I have been working on genealogy off and on for a long time. I love history, and it's fascinating to me to learn about my relatives and when they lived. Recently I was at my parent's house and mom said she got an old Bible from my Grandpa's second wife. (Technically I suppose she would be my mom's step-mom but Grandpa remarried when my mom was in her 40s, so she never felt like a mom figure). Mom was unsure if it even belonged in our family, but there was a name on the front. I recognized it, but couldn't place where she fit. After, pulling up my tree, she's my 3x great grandma, Elizabeth, born on my mom's side in 1840. The Bible also had a page for photos. There was a photo of a Civil War soldier, a man and a woman, General U S Grant, and a head shot of a young man. I guess it was common to buy pictures of famous people like Grant, so that's explained that photo. Thanks to a Facebook group I identified the man and woman. She is Elizabeth's husband's sister who died in 1864 10 days after giving birth to her second son.
So, today I decided to flip through the Bible, carefully, to see if there was anything else. I found some mysteries.
There is a piece of lace....
a piece of tissue like paper that used to be purple...
a drawing (was on the pages for 1 Cor chapters 11-13)...
and a report card of sorts from 1867...
I don't know who the student was but the guardian is my 4x great grandpa. He was born in 1807! I'm kind of wondering if the child's father was killed in the Civil War.
Is 26:3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
yardstick: Servant, re: provocation - anything the jews do is a provocation to the muslims... they could do nothing and it would be a provocation... their very existence is a provocation...
Apr 20, 2024 20:01:36 GMT -6
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EnochWalked: To be fair, yardstick, that goes both ways. The Palestinians could completely reject terrorism, but Netanyahu would still not give them a state or make them citizens of Israel. Instead he would just build more and more Jews-only settlements.
Apr 20, 2024 20:11:01 GMT -6
yardstick: yes, i agree. what I do not know for certain is how much the jews lie about things. i know the muslims are allowed to lie about anything to anyone who is not a muslim. therefore, nothing they say can be taken at face value.
Apr 20, 2024 20:44:14 GMT -6
EnochWalked: I've just discovered this new entity that's part of the UN: www.wdtacademy.org/about/overview "The digital era necessitates global cooperation. WDTA, as a collaborative platform for research and innovation, ensures that no one is left behind"
Apr 21, 2024 23:13:33 GMT -6
EnochWalked: yle.fi/a/74-20084802 "Russia behind cyber attacks on Western utilities, security firm says". Previous attacks include "temporarily knocking out [Ukraine's] electricity grid". The US electricity grid must be their ultimate goal. Days of darkness?
Apr 21, 2024 23:54:17 GMT -6
EnochWalked: If the US agrees to not attack Syrian armed forces, so that they can defeat ISIS there, and if Syria agrees to kick out the Iranians, then maybe both sides could claim victory. Israel would say "peace and safety" and do a deal with Saudi Arabia too.
Apr 21, 2024 23:57:49 GMT -6
EnochWalked: That means in order for SCOTUS to hear an election hacking case, a losing candidate would have to prove that the voting machines were hacked, despite the winning candidate potentially being the state government, who could destroy evidence of their crimes.
Apr 22, 2024 12:59:12 GMT -6
EnochWalked: It's just setting the scene for some enterprising hedge fund or Three Letter Agency to appoint operatives in a few companies that create these voting machines, and then an entire election could be invisibly altered, at the click of a button.
Apr 22, 2024 13:02:15 GMT -6
EnochWalked: Dubious source and extraordinary claims, but it sounds like the "UFO disclosure" people are now starting to settle on what their story is, and are slowly leaking the details necessary to disprove it, or for the government to be forced to admit something.
Apr 24, 2024 0:28:16 GMT -6
EnochWalked: "Astronomers believe T CrB is on the verge of going nova. They predict it will happen sometime between now and September 2024. The last nova happened in February 1946." After appearing "for about a week, people will be able to catch a glimpse of it"
Apr 24, 2024 11:08:07 GMT -6