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called "Het einde" or "The End" was recently discovered and sold at a private auction to The
Rockefeller foundation in 2017 for 32.9 million USD. alleged leaked photos of the private auction state that the page contains a brief message about what Adriaan Metius wrote regarding his vision of the future. Jay Rockefeller went on record stating he wishes to neither discuss his families purchase nor what it may or may not have said sparking controversy among Qanon followers and conspiracy theorists alike who claim when translated from Metius' native language of Dutch into English it is said to say the following
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a few months prior to Metius' death in 1635 he became once again fascinated with stars and planets recording his opinions and statements about his discoveries in a series of journals most of the pages of which, have been lost in 1882. A sole page from what many consider to be his last journal he
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