Re: VMs: Re: Voynich's 1907 donation to the British Library...?

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Portrait of Lord Strathcona:


http://www.bnquebec.ca/illustrations/high/5363.jpg

Regards,
Dana Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Voynich's 1907 donation to the British Library...?


>
> >I wonder who Lord Strathcona was?
>
> This looks like our man: rich guy, build a railway line across Canada, got
> knighted, gave a lot of money away, died in 1914:-
>
>          http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/bridgeford/strath.html
>
> I also believe that The Honourable Walter Rotschild (actually the British
> Zionist leader Lord Rotschild?) does get a few search hits on the web.
>
> I also found a conspiracy site mentioning a book called "Anti-Semitism and
> the Babylonian Connection", Des Griffin, 1988, which referred to an
earlier
> Lord Rotschild:-
>
>          http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/litt.html
>
>          How one of the Rotschilds took control of the London Stock
>          Exchange by knowing the outcome of the war 1815 against
>          Napoleon at Waterloo before anybody else. The expression
>          "a little bird told me" is supposed to come from this occasion.
>          Rotschild got a message from a letter pigeon about that
>          Napoleon had lost and pretended to be very sad and sold
>          English bonds to rock-bottom prices. Others knew Rotschild
>          gets his news before everyone else and thought that
>          Napoleon had won and England had lost. They started selling
>          and Rotschilds helpers bought to rock bottom prices.
>
> Believe it... or don't. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
> unsubscribe vms-list
>
______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list