We are only at the open door into the mind, and those few glimpses science has been able to achieve are few and fleeting. And yet, as one stands back and watches each branch of knowledge develope its reach ever deeper and wider, we learn. And how we learn, we are beginning to learn. And [...]

American antiques figures of fun towards the American colonists by their English oppressors in mockery included figures such as Yankee Doodle Dandy. Yet young America embraced him, even when he could only ride into town on a Yankee pony, not a proper Englishman’s horse. He and his pony meant business, and English who did not [...]

American antiques figure Henry David Thoreau created a plan to Mathama Gandhi a century later on how to free the peoples of India from British rule in his essay On Civil Disobedience. In this Thoreau discusses his time in jail in protest of a new tax to support a war against Mexico during which American [...]

American antiques personalities such as Thoreau or Emerson draw our minds eyes to the essence of independent thinking. Neither a Thoreau or a Gandhi had much time for concern about how they appear when it is a fight for the mortal soul of humanity and its sriving to be free that counts more. Whether your [...]

It was American antiques personality Henry David Thoreau who was the inspiration to Mahatma Gandhi in his fight to resist English rule. It was the destiny of Gandhi to remove the Jewel from the English Crown. Make your own was fundamental to Gandhi and his followers, who began to make their own clothing, from home [...]

American antiques reflective thinking has not always been at the forefront of the American experience. An occasional Thoreau at his pond or in discourse with his dear friend Emerson, while the rapidly expanding America flexes and expands outward, always west. Except this time the naturally westernward forward momentum of America had it’s proud soldiers in [...]

American antiques personalities run the range of expression of simple living by natures rules to more sophisicated observations. And whether by the fire in Concord in debate or in the daily observations of life can be seen in the words and lives of Thoreau or Emerson. Henry David built his modest cottage of wattles by [...]

American antiques thinking and wisdom influenced India in it’s path towards freedom from Britain through Thoreau to Gandhi. In this series we discuss 7 tips from Gandhi, the great freedom fighter for India in it’s search to freedom from being The Jewel in the Crown of British rule and authority. The amazing fact is that [...]

American antiques heroic figures are many, and none tower above Thomas Jefferson. His visionary understanding of history allowed him to draw on his knowledge that, as example, a century earlier, Holland had freed itself from Spanish rule with initial support of only three counties until the rest joined in. This was one option. But visionaries [...]

American antiques moments of the appplication of humor to make a point are many, and most good stories have been well repeated. My recent article about the application of humor by Dr. Benjamin Franklin at the family estate of his English patron,my ancestor Sir Francis, was well received, and went to more relevant sites, 1,165 [...]