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I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”
-Jesse H. Jones,

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”
-Jesse H. Jones,

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

Dadaboy:
There is almost nothing beautiful about Religion. apart from the continuous deceptions, Prejudice, Illusions, chaos, undevelopement and foolishness it brings

Let me explain this way.

The reason you believe so much in God is because, by default, the mentality of humans has been altered to believe there a supernatural being up somewhere. (Including myself born into a Christian home till i found redemption)

If you choose to stop being the ignorant person, you would take your time (even if years) to understand the whole theory about life and how humans created God because they had no explanations or understanding how the world evolved.

As a Geographer and anthropologist, i will not waste my time on religious mentions because it’s almost impossible to explain to people who have had a wrong perception and believe for a donkey years

Sorry bro

Hmmm...trimming your finger nails might help...photos of the marks as well will help determine the root cause

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising",John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

Real Estate is still the safest form of investment and every wise wealthy individual has some.

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”
-Jesse H. Jones,

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising",John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”
-Jesse H. Jones,

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”
-Jesse H. Jones,

correctguy0900:
Great piece.
Thanks

Available to serve Sir

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

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Quipu

ALPHABET
While there are many different alphabetic scripts in the world, each and everyone clearly derived from an original alphabetic script. It is said that the history of the alphabet began in ancient Egypt. They had a set of about twenty-two hieroglyphic symbols. These symbols represented syllables that began with a single consonant of their language. These ‘alphabetic’ symbols helped in the pronunciation of hieroglyphic pictures.
Heavily influenced by the Egyptian alphabet was that of the Phoenicians. In this alphabet, there were twenty-two symbols. Phoenician was written from left to right. Vowels were often left out of their alphabetic system. By the 9th century BC, the Aramaeans had adopted the Phoenician alphabet.

Eventually, the Greeks, like many cultures, had also adopted the Phoenician alphabet. The Greeks had modified the alphabet, adding vowels. The Greek alphabet was the first to include the use of vowels. Once the Greeks had an alphabet, they began to write down their myths and fables. The Greeks are to thank for giving us vowels in the present alphabetic system. The Greeks also made way for other alphabetic systems.

The Latin alphabetic system began in 700 BCE. The Latin alphabet is very similar to what we see today. However, originally, Latin script was different. They had an alphabetic system closely related to the Estruscan alphabet. Almost all letters had the same phonetic values and the same shapes. The Latin alphabet was written from left to right. The alphabet brought the letter “O,” “D,” and “Q” back into their alphabet; for the Estruscans did not use these letters in their alphabet. Soon after, the Latin alphabet became standardized, and reads much like the English alphabet.

CUNEIFORM
The word cuneiform comes from the Latin word ceneus, which meant ‘wedge.’ Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. This Ancient civilization encouraged this writing form. Many of the great ancient civilizations used this form such as the Babylonians, Akkadians, the Hittites, and the Assyrians.

This writing form was the first one that did not use pictures. Cuneiform didn’t represent objects by pictures, for it represented objects phonetically and semantically. However, the earliest forms of cuneiform were pictoral. This was when subjects were more visible. The writing style became more complex, though, as communication and storytelling became more complex. While useful, this system was problematic or conveying things other than simple nouns.

Cuneiform was created to keep records of goods and activity. Early on, cuneiform was logographic, which means that it used a sign or symbol to convey a noun or action. Cuneiform writing was composed of wedge-like symbols put together at different angles. Some symbols were very simple while others were very intricate. The more intricate symbols were made up of two simple symbols. Later on, the number of symbols used in cuneiform was lowered to make things simpler.


HIEROGLYPHICS
Hieroglyphics, a system of writing in Ancient Egypt, was invented around the same time the Sumerians invented cuneiform. This was around 3500 BCE Some historians believe that the Egyptians were influenced by cuneiform, but some evidence suggests that the hieroglyphics writing was developed earlier than cuneiform. Egyptians believe that this writing form was given to them by the Egyptian god, Thoth. They called this form ‘mdju netjer’which means ‘words of the gods.’


Hieroglyphics uses more than 2,000 characters. Each symbol, called a hieroglyph, represents a common object. To represent an owl, an owl would be drawn. The hieroglyphs are both phonetic and semantic. The Egyptians did use an alphabet. When speaking, they did use vowels, but they rarely wrote them down on papyrus. When the Egyptians would describe, for example, a crocodile, they would put a hieroglyph of a crocodile. This, combined with some letters put together to make a crocodile’s sound, indicated a crocodile. The hieroglyphic writing system was used mainly for inscriptions on the walls of temples and tombs.

The first discovery of this writing form was discovered on bone and ivory tags, and clay pots. They were found in the ancient tomb in Abydos. In the later periods of the Egyptian Empire, the Egyptians developed a writing form called hieratic, which replaced hieroglyphics for record keeping and religious texts. However, hieroglyphs were still used in religious buildings and monuments.


