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		<title>First Voynich theory of 2012&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/28/first-voynich-theory-of-2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To get 2012 rolling, I thought you might like to know that Walter Grosse has just started an English-language blog about his Voynich Manuscript theory. Briefly, he proposes that each Voynichese &#8216;word&#8217; super-verbosely enciphers a digit, based purely on the number of letters it contains. So, the first six words of page f1r (in EVA: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[To get 2012 rolling, I thought you might like to know that Walter Grosse has just started an English-language blog about his Voynich Manuscript theory.
Briefly, he proposes that each Voynichese &#8216;word&#8217; super-verbosely enciphers a digit, based purely on the number of letters it contains. So, the first six words of page f1r (in EVA: &#8220;fachys [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Asemic Voynich poem&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/15/asemic-voynich-poem</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/15/asemic-voynich-poem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s gratuitous Voynich limerick (stop me if you&#8217;ve heard it before):- A microscope gives you a two-fold Clue to the secrets of true gold You need it to write Baconian sh!te And you need it to read it like Newbold Rather less meaningfully, here&#8217;s a Voynich-related &#8220;asemic&#8221; (defined as &#8216;having no specific semantic content&#8217;, so make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s gratuitous Voynich limerick (stop me if you&#8217;ve heard it before):-
A microscope gives you a two-fold
Clue to the secrets of true gold
You need it to write
Baconian sh!te
And you need it to read it like Newbold
Rather less meaningfully, here&#8217;s a Voynich-related &#8220;asemic&#8221; (defined as &#8216;having no specific semantic content&#8217;, so make of it what you will, quite [...]]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></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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		<title>Edith Rickert&#8217;s &amp; Margaret Rickert&#8217;s papers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/24/edith-rickerts-margaret-rickerts-papers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/24/edith-rickerts-margaret-rickerts-papers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rickert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a brief follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post on Edith Rickert, I wondered whether her papers might be in the University of Chicago archives &#8211; and indeed here they are. For any Voynich researcher who just happens to be passing by, you might consider looking through Box 1 Folder 8 (for correspondence) and Box 10 Folder 13 (for photographs of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a brief follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post on Edith Rickert, I wondered whether her papers might be in the University of Chicago archives &#8211; and indeed here they are. For any Voynich researcher who just happens to be passing by, you might consider looking through Box 1 Folder 8 (for correspondence) and Box 10 Folder 13 (for photographs of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Rickert and the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/23/edith-rickert-and-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/23/edith-rickert-and-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grolier Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An off-blog email exchange about the Grolier Club (where Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s estate bequeathed eight boxes of papers relating to his book business in America) nudged my memory about a minor player on the 20th century Voynich stage&#8230; When Voynich researcher Richard SantaColoma visited the Grolier Club back in May 2008, he trawled through these boxes (Box 6 in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An off-blog email exchange about the Grolier Club (where Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s estate bequeathed eight boxes of papers relating to his book business in America) nudged my memory about a minor player on the 20th century Voynich stage&#8230;
When Voynich researcher Richard SantaColoma visited the Grolier Club back in May 2008, he trawled through these boxes (Box 6 in particular) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Robert Teague&#8217;s Voynich claim&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/13/robert-teagues-voynich-claim</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/13/robert-teagues-voynich-claim#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has Robert Teague found a sensational astronomical &#8216;crib&#8217; into the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s ciphertext? Several Voynicheros have asked me to have a look at his claim: normally, this is researcher code for &#8220;I think it&#8217;s nonsense but I&#8217;d like someone else to say it rather than me, because I quite like the guy&#8220;, but let&#8217;s see what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Has Robert Teague found a sensational astronomical &#8216;crib&#8217; into the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s ciphertext? Several Voynicheros have asked me to have a look at his claim: normally, this is researcher code for &#8220;I think it&#8217;s nonsense but I&#8217;d like someone else to say it rather than me, because I quite like the guy&#8220;, but let&#8217;s see what [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich dreams&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/10/voynich-dreams</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/10/voynich-dreams#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Amendola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Firth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given the amount of time cipher mystery researchers spend banging their heads against the limits of knowledge (read: brick walls), the fact that these mysteries sometimes invade their dreams should be no great shock. Here&#8217;s a fine recent example of a Voynich dream from an anonymous correspondent (and no, it&#8217;s not me being coy):- &#8220;I received in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Given the amount of time cipher mystery researchers spend banging their heads against the limits of knowledge (read: brick walls), the fact that these mysteries sometimes invade their dreams should be no great shock. Here&#8217;s a fine recent example of a Voynich dream from an anonymous correspondent (and no, it&#8217;s not me being coy):-
&#8220;I received in the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Sherwood&#8217;s anagram cipher&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new day brings a new Google Adwords campaign from Edith Sherwood (Edith, please just email me instead, it&#8217;ll get the word out far quicker), though this time not promoting another angle on her Leonardo-made-the-Voynich-Manuscript hypothesis&#8230; but rather a transposition cipher Voynichese hypothesis. Specifically, she proposes that the Voynich Manuscript may well be Italian written in a simple [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new day brings a new Google Adwords campaign from Edith Sherwood (Edith, please just email me instead, it&#8217;ll get the word out far quicker), though this time not promoting another angle on her Leonardo-made-the-Voynich-Manuscript hypothesis&#8230; but rather a transposition cipher Voynichese hypothesis. Specifically, she proposes that the Voynich Manuscript may well be Italian written in a simple [...]]]></content:encoded>
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