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+August.md: August Boston Italian .md

+August Boston Italian .md: August-Boston-Italian .md

+August-Boston-Italian .md: August-Boston-Italian.md

+<<GlobalTOC()>>

+docker run --rm -p 4567:4567 -v $(pwd):/wiki -e GOLLUMARGS="--allow-uploads uploads" gollumwiki/gollum:master --allow-uploads

+---

+title: August Puzzle - Boston, MA. The Secret a Treasure Hunt

+---

+

+| Month | Verse | Painting | City | Jewel | Flower | Status | Immigration Group | Title

+|---------------|-------------|

+| August | 3 |11| Boston, MA | Peridot | Gadiolus | Found | Italy | Salem Witch

+

+[[_TOC_]]

+

+# Summary

+The Boston Casque was found by Jason Krupat in 2018 near home plate, at the middle baseball field in Langone Park, Boston. This disovery was documented in an episode of [Expedition Unkown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/). The Casque was dug up by an excavator during construction.

+

+# Map

+[](https://maps.app.goo.gl/sR9YvUyGkZFBAAAf9)

+

+

+# Painting

+<img src="/uploads/august/Image11.png" title="Salem Witch" />

+

+

+# Image matches

+

+| Painting | Clue | Source

+|---------------|-------------|

+| <img src="/uploads/august/paintingflower.png" width=300 /> | Gadiolus <br /> <img src="/uploads/august/flower.png" width=300 />

+| <img src="/uploads/august/zipcode.jpg" /> | 02213 is the zip code of the North End of boston <br/><img src="/uploads/august/zipcode-annotated.jpg" /> |[Mysterious Writings](https://mysteriouswritings.com/found-treasure-the-boston-casque-of-the-secret-armchair-treasure-hunt/)

+| <img src="/uploads/august/latitude.png" /><img src="/uploads/august/latitude-41.jpg" width=150/> | The latitude of Boston is 42

+| <img src="/uploads/august/longitude-70.jpg" width="150" /> | The longitude of Boston is -71. A 70 with a backwards 7 can be seen near her right elbow

+

+| <img src="/uploads/august/witch.png" width=300 /> | The figure depicted is a witch (a nod to to the Salem Witch Trials) <br> Her hair is shaped like a baseball diamond <br> She seems to be opening Pandora's box | JJP on EU

+| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonglobe.png" width=180 /> | Boston globe | John Judge Palencar on Expedition Unknown

+| <img src="/uploads/august/pops.png" width=200 > | Boston Pops | JJP On EU

+| <img src="/uploads/august/bostonupdated.jpg" width=700 /> | BOSTON | JJP on EU

+| <img src="/uploads/august/columbus.jpg" /> | Columbus looks like a match to some but JJP commented saying he used a model on The Secret Podcast | [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)

+| <img src="/uploads/august/porthole.jpg" /> | The large circular window in the image is mean to represent a porthole on a ship like the USS constition, though the actual constitituion doesn't really have portholes, though it does have [hawse holes](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2017/06/12/hawse-pipes/)| [youtube The Secret](https://youtu.be/taEKPdeFvzU?si=mIAONLrazZLXpFbd&t=1304)

+| <img src="/uploads/august/flags.jpg" /> | <img src="/uploads/august/ironsides.jpg" /> | Confirmed by JJP on EU. <br /> [USS Consitition Museum Signal Flag Chart](https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/signal-flag-chart.pdf)

+| <img src="/uploads/august/warfs.png" /> | North end warfs | JJP

+| <img src="/uploads/august/homeplate.jpg" /> | Home plate "feel at home"<br /> The casque was buried under or near home plate | JJP

+

+

+# Verse Matches

+

+| Verse | Clue | Source

+|-------|-------|-------|----------------

+| If Thucydides is <br> North of Xenophon | Written on the outside of the [Boston Public Library](/uploads/BPL.jpeg) |Jason Krupat on [Expedition Unknown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11203764/), common searcher theory<br /> There is also a [quote by Horacle Whalpole](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole#:~:text=The%20next%20Augustan%20age%20will,and%20a%20Newton%20at%20Peru)

+| Take five steps <br> | Pass five warfs | Jason Krupat on on EU |

+| In the area of his direction | To the North End | JK on EU

+| A green tower of lights | Tobin Bridge | Krupat on EU |

+| <br> In the middle section | In the middle of 3 ballfields | Krupat on EU

+| Near those<br>Who pass the coliseum<br> With with walls| Near [Copps Hill Burying Ground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Burying_Ground) and the [ice rink](https://www.mass.gov/locations/dcr-steriti-memorial-rink) (coliseum) </br >Metal walls could be a reference the nickname of the USS consitution across the harbor's "Iron Sides" nickname.

