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January 10, 2014 · 2:14 pm

Quedlinburg treasures
Main article: Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg

Whitewright was the home of US Lieutenant Joe Tom Meador, who after World War II looted several major pieces of art from a cave near Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

On April 19, 1945, American troops occupied Quedlinburg. Various treasures of art were secured in a cave near the castle Altenburg. Meador was responsible for the security of the cave.

Meador, a soldier with good knowledge of art, recognized the importance of the treasures (among them being Gospel of Samuel and the Crystals of Constantinople). He sent the treasures to Whitewright via army mail, and the art was placed in a safe at the First National Bank of Whitewright.

Meador died in 1980, and his heirs tried to sell ten pieces of Beutekunst (looted art) on the international art market. After a long search and judicial processes, the art was returned to Germany in 1992 and were investigated because of damages to the pieces. At first those stolen artefacts were exhibited in Munich and Berlin but were finally returned to Quedlinburg in 1993. However, two of the pieces stolen by Meador are still in the United States at an unknown location.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_medieval_art_from_Quedlinburg

On April 20, 2000, the IRS and the Meador family settled for $135,000.

Kentucky town.

http://www.texasescapes.com/They-Shoe-Horses-Dont-They/Three-Bean-Salad.htm

Tom Bean
Tom Bean was a mysterious character that showed up in Grayson County one day – having just traded his horse and pistol for a wagon with a yoke of oxen carrying a barrel of whiskey. He had everything needed to open a saloon and so he did – naming it the White Elephant for what he considered his end of the trade. His profession other than saloonkeeper was said to be that of surveyor.

He bought or traded his services for so much land that it was said he could ride to Austin (a three day trip) and camp out every night on property he owned. Reportedly he owned 25,000 acres in Grayson County alone.

When asked where he hailed from – his usual reply was “from a Bean patch.” Bean carried books with him and volumes of Shakespeare and Dickens seemed to be favorites. He was a Mason and a clean-shaven man – rather unusual for that period. According to one source he had one blue and one brown eye. He was not married, although he had a woman with him and quite a few children running around the place. He was described as always carrying an umbrella and wearing a bee-gum hat – whatever that was.

He granted 100 acres of land to the railroad – having the town named in his honor in return. When he died, over 100 people filed claims against the estate, making it one of the most famous of Texas civil law suits. Tom Bean is buried in the Willow Wild cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

The Tom Bean Tom Cats are the local high school football team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant

Mr. Bean.

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January 7, 2014 · 6:18 pm

Lemon

1967, January 22, Gus Grissom, an American astronaut, held an unauthorized press conference in which he told reporters that the United States was “at least a decade away” from even contemplating a lunar mission. He was severely rebuked for giving that interview without permission. Following this reprimand, Gus Grissom later came out of a water tank reduced gravity simulation of the supposed lunar landing module, and hung a lemon attached to a coat-hanger in front of a NASA emblem to indicate to any cameras present, without speaking, what he and his fellow crew members, Roger Chaffee and Edward White, thought of the Apollo programme.

1967: January 27, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo/Saturn mission. They are the first U.S. astronauts to die in the line of duty.

Thomas Baron and astronauts killed to keep Apollo program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYBJFPuiwE

lemon world

http://kubrickskeys.tumblr.com/

Tom’s Petty High.

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January 6, 2014 · 2:41 pm

There’s no doubt that Kenedy is John Kennedy, educated at Choate, shot by Oswald who was in turn shot by Jack Ruby. To hide the assoc. Kenedy gives one of its “n”s to Panama (of palindrome fame). Therein lies a nice mystery, and also we are back at Camp Ruby, likewise in Texas. I believe Camp Ruby is an enlargement of the westward Texas Ruby.

In the early 1900s many of Kenedy’s gunfighter’s shooting caused the town to be nicknamed “Six Shooter Junction”.

-Additional shots were fired from “the grassy knoll,” a small area next to the book repository, suggesting that there were multiple shooters.

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January 3, 2014 · 12:55 am

Jack’s VW

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnv16

VINEYARD, TEXAS. Vineyard is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380, State Highway 114, and Farm Road 1156, on Beans Creek, two miles south of Wizard Wells and thirteen miles southeast of Jacksboro in eastern Jack County. The current community of Vineyard is the second of that name to be located in Jack County. The original community of Vineyard, sometimes called Old Vineyard, was founded by George Washington Vineyard in the 1880s. Water found on the property was unfit for drinking, but cured G. W. Vineyard’s chronic leg sores and eye disease. Vineyard received a post office in 1882, and in 1914 the name was changed to Wizard Wells. In 1890 the community had a population of 100, a general store, blacksmith, and a barber. A new community was formed two miles south of Wizard Wells, around the depot of the Chicago, Rock Island and Texas Railway, eventually called the Chicago, Rock Island, and Santa Fe, when it was constructed in 1899 from Bridgeport to Jacksboro. In 1915, when old Vineyard was renamed Wizard Wells, the new community centered around the depot took the name of Vineyard.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/new-2/

OMG: VWX Town!

