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Fascinating Research and Adventures of Author Gavin Menzies

29 Mar

During a recent bookcase reorganization I realized I had not read the latest and last book by Gavin Menzies, adventurer and researcher extraordinaire. (Gavin passed away 12-April-2020.) His career in the British Navy as submarine Lieutenant Commander offered opportunities to develop as a seasoned, savvy world explorer. He authored these three books in his retirement years. Simple questions, keen observations and tenacity to personally travel to the “corners” of the world substantiated his hypotheses.

The Lost Empire of Atlantis Fascinating and as thoughtful as his work on China, differed greatly from claims I was familiar with…submerged in the Atlantic Ocean. Menzies presents “Atlantis” as synonomous to the island Crete with outstanding collaboration from multiple sources and theories. I offer a link to the Dark Journalist website as an alternative contemporary resource on all things “Atlantis.”

https://www.darkjournalist.com

Dark Journalist X-122: AUTEC In The HotZone Ghislaine Atlantis Search

Dark Journalist X-122 (2) Secret Space Government: UFOs & Emergency Powers!

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Book Review: The Winter Harvest Handbook

24 Feb
GREAT READ on the potential and possibilities of four season gardening with unheated greenhouses.

Imagine scrolling Instagram posts and being grabbed by a Martha Stewart post referring to Eliot Coleman’s long time enterprise: organic gardening in Maine year round using unheated greenhouses. This beautiful book has many photos to support the reveal of his family’s passion: life and times growing vegetables for restaurants and markets within a 25 mile radius. Ingenuity emerges in every chapter. Crop rotation, green houses, tunnels, developing custom tools, historical research of Paris in the late 1800s, importance of facing south in the northern hemisphere, custom seeding applications and much MORE. The illustrations are outstanding.

Several years ago my curiosity was peaked by Instagram posts of a longtime friend on the launch of vegetable and flower business supporting the Jonesborough, TN farmers market. Planning involved minimal acreage and a three season planting rotation of most areas. Closed for winter months. Tilling the long time pasture area was challenging. I only briefly saw a map designating plan for plant location and seasonal rotation. Starting from scratch, I wondered how one planned compatible combinations and timing of planting/harvest…so, this Winter Harvest Handbook answered many or most of my questions and more (given the different growing zone). EF

Book Review: End Times and 1000 Years of Peace

4 Aug
Published January 2021

In the last four years, I have read Revelations three times and unfortunately did not get much for my effort.

Thankfully, this book came to my attention via youtube video interview. Download for $2.99. Great investment.

Scripture is expertly paired with commentary chapter by chapter, enthusiastic personal messages and encouragement. To me are the illustrations of constellations with context of timing and meaning are EXTRAORDINARY.

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Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift

9 Apr

Dressmaker is a term that is no longer in our contemporary vocabulary.  A century ago, it was a profession with formal training.

The American College of Dressmaking in Kansas City published The American Dressmaker textbook in 1906.  I assume this instruction became part of Home Economics curriculum some decades later.

I digress… the title The Dressmaker’s Gift understates the powerful story of women in Paris during WW2 resisting the domination and occupation of Nazi Germany.

From making custom dresses/gowns in Paris, to being held at a location for political prisoners (Fresnes), then transferred to Dachau…shocking!  In 2012, I was on the grounds for a walking tour.

Dachau Prison
Prisoner labels, Dachau, Munich 2012

The author accurately related the horrors of life in the concentration camp.

Read for yourself how it is possible to reconcile the trauma, not only for one’s self but also one’s children and grandchildren decades later.

 

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Q…

25 Aug

Having spent 2018 posting my progress reading the Bible in one year (for the first time), I am taking the liberty of sharing several new to me Biblical subjects brought to my attention by Qanons.

 

Many or most messages on the Q board on 8chan have multiple meanings.  For example, one possible meaning of “Q” is high level security clearance.

There is also The Lost Gospel “Q”, the Original Sayings of Jesus.  The appendix of this book shows nearly 50 researchers working on this subject in the 1990s.  Historians of the synoptic Gospels in Germany in the 1830s (p 26) referred to content shared by the gospels of Matthew and Luke as “Q”…short for the German word “Quelle” or “source.”

The Book of Enoch is not canonical/included in the Bible. Enoch is identified with Genesis 5:18.  Enoch was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Adam.  Curiously, there are lessons for us from Enoch forthcoming from a Qanon.

AND…

Interesting research captured in this Twitter thread.

(https://twitter.com/40_head/status/1154352780611444737?s=03)

The link above includes the entire thread.  Sample content of first of a stream of tweets below:

More

1. Oh my God. They’re the descendants of or they are mimicking the Amorites, aka the Canaanites…some of the most wicked people to ever walk the face of the earth, worshippers of Moloch and Baal. Dear God, this battle is for the human race! Epstein’s temple ties it all together.

