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		<title>Review: &#8220;Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/23/review-steve-santa-and-the-secret-of-the-last-parfait</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart. Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart.
Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo da Vinci fruity theory roundup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto? All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto?
All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. He [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo&#8217;s unexpected elephant&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Stigmata&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/18/review-of-stigmata</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/18/review-of-stigmata#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Pryce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nag Hammadi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nostradamus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Arquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Francis of Assisi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Lazarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turin Shroud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The film Stigmata (1999) presses a whole lot of my buttons. At the time it was originally released, I had been researching my own novel built on broadly the same premise:  a globetrotting protagonist hunting down miraculous statues and people claiming to have duplicates of Christ&#8217;s stigmata (though that&#8217;s basically where the similarities ended). And so I was fascinated to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The film Stigmata (1999) presses a whole lot of my buttons. At the time it was originally released, I had been researching my own novel built on broadly the same premise:  a globetrotting protagonist hunting down miraculous statues and people claiming to have duplicates of Christ&#8217;s stigmata (though that&#8217;s basically where the similarities ended). And so I was fascinated to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Basil Brush and a (pre)cautionary tail&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/06/basil-brush-and-a-precautionary-tail</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/06/basil-brush-and-a-precautionary-tail#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What picture might outsiders paint of Cipher Mysteries in their mind? A mid-town apartment filled with books, box-files, printouts, and eBay-bought sofas filled with a continual stream of cipher groupies all surreptitiously hoping to pick up on some innocuous clue to fabulous buried treasure? Well&#8230; that&#8217;s presumably fairly close to what the script-writer on The (all-new) Basil Brush [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What picture might outsiders paint of Cipher Mysteries in their mind? A mid-town apartment filled with books, box-files, printouts, and eBay-bought sofas filled with a continual stream of cipher groupies all surreptitiously hoping to pick up on some innocuous clue to fabulous buried treasure?
Well&#8230; that&#8217;s presumably fairly close to what the script-writer on The (all-new) Basil Brush Show [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Recent cipher challenges&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/04/recent-cipher-challenges</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/04/recent-cipher-challenges#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s some mysterious side-effect of the Da Vinci Code, but it seems that all of a sudden cipher challenges have become cool again (if they were ever cool before). I did a quick trawl of the Net and came up with this quicky little list, mostly from 2008:- Pretty as a picture is the MicroArray [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s some mysterious side-effect of the Da Vinci Code, but it seems that all of a sudden cipher challenges have become cool again (if they were ever cool before). I did a quick trawl of the Net and came up with this quicky little list, mostly from 2008:-

Pretty as a picture is the MicroArray $1500 [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warwick/Warburg course 2008, Day Two&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/22/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-two</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/22/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-two#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erwin Panofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Taylor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I&#8217;ll try to explain&#8230; Paul Taylor kicked Day Two&#8217;s morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I&#8217;ll try to explain&#8230;
Paul Taylor kicked Day Two&#8217;s morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from Francois [...]]]></content:encoded>
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