*Dave* - it's what's happening today only with a happier ending.

International operatives will be exposed, probably, that are far above the level of danger and power than we have seen so far.

#booksky From my 2004 book *Well Worth a Shindy.* The round temple is DUGALD STEWART’S MONUMENT, Calton Hill, Edinburgh. It was built by William Henry Playfair and C.R. Cockerell in 1831. The temple is a copy of the Lysikrates Monument in Athens. Book has info on over 100 similar temples.

None of this is true. They lie about everything. Whatever they put out, assume it's a lie. Don't take it seriously or you will be duped.

3 of 3)...These jewel thieves matched a plan of the Louvre interior rooms to their exterior positions. The entrenched tradition of displaying the jewels in the Petite Galerie blinded the security experts to the Galerie's exposure.

2 of 3)...looking south over the river was the reason the passageway, now a sculpture-encrusted 2-story building with a baroque, gilded, upstairs gallery where the crown jewels have been on display for years, was built.

1 of 3)...The little balcony the thieves used has a history. The building was made for Catherine de Medicis in 1566 as a covered walk for the queen to access a view of the Seine and the countryside from the old Louvre. Many changes to the architecture since then but the balcony...

about time people begin saying this

(6 of 6) As the author of *Second Son, the Man in the Iron Mask*, in which I offer a startling disagreement with the accepted legitimacy of Louis XIV backed by medical and genetic science, I would love to study the heart remnants to test my theory.

(5 of 6) Brookfield, Vermont: Gower, 1991, "In 1846 was installed in the crypt of Saint-Denis an armoire des coeurs fitted with boxes containing the hearts (or parts of them) of Marie de Médicis, Henry IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XVIII – and one whose precise identity was unknown.”

(4 of 6) The royal remains have not been accessed since a few years after that date. According to Elizabeth A.R. Brown, *The Monarchy of Capetian France and Royal Ceremonial,"

(3 of 6) Saint-Denis. Remains of the heart of Louis XIV, stored in a separate place, were sold to a painter to make a brown color called mummia. On March 3, 1819, the artist returned to what was left of the heart and it went back to Saint-Denis.

(2 of 6) Between 6 August and 25 October 1793 occurred the systematic removal of the tombs and their contents of the French royal families from the abbey church of Saint-Denis near Paris. The remains were dumped into ditches. On January 18, 1817, the remains were taken back to

He remembers the images he saw in 2020 and these replay in his head. His own mind presents these images as happening now. There may be plenty of other contorted memories that are now real for him.

(3 of 3) Ambroise Paré, 1575: Gold; silver
Amatus Lusitanus, 1653: Gold
R. Wiseman, 1676: Resinous alloy
Fabricii Hieronimi, 1723: Sponge; lint; silver
Lorenz Heister, 1739: Gold; silver
Jean Astruc, 1754: Gold; silver
Doctor Lefebvre, 1823: Silver; gilded silver; gold; platinum

(2 of 3) "Here are the substances used for making obturators up to 1823 that are in old medical texts. The device Dauger wore must have been made of one of them or a combination:
Hollerius, 1552: Wax; sponge
Alexander Petronius, 1566 : Wax; gold; cotton
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(1 of 3) I explain in *Second Son" the palatal obturator that the Man in the Iron Mask (Eustache Dauger) might have worn on the trip from Exilles to Cannes in 1687. It was reported by Voltaire to have been an "iron mask" but this is grossly untrue. 17th century craniofacial medicine

The Citadines apartment hotels are wonderful. Fix your own free breakfast at home, heat up coffee, finish off that strawberry pastry you saved in the fridge from yesterday. The Citadines are all over Paris, some more $ than others. Nice one near the Opera next to Passage des Princes

I joined Democracy Docket on the basis of the happiness that the last photo of Blue gave me.