'If we replace the H at the lower right of the structure (from the COOH part) with a K, we would get your compound, which 
would be called Potassium Clavulanate. In the acidic environment of the stomach, however, it would be converted into 
Clavulanic Acid.'
Potassium clavulanate is also commonly mixed with Amoxicillin.

I've begun printing out some of the pages, and sometimes you see things on the printed versions that you don't notice while 
scrolling through them on the web. For example, on this page, the stars can be seen as a guide to the order in which the 
boxes should be read. If you start with the star between Luther at the top and the chess diagram and move counter-clockwise. 
The sequence of the stars is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2 (by now you're back to Luther) 3 (the stars linking the central 
cross back to the 'prime time' box).

By the way, if you download the ads, they open as GIFs with transparent backgrounds. If you have Photoshop, you can switch 
the image mode to RGB, and add new layers to the document. I make a white background layer, a copy of the original ad layer, 
and set the top copy to multiply blending mode. It seems to improve the clarity of the graphics when I print them.

The ship depicted at lower left appears to be a Clipper ship. Compare here:

It's not identical, but it's very, very, similar.

The 'unforgettable maiden' quote is attributed to JMR Lenz:

'Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold , 1751-92, German writer. He was a friend of Goethe, whom he first imitated, then lampooned. A 
gifted poet, he wrote lyric poems; plays, including the comedies Der Hofmeister (1774) and Die Soldaten (1776); and critical 
works, notably Anmerkungen übers Theater [remarks on the theater] (1774). He is a principal representative of the Sturm und 
Drang movement.'

The notes at the bottom to (or about) the individual Freaks:

To Owsley (to make dreams true, etc.): I can find this quote attributed to Chaucer, in his version of 'Troilus and 
Criseyde,' but when I go to the original text, I can't find anything close to the quote. Maybe it's in some translation 
somewhere, but I can't locate it.
However, the phrase appears exactly as quoted in the ad in a poem called 'The Dream,' by John Donne:

To Latimer and Ridley (mens agitat molem): The phrase appears in Line 727 of Virgil's Aenid VI; see here:

The phrase has various translations. It appears on the seal of the University of Oregon and is translated here:

as 'mind moves the mass.'
Another translation: mens agitat molem: A mind informs the mass. (Used by Virgil
 in a pantheistic sense of the world; often applied to an unwieldy dull-looking person.)
It may also be translated, I think more idiomatically, as 'mind over matter.'

To Winthrop: This refers to the story of Saul, as told in the book of Samuel, beginning in Chapter 9. It's getting late, and 
I don't know my Bible that well, but from my preliminary researches, it appears that the one who 'surpasses' Saul is David.
It's getting late and I'm tired and don't have time to research the rest of the references in order, but I've previously 
looked into the last quote to Captain Morgan: 'The work is great, etc.' This is one of the weirdest citations I've seen on 
the Mayday pages. 'The work is great, the day short and the master presses the workmen' is a translation that has been given 
for Hebrew characters inscribed on a building called the Nott Memorial at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. It is worth 
visiting this site: 

for more details on this rather remarkable and fanciful building, but here's a sampling of what you'll find: 

'The Nott Memorial retains a significant number of symbolic images that Potter designed, and he has left very little 
information concerning his use of symbolism. The crown of the dome, consisting of green,purple, and red slates, retains 
thirty-two five and six-pointed stars. Each star retains a green outline that is filled with red slate and a purple center. 
One may interpret the stars as being of religious nature, but Potter stated that he designed these stars on buildings that 
were not allowed to have any type of religious symbols on them. Potter used the ancient, mathematical Euclid division ratio, 
known today as Phi; to construct both the pentalpha and hexalpha stars ... The hexalpha might have emerged to symbolize the 
ten contrasting qualities of Pythagoreas such as male and female, good and bad, and light and darkness ... A band of red 
slate, containing Hebrew words in purple slate, spans the dome directly below the stars. Over the years, professors and 
students have attempted to decipher the words into its exact translation. Dr. Tayler Lewis, once a philosophy professor at 
Union, translated the words into " The work is great, the day is short, the master presses the workmen .'