PICTOGRAPHS
The oldest types of writing systems often involved using pictures to communicate. This was the pictographic writing style. The writing style was in Mesopotamia used by the Sumerians in 3,000 BCE. Pictographs eventually developed into such writing forms as cuneiform, where the Sumerians of used wedge shapes to communicate.

This writing style used simple pictures as ways to communicate. The drawings were usually very literal, but they became more complicated as time went on. They used a stylus to draw pictures into clay and dirt surfaces. This style is similar to the writing form of hieroglyphics, but it is easier to read and understand. In fact, it was the basis for cuneiform and hieroglyphics. Some cultures drew on the walls of caves. They would use pictographs to tell stories and communicate with each other. This writing style was, and is still, very universal. Everyone understands literal symbols such as pictures.

The pictographic writing style is still used today. People who live in non-literate countries still use it as their means of communication. In literate countries, however, pictographs are used only to represent simple ideas or objects.


QUIPU
The Incas never developed a form of writing but they did, however, develop a calculation system. Quipu is an accounting device based on ropes and knots. An individual quipu is many ropes tied together. The original or simplest form is a main cord, about one yard long, tying many cords to one unit; this can repeat up to four levels. The chords have knots or just one knot at different levels and positions. With color and knots, they could keep record and store data. Different colors were used to identify different things. If the Incas wanted to count gold or silver, they would use gold and silver strings. Quipu enabled the government to collect important data. Different sequences of knots represented digits that make up numbers bigger than ten.

Young boys would spend a whole year in school just learning quipu. It took a long time to master but the boys who did it well would become quipu interpreters. Quipu interpreters could count and tell data very easily. Very efficient quipu interpreters went on to master records of the entire kingdom. Accountants also used quipu and were called uipucamoyacs. The accountants could create quipu knots and decipher them easily. They were also able to perform simple math equations using quipu knots. Quipus were the main sources of records in the Incan government. The Incas passed history and information down to the next generation using quipu.

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Modern architecture became a dominant architectural style after the Second World war, and remained at the top for several decades.

As with other modern movements in literature, art, and music, modern architecture is believed to come from the Enlightenment and new technological abilities developed out of the Industrial Revolution. Modernity is also read as a reaction to eclecticism and the lavish, detail-oriented styles of the Victorian era and later Art Nouveau. Early examples of modern architecture, like Paxton's Crystal Palace in London and Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Chicago make use of these new construction materials, respectively iron and concrete.

The Bauhaus School, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, was a leading voice in early modern styles.

The Bauhaus distanced itself from ornamentation and earlier ideas of "beauty", opting for rationalization

Form follows function" was an architectural battle cry by the 1930s, and although many modern buildings do feature lovely ornamentation, it was the goal of the modernists to shift the focal point of architecture from ornamentation and interior design to construction and form. While most modernists did not subscribe to Loos' idea that "ornamentation is crime,"they sought to replace the earlier stresses on interior design with feats of construction that were both functional and pleasing to the eye.

Frank Lloyd Wright is likely the most well-known modern architect, if not the most well-known general architect to world audiences. His aesthetic drive was the convergence of humanity and construction, especially apparent in the Prairie Houses of his early period.



While many other modernists wanted to shock and were drawn to the extremes as a presentation of their aesthetic, Wright preferred both likability and modernity. Some of Wright's most famous designs include the Chicago Robie House, Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, and the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The Guggenheim was especially influential and controversial. Many modern artists, including Willem de Kooning, objected to the display of their works in an institution that would compete with the art itself. In this way, the design is questioning art at its most basic form: is art that which is hanging on the wall, or the wall itself?


Another pioneer of modern architecture was Mies Van der Rohe (1886-1969). His career was defined by the "less is more" ideology. He called his works "skin and bones" architecture, minimal in design and enhancing the feelings of open space and free flow. Like many architects of the Bauhaus in the 1930s, Mies fled the Nazi regime and settled in Chicago, where he designed the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, among many others.

The final spearhead of modernism was Le Corbusier, a Swiss/Frenchman who took on the challenge of sprawl and overpopulation in urban Paris. What began with housing blocks designed for Parisian slums turned in to entire city plans.

His goal with these citiy designs, which were not used for more than inspirational sources for other architects, were not only designs for buildings but an attempt to better the way of life of a world citizen. His designs were meant to inspire a better standard of living based on the industrial ideals brought about by Americans like Henry Ford, and increased political and social co-mingling. Though many criticize LeCorbusier's designs for urban living as further segregation of poor communities, his ideals are experiencing a resurgence in response to the growing environmental crisis.

Modern architecture is still very alive today, and has become a stronghold of American aesthetics and popular culture. While many buildings have succumbed to demolition in the 1970s, many more are being actively protected and revered for their historical impacts on art and society

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Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.”
-Russell Sage

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class

Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.”
-Russell Sage

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
-Winston Churchill

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years or in less than that. Land is going up every day.” -SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class