Why BALD ARCHES?

I come to think of these two words when asked what to name my blogspot. It took me barely one minute to think of something that is derived from my first name. But my name has a British etymology meaning strong warrior. Why not "word warrior"or "ärchangel", or "ärchetypal"or "ärchetypes"wanting to focus on the first four letters. So I Google-ed the word ARCH and got some points from the ever-friendly Wiki.

I already knew from the Humanities class that I used to teach in college that an arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (that is, a doorway in a stone wall). The arch appeared in Mesopotamia, Indus Valley civilization, Egypt, Assyria and Etruria, and later refined in Ancient Rome. The arch became an important technique in cathedral building and is still used today in some modern structures such as bridges.

Arches were used by the Persian, Harrapan, Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek and Assyrian civilizations fro underground structures such as drains and vaults, but the ancient Romans were the first to use them widely above ground although it is thought that Romans learned it from the Etruscans. The arch has been used in brudges in China since the Sui dynasty and the tombs since the Han Dysnasty.

An arch requires all of its elements to hold it together, raising the question of how an arch is constructed. I pegged the concept of my blog on this aspect holding together my sporadic thoughts.

Intentionally i wanted to make the arch as a metaphor of my future blog entries wishing that all elements and symbolisms that I may or may not use in it which obviously leads to the consequence of your blog questioned on its validity and the true state of your mental stamina.

I later read that in ancient architectural strategies, old arches sometimes need reinforcement due to decay of the keystones, and they called these bald arches. See the similarities?