A man of miracle revealed by his mystic prophecies. Non-Biblical Prophet; Michel de Nostradame

A man of miracle revealed by his mystic prophecies. Non-Biblical Prophet; Michel de Nostradame

The most well-known of non-biblical prophets, Michel de Nostredame, or Nostradamus, was born in St. Remy in the south of France in 1503. He became famous for his medical work with victims of this plague that broke out at Aix-en-Provence and Lyons in 1546-47 and only after this started making prophecies. His first collection was published within an almanac of weather forecasts in 1550, and in 1555 he published the first of 10 collections of prophecies (nearly 1,000 in all) under the title of Centuries. He died at Salon, in southern France, in 1566.

Nostradamus wrote his prophecies in poetry, for the most part in a highly symbolic style. This, and the fact that he chose not to organize them in any specific order, creates their interpretation, oftentimes, a matter of conjecture. Nonetheless, a range of the prophecies do seem to point quite clearly to events which hadn't yet happened when Centuries appeared. The very first prophecy to bring Nostradamus fame for a seer was the following: The young lion will overcome the old person, in an area of combat in a single fight: He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage; two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.

Four years later, in July 1559, King Henry II of France, who occasionally used the lion as his logo, participated in a jousting competition. The lance of his young competitor pierced the king's gilt helmet and injured him; Henry died after a protracted agony. Few of Nostradamus's prophecies include anything so exact as a date or even a partial date. However, he appears to have given one to the wonderful fire of London in 1666, saying it would occur "in three times twenty plus six." The majority of Nostradamus's prophecies concern big scale political moves and the affairs of the high and mighty. The French Revolution Appears to Be the subject of several verses, such as this:

From the enslaved populace, songs, chants, and demands, while Princes and Lords are held captive in prisons. This will in the long run be received by headless idiots as heavenly prayers.

The very first sentence is simple. The "headless idiots" of the second sentence are thought to refer to the ancient leaders of the revolution, who sensed the demands of the French people as "prayers," and that, finally tainted by their own new power, were themselves overthrown and guillotined.

In September of the year, in the culmination of this revolution, France was declared a republic. The deaths of Queen Marie Antoinette and Madame Du Barry, a mistress of Louis XVI, also appear to have been predicted by this remarkable seer.

Like most prophets, Nostradamus seems to have had a particular knack for predicting disasters and falls out of power. He's held to have clarified the fate of Napoleon, whose rule over the French Empire ended with his imprisonment on the tiny island of St. Helena in 1815, and also to have called for the abdication of King Edward VIII of Great Britain in 1936.

In two quatrains of Nostradamus came close to naming Adolf Hitler and described his calamitous activities with some precision. According to the very first one:

Liberty won't be recovered, a black, fierce, villainous, evil man will occupy it, when the ties of his alliance are all wrought. Venice shall be confounded by Hister.

The second quatrain was more vivid:

Beasts crazy with hunger will cross the rivers, and the larger portion of the battle will be against Hister. He will drag the leader in a cage of iron, when the child of Germany observes no regulation.

Judged and sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Tribunal and a panel of jurors selected by lot, Queen Marie Antoinette of France was headed to the guillotine in October 1793. Her destiny appeared to fulfill the prophecy of Nostradamus that the queen could be "taken to death by those sworn by lot" a process unknown in his day.

In content that the verses are remarkably apt. Liberty was seized or occupied, by an evil (black-hearted and black-haired) man. Venice, along with the rest of Italy, was really eventually "vexed" with his former spouse. Hitler's troops did cross rivers, and other boundaries, such as ravening beasts, even though the vast majority of nations were against them. The last sentence is unclear but might refer to the German naval blockade of Britain, which, before Pearl Harbor, was the only leader of the free world's battle for survival. (Erika Cheetham, The Prophecies of Nostradamus passim).

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Mystic Meter: Ottoman Admiral, Piri Reis and his Legendary Explorations

Mystic Meter: Ottoman Admiral, Piri Reis and his Legendary Explorations

Piri Reis was a sixteenth-century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps and graphs gathered within his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a publication which contains detailed advice on navigation and exceptionally accurate graphs describing the major ports and towns of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1513, he made his first world map, based on a few 20 old maps and graphs he had accumulated, including graphs personally made by Christopher Columbus that his uncle Kemal Reis acquired in 1501 after capturing seven Spanish ships off the coast of Valencia in Spain using a number of Columbus' crewmen aboard.

In 1929, a set of historians at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, found something rather intriguing. Imprinted on an old Gazelle skin obsolete 1513 they discovered a section of a remarkable map. The graph appeared to depict a part of the Atlantic Ocean and contained the Americas and Antarctica in excellent detail. The mystifying thing was it had been drawn up just a couple of years after Columbus'discovery, and three centuries before Antarctica was even known about. Over the years since the find, debate has raged about how the cartographer had assimilated his knowledge. Did an advanced ancient race, or aliens, create his source charts or have the map's features been adapted to fit wishful-thinking theories?

The word, "Reis” actually means, 'Admiral', and it was discovered that Muhiddin Piri had originally worked as a privateer for the Turkish Ottoman Empire, before accepting a role in the imperial navy. In 1513, using an exhaustive list of source charts and data, he drew his first world map which is what we now recognize as the Piri Reis Map. He is known to have compiled another, quite different global study in 1528, and continued to enjoy a distinguished military career until 1554, aged almost 90, when he was beheaded by the Ottoman Sultan.

