It's amazing what following the leads will bring up. While going back through Wikipedia's Death in 2013 site, I noted the May 7th death of Al Fritz, who is known for designing the "sting ray" bicycle-- with high-rise "chopper" style handle bars and low-riding banana seat popular in my youth:
When I first noticed Al Fritz listed on the Deaths in 2013 site, there were certain things that stood out in regards to the information provided. For one his age,"88", at the time of death serves as a potential lead given the inner twin world's affinity for "twin numbers", butt there was also something about the word "bicycle" and the company name, "Schwinn", that gave me reason to suspect that his inner twin played a part in the timing of their conjoined deaths.
Note the etymology of the word "bicycle":
What impressed me about the name of the bicycle company re "Schwinn", is the suffix "win(n)" and the fact that in our English language many words that begin with "w" had once been preceded by a "G", "C", "K", "Q". Note for instance, this excerpt taken from the etymology site:
So why would "white" be held in such esteem that it also meant "blessed" in earlier times. When ancient peoples moved out of Africa and into the Northern hemisphere to live adjacent to the glaciated lands of Eurasia, they were forced to dawn on heavier garb during a greater portion of the year, which meant that they would be deprived of an essential source of vitamin D gained from sunlight. These ancestors likely had dark skin, black hair and dark brown eyes-- an abundance of melanin designed by nature to screen out the harmful carcinogenic rays from the African sun while at the same time, greater exposure enabled them to get adequate vitamin D. On moving to the north, lighter skinned individuals had a better chance of being healthier and living longer simply because having less melanin meant that they could more easily absorb vitamin D in their greatly reduced exposure to the sun. Over tens of thousands of years that people lived in the north, they would have caught on to nature's tendency of favoring lighter skin, and this likely played a factor in people preference ie: hoping to "win" the hand hand of a woman who is lighter skinned. So there you have it, a plausible root contributor towards the growth of prejudice by "white" society against dark skinned individuals.
Now getting back on track to the Schwinn bicycle company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinn_Bicycle_Company, where I noted the following:
Al Fritz, 88, American bicycle developer and inventor (Schwinn Bicycle Company, Schwinn Sting-Ray), complications from a stroke.[36]Naturally this led me to the bicycles wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle, which turned up the man who invented the bicycle, Karl von Drais, note this excerpt from his wiki page:
Karl Drais (April 29, 1785 – December 10, 1851)Karl Drais' birthday, April 29 stands out given this excerpt taken from my May 8th post re Ferruccio Mazzola RIIP, Peter Rauhofer RIIP ; Ferr:
...it becomes clear that since Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on a leap year, then he was born on the 119th day of the year. Since Peter Rauhofer wasn't born on a leap year, he was born on the 119th day of the year. So even though their birthdays are ONE day apart, they were born on the 119th day!!Peter Rauhofer as referenced in the excerpt is a renown disc jockey who is also listed on Wikipedia's Death in 2013 site, having died on the same day as Al Fritz. Note this excerpt from his wiki page:
Peter Rauhofer (29 April 1965 – 7 May 2013)Note his birthday April 29. So what are the chances of this day cropping up again in just 3 days ?!
When I first noticed Al Fritz listed on the Deaths in 2013 site, there were certain things that stood out in regards to the information provided. For one his age,"88", at the time of death serves as a potential lead given the inner twin world's affinity for "twin numbers", butt there was also something about the word "bicycle" and the company name, "Schwinn", that gave me reason to suspect that his inner twin played a part in the timing of their conjoined deaths.
Note the etymology of the word "bicycle":
bicycle (n.) 1868, coined from bi- "two" + Greek kyklos "circle, wheel"The number 8 is a "bicycle" since it also consists of "two circles". The same can be said of the infinity symbol which looks like an 8 laying on its side∞. As far as the two symbols go, the infinity better represents the bicycle given their horizontal wheels. And there's a bit of a cryptic relationship with the number 8 and the bicycles wheel, considering that the number 8 shares the same key on my computer keyboard as the *asterisk, the arms of which are splayed out similarly to the "spokes" of a bicycle's wheel. It's interesting that this should crop up, in light of yesterdays post entitled, Malcolm Shabazz RIIP and Malcolm X Little Dove, where I mention the following:
What the "x" brings to mind is the word "ex", which most people including myself think of as "being divorced from" to "cancel out" or to "minus something"... and since we're on the topic of opposite ends of the spectrum, the opposite of x (to minus) would be + (plus sign)... AND, if you merge the two together, you get an eight pointed asterisk ✳There's no doubt that the inner twin world and my inner twin were trying to bring me back to the Deaths in 2013 site, where I had earlier passed by the death of Al Fritz. There was something here they want me to see... something that factors into the communication.