clue:  It never ceases to amaze me how much some of you people are able to dig out of the Web.  Reading through 
"bob's" stuff on the Nott Memorial building it seemed that the fellow who was quoted-Potter-was doing something 
along the lines of what we see here, which is probably why your smart contributor sent in the information!  My 
point is that you could make very religious statements using mathematics and structure but do it in a way that only 
can be read by those in the know.  Now here is the scary part or at least it is for me, let's say people like the 
webmaster and the smarter contributors have finally figured out this has a religious thrust. It is obviously 
Christian and Protestant, so at that point most educated readers or very educated in the cases of the webmaster and 
the smart contributors, would figure these people aren't dangerous, they're a brigher version of people preaching 
in parking lots and tent revivals.  Like they're harmless nuts, kind of warm and fuzzy.  I don't think so but I do 
believe they are religious and this would be one super way of putting a lead shield between them and detection.

clue:  Well, NAT, as far as I can follow your post, I agree with you.

As long as my picture doesn't appear on the evening news I don't mind saying that a lot of the contributors are smarter than
I am.  So smart people, who wrote the quote about original sin and thermodynamics?  I can't find it.

clue:  THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS AND ENTROPY:  

There are some Creationists that attribute all physical death in our universe to Adam and Eve's original sin. They do not limit
this absence of physical death to only human beings, but expand the concept to include all living creatures. Essentially, they
believe that nothing died before Adam and Eve's infamous transgression. Generally, young-Earth Creationists embrace this belief,
since life on planet Earth could not be sustained for millions of years before sin entered our universe. 

Some Creationists even associate a scientific process to help explain their rationale for this claim. They believe that Adam and
Eve's sin initiated the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Under this law, the concept of "entropy" was formed. 

In the context that entropy is employed in this belief, what is being recognized is that all things tend to move from a state of
"order" to a state of "disorder." Although this is neither the primary nor precise definition of entropy, it is an acceptable
extrapolation of entropy's influence in nature. It is evident that virtually everything in nature does tend to "run down"; things
do tend to move from a state of order to a state of disorder. All life on Earth ages over time; the sun is slowly consuming its
fuel by radiating energy; the universe disperses its finite energy as it continues to expand. In a sense, these Creationists
believe that when sin was introduced everything within our universe then began to move in a particular direction - that of
increasing entropy (or "disorder") over time. 

It is true that any natural process contained within a closed system will distribute its energy in such a manner that its entropy
will increase over time. This is essentially what the Second Law of Thermodynamics attempts to define. 

"and turn the muddy water into wine"

I can't find a quote, but I thought this was kind of interesting:
http://www.canterburyfare.co.nz/new-zealand/wine/muddy-water-wine.htm

"I've just returned from the salt, salt sea..."

Francis J. Child's five volume work, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898), is considered by many as the "canon" of
folk music. The collection consists of exhaustive research on over 300 ballads.  This ballad, called House Carpenter is #243 in
this collection.  It is also known as James Harris, or the Daemon Lover.  There are a couple different versions, but here is the
English/Scottish one:  

Well met, well met,
   my own true love
Well met, well met, cried he
I've just returned from the 
   salt, salt sea
And it's all for the love of thee

O I could have married the
   king's daughter dear
And she would have married me
But I have refused the 
   crown of gold
And it's all for the sake of thee

If you could have married the king's
   daughter dear
I'm sure you are to blame
For I am married to the
   house carpenter
And he is a fine young man

If you'll forsake your
   house carpenter
And come away with me
I'll take you to where the 
   grass grows green
On the banks of the sweet Willie

If I forsake my house carpenter
And come away with thee
What have you got to maintain
   me upon
And keep me from slavery


I've six ships sailing on the
   salt, salt sea
A-sailing from dry land
And a hundred and twenty 
   jolly young men
Shall be at thy command

She picked up her poor wee babe
And kisses gave him three
Saying stay right here with the
   house carpenter
And keep him good company


They had not been at sea
   two weeks
I'm sure it was not three
When this poor maid began to weep
And she wept most bitterly


O do you weep for your gold,
   he said
Your houses, your land, or
   your store?
Or do you weep for your
   house carpenter
That you never shall see anymore

I do not weep for my gold,
   she said
My houses, my land or my store
But I do weep for my 
   poor wee babe
That I never shall see anymore

They had not been at sea
   three weeks
I'm sure it was not four
When in their ship there 
   sprang a leak
And she sank to rise no more


What hills, what hills are those,
   my love
That are so bright and free
Those are the hill of Heaven,
   my love
But not for you and me

What hills, what hills, are those,
   my love
That are so dark and low
Those are the hills of Hell,
   my love
Where you and I must go

Martin Chemnitz, mentioned in the last paragraph of the text, between markers G21 and G22 was a Lutheran theologian. 
He was known as "The second Martin" in reference to Martin Luther.  "If the second Martin (Chemnitz) had not come, the first
Martin (Luther) would not have stood."

