Knight of the Garter; view the portrait)
* Anthony van Dyck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_van_Dyck
(1599-1641; Flemish)
* The Dutch surnames Van Dyck/ Van Dyke are from "Middle Dutch dike ‘dike.’"
* baronetcy (n): "the rank of a baronet"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baronetcy
* in UK: duke> marquess> earl> viscount > baron> baronet> knight
* For Joseph Danvers, see Danvers baronets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danvers_baronets
("The Danvers Baronetcy, of Swithland in the County of Leicester, was created * * * on July 4, 1746 for Joseph Danvers * * * The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1796")

(i) "Van Dyck’s glamorous portrait of Sir Thomas Wharton, Knight of the Order of the Bath."
* Thomas Wharton (died 1684)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(died_1684)
(c 1615-1684; He was created Knight of the Bath in 1626; view portrait)
* Order of the Bath

(j) "The Saracen's head crest of the Walpole family, carved into their original frames, rhymes with the same crest on a marble-topped table."
* rhyme (vi): "to be in accord: HARMONIZE"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhyme
* For "Saracen's head crest of the Walpole family," see
Dajavous, Strawberry Hill Fireplace Little Parlour adj IMG_1899. Flickr.com, Ju;y 30, 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50241745@N05/6017599935/
("The heraldic crest of the Saracen's head from the centre of the fireplace of the Little Parlour. Walpole believed that ancestors Fitz Osbert and Robsart had been on the Crusades"/ on the Library ceiling; Holbein Chamber dividing arch; Lady Waldegrave's stunning wooden floor to the Long Gallery)
* Saracen (n): "a member of a nomadic people of the deserts between Syria and Arabia; broadly : ARAB"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saracen
* Horace Walpole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole
(Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford; 1717-1797; the youngest son of British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole)
* Horace (disambiguation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_(disambiguation)
("a Latin male given name. The most famous person bearing the name was the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC-8 BC)")
* Strawberry Hill House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Hill_House
(built in London by Horace Walpole from 1749)
* Saracen's head crest is not the monopoly of the Walpole family. See
Paul Sargeant, Saracen's head crest; A History of Cornwall in 100 Objects. Dec 24, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoft ... JsuYlSBGS4igDhaeYpA
("Since the early 17th century, the Saracen's Head has been the town [Penryn] symbol. It is thought to refer to Barbary pirates who operated off the Cornish coast at this time")
* Penryn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penryn
(a Cornish word meaning 'headland')

(k) "Sir Godfrey Kneller’s noble portrait of Grinling Gibbons has been replaced on the wall inside an elaborately carved frieze that was once attributed to him."
* Godfrey Kneller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Kneller
(1646-1723; "the leading portrait painter in England" of his times)
* Grinling Gibbons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons
(1648-1721; a Dutch-British sculptor)
* replace (vt): "to restore to a former place or position <replace cards in a file>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/replace
* frieze
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieze

(l) For saloon, see state room
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_room
(A state room in a large European mansion is usually one of a suite of very grand rooms which were designed to impress; read caption of the blue print, for "principal dining room (Saloon)")

(m) "Luca Giordano’s grand mythological pair, 'The Judgment of Paris' and 'Sleeping Bacchus,' which both date back to 1682."
* Luca Giordano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Giordano
(1634-1705; an Italian Baroque painter)
* Judgment of Paris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris
(section 2 Mythic narrative)
* Paris (mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_(mythology)
(Paris's name, which means "backpack")
* Compare
Paris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
(capital of France; section 1 Etymology: The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii)
* Luca Giordano - Judgment of Paris
http://www.arthermitage.org/Luca-Giordano/Judgment-of-Paris.html
* File

uca Giordano - Young Bacchus Sleeping - WGA9012.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File $\"\"$ uca_Giordano_-_Young_Bacchus_Sleeping_-_WGA9012.jpg
(Current Location Hermitage Museum)
* Dionysus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
(god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine; He was also known as Bacchus [in Greek], the name adopted by the Romans)

(n) "Walpole was known for his oppositon to the Catholic Jacobite cause"
* Jacobitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
* James II of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England
(1633-1701; reign 1685-1688; Catholic; succeeded after Glorious Revolution by William and Mary, both Protestants with Mary being his eldest daughter)

(o) "Lord Oxford, one of his [Walpole's] fiercest political opponents"

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harley,_1st_Earl_of_Oxford_and_Earl_Mortimer
(1661-1724)
(p) I have spent roughly eight (8) hours on this posting.

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