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University of Arizona experts determine age of book 'nobody can read' (Voynich manuscript)
University of Arizona ^ | February 10, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 02/10/2011 5:02:38 PM PST by decimon

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To: decimon

That’s fascinating. I never heard of that book before.

You know what I thought of when I read that it hasn’t been able to be deciphered, is how the US employed Navajo’s during WWII to help with transmitting secret messages using a combination of Navajo language with coding techniques such as giving animal names to ships and locations.

So that even if the Japanese were able to translate the intercepted messages, they still wouldn’t give them any information.

Apparently, it worked very well as it never was cracked.

Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm


61 posted on 02/10/2011 7:18:26 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: decimon


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

62 posted on 02/10/2011 7:21:55 PM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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To: metmom

I’m still working on that question from The Monotones: Who wrote the book of love?


63 posted on 02/10/2011 7:24:36 PM PST by decimon
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To: The Comedian

The Moona Lisa?


64 posted on 02/10/2011 7:29:15 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: decimon

D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E


65 posted on 02/10/2011 7:34:33 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Quix

Nothing like a group of Christians discussing Christianity to make you not like either.


66 posted on 02/10/2011 7:41:48 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: I still care
Write a book filled with gibberish and bury it for 600 years.

I have a candidate


67 posted on 02/10/2011 7:49:31 PM PST by JRios1968 (Laz would hit it!)
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To: decimon

Some look like plant reproduction illustrations http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/biobookflowersii.html


68 posted on 02/10/2011 8:04:02 PM PST by marsh2
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To: 1010RD

Too true too often.

Sigh.


69 posted on 02/10/2011 9:04:08 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: decimon

LOL


70 posted on 02/10/2011 10:19:03 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: hinckley buzzard; decimon; All

As I was reading the description my mind flashed to paranoid schizophrenic of high intelligence, or perhaps someone who was a twin. Some twins have been known to develop a secret language between themselves.


71 posted on 02/10/2011 11:04:45 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Little Bill; decimon; All

Note my Comment #71 wherein I comment that twins sometimes develop a secret language known only to themselves. So now I suggest paranoid alchemist twins who have developed a secret language in which to conduct their forbidden studies.


72 posted on 02/10/2011 11:16:39 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Richard Kimball

Pff...yeah, so did I.


73 posted on 02/11/2011 12:56:23 AM PST by Brass Lamp
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I usually ignore the religion threads.... Until they get really long. Then I click on the last post to see what the fight’s about.


74 posted on 02/11/2011 1:03:53 AM PST by Nickname
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To: decimon

Probably just some monk who got a heavy dose of ergot in his rye bread. No more meaning to it than the doodles of someone high on LSD.


75 posted on 02/11/2011 4:22:27 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: Tread EZ
“I can't trust a source that can't do metric conversions.”

4x6 is almost 25.4... but I'm with you!

76 posted on 02/11/2011 4:25:02 AM PST by Old Student
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To: decimon

Having observed many of the drawings and especially those in 1 above, I am able to state with fairly reliable certainty that the book is a landscape architect’s presentation and perhaps manual for the layout and planting of the formal gardens of the castle.


77 posted on 02/11/2011 5:17:04 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: decimon

Looks like a Martha Stewart jail time scrapbook.


78 posted on 02/11/2011 8:04:18 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Looks like a Martha Stewart jail time scrapbook.

Now you've done it. KMart will carry a Voynