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If Alfred Taubman was 21 when he died in 2015, how old was he when he bought Christi’s in 1983?

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I hadn’t connected the eyeballs to John Dee- he was the eyes for queen Elizabeth( not the one that died recently)- i am a James Bond fanatic so i did some delving into Ian Fleming & the origins into James Bond 007

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As a kid, I observed Adolph Taubman's signs erected all over LA & Orange County in keeping with the post-war suburban sprawl. Today, the retail mall as an institution is all but dead and once-fancy shopping districts are fair game for marauding thieves protected by law and legislation. And those that were once warned Biblically against the worship of "graven images" (לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה) adorn their manses with money-laundering currency known as "art" as they cavort among fellow sybaritic bloodlines in well-appointed enclaves staffed by those enslaved by the lure of luxury only to have their God-given living essence sucked out of them and later reclaimed as trophies by those with the vast means to venture forth on weekend "fossil hunting" trips. Oh, lamentations for humanity.

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I know that checkerboard represenents freemasonry . What about chessboard?

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