An interesting link to the other themes in these pages is that a rival group, the "Crypto-Calvinists" called so because they
had calvinist leanings, were refuted in his Chemnitz's works.  

I think the unfolded cube, followed by a nearly folded cube on the right, may be referring to the representation of
a 3D cube in a 2D space.  Continuing in that vein, here is a visual of an unfolded 4D cube:

http://www.kaysdomain.com/4d/5.gif

Somehow the references to multiple dimensions and 4x4 matrix, etc., make me think along the lines of "capacity to perceive
things as they are" or "knowledge enables one to envision things otherwise beyond comprehension."

the map in the lower left that was unidentified in the chart that you put up is washington dc. the very bottom is the potomac river, and the chunk above it is a penisula known as the east potomac park. heres a link that has an aerial pic of the area, and a little history. linky

theres a box and arrow, and some handwritten script there, but its unreadable, even with various sharpening utilities in pshop. theres definetly some numbers in one area that looks like a zipcode, but thats about it. the arrow appears to be pointing to where the bridge meets the land. according to mapquest link there NOTHING there.

the upper right hand corner is columns of octals, they all appear to start 0x, but i cant see any pattern after that. of course, i cant make out all the numbers, but hey.

the lower right appears to be hebrew. the upper left is definitely standard letters, but i cant tell what language. it appears to be english, but i cant be sure.

Andrew 06.08.2005

Breitenfeld, I believe, is a town in central Germany that was sacked by the leader of forces opposing Gustavus
Adolphus shortly before Adolphus defeated that particular force during the 30 years war in central Germany. The leader
of these forces was a man called "Tilly." This was sometime in 1631 or 1632.

But my history may be a bit fuzzy. 

RE: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"
This is from Milton's poem Samson Agonistes (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml)
And the Wikipedia entry might be helpful too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Agonistes

"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 
Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse
Without all hope of day!"

Also, Milton was a supporter of Cromwell, who's pictured above.

I believe that Judson, in his 9.4.01 posting is correct. In addition to the many Bible quotes, these ads have
contained quotes from Shakespeare, Aristotle (1-May-1992 and 1-May-1993), and Plutarch (22-November-1983), and many poems/songs,
all of which have standardized systems for citing them. See (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanus_pagination) and
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekker_numbers).

"Old love rusts not; it dries out". The saying is attributed to a Flemish writer Julien De Valckenaere

This might be a bit whackadoodle (even in the light of our favorite mystery). "Muddy water turned to wine" is a lyric from ZZ Top's "Jesus Just Left Chicago"...

Jesus just left Chicago and he's bound for New Orleans.
Workin' from one end to the other and all points in between.

Took a jump through Mississippi, well, muddy water turned to wine.
Then out to California through the forests and the pines.
Ah, take me with you, Jesus.

You might not see him in person but he'll see you just the same.
You don't have to worry 'cause takin' care of business is his name.

Regarding g43 at the bottom of the page: John Keats wrote a poem named In a drear-nighted December, 
where the verse presumably came from, but not quite word-for-word. The original verse was:

To know the change and feel it,
When there is none to heal it.

 Isn't it interesting that they forgot to notate that the three joined eighth notes in the last beat of the first 
 bar of the melody on the bottom are not marked as triplets? Is it possible that they were deciding not to notate 
 a key signature and it changes meter or did they skip writing it as a triplet for some reason? 

I’ve seen people talking about the fact that all the publications have a leitmotiv, but I think it has something to
 do with the music. A leitmotiv is also a musical term for a musical phrase that is repeated or used throughout the song.

Also, after having read more of the comments I noticed a comment about how the music at the bottom has notation 
errors and doesn’t have a time signature. I have a theory for this too. In most hymns, the time signature isn’t 
marked and isn’t consistent through measures so that and instruments playing can give the singers time to breathe. 
I think the bottom melody might be from some hymn but I don’t know which one, and it makes sense to be a hymn 
considering the fact that these publications seem to have something to do with religion.