The segment of the map that still exists is only a portion of the original and shows the Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa, to the east coast of South America, to the north coast of Antarctica in the south. Piri also included details about his sources on the map, claiming some of the reference charts he used were from the fourth century or even before. The map is not drawn with the straight lines of longitude and latitude found on today's maps. It was designed using a series of circles with lines radiating out from them. These types of charts were called, "portolan” maps, and so were utilized to explain sailing courses, guiding ships from port to port, instead of giving sailors a definite position on earth. Historical charts of this kind were prevalent, and Columbus is said to have used one once he put off to find the Americas.

Many Piri Reis Map enthusiasts believe the degree of geographical detail, and mathematical knowledge required to make the map was far beyond the range of navigators from the sixteenth or earlier centuries. Indeed, experts in the United States Air Force from the 1960s found the map accurate; they used it to substitute false information in their own charts. Some folks believe the map could only have been attained with the support of aerial surveys and suggest extraterrestrial animals mapped the planet thousands of years ago, leaving their outcomes supporting to be reproduced by Mankind.

The map's seemingly true depiction of the tradition of Antarctica is its most interesting aspect. Antarctica was discovered in 1818, and the true land of this continent was just mapped in1949 by a combined British and Scandinavian project that had to utilize modern equipment to observe the property beneath the mile-deep icecap. The concept put forward to compensate for this can be that an ancient race using innovative, but lost, technology managed to correctly record details of this continent before it was coated with ice.

Most specialists suggest Antarctica was ice- free later than 6,000 decades ago, although others consider ice has covered the continent to get at least—hundreds of centuries. Similarly, many cartography specialists claim the truth of the portolan method of map drawing will be much more in the eye of this beholder, and lots of maps of this time contained imaginary continents in the South Atlantic. However, there are, nevertheless, some explainable accurate details about the map. The Falkland Islands is placed at the correct latitude, although not being found until 1592, and the unidentified Andes mountain range was contained on the map of America. In the same way, Greenland was revealed as three individual islands, a fact only discovered this century.

So the debate Persists. Can Piri Reis just be blessed with cartographic guesswork? Or did the Ottoman admiral have use of charts and maps made through an advanced race, residing in the world thousands of years ago?

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In A World of Broken Mother's Day by Ron Klauber

In A World of Broken Mother's Day by Ron Klauber

She was my first love. She is still one of my best friends and her concern and affection for me have not diminished at all throughout the years. I'm very proud that a woman like her loved me - - and even prouder that she still does.

Our romance began when I was very young, and her devotion to me was total. Although she was an ''older woman'' she understood me as no one else ever did. She had a caring, loving nature unsurpassed by any other woman in my life, and her love knew absolutely no bounds.

The difference in our ages notwithstanding, I care for her now almost the way I did in my youth. I depended on her, cherished her and looked to her fulfill all my needs. She never failed me.

She's a little frail these days -- the rigors of her more than 70 years catching up to her. She knows pain now and her steps has slowed and is hindered by her cane. Yet her spirit remains the same -- loving genuine and caring. Her sincerity cannot be faulted, and her fidelity remains unquestioned.

She still phones me, almost daily, to find out how I am, to learn what I'm doing, to make sure I'm healthy and happy. And her solicitous interest is real. She isn't trying to manipulate or cajole or wheedle, she is, in fact, expressing her love.

In many ways, she still says she loves me in unique ways. ''Are you eating?'' she'll ask. That means she loves me. ''Are you sleeping well?'' she'll inquire. Translated, that means the same thing. When I was younger, her reminders of her love were things like, ''Button your coat,'' ''Wear your galoshes,'' ''Eat your vegetables.''

Her name is Virginia Klauber, and I'd like each and everyone of you to meet her. I'm very, very proud of her and even prouder of the way she loves me. Virginia is, of course, my mother.

Thinking about her, I marvel at the way the role of motherhood is so rapidly changing in society today. But then, I think of Virginia, and realize that while the trappings might change, the role really doesn't seem to.

Virginia was a working mother, long before everybody was a working mother. She didn't have a microwave oven, a food processor, a trash compactor, or even portable telephone enabling her to use all the other devices unimpeded while talking to her office.

She had to divide her time into smaller pieces, but the love always was there. Her love can compare to nothing else in preparing me and my three siblings for life. She often overprotected us and sometimes worried about us to a fault, but her concern and love were pure, genuine and unparalleled. I would get angry at her and wonder why she would do the things she did - - but her love transcends and overshadows her few faults and fewer failures. Only those who never attempt, never fail.

My mother will be 68 June 28. She has gone through some difficult times during the past few years, especially right after my dad died. She is in great pain most of the time - - undaunted spirit continues, and she just carries on.

I somehow survived the absence of Virginia from home while she was working. - - it made me more independent, now that I look back on it. And the kids of today will survive. There is no substitute for the love, nurturing and tender loving care of the fellow human being who gave birth to you. But that fellow human being can also be a productive, career-minded individual without cheating a child of anything but too much attention.

Mother's Day of today is different, and we should not to visit our moms for their health because of the Covid-19. But we can have good time and make them happy via video chat. I hope your moms are fine. And we have to protect our lovely moms. I hope safety days will be come for all of us.

And I wish hope I want Virginia to know how much I love her. I want her to know that I, too, have memories. I want her to know that working moms are and were just fine.

Virginia really was my first love - - she will always be more special to me than I can ever tell her. Happy Mother's Day, Mom.

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