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Par la discorde negligence Gauloise,
Sera passage à Mahommet ouuert
De sang trempé la terre & mer Senoyse
Le port Phocen de voiles & nefs couuert.

Because of French discord and negligence
an opening shall be given to the Mohammedans.
The land and sea of Siena will be soaked in blood,
and the port of Marseilles covered with ships and sails.

HMM... NOT SURE WHAT CENTURY THIS APPLIES TO (ALTHOUGH, FOR THE RECORD, WE ARE STILL IN BOOK ONE - CENTURY ONE - OF NOSTRADAMUS's FAMED QUATRAINS...) BUT REALLY - THIS SAYS IT ALL... NO MATTER WHAT TIME, WHAT ERA YOU WILL LIVE IN - YOU COULD ALWAYS BLAME IT ON THE FRENCH! *LOL*


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Lors que Serpens viendront à circuir l'are
Le sang Troyen vexé par les Espagnes,
Par eux grans nombre en sera faicte rare,
Chef fuit, caché aux mares dans les saignes.

When the snakes surround the altar,
and the Trojan blood is troubled by the Spanish.
Because of them, a great number will be lessened.
The leader flees, hidden in the swampy marshes.

NOT SURE WHAT POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE CAN BE LENT TO THEM SPANIARD BASTARDS, BUT SURELY THIS TELLS OF ANOTHER FINE TIME WHEN GLOBAL OVERPOPULATION WILL SIMPLY NOT BE A CONCERN FOR ANOTHER WHILE LONGER...

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Tours, Orleans, Bloys, Angers, Reims, Nantes,
Citez vexez par subit changement,
Par langues estranges seront tendues tentes
Fleuues, dards, renes, terre & mer tremblement

The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes
are troubled by sudden change.
Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;
rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.

SOME MAJOR INVASION... LIKELY FROM THEM PESKY BARBARIAN HORDES...! AH, THOSE DAMN BARBARIANS... HARDER TO GET RID OF THAN EVEN ROACHES... BUT I DIGRESS... THIS DOES NOT CONCERN OUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE... NOT EVEN OUR DISTANT FUTURE... THIS IS THE PAST!


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Profonde argille blanche nourrir rocher
Qui d'vn abysme y stra lacticineuse :
En vain troubles ne l'oseront toucher,
Ignorans estre au fond terre arguilleuse.

The rock holds in its depths white clay
which will come out milk-white from a cleft
Needlessly troubled people will not dare touch it,
unaware that the foundation of the earth is of clay.

I ALWAYS KNEW THAT THE ROCK WAS NOT WORTH ALL THE HOOPLA SURROUNDING HIM - NO WRESTLER TURNED ACTOR EVER IS... *LOL*
SO - HE WOULD BE LIKE... MICHAEL JACKSON... COLOURLESS. AND THE CAREER WILL HIT... ROCK BOTTOM - GO SIX FEET UNDER...? SEEMS TO ME THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS HERE... I COULD BE WRONG...

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Ce que viura & n'ayant aucun sens,
Viendra leser à mort son artifice.
Authun, Chaalon, Langres & les deux Sens,
La gresle & glace fera grand malefice.

A thing existing without any senses
will cause its own end to happen through artifice.
At Autun, Chalan, Langres and the two Sens
there will be great damage from hail and ice.

HAIL... AND AN ICE STORM? NOW YOU'RE TALKING... I SURVIVED THE 1998 ICE STORM WHERE I AM AT... MAYBE I WON'T SURVIVE THE NEXT ONE...?!? *YIKES!* AS FOR THE THING THAT EXISTS WITHOUT ANY SENSE(S)... THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, MAYHAPS...?!?

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Au maoys troisiesme se leuant du Soleil,
Sanglier, Liepard au champ Mars pour combattre
Liepard laissé, au ciel extend son œil,
Vn Aigle autour du solei voir s'esbatre.

In the third month, at sunrise,
the Boar and the Leopard meet on the battlefield.
The fatigued Leopard looks up to heaven
and sees an eagle playing around the sun.

A BOAR AND A LEOPARD WANT TO RUMBLE...?!? HMM... REALLY GOING OUT ON A LIMB HERE... INDIA AND PAKISTAN?!? AND THE USA SOARS OVERHEARD... LIKE AN EAGLE... OR A VULTURE NOW?


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A Cité neufue pensif pour condamner,
L'oysel de proye au ciel, se vient offrir
Apres victoire à captifs pardonner,
Cremone & Mantoue grand maux aura à souffrir.

