Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.
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Message In A Bottle Undiscovered For 39 Years Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket
Set adrift in 1969 by a New Jersey fireman, this simple message didn't show up for 39 years when it was found in Mississippi.
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Rubik's Cube finally solved after 26 years by avid fan Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Puzzle fan Graham Parker has finally solved his Rubik's Cube - after 26 years' worth of attempts.
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Your Geek code Posted: 2 months ago by tgkprog
So you think you are a geek, eh? The first step is to admit to yourself your geekiness. No matter what anyone says, geeks are people too; geeks have rights. So take a deep breath and announce to the world that you are a geek. Your courage will give you strength that will last you forever.
How to tell the world you are a geek, you ask? Use the universal Geek code! Using this special code will allow you to let other un-closeted geeks know who you are in a simple, codified statement.
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American Teens Message In A Bottle Reaches English Shore 5 Years Later Posted: 3 months ago by Doggylives
A Maryland student's note stuffed in a corked wine bottle spent five years bobbing across the Atlantic until it washed ashore this summer on an English beach, where it was picked up by a retired electrician walking his golden retriever.
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Police probe anti-gay message on airport PA Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Authorities in Fort Lauderdale are trying to figure out who broadcast a biblical message against homosexuals over the public announcement system in the Florida city's international airport. The verse states: "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death."
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1986 message in bottle drifts 1,735 mi. Posted: 2 years ago by indisguise
About 21 years passed between the time Emily Hwaung put the message in a soda bottle and Merle Brandell picked it up on the beach.
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On the day before D-Day, a single code word linked two men who never met Posted: 1 year ago by tigertony
64 years later, the two men find they are living in the same town when that same code word brings them together!
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Frog Dozes in Mud for Years Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
One species of burrowing frogs can survive for years buried in mud without food and water. New research has figured out how the frog and other "super-sleeper" animals do it.
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After 60 Years in an Iron Lung, Woman Loses Her Battle Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years.
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Horses first ridden - and milked - 5,500 years ago Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday.
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Ancient humans left evidence from the party that ended 4,000 years ago Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo.
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Florida woman keeps mother's dead body in house for six years Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits.
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Dog, missing 9 years, returned to family in Ky. Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A German shepherd named Astro who has been missing from his family for more than 9 years is finally home.
The Geary family was shocked when they recently received a call from an animal control officer who said that Astro had been found.
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Couple marry 50 years after getting engaged Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A couple have married more than 50 years after getting engaged as childhood sweethearts.
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San Jose Building's Secret Message Decoded Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
The secret message being transmitted by the four rotating disks atop downtown San Jose's Adobe building that has baffled residents and visitors forthe past year. That is until now.
Check this out
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Musicians solve Da Vinci Code chapel mystery Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A SCOTTISH church which featured in the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years.
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Judge on Privacy: Code Trumps the Law Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby says computer code is more potent than the law--and that legislators are powerless to do anything about it. Technology has outpaced the legal system's ability to regulate its use in matters of privacy and fair use rights, said Kirby.
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Mysterious 'bright young things' found in solar system Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Some families seem blessed with eternal youth, looking much younger than their years. Now, astronomers have found just such a clan of icy objects in the outer solar system. They appear puzzlingly fresh-faced, despite the fact that they probably formed in a collision more than a billion years ago.
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Time Wastes Too Fast Posted: 5 months ago by bingo
Maira Kalman took a trip to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson and was moved to write a travelogue. But this is no ordinary travelogue. Kalman writes about Jefferson’s life and philosophy as well as his home, with whimsical pictures that drawn you in to her experience.
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Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago: Not husband and wife but Saxon warriors Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
For a thousand years they have lain side by side in a rough earth grave, one throwing a skeletal arm across the other. Believed to be Saxon warriors, they are thought to have died together and been buried together as brothers in arms.
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