Lady Justice

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Randy Kennedy, That Lady With the Scales Poses for Her Portraits; Two legal scholars trace a symbol through the ages; Blindfolds, now potent symbols, were slow to catch on. New York Times, Dec. 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/books/16justice.html?scp=1&sq=lady%20justice&st=cse

Note:
(a) Maat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat
(Her ostrich feather [on her head gear] represents truth; the last picture shows the "weighing of the heart")

Quote: "In the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against her single 'Feather of Ma'at,' symbolically representing the concept of Maat, in the Hall of Two Truths. A heart which was unworthy was devoured by the goddess Ammit and its owner condemned to remain in the Duat. The heart was considered the location of the soul by ancient Egyptians. Those people with good and pure hearts were sent on to Aaru.

(b) Book of the Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead
(the text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife; was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased; There was no single or canonical Book of the Dead)
(c) Themis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themis
(Themis means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb títhēmi, "to put")
(d) For Justitia, see Lady Justice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice
(Roman goddess of Justice)
(e) The word "hoodwink" is now solely used as a transitive verb--never a noun.
(f) Langston Hughes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
(1902-1967; born in Joplin, Missouri; Both parents were mixed-race, and Langston Hughes was of African American, European American and Native American descent)
(g) Old Bailey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bailey
(The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey from the street in which it stands, is a court building in central London)
(h)  Charles M. Schulz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz
(1922-2000; an American cartoonist, whose comic strip [is] Peanuts)
(h) Lucy van Pelt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_van_Pelt

Lady Justice Lucy. William Mitchell College of Law. (uploaded by sandi87 on Jun 29, 2002)
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1042128002011557542aqNjJl
(i) precept (n): "a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action"  

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(j) aperçu (n; French past participle of apercevoir to perceive): "INSIGHT"
(k) The first name in "Felix Frankfurter" is Latin meaning "lucky."
(l) iconography (n): "the traditional or conventional images or symbols associated with a subject and especially a religious or legendary subject"

(m) note to ONLINE pictures accompanying this report.
(i) Raphael
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael
(Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino; 1483-1520; better known simply as Raphael; Italian)
(ii) For Joost de Damhoudere, see Joos de Damhouder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joos_de_Damhouder
(1507–1581; a jurist from the Seventeen Provinces; born in Bruges, northwestern end of Belgium; died in Antwerp, the Netherlands)
(iii) Jürgen Ovens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Ovens
(1623-1678; a portrait painter)
(iv) Tom Otterness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness
(1952; an American sculptor)


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