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		<title>London Rare Books School 2012 &#8211; including a session on historical ciphers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/30/london-rare-books-school-2012-including-a-session-on-historical-ciphers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorthand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just so you know, I&#8217;ll be contributing a session to the London Rare Books School 2012, which is a yearly study week (this year running from 25th June to 6th July 2012) held at the University of London around Senate House, and intended to broaden participants&#8217; exposure to the widely varied aspects of the history [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just so you know, I&#8217;ll be contributing a session to the London Rare Books School 2012, which is a yearly study week (this year running from 25th June to 6th July 2012) held at the University of London around Senate House, and intended to broaden participants&#8217; exposure to the widely varied aspects of the history [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>Does the &#8216;Voynich = migraine&#8217; theory make your head hurt too?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/19/does-the-voynich-migraine-theory-make-your-head-hurt-too</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/19/does-the-voynich-migraine-theory-make-your-head-hurt-too#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gerry Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the pub after the Kingston Round Table of Inventors meeting this evening, a nice guy from Kingston Uni told me that he had recently had two &#8220;dry migraine&#8221; attacks, and that he was waiting for the results of the follow-up CT scan. This reminded me that I had a German Voynich explanation (i.e. not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the pub after the Kingston Round Table of Inventors meeting this evening, a nice guy from Kingston Uni told me that he had recently had two &#8220;dry migraine&#8221; attacks, and that he was waiting for the results of the follow-up CT scan. This reminded me that I had a German Voynich explanation (i.e. not [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Happy Voynich New Year 2012!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/10/happy-voynich-new-year-2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Happy New Year to all Cipher Mysteries readers, for it might well be a good year for historical cipher mystery research! As doubtless most of you know, 1912 was the year when Wilfrid Voynich [very probably] bought the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; artefact now named after him from the Villa Mondragone in Frascati in Italy, making [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Happy New Year to all Cipher Mysteries readers, for it might well be a good year for historical cipher mystery research!

As doubtless most of you know, 1912 was the year when Wilfrid Voynich [very probably] bought the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; artefact now named after him from the Villa Mondragone in Frascati in Italy, making this [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>Vernon Lee&#8217;s imagined Renaissance history&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/14/vernon-lees-imagined-renaissance-history</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/14/vernon-lees-imagined-renaissance-history#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t quite know how I manage it but I do keep on tripping over odd stuff, not unlike Christine Jins&#8217; sensitively made peppermill, something definitely not to be sneezed at. So here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s microdose of historical weirdness for you, the supernatural Victorian fiction of &#8220;engaged feminist&#8221; lesbian Vernon Lee (the pen-name of Violet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t quite know how I manage it but I do keep on tripping over odd stuff, not unlike Christine Jins&#8217; sensitively made peppermill, something definitely not to be sneezed at.
So here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s microdose of historical weirdness for you, the supernatural Victorian fiction of &#8220;engaged feminist&#8221; lesbian Vernon Lee (the pen-name of Violet Paget), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Letters hidden in Voynich plants (yet again)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/10/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants-yet-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/10/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants-yet-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. Han]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuben Ogburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sander Manche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found an old email from Sander Manche mentioning his Voynich blog: going through its pages just now, one particular post on letters hidden in Voynich plants jumped out at me. To be precise, it discussed a single symbol that appears to have been hidden in the middle of the plant drawings on both [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently found an old email from Sander Manche mentioning his Voynich blog: going through its pages just now, one particular post on letters hidden in Voynich plants jumped out at me. To be precise, it discussed a single symbol that appears to have been hidden in the middle of the plant drawings on both [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A brief history of generated texts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/04/a-brief-history-of-generated-texts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/04/a-brief-history-of-generated-texts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having just weakened your will to live by exposing you to the word heteroscedasticity , I thought I&#8217;d now throw some more paraffin onto your wordy fires. Is the Voynich Manuscript&#8230; &#8230;an &#8220;ergodic text&#8221;? According to Espen Aarseth [as discussed on the Grand Text Auto website], ergodic literature is where &#8220;nontrivial effort is required to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Having just weakened your will to live by exposing you to the word heteroscedasticity   , I thought I&#8217;d now throw some more paraffin onto your wordy fires. Is the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;
&#8230;an &#8220;ergodic text&#8221;?
According to Espen Aarseth [as discussed on the Grand Text Auto website], ergodic literature is where &#8220;nontrivial effort is required to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Brad Meltzer and the Beale Papers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/21/brad-meltzer-and-the-beale-papers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/21/brad-meltzer-and-the-beale-papers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beale Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Gillogly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Meltzer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cipher Mysteries readers in the US may well have watched Brad Meltzer&#8217;s recent &#8220;Decoded&#8221; episode on the Declaration of Independence. Though you might well think that the description listed below doesn&#8217;t sound particularly promising&#8230; The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of American Democracy. Could it contain hidden messages from our nation&#8217;s forefathers intended [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Cipher Mysteries readers in the US may well have watched Brad Meltzer&#8217;s recent &#8220;Decoded&#8221; episode on the Declaration of Independence. Though you might well think that the description listed below doesn&#8217;t sound particularly promising&#8230;
The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of American Democracy. Could it contain hidden messages from our nation&#8217;s forefathers intended to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Oops, that was a nice conference I just missed&#8230; :-(</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/07/oops-that-was-a-nice-conference-i-just-missed</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/07/oops-that-was-a-nice-conference-i-just-missed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elonka Dunin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Reeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benedek Lang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Hodgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klaus Schmeh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSA&#8217;s 2011 Cryptologic History Symposium (held in Johns Hopkins) ran yesterday and today, and had plenty of names long-suffering Cipher Mysteries readers will doubtless recognize in a flash:- * Dr. Jim Reeds, Institute for Defense Analyses: “Editing the ‘General Report on TUNNY’” * Dr. Benedek Lang, Budapest University of Technology and Economics: “Towards a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The NSA&#8217;s 2011 Cryptologic History Symposium (held in Johns Hopkins) ran yesterday and today, and had plenty of names long-suffering Cipher Mysteries readers will doubtless recognize in a flash:-
* Dr. Jim Reeds, Institute for Defense Analyses: “Editing the ‘General Report on TUNNY’”
* Dr. Benedek Lang, Budapest University of Technology and Economics: “Towards a Social History [...]]]></content:encoded>
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