+| Face the water | Face the Boston Harbor

+| Your back to the stairs | Your back to [Copps Hill Terrace ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%27s_Hill_Terrace#cite_note-MACRIS-2) stairs | Unconfirmed

+| Feel at home | Feel for the treasure under home plate | Confirmed by find

+| All the letters<br> Are here to see | Signal flags on USS constitution? | Speculation

+| Eighteenth day <br/>Twelfth hour<br /> Lit by lamplight | References to Paul Reverse Ride

+| In truth, be free. | Could be a refence to the [famous Saco & Vanzetti trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti) langone was related to<br> [John 8:32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_truth_will_set_you_free).<br> reference to the image, pandora freeing the faires from | Speculative

+

+# Japanese Hint

+

+> The editor told me that if I gave you any hint at all, it would immediately solve the riddle.

+

+Source: [http://quest4treasure.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8158&p=15531](q4t user phrabbot) & [12 Treasures](https://12treasures.com/japanese-edition/) [The Secret Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1T8tO9EC0)

+---

+title: January Puzzle - Roanoke, NC. The Secret a Treasure Hunt

+---

+

+| Month | Verse | Painting | City | Jewel | Flower | Status | Immigration Group | Title

+|---------------|-------------|

+| [January](http://quest4treasure.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=771) | 11 |3| Roanoke Island | Garnet | White Carnation | Unsolved | England | Medievil Scarecrow

+

+[[_TOC_]]

+

+

+# Map

+TODO

+

+

+# Painting

+<img src="/uploads/january/Image3.png" title="Medieval Scarecrow" />

+

+

+# Image matches

+

+| Painting | Clue | Source

+|---------------|-------------|

+|something

+

+

+# Verse Matches

+

+| Verse | Clue | Source

+|-------|-------|-------|----------------

+| Pass two friends of octave

+| In December

+| Ride the man of oz

+| To the land near the window

+| There's a road that leads to

+| Dark forest

+| Where white is in color

+| With two maps

+| After circle and square

+| In July and August

+| A path beckons

+| To mica and driftwood

+| Under that

+| Which may be last touched

+| Or first seen standing

+| Look north at the wing

+| And dig

+| To achieve

+| By dauntless and inconquerable

+| Determination

+| Your goal.

+

+# Japanese Hint

+>Line 1: octave. Octave usually relates to the number 8, and it’s used in music. However Mr.

+>Preiss hints that in this case it is a proper noun. He did not give me further hints.

+

+>Line 18-20: To achieve by dauntless and inconquerable determination.

+>This part is a quote from a book, so let’s look at the dictionary of quotations again.

+

+Source: [http://quest4treasure.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8158&p=15531](q4t user phrabbot) & [12 Treasures](https://12treasures.com/japanese-edition/) [The Secret Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1T8tO9EC0)

+

+# Gift Giver Nudge

+The Secret's official nudge of 2021.

+Not too long ago I was watching a film which featured [whirling dervishes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjFgOfoZ7M&fbclid=IwY2xjawFdnb5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa4mGv_sf_mZ7DnjlBOGs5_8KIDvkBjie2qd2bbCJTRTTSi2RO9-q6W_1g_aem_WyF4_p73gLbv3eYBGbvmPA)

+In the scene the Sufi has one hand pointing to the sky accepting something from God, and one hand pointed to the earth giving something back. For a brief second I was reminded of the Roanoke painting.

+The painting seems to involve parallels doesn't it? One side matching the other, but not exactly.

+Left hand accepting, right hand releasing.

+Why does the right hand have a string with nothing attached?

+Why is the left holding a watch?

+Should you add something to the right?

+Should you remove something from the left?

+Is it the reverse?

+How would you know? Maybe there are instructions in the painting. Perhaps a plus and minus sign somewhere.

+Are you looking at these paintings correctly?

+Is anyone?

+I don't remember exactly what John and Byron were going for. Maybe you can help fill in the blanks.

+Merry Christmas, see you next year.