It’s a Mystery

... how my little china cat, sitting on the kitchen window sill, manages to collect these objects. All I know is that every six months or so I discover her gift to me.

“Standing on the shoulders of giants” (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries"

Thanks to Ingeborg for her AT challenge this week -probably easy to identify, but do you know which denomination?