What impressed me about the name of the bicycle company re "Schwinn", is the suffix "win(n)" and the fact that in our English language many words that begin with "w" had once been preceded by a "G", "C", "K", "Q". Note for instance, this excerpt taken from the etymology site:
win (v.) ...gewinnan "to gain or succeed by struggling, to win,"...The "G" in "gewinnan" eventually fell to the wayside, however it still remains in the German word for win, note this translation from http://www.vocabulix.com/translation/german/win.html
Names of people and places are often derived from ancient words and can be clues in the study of etymology. Since "gewinnen" is phonetically similar to the name "Gwen", there could very well be a root connection, AND, even if not, there's the matter of the inner twin world infiltrating lives and actions in order to set up their own set of "hidden" patterns and connections that serve to help them communicate today. Note the etymology:
to win gewinnen; siegen
Gwen: From Welsh gwen, the feminine form of gwyn meaning "white, fair, blessed".There's also a similarity between "Gwen" and "Queen", note the following etymology:
queen (n.) .... from PIE *gwen- "woman, wife" ...The word "win" even today, tends to be used in reference to "winning the hand of women", note this famous quote:
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart. ---- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet LetterThe color "white" cropping up in the etymology of "Gwen", is meaningful given the "Black-White"/"Opposites" pattern-cluster which had cropped up in recent posts, note this excerpt from yesterdays post re Lane Smith RIIP, Will Smith, and Willam Smith RIIP:
One of the tv series that stood out was: Good & Evil which aired in 1991. Why this stood out is better understood when reading this next excerpt from yesterdays post entitled, Malcolm Shabazz RIIP and Malcolm X Little Dove:
Much can be garnered from ancient words, and since the etymology of "Gwen" reveals the dual meaning of "white" and "blessed", then it can be assumed that the color "white" was considered "pure/holy", which is audd considering that the etymology of blessed is "blood". Note this etymology:
- Lately, many of my posts involve opposite ends of the spectrum: Male/ Female, water/land, black/white, 911/119, God/Devil, big/little... with the recent focus on "Dwarfs".
white (n.)Old English hwit, from Proto-Germanic *khwitaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit, Old Norse hvitr, Dutch wit, Old High German hwiz, German weiß, Gothic hveits), from PIE *kwintos/*kwindos "bright" (cf. Sanskrit svetah "white;" Old Church Slavonic sviteti "to shine,"svetu "light;" Lithuanian sviesti "to shine," svaityti "...As you can see, the "wh" was once "Khw", and likely before that, it was "Skhw" -- a semblance of this prefix still remains in Germanic words that begin with "Sch", such as schwartz which means black. It's likely that before *khwitaz and/or Kwintos, the origin was "Skhwintos", to which the word "squint" is similar and so it stands to reason that it may come from the same source as white, given the reflex of squinting when looking at something bright/white.
So why would "white" be held in such esteem that it also meant "blessed" in earlier times. When ancient peoples moved out of Africa and into the Northern hemisphere to live adjacent to the glaciated lands of Eurasia, they were forced to dawn on heavier garb during a greater portion of the year, which meant that they would be deprived of an essential source of vitamin D gained from sunlight. These ancestors likely had dark skin, black hair and dark brown eyes-- an abundance of melanin designed by nature to screen out the harmful carcinogenic rays from the African sun while at the same time, greater exposure enabled them to get adequate vitamin D. On moving to the north, lighter skinned individuals had a better chance of being healthier and living longer simply because having less melanin meant that they could more easily absorb vitamin D in their greatly reduced exposure to the sun. Over tens of thousands of years that people lived in the north, they would have caught on to nature's tendency of favoring lighter skin, and this likely played a factor in people preference ie: hoping to "win" the hand hand of a woman who is lighter skinned. So there you have it, a plausible root contributor towards the growth of prejudice by "white" society against dark skinned individuals.
Now getting back on track to the Schwinn bicycle company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinn_Bicycle_Company, where I noted the following:
In 1963 Schwinn's designer Al Fritz heard about a new youth trend centered in California for retrofitting bicycles with the accoutrements of motorcycles customized in the "bobber" or "chopper" style, including high-rise, "ape hanger" handlebars and low-rider "banana seats".[18]Note the use of the terms: "high-rise" and "low-rider" in the above excerpt. The sting ray bicycle designed by Al Fritz definitely fits into the "Hi-Lo"/"Opposite End of the Spectrum" pattern-cluster theme of things.
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