HOT -vs- FRY

It’s always important to pay particular attention to pattern-clusters that begin to grow early on in the month.  Note from Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site in the first week of April: 

• Derek Whitehead (14 February 1944 – 7 April 2025 announced) 81, rugby (Warrington, Lancashire, national team)
• Willie Vassallo (14 September 1949 – 6 April 2025) 75, footballer (Floriana, Green Gully, national team) 
• Kosala Jayaweera (14 January 1987 – 6 April 2025) 38, Sri Lankan  MP, heart attack.
• Victor Omololu Olunloyo (14 April 1935 – 6 April 2025) 89, Nigeria governor of Oyo State
• Cedric Warren Dempsey (April 14, 1932 – April 5, 2025) 92, executive director of the NCAA
• Wayne Handy (May 14, 1935 – April 1, 2025) 89, American rock and roll singer

We have a “January 14, February 14, March 14, April 14(x2), May 14, June 14, __, …, September 14/14th Day/Month Sequence” pattern cluster. 

I included a June 14, because it’s a notable day— Donald Trump’s birthday,… not to mention that the above surname “Whitehead” is a twin heads up—as in a cryptic “Whitehouse Head”— a key “US politics” giveaway clue.  I also included March 14 because of the significance of the day in my recent March 24 post ,Bogus Law -vs- Bog Us Law (See excerpt from post below). 

So, that leaves us with the July 14 gap— a prompt to investigate further.  So, using the formula as per usual we venture to the July 14 wikipedia page, butt… this time, I veered off from the norm, because under the Holidays and observances section,  this caught my queer eye/I :

• International Non-Binary People's Day

I have learned early on how the inner twin world every now and then throws a curve ball.  This would be one.  

International Non-Binary People's Day is observed each year on 14 July and is aimed at raising awareness and organising around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world

Following the leads, I then came to one notable non-binary/transgender person with political affiliation: 

Phyllis Randolph Frye (born 1948) is an associate judge for the municipal courts in Houston, Texas. Frye is the first openly transgender judge appointed in the United States

Hmmm, the “fry” in her last name is interesting… and given the “chaude/hot” cryptic communication in my previous post, we officially have a “hot/fry Theme” pattern cluster in the works, an indication that we’re on the “wright” track.  On Frye’s wiki page I noted this: 

List of LGBT jurists in the United States

I was amazed by how long the list is.  So I decided to limit my search to judges who had Wikipedia pages and limiting my search again to the name “John”… why not… makes perfect sense two me!! There was only one John in the list of LGBT Judges:  

John S. Arrowood[66]

North Carolina Court of Appeals (2017– )

North Carolina

active

With a surname like that, you can be sure were close to hitting the target… hmmm only one “w” aka “double you”:  

John S. Arrowood (born November 4, 1956) is an American attorney and judge. In April 2017, Arrowood was appointed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals by Governor Roy Cooper

By the way, Roy Cooper and I share the same birthday— so onward ho.  And then I noticed this on John Arrowood’s wikipedia page: 

North Carolina Court of Appeals (Martin seat) election, 2014^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	John M. Tyson	557,700	23.84%
	Nonpartisan	John S. Arrowood	336,839	14.40%

 In 2014 he lost to a John Tyson… hmmm.  

• John Marsh Tyson (born July 14, 1953) North Carolina Court of Appeals. 

So there you have it!!  We come full circle to July 14 and another John to boot!!   Of course, the surname Tyson rings a bell (pun intended), today’s controversial Boxing “belle” and/or is that “bo”— Imane Khelif, who took centre stage recently .  Of course I saw the inner twin influence, note this excerpt from my earlier post concerning Khelif: 

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Imane Khelif Investigation (for publication) 

 August 3, 2024 

Imane Khalif’s recent win during the 2024 Olympic Games, and given the gender controversy, I considered this a heads up to investigate further.  Since dates factor in, I set out to retrieve birth info of notable persons on Khelif’s wikipedia page, selecting ones who stand out:

• Imane Khelif (born 2 May 1999)
• Chelsey Heijnen (born 2 May 1999)
• Anastasia Belyakova (born 1 May 1993)
• Lin Yu-ting (born 13 December 1995)
• Kellie Anne Harrington (born 11 December 1989)

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 Monday, March 24, 2025

Bogus Law -vs- Bog Us Law

Last month I had picked up on the following pattern cluster concerning 4 notable persons added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site: 

• Alan E. Valdes (March 14, 1935 – February 12, 2025)
• Warren Pitt (14 March 1948 – 7 February 2025)
• Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo (14 March 1941 – 4 February 2025)
• Stewart Reuben (14 March 1939 – 4 February 2025) 

As you can see, two of the 4 were born and died on the same day.  

I decided to investigate the March 14 wiki page.  Using the formula we arrive at two: 

• 1999 – Kirk Alyn (born John Feggo Jr.; October 8, 1910 – March 14, 1999) American actor, first to play DC comic superhero, Superman.  
• 1999 – John Broome (May 4, 1913 – March 14, 1999) American author, DC comic books

Wondering Where The Lie-ons Are

Continuing on from my previous post, and give the Cockburn cluster, and being that I'm Canadian, we have our own famous Cockburn:

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) singer, song writer

Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

Two of his songs are meaningful, both hitting the Top 100 in the charts, butt one in particular has caught my aritists eye, because of it's title: the single "Wondering Where the Lions Are" that reached No. 21 in the US, and also because of it's album cover (at right).  I love the art.  Note the following info on the Artist, Norval Morrisseau: 

Norval Morrisseau (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Known as the "Picasso of the North

Note his birthday and note this excerpt from my previous post:

• Don Cockburn (13 March 1930 – 4 September 2017) 
• 2001 – Hank Ketcham (March 14, 1920 – June 1, 2001)cartoonist created Dennis the Menace 

Their birthdays generate a "March 13, 14, __/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  

And so we now have a "March 14(x2)" pattern-cluster.  And so investigating the days wiki page, and using the formula  as per usual we arrive at:  

• 1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
• Kirk Alyn (born John Feggo, Jr., October 8, 1910 – March 14, 1999) 

First actor to play Superman re: 

1948 movie serial Superman 

Note the following info re other cast/crew:

Noel Neill  (November 25, 1920 – July 3, 2016) as  Lois Lane
Tommy Bond (September 16, 1926 – September 24, 2005) as Jimmy Olsen
Carol Forman (19 June 1918 – 9 July 1997) as Spider Lady
Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) as Professor Arnold Leeds
Luana Walters (July 22, 1912 – May 19, 1963) as Lara
 Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) Director
Thomas Carr (July 4, 1907 – April 23, 1997) Director
Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) 
Mischa Bakaleinikov (November 10, 1890 – August 10, 1960) Composer
Jerry Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996) writer
Joe Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) Artist

The two who stand out the most are the Thomas' given that their name means "twin" in origin... and considering that yesterday was September 16, Tommy Bonds birthday,  makes this "timely".  As for Thomas Carr's birthday, simply read  this blogs Header.   And then Bennett died on Kirk's birthday hence generating an "October 8(x2)" pattern-cluster.  Forman's birthday stands out given that June 19 is also the day of the very first post in this blog... so Pronoiasecrets birthday.

Since I recollect that this song of Cockburn's had cropped up earlier, I keyed in the songs title into this blogs search box, the second post brought up hits paydirt given it's date of September 4, 2013:

Ariel Castro RIIP: the MacGregor's, Sylvia Brown and Telepathy

 September 4th  together with two other dates above, generates a "July 4, August 4, September 4(x2), __, __, December 4" pattern-cluster .  I consider this a prompt for you to read the post.   As to what I found on rereading the post... a cluster that I had missed, note the following excerpts from the post

On May 6, 2013, three women from Cleveland, Ohio—Amanda Berry, Georgina "Gina"DeJesus, and Michelle Knight—were rescued from captivity in a Cleveland house owned by their kidnapper, Ariel Castro. 

