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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Wilfrid Voynich</title>
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		<title>High class Voynich miscellany&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/06/10/high-class-voynich-miscellany</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gerry Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some piquant canapes to twingle your Voynich tastebuds, a bit like &#8220;Space Dust for researchers&#8221;. (1) Gerry Kennedy has discovered that a deathmask of Wilfrid Voynich was taken, and that it still exists. (2) Jackie Speel tells me that &#8220;in 1916 Wilfrid Voynich was involved in a friendly law case with the Lincoln [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are some piquant canapes to twingle your Voynich tastebuds, a bit like &#8220;Space Dust for researchers&#8221;.
(1) Gerry Kennedy has discovered that a deathmask of Wilfrid Voynich was taken, and that it still exists.
(2) Jackie Speel tells me that &#8220;in 1916 Wilfrid Voynich was involved in a friendly law case with the Lincoln Cathedral authorities [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Rickert, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/24/edith-rickert-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/24/edith-rickert-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rickert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The century since Wilfrid Voynich unearthed his now-eponymous manuscript has seen many groups of codebreakers take a tilt at its cryptographic windmills. The most famous of these was William Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;First Study Group&#8221; of WWII cryptologists: but I&#8217;ve recently become interested in finding out to what degree WWI codebreakers tried to get in on the act. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The century since Wilfrid Voynich unearthed his now-eponymous manuscript has seen many groups of codebreakers take a tilt at its cryptographic windmills. The most famous of these was William Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;First Study Group&#8221; of WWII cryptologists: but I&#8217;ve recently become interested in finding out to what degree WWI codebreakers tried to get in on the act. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Square #1 &amp; wife #8&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/23/square-1-wife-8</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/23/square-1-wife-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I first saw the &#8220;Roger Bacon Manuscript&#8221;: Wilfrid Voynich brought it with him to Philadelphia for his lecture back in 1921 &#8211; my old friend Bill Newbold was there, taking in every word, nodding like the crazy-but-brilliant spiritualist and Antioch-obsessed nutter he was. So it just had to be Bacon behind it all, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I remember when I first saw the &#8220;Roger Bacon Manuscript&#8221;: Wilfrid Voynich brought it with him to Philadelphia for his lecture back in 1921 &#8211; my old friend Bill Newbold was there, taking in every word, nodding like the crazy-but-brilliant spiritualist and Antioch-obsessed nutter he was. So it just had to be Bacon behind it all, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ethel Voynich at 95!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/15/ethel-voynich-at-95</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/15/ethel-voynich-at-95#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethel Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ethel Voynich&#8217;s story (1864 &#8211; 1960) is quite fascinating: while the young Ethel (&#8216;Lily&#8217;) Boole was studying music in Berlin, she became inspired by Stepniak&#8217;s revolutionary writings. As a result, she became closely involved with Russian dissidents living in London, and in 1893 married the very charming Wilfrid Voynich. Voynich himself often travelled around as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ethel Voynich&#8217;s story (1864 &#8211; 1960) is quite fascinating: while the young Ethel (&#8216;Lily&#8217;) Boole was studying music in Berlin, she became inspired by Stepniak&#8217;s revolutionary writings. As a result, she became closely involved with Russian dissidents living in London, and in 1893 married the very charming Wilfrid Voynich. Voynich himself often travelled around as [...]]]></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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		<title>The (Wilfrid) Voynich Files&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/15/the-wilfrid-voynich-files</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/15/the-wilfrid-voynich-files#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethel Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do I have a problem with the fact that the Internet appears to have a machine continuously cranking out second-rate stories about the Voynich Manuscript? No, not really &#8211; an &#8220;unreadable historical manuscript&#8221; presses many of the cultural buttons left exposed by large numbers of mainstream Netizens. What does annoy me, however, is that virtually every VMs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do I have a problem with the fact that the Internet appears to have a machine continuously cranking out second-rate stories about the Voynich Manuscript? No, not really &#8211; an &#8220;unreadable historical manuscript&#8221; presses many of the cultural buttons left exposed by large numbers of mainstream Netizens.
What does annoy me, however, is that virtually every VMs account [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>eBay crystal sphere &#8211; bargain or scam?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/27/ebay-crystal-sphere-bargain-or-scam</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/27/ebay-crystal-sphere-bargain-or-scam#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethel Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why, lookie here. An eBay trader is selling a $999 crystal ball allegedly from a boarded-up Voodoo family estate. It says here that the ball was manufactured according to the &#8220;alchemic recipe&#8221; given in &#8220;Apocalypsis spiritus secreti&#8221; (by the Venetian Giovanni Battista Agnelli, a book best known from its 1623 printed edition, but John Dee owned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why, lookie here. An eBay trader is selling a $999 crystal ball allegedly from a boarded-up Voodoo family estate. It says here that the ball was manufactured according to the &#8220;alchemic recipe&#8221; given in &#8220;Apocalypsis spiritus secreti&#8221; (by the Venetian Giovanni Battista Agnelli, a book best known from its 1623 printed edition, but John Dee owned [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Micky Bet Voynich piece, now in English (sort of)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micky Bet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occulto TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy! (If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy!  
(If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Untweetable Voynich Manuscript limerick&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/02/untweetable-voynich-manuscript-limerick</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/02/untweetable-voynich-manuscript-limerick#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alas, sometimes the limitations of Twitter are all too apparent. The follow-up to my previous VMs limerick simply refuses to be shoehorned inside the 140 character limit:- A dodgy bookdealer called Wilfrid Hotly denied he had pilfered Or hoaxed, faked or shammed His &#8220;Book Of The Damned&#8221; (That he’d bought off a geezer in Ilford) Alternatively&#8230; Did the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Alas, sometimes the limitations of Twitter are all too apparent. The follow-up to my previous VMs limerick simply refuses to be shoehorned inside the 140 character limit:-
A dodgy bookdealer called Wilfrid
Hotly denied he had pilfered
Or hoaxed, faked or shammed
His &#8220;Book Of The Damned&#8221;
(That he’d bought off a geezer in Ilford)
Alternatively&#8230;
Did the Emperor purchase &#8220;The Voynich&#8221;
For 600 ducats of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></content:encoded>
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