At the New City he is thoughtful to condemn;
the bird of prey offers himself to the Gods.
After victory he pardons his captives.
At Cremona and Mantua great hardships will be suffered.

NEW YORK WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO CONDEMN ANYBODY... NOTE THAT "THE GODS" TRANSLATION IS QUITE A STRETCH FROM THE FRENCH ORIGINAL, THAT MERELY SPEAKS OF THE HEAVENS ("CIEL" = SKY... SKIES ABOVE...). SURELY THIS BIRD OF PREY IS, AGAIN, THE USA... THE CONDEMNER AND GREAT PARDONER... AND PRETENDER! WHO WILL CAUSE MORE HARDSHIPS SOMEWHERE... WHAT A SURPRISE...

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Perdu, trouué, caché de si long siecle,
Sera pasteur demy Dieu honoré,
Ains que la Lune acheue son grand cycle,
Par autres vieux sera deshonoré.

The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries.
Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure.
This is when the moon completes her great cycle,
but by other rumors he shall be dishonored.

AH - A TREASURE HUNT! WHAT WILL IT BE THAT WILL BE DISCOVERED, PRAY TELL? THE HOLY GRAIL? THE ARK OF THE COVENANT? EXCALIBUR? ATLANTIS... ?!? TIS VERILY THE LATEST RAGE IN HOLLYWOOD TOO - MOVIES ABOUT LOST TREASURES (THAT SIC NIC CAGE RECENT VEHICLE... THIS SAHARA PIECE OF ROTTEN CELLULOID COMING OUT SHORTLY...). WHOEVER FINDS IT AND CLAIMS IT AS HIS OWN IS DOOMED TO FIND AN ALMOST-AS-DREADFUL END AS THE TUTANKHAMEN SWEEPSTAKES WINNER... *LOL* (OK - DISHONOR IS NOT SO BAD - WHEN COMPARED TO A CURSE!).

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Le grand du foudre tombe d'heure diurne,
Mal & predit par porteur postulaire,
Suyuant presage tombe d'heure nocturne
Conflit, Reims, Londres, Etrusque pestfere.

The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt.
An evil deed, foretold by the bearer of a petition.
According to the prediction another falls at night time.
Conflict at Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.

HMM... MORE OMINOUS STUFF... SURELY, THERE MUST BE A TON OF ANTI-DUBYA PETITIONS OUT THERE... EH? SURELY ONE OF THE INITIATORS OF SAID PETITIONS WISHED DUBYA DEAD OR SOMETHING... SURELY IT IS WITHIN THE REALM OF REMOTE POSSIBILITIES THAT LIGHTNING WILL STRIKE THE DUMB@$$ DOWN (I MEAN - GREAT MAN DOWN - OF COURSE)... SURELY...
AND, MEANWHILE, WAR AND PESTILENCE -TWO OF THE FOUR HORSEMEN- HARD AT WORK AGAIN...


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La tour de Bouq craindra fuste Barbare
Vn temps, long temps apres barque hesperique,
Bestail, gens, meubles tuous deux ferot grand'tare
Taurus & Libra quelle mortelle picque.

Tobruk will fear the barbarian fleet for a time,
then much later the Western fleet.
Cattle, people, possessions, all will be quite lost.
What a deadly combat in Taurus and Libra.

TOBRUK IS A TOWER... THIS ONE REEKS OF THE MIDDLE-AGES... BUT I LIKE THE LAST LINE THERE - BEING A TAURUS AND ALL... WHAT LIBRA WOULD DARE TAKE ME ON NOW...? *LOL*

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Quand le poisson terrestre, & aquatique
Par forte vague au grauier sera mis,
Sa forme estrange, suaue & horrifique,
Par mer aux murs bien tost les ennemys.

When the fish that travels over both land and sea
is cast up on to the shore by a great wave,
its shape foreign, smooth and frightful.
From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.

WOW - COULD THIS ONE BE ABOUT... ATLANTIS INDEED?!?
OR, MUCH MORE MUNDANE INDEED, ANOTHER NAVY S.E.A.L.S. HOME INVASION SOMEWHERE, WHERE THE USA DON'T BELONG...!!!

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La nef estrange par le tourment marin
Abordera pres de port incogneu,
Nonobstant signes du rameau palmerin,
Apres mort, pille, bon auis tard venu.

Because of the storm at sea the foreign ship
will approach an unknown port.
Notwithstanding the signs of the palm branches,
afterwards there is death and pillage. Good advice comes too late.

DOESN'T IT ALWAYS, MIKE...? (Mike... Michel de Nostredame! *lol* Ok - enough for this week... Blessings!).