4:28 AM – 25 Jul 2019

  1. 10 hours ago

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    2. Recently, a photo was produced that showed a bath house in Aleppo, Syria that looked very similar to the temple on Epstein’s Little Saint James island. Q showed us the discovery in drop 3346. I looked up that bath house in Syria, the color pattern continues inside.

    ……..Three examples from the depths of “Q” research.

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Thank Q

20 Aug

Coded messages and a following of decoders on 8chan:

Mystery and intrigue.  Innovation for alternative media?

[intheMatrixxx] (@intheMatrixxx)                                             tweeted at 9:35 AM on Tue, Mar 26, 2019:
Who is Q, you ask? @mitchellvii.

Here is an explanation put together by brilliant Anons.

https://t.co/jszRYJrD23

Q is synonymous with high level security clearance, like the clearance given to Jack Ryan in the Hunt for Red October.

Frequent messages:  Think for yourself.  Research.  Red pill.  Justice.  Sheep no more.

WWG1/WGA(Where We Go One, We Go All)

Watch “SpaceShot X SevereAnon Intro Video” https://youtu.be/7qo4FB4UumQ

Watch “Rock Anthem for Qanon movement:   Search the Word “Q”

 

Memes:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme
In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as “a unit of cultural transmission.” … “Meme“ itself, like any good meme, caught on fairly quickly, spreading from person to person as it established itself in the language.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/meme
Meme definition: A meme is something such as a video, picture , or phrase that a lot of people send …

Q followers are also known as Qanons (anon=anonymous)

Elfcroft recommends these Qanons among many on Twitter, YouTube

They are great researchers and communicators.

https://prayingmedic.com

https://www.coreysdigs.com

Prayerful:  @BardsOfWar (Twitter)

Delightful:  IPOT (In Pursuit of Truth) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAyrKoW31y5UcsRjh2ItvxQ

Mental Challenge:                                                                                                                        Serial Brain 2 Decodes QAnon BIG BIG BIG HAPPENINGS within the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdMxh1UxU8

 

 

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Book Review: The Miraculous Fever Tree-the Cure that changed the world

27 May

 

“Absorbing and SUPERBLY researched” with my emphasis on superbly.  I agree with Miranda Seymour!  Rocco is an award winning investigative journalist.  Her interest in medicine began with her grandparents in Africa in the 1920s.  They were blessed to get quinine tablets made locally because cinchona seeds/trees from Peru had been planted there decades earlier.

World history over four centuries is told from

  1.  Tragic loss of life due to malaria in Europe, Africa, Panama, South America, Middle East, India and Asia.
  2. The cure identified by Jesuits in Peru in the 1600s as quinine (so bitter tasting, people thought they were being poisoned) written documentation in early 1630s.
  3. Theories challenged!  Treatment changed!  (Malaria DNA dates back to 5th century.)
  4. Rocco accessed original records from 1624 and more periods…exquisite documentation, details that enrich readers with life, times, goals, accomplishments of key figures.
  5. “Tree of Fevers” published in 1713 in Madrid
  6. The narrative fully immerses the reader wars, exploration, building the Panama Canal, challenges of exporting seeds and cinchona tree to other continents to save thousands of lives globally.

Enjoy reading!

 

 

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News plus flashback

23 Mar

Kenny Rogers, singer, songwriter and photographer passed away.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-21/kenny-rogers-10-best-songs-islands-in-the-stream-gambler-easy

“The Gambler,” the Grammy-winning story song penned by Don Schlitz, came out in 1978 and became his signature song with a signature refrain: “You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ’em.”  In my humble opinion, that line applies in life to more than card games.  (I have been known to quote it.)

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/actor-singer-gambler-kenny-rogers-dies-81-69724237

Another personal note:  1987 I was astounded by an interview KR did promoting a recently published book.  Amazing professional photography, KR included personal notes about the photo shoots and subjects….80 leading citizens.  Three subjects are former U.S. Presidents.

Woo!Hoo!  My sister was in Atlanta that year and got an autographed copy for me.

One of the joys of having a personal library.  RIP KR

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Book Review: The Bookshop of Yesterdays

5 Mar

This is an amazing book!  The setting is LosAngelos, which didn’t appeal to me until the storyline developed fully.  Short quotes from classic books (of different genres starting with Shakespeare) expertly punctuated the narrative.  Cause of death and paternity was a mystery for Mira, who had been misled.  She also processed the enormity of inheriting a struggling bookshop 3000 miles from her new home and teaching career on the east coast…learning the financial record keeping, personnel/staffing, business cycles and plan to turn a profit.

Anyone involved with handling an estate with a significant number of books will appreciate this novel!

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Q Children

11 Feb

The plan includes saving children around the world from trafficking, abuse and neglect.

To go directly to the decode about children, play from the 7:00-12:00 minute marks.  Reference Q drops 153, 748, 3148 and 3155.

World renowned photographer Steve McCurry captured powerful images of children and paired them with his quotes and others to make the world a better place for our children.  Link to Steve McCurry:

https://stevemccurry.blog/2019/12/03/sacred-trust-3/

This is Elfcroft’s 500th post…and still counting.

 

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