There is no doubt that the surname Castro also factors in.  This is a name/word that has also cropped up in earlier posts.  Note the etymology http://surnames.behindthename.com/name/castro:

       Means "castle" in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. 

The two names highlighted in gold generate a "Chess/Royalty Theme" pattern-cluster that's also an addition to the recent one that occurs in my September 13 and 14 posts, as the titles indicate:

• Gattuso... Bishop to Knight
• Knights and Castles
• Bishop to Queen

And now we have very specifically, a "Knights and Castles" pattern-cluster.

The other song of Bruce Cockburn that I mention above as also standing out is: 

 "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" (Stealing Fire), an angry response to the plight of refugees in Central America

Note this excerpt from the songs wiki page:

The song was inspired by Cockburn's visit, sponsored by Oxfam, to Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico following the counterinsurgency campaign of dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.^[1] Although Cockburn had occasionally touched on political themes in his earlier songs, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" was his first explicitly political song to be released as a single, and earned him a new reputation as an outspoken musical activist 

Note from Montt's wiki page:

•  José Efraín Ríos Montt ( born June 16, 1926)

And note from the wiki page of Montt's predecessor and his successor (27th president): 

• General Fernando Romeo Lucas García (4 July 1924^[2] –  27 May 2006) 
• Brigadier General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (9 December 1931 – 1 February 2016)

 First of all he was born on Bruce Cockburn's birthday hence generating a "May 27(x2)" pattern-cluster. And He was born on Thomas Carr's birthday (see above), and note from this blogs Header:

On July 4th, 3 Of the first "5" US Presidents had died: Jefferson "5" hours before Adams, and Monroe "5" years later on the "55th" Independence Day.

As for his successors date of death, February 1, note this excerpt from my previous post:

• Henry Cockburn (14 September 1921 – 2 February 2004)English football player

It's his birthday!!  And note the following info regarding his date of death:

• February 2 is the 33rd day... 332 days remaining until the end of the year (333 in leap years)

 And so we now have a "February 1, 2, __/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster... and so bridging the gap using the formula as per usual we arrive at:

• Gwendolyn "Gwen" Guthrie (July 9, 1950 – February 3, 1999)

And so the above dates generate a "July 3, 4(x5), __, __, 7, __, 9(x2), 10/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  Where ever there's a single gap that makes up a group of three when bridged, it becomes "fair game", so using the formula we arrive at:

• Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999)

Note his birthday and note above re:

• Hank Ketcham (March 14, 1920 – June 1, 2001) 

 A "June 1, 2, __/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  And so bridging the gap ... :

• 2011 – James Arness  (May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) actor and producer
• 2011 – Andrew Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) singer, songwriter 
• 2011 – Bhajan Lal (6 October 1930 – 3 June 2011) 6th Chief Minister of Haryana
• 2011 – Jack Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011)pathologist, author, activist
• 2011 – Jan van Roessel (7 April 1925 – 3 June 2011) Dutch footballer

And so we now have a "May _, 26(x2), 27(x2), _/ Date Sequence"; an "October 6, _, 8(x2)"; and a "June 2, __, August 2/ 2nd Day, Month Sequence" pattern-cluster.  And one expands a cluster from my previous post, making it now a:

"January 2, February 2, March 2, __, __, June 2, __, August 2 / 2nd Day, Month" pattern-cluster 

On investigating each date represented by the gaps, one stands out:

• Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002) 

As you can see, her birthday expands the above cluster.  She wrote the Nancy Drew books-- my favourite as a child, and so now you know part of the story as to why I chose her, and note the following info regarding the first notable person mentioned on her wiki page:

• Edward L. Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862 – May 10, 1930)

And his birthday adds to the above cluster:

• July 4, August 4, September 4(x2), October 4, __, December 4" pattern-cluster .