One singular thalamus has the ‘v-shape’…2 together make the ‘w-shape’.
The literal peoples car…Volks-Wagen….’STUVWXYZ’ (VW alphabet order and XY 23 chromosomes)

The Man Behind The Curtain.

The Wizard Cube; VW conjunction to the east again; involved W is first letter of WIZARD.

Directly east of Jack County, Texas we have Wise County, almost the same size and dimensions of Jack but with over 6 times the amount of people per the 2010 census.

Jack Nicholson (Devil). Ray Wise (Devil).

Wise has also be compared with Wizard here.

Important here may be the town of Runaway Beach (close to Vineyard + Wizard Wells) on the west side of Jack, and also Chico and Alvord. Okay, maybe not the latter two, but still: Runaway Beach, which I think may refer to the song “Runaway” by Del Shannon, referenced in Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream”.

2 versions of a Petty, Texas have already been highlighted in this blog.

Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream” might make a nice alternate soundtrack for Jack’s initial trip to the Overlook Hotel during the movie’s opening scenes, driving his yellow VW through the beautiful Montana mountains toward his caretaker position interview. And in fact, this is what happened.

Songwriters: Lynne, Jeff / Petty, Tom / Campbell, Michael
By Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, I was drivin’
Trees flew by, me and Del were singin’ little Runaway
I was flyin’

Chorus
Yeah runnin’ down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin’ on a mystery, goin’ wherever it leads
Runnin’ down a dream

I felt so good like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
The last three days the rain was un-stoppable
It was always cold, no sunshine

(Repeat Chorus)

I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There’s something good waitin’ down this road
I’m pickin’ up whatever’s mine

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Twins

http://www.sailblogs.com/member/blessedlady/?xjMsgID=275816

This is a favorite place of mine. I’m sure that some people don’t even know it’s hidden in the depths of Port Ludlow. The entrance is between two small islands called The Twins that open onto a bay about the size of Quest Stadium. Anchorable depths provide for two, maybe three boats, but I was there alone. The dense woods on the steep shores are only moderately punctuated by the gardening of the homes that line the bay, so it’s still a relatively idyllic setting.

Another Dart besides 3 already blog recorded (Washington). Historical, however:

Matching Oklahoma/Texas set (reversed from above):

(continue to)

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December 20, 2013 · 1:53 pm

November 15, 2013 · 2:00 pm

There

was also a lot of talk about a SID’s 1st Oz interview, Hucka D. You and I.

Hucka D.:

Damn I can’t get any sleep[ because of you]!

bb:

I’m trying to press forward with the momentum.

Hucka D. (rubbing big bee peepers):

It’s morning. The sun’s up. And I’m up. This is wrong.

bb:

It’ll be okay. I’ve been looking up the keyword “interview” in the Baker Blinker Blog. I was planning the Sylver Forest related interviews, then the Mike Casey interview came along, which was the only *real* interview completed. Then we were going to do the SID’s 1st Oz interview. We talked a number of times about it when I first came to Rubi in 2008. We kind of started it, in fact. We talked of “Dark Globe” representing a kink in the A-Z progression of tiles in SID.

Hucka D.:

I’m not quite ready to talk about that again.

bb:

That’s fine. Hold on…

There’s the old front of the Temple of TILE in Rubi. This would be centered about where the Coolie Building stands now. It is a very telling front. In fact, this front is *still* in VWX Town — it’s inside the Tyle Cube revolving in front of the vacant Home Orange, Hucka D. Remember how Baker Blinker found it in ZicZac inside this cube and “unfolded” it? To me, in looking at it again, the red squares all stand for the Rubi sim that VWX Town takes up over a fourth of now. (no answer) That the 3 red squares lie on a diagonal, and resemble a game of tic tac toe, stands for *The* Diagonal that use to exclusively belong to Rubi until recently, when it was found to extend across the *whole* Heterocera continent. Exciting new Second Life development for this year fer sure. Hucka? Anyway, the fact that the rest of the squares on the map are Silver, and that Silver is the only other population place marked on this particular map…

Hucka D.:

There’s a plane! Over there.

bb:

In Nowheresville?

Hucka D.:

No. We’re suddenly somewhere. Like Ringo and The Boob. We’re not going around in circles no longer. The record has ended and the needle lifted. Back to reality.

bb:

A plane, eh?

Hucka D.:

Yes!

bb:

Where?

