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		<title>The Carrot Museum takes on the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/02/08/the-carrot-museum-takes-on-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Bunn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Errrm&#8230;. yes, really. A few days ago, I discovered that the online Carrot Museum has a page dedicated to early depictions of carrots in manuscripts and paintings, which also includes a rather disbelieving section referring to alleged depictions of carrots in the Voynich Manuscript. To add to the confusion, it turns out that medieval writers [...]]]></description>
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Errrm&#8230;. yes, really. A few days ago, I discovered that the online Carrot Museum has a page dedicated to early depictions of carrots in manuscripts and paintings, which also includes a rather disbelieving section referring to alleged depictions of carrots in the Voynich Manuscript.
To add to the confusion, it turns out that medieval writers often [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Esther Molen&#8217;s Voynich Manuscript f116v theory&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/02/03/esther-molens-voynich-manuscript-f116v-theory</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esther Molen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received a note from independent Dutch researcher Esther Molen describing her Voynich theory: she was happy to see it given a post of its own, so&#8230; here it is! * * * * * * Here is my [Esther Molen's] translation and ideas. The Voynich Manuscript is mainly written in medieval Latin in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently received a note from independent Dutch researcher Esther Molen describing her Voynich theory: she was happy to see it given a post of its own, so&#8230; here it is!
* * * * * *
Here is my [Esther Molen's] translation and ideas.
The Voynich Manuscript is mainly written in medieval Latin in combination with medieval [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>An obfuscation of Voynich novels&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/31/an-obfuscation-of-voynich-novels</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/30/london-rare-books-school-2012-including-a-session-on-historical-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/10/happy-voynich-new-year-2012#comments</comments>
		<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>Voynich colour inference, a sure path to madness&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/20/voynich-colour-inference-a-sure-path-to-madness</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/20/voynich-colour-inference-a-sure-path-to-madness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of items for you that turned up this week. In my (thoroughly unexalted) opinion, I think both demonstrate something I&#8217;ve been arguing for years: that trying to infer things about the Voynich Manuscript based in its colours is, sadly, a sure path to madness. Why? Well, ever since Jorge Stolfi pointed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are a couple of items for you that turned up this week. In my (thoroughly unexalted) opinion, I think both demonstrate something I&#8217;ve been arguing for years: that trying to infer things about the Voynich Manuscript based in its colours is, sadly, a sure path to madness.
Why? Well, ever since Jorge Stolfi pointed out [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Amirdovlat Amasiatsi &amp; the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/18/amirdovlat-amasiatsi-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/18/amirdovlat-amasiatsi-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve had some interesting correspondence with Thomas Spande, whose starting point was observing that the &#8216;Voynichese&#8217; script seemed to have similarities with the medieval Armenian aybuben (&#8216;alphabet&#8217; &#8211; its first two letters are &#8216;ayb&#8217; and &#8216;ben&#8217;). Several other people have proposed this, most recently &#8216;amandajm&#8217; and &#8216;Lgh&#8217; on the discussion [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve had some interesting correspondence with Thomas Spande, whose starting point was observing that the &#8216;Voynichese&#8217; script seemed to have similarities with the medieval Armenian aybuben (&#8216;alphabet&#8217; &#8211; its first two letters are &#8216;ayb&#8217; and &#8216;ben&#8217;). Several other people have proposed this, most recently &#8216;amandajm&#8217; and &#8216;Lgh&#8217; on the discussion [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Manuscript decrypted by Finnish &#8216;prophet of god&#8217; via Fox News&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/03/voynich-manuscript-decrypted-by-finnish-prophet-of-god-via-fox-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/03/voynich-manuscript-decrypted-by-finnish-prophet-of-god-via-fox-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, today&#8217;s big cipher mystery news story is the announcement that Finnish businessman &#8220;Veikko Latvala, a self described &#8216;prophet of god&#8217;&#8221; has allegedly &#8220;decoded the book and unlocked the secrets of the world&#8217;s most mysterious manuscript.&#8220;. Voynich researchers will no doubt be amazed to learn that &#8220;The sound syllables are a mixture of Spanish and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Apparently, today&#8217;s big cipher mystery news story is the announcement that Finnish businessman &#8220;Veikko Latvala, a self described &#8216;prophet of god&#8217;&#8221; has allegedly &#8220;decoded the book and unlocked the secrets of the world&#8217;s most mysterious manuscript.&#8220;. Voynich researchers will no doubt be amazed to learn that &#8220;The sound syllables are a mixture of Spanish and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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