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		<title>Announcing &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/22/announcing-the-blitz-ciphers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/22/announcing-the-blitz-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blitz Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some new ciphertexts pinged on my Cipher Mysteries radar: the story goes that they had been found just after WWII in wooden boxes concealed in the wall of an East London cellar that German bombing had exposed. Hence I&#8217;ve called them &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;, but they&#8217;re probably much older than the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some new ciphertexts pinged on my Cipher Mysteries radar: the story goes that they had been found just after WWII in wooden boxes concealed in the wall of an East London cellar that German bombing had exposed. Hence I&#8217;ve called them &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;, but they&#8217;re probably much older than the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221; Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;. But actually, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;.
But actually, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>J.K.Rowling apologizes for Voynich Manuscript, just a &#8220;viral marketing prank&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/12/j-k-rowling-apologizes-for-voynich-manuscript-just-a-viral-marketing-prank</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/12/j-k-rowling-apologizes-for-voynich-manuscript-just-a-viral-marketing-prank#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Reeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London, UK, 11 Nov 2010. In a surprising twist worthy of Voldemort himself, A-list children&#8217;s author and philanthropist J.K.Rowling has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the popular Internet cipher mystery meme &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;. She now says it all was a 1990 publicity stunt for an early release of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221;, which was &#8211; much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[London, UK, 11 Nov 2010. In a surprising twist worthy of Voldemort himself, A-list children&#8217;s author and philanthropist J.K.Rowling has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the popular Internet cipher mystery meme &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;.
She now says it all was a 1990 publicity stunt for an early release of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221;, which was &#8211; much like [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The John Dee of Mortlake Society AGM&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/24/the-john-dee-of-mortlake-society-agm</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/24/the-john-dee-of-mortlake-society-agm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A nice email arrives from Anne Reeves of The John Dee of Mortlake Society: there&#8217;s an AGM scheduled for Tuesday 19th October 2010 at 8pm at St Mary&#8217;s in Mortlake (£5 for non-members, but includes a glass of wine), though you can turn up to chat from 7pm. According to the JDoMS&#8217;s newsletter, their guest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A nice email arrives from Anne Reeves of The John Dee of Mortlake Society: there&#8217;s an AGM scheduled for Tuesday 19th October 2010 at 8pm at St Mary&#8217;s in Mortlake (£5 for non-members, but includes a glass of wine), though you can turn up to chat from 7pm. According to the JDoMS&#8217;s newsletter, their guest [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The 14th European Skeptics Conference &#8211; does it really exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/14/the-14th-european-skeptics-conference-does-it-really-exist</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/14/the-14th-european-skeptics-conference-does-it-really-exist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klaus Schmeh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The next European Skeptics Conference starts in Budapest in a few days&#8217; time (17th-19th September 2010), and features Klaus Schmeh giving a talk on the Voynich Manuscript. Though Klaus has invested a lot of effort into building up a hardline skeptical position on VMs theories (basically, that more or less everything written on it is either pseudoscience or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The next European Skeptics Conference starts in Budapest in a few days&#8217; time (17th-19th September 2010), and features Klaus Schmeh giving a talk on the Voynich Manuscript.
Though Klaus has invested a lot of effort into building up a hardline skeptical position on VMs theories (basically, that more or less everything written on it is either pseudoscience or pseudohistory), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Enrique Joven&#8217;s &#8220;The Book of God and Physics&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/23/review-of-enrique-jovens-the-book-of-god-and-physics</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/23/review-of-enrique-jovens-the-book-of-god-and-physics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Kepler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrique Joven]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ll declare my hand: back when my 2008 History Today article on the early history of the telescope came out, Enrique Joven very kindly translated it into Spanish for the magazine Astronomia, so I know Enrique pretty well. That said, Cipher Mysteries reviews don&#8217;t have star ratings &#38; I&#8217;m not one to hide what I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ll declare my hand: back when my 2008 History Today article on the early history of the telescope came out, Enrique Joven very kindly translated it into Spanish for the magazine Astronomia, so I know Enrique pretty well. That said, Cipher Mysteries reviews don&#8217;t have star ratings &amp; I&#8217;m not one to hide what I&#8217;m [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A miscellany of nine-rosette links&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 09:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard SantaColoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of bedknobs and grimoires&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/29/of-bedknobs-and-grimoires</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/29/of-bedknobs-and-grimoires#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Lansbury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Honestly,I do try to look at things that are entirely unconnected with cipher mysteries. But somehow (I really don&#8217;t know how) they keep creeping in regardless. For example, last night I settled down to watch &#8220;Bedknobs and Broomsticks&#8221; on DVD with my son on loan from the library (the DVD that is, however hooked on books Alex [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Honestly,I do try to look at things that are entirely unconnected with cipher mysteries. But somehow (I really don&#8217;t know how) they keep creeping in regardless.
For example, last night I settled down to watch &#8220;Bedknobs and Broomsticks&#8221; on DVD with my son on loan from the library (the DVD that is, however hooked on books Alex may [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>MS Coislin 338 &amp; the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/16/ms-coislin-338-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/16/ms-coislin-338-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently stumbled upon a circular drawing in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France&#8217;s MS Coislin 338, and wondered whether it might be &#8220;a possible precedent for a Voynich astronomical illustration, where the original MS is Greek&#8220;, just as for two other Greek manuscripts (Codex Taurinensis C VII 15 and MS Vat Gr. 1291) he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently stumbled upon a circular drawing in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France&#8217;s MS Coislin 338, and wondered whether it might be &#8220;a possible precedent for a Voynich astronomical illustration, where the original MS is Greek&#8220;, just as for two other Greek manuscripts (Codex Taurinensis C VII 15 and MS Vat Gr. 1291) he [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Roger Bacon &amp; the Voynich Manuscript, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/28/roger-bacon-the-voynich-manuscript-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/28/roger-bacon-the-voynich-manuscript-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georg Baresch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Wilfrid Voynich bought his (now eponymous) manuscript in 1912, it was accompanied by a 1665 letter from Johannes Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher. In that, Marci noted three things that Raphael Mnishovsky (King Ferdinand III&#8217;s Czech language tutor) had told him about the strange artefact:- &#8220;that the said book belonged to Emperor Rudolf&#8220; &#8220;that [Rudolf II] presented 600 ducats [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Wilfrid Voynich bought his (now eponymous) manuscript in 1912, it was accompanied by a 1665 letter from Johannes Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher. In that, Marci noted three things that Raphael Mnishovsky (King Ferdinand III&#8217;s Czech language tutor) had told him about the strange artefact:-

&#8220;that the said book belonged to Emperor Rudolf&#8220;
&#8220;that [Rudolf II] presented 600 ducats to the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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