—–

bb:

If you turned the ballerina on a diagonal, her eyes would match the 2 blue circles on that map, Hucka. Given that the urn held above her head, at that angle, would match the Red Rubi sim…

Hucka D. (still pointing out *The* Window):

Aww. It’s gone. You missed it.

bb:

You listening, Hucka? The Ballerina is The Diagonal.

Hucka D.:

She is VWX Town which *contains* part of The Diagonal. She has a container. VWX Town contains. Boy you should have seen that plane. Beautiful!

bb:

Here’s a theory. Lucky’s Magic Village use to be called Camp Rubi, and was a place for wee people to vacation or go to camp. It’s near the confluence of 1st and 2nd Streams. Should we name the streams?

Hucka D.:

All the colours of the rainbow. Wow!

bb:

Are we still talking about the plane? Or the camp?

Hucka D. (still pointing outside and looking at me, bb, now):

Rainbow.

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August 28, 2013 · 5:42 am

Texas

Last night I wrote about Texas synchronicities related to VWX Town and its new Northside. I also posted the link to this blog entry on the Synchronicity Phenomena, since it relates to former board guru/leader Don Boulet. Tonight the wife and I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory where main character Sheldon (another guru/leader) runs home to his mama in Texas after being embarrassed by friends and colleagues at the university he works. A flag of Texas covers one of the atomic particles in the segue to the Texan location in the episode, which I pointed out to the wife, who didn’t originally see it.* Now, just minutes ago, was looking up more info on Don and discovered this online work, the largest graphic I could find of one of his paintings, prominently displaying a Texas flag.

* You can view the Texas flag in the segue at 1:57 in this video:

Also take a look at the resemblance to this marble picture added to my blog the night before viewing this episode.

In perusing pieces of the Synchronicity Phenomena’s archives, it seems that Don’s opinions about the supposed “real” or non-fictional Big Bang Theory were a bit jaded.

An additional possible synchronicity in all this is the appearance of a Firefly star (Summer Glau) in another episode of The Big Bang Theory, watched by the wife and I several nights previous to the Texan related one described above. The spaceport in Burnet sim, Second Life, which includes Joe’s Garage, seems based on this series.

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August 26, 2013 · 8:40 am

Return of Norum and SoSo West Galleries to VWX Town

In the past several days, I’ve created a “Northside” for VWX Town, composed of about 5 buildings including the 2 pictured below. These are Norum and SoSo West galleries, first seen in Pietmond, Otaki Gorge. Still within each is artwork from Julie Sadler and Mike Casey respectively. Original openings of these galleries are described here and here. Dr. Casey’s interview I conducted shortly afterwards is still found on my old blog as well. I need to re-read it again myself sometime soon.

Northside is basically made up of a 2048 parcel of land I decided to rent from Beetle Bailey. Unfortunately I do not have terraforming rights nor the ability to create linden plants, which are indeed handicaps. When Central and Westside go, certainly this part will be deleted as well, leaving only Southside on the other side of town eventually. Will this even come in two weeks? Or will it be delayed until October or perhaps beyond? I’m hedging toward the latter now still.

Check out my neighbor’s nice pics of Northside and VWX Town as a whole in the meantime!

As Veyot’s pictures also show, a general store (Clockwork) and a large tower I’m tempted to call the “Marble Tower” have also been rezzed in Northside.

I’ve basically done what I can with the place, and have absolutely zero prims left after this initial setup. I’m not sure that Northside will have strong personalities like Westside’s Cardboard (C.) Derek Jones to defend it from other town interests but we’ll see.

Marble Tower.

The land immediately north of Northside, where Baker stands below, is called *”Texas”*. Again this seems quite synchy, since SoSo West’s Dr. Casey now lives in Texas (Austin) and also the Marble Tower’s erection, coupled with recent landmark synchs in The Diagonal sim of Burnet, strongly brings to mind the recently deceased Don Boulet, former guru and leader of the Synchronicity Phenomena pack, and who also happened to reside in the Austin area — last in *Marble* Falls, which is in *Burnet* County.

And now it appears that Northside has a hot spring.

Note: Burnet is pronounced like “burn it”, with an emphasis on the first syllable.

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July 3, 2013 · 11:26 am

Diamond Too

The last Frank/Herman Park related post of this blog was created June 10, where I discussed further ramifications of finding a diamond shaped rock at Whitehead Crossing. All posts beyond this, up until (and including) this one, have instead dwelt on Wiltshire, England, where I spent the last 2 weeks of June. Amazing! But back to the point.

The last Frank/Herman Park related post I mentioned:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/diamond-beach-arkansas-beach-etc/

On June 9th, perhaps when I was preparing this last F/H post, a diamond shaped crop circle formed in a field just below the famous Alton Barnes white horse. Only today have I looked up more info on the crop circle, because on the surface, it looks quite manmade and artificial — an amateur effort, one could say. But maybe not. In contrast, the diamond shaped rock I found at Whitehead Crossing the week before was very regular and delineated. It was a true diamond, very similar to the one in the midst of the Arkansas flag I also reproduce in that 6/10 blog post.

But something else has come up in the meantime. The same field that gave us the diamond crop circle of 6/9 also produced, during my stay in England, another crop circle, which has some more surface oddities attached to it. This is the circle I’m talking about, which is a true circle on the perimeter. I was probably one of the first half dozen to dozen people to see this crop circle, which later morphed into a phase 2 (a certain percentage of crop circles have additional phases like this). Red Collie, who I’ve learned to trust to a large degree in discussions of crop circle meanings, has this to say about it:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/Stantonstbernard2/comments.html

At Stanton St. Bernard on June 21, 2013, we saw a very clever field image which resembles a “reel of magnetic tape”:

Six angular numbers were coded into that “tape” in the order 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 9 when reading inward from the outside. This scheme of coding is almost the same as that used at Barbury Castle on June 1, 2008 (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk), except now each angle of the spiral codes for a number using the formula n x 50o instead of n x 36o.

In light of the diamond crop circle – Whitehead Crossing diamond rock synchronicity mentioned above, I took a closer look at the articles and comments for the 6/21 circle occurring in the same field. At the end of the articles page is a broken English article pointing out a connection with a mysterious spinning statuette in the Manchester Museum, only a stone’s throw from the Alan Turing Building Red Collie mentions in his comments. The Alan Turing (connect to “turning”?) tour (“turn”?) Collie also mentions took place on June 18, 2013. The second statuette turning related post from Manchester Museum personnel comes from 6/20, where the time lapse video is introduced.

The mystery of the spinning statuette (II)

About Egypt at the Manchester Museum

About Egypt at the Manchester Museum

The Manchester Museum houses over 16,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world-class holdings in a number of areas.

The mystery of the spinning statuette

When I first noticed that one of our Middle Kingdom statuettes (Acc. no. 9325) had been turned around 180 degrees to face the back of its case in our new Ancient Worlds galleries, I wondered who had changed the object’s position this without telling me. The Egyptians themselves would have appreciated the concern to make visible for passers-by the text on its back pillar – a prayer for offerings for the deceased.

What is very strange is that the statue has spun in a perfect circle – it hasn’t wobbled off in any particular direction.

http://thesaurus.com/browse/coffer

Main Entry:
coffer [kaw-fer, kof-er] Show IPA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large box
Synonyms: case, casket, chest, exchequer, repository, strongbox, treasure chest, treasury, war chest

(continued in Diamond Too 02)

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April 13, 2013 · 9:39 am

Lynn County, Grassland, etc.

Grassland, Texas

My emphases.

The community was founded in 1888 and grew up around a ranch owned by Enos Seeds and his brother, Thomas.^[2]

Grassland seems to be assoc. with the number 61 (same population for 3 decades):*

From the 1940s through the 1970s the population was recorded as 200. It had dropped to sixty-one by 1980. In 1974 Grassland still had two cotton gins, a store, and a station. The population was still sixty-one in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.

It’s also Lynn County’s oldest community according to that same Texas Online Almanac article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert#Biography

Herbert began researching Dune in 1959 and was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming the breadwinner during the 1960s. He later told Willis E. McNeilly that the novel originated when he was supposed to do a magazine article on sand dunes in the Oregon Dunes near Florence, Oregon. He became too involved and ended up with far more raw material than needed for an article. The article was never written, but instead planted the seed that led to Dune.

http://www.duneinfo.com/giedi_prime/books/frank-herbert.aspx

Eye
ISBN: 0-743-43479-X

Eye features the startlingly original collaboration “The Road to Dune,” a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feelings about the filming of David Lynch’s movie version of Dune; Herbert’s own favorite short story, “Seed Stock”; and tales from throughout his career, some never before collected.

http://oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ch09.html

As suggested in the discussion of Children of Dune, Herbert seems to subscribe to a kind of evolutionary ethic, which uses survival as a touchstone for evaluating species behavior. This ethic is also the subject of one of his most effective short stories, “Seed Stock” (1970).

A colony has been landed on an alien planet. It is dying. There is no return. The colonists are trying to reproduce Earth; they cannot understand why their efforts do not work. There is a strange force that warps embryos and seedlings so they do not flourish. The experts choose the most normal-born of the plants and animals to nurture, with no success. They cannot see (because it is unthinkable) that it is the seemingly most stunted and sickly of the plants and animals that are adapting. Kroudar, the laborer, listens with his body; he feels the different rhythm of life on his new planet. He does not try to maintain the old ways. He nurtures the new

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*
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_significance_of_601_in_The_Andromeda_Strain

In 4orrin1, the 601 here is directly overlapped with the number 61 of Giant Rat of Sumatra (36:39).