AtD: a few scattered thoughts

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"Walker", as in Foley Walker, is a contextually crucial 
name within the Bush Dynasty:

                George Walker also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America 
                line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the 
                United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for 
                putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B 
                and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/George_Herbert_Walker

                "In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, 
                Prescott Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help 
                their children make a start in life, but Prescott came to 
                regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president 
                of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's 
                specialty was companies that traded with Germany. 
                As Thyssen and the other German industrialists 
                consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s, an 
                American financial connection was needed. According 
                to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out 
                Nazi money-laundering machine. . . .

http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm

http://genealogy.about.com/od/presidents/p/george_bush.htm

Traverse and Transverse are etymologically equivalent, 
both derived from the Latin "tranversus". The term "Transverse"
applies to the polarity of light waves:

                A transverse wave is a wave in which particles of the 
                medium move in a direction perpendicular to the 
                direction which the wave moves. If a slinky is stretched 
                out in a horizontal direction across the classroom, and 
                a pulse is introduced into the slinky on the left end by 
                vibrating the first coil up and down, then energy will 
                begin to be transported through the slinky from left to 
                right. As the energy is transported from left to right, the 
                individual coils of the medium will be displaced 
                upwards and downwards. In this case, the particles 
                of the medium move perpendicular to the direction 
                which the pulse moves. This type of wave is a 
                transverse wave. Transverse waves are always 
                characterized by particle motion being perpendicular 
                to wave motion.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/CLASS/waves/u10l1c.html#transverse

According to a book I picked up today and reinforcing bits and pieces 
I've picked up elsewhere:

                Fire, Ice and Water:

                Although particular, recognizable places do not feature 
                in the Norse stories of the origin of the world, specific 
                sites or natural features can be identified which may 
                have provided the inspiration for important aspects of 
                the creation myths.

                It was in Iceland that most of the myths took the shape 
                in which they have survived until today. The idea of 
                intense heat meeting cold to generate life could well 
                have originated in a place where this unusual 
                juxtaposition is commonly seen: Iceland's ice-covered 
                volcanos erupt, spewing out boiling lava, flames and 
                steam, and the ice caps flooding the valleys below.

Mythology, The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling
General Editor C. Scott Littleton ISBN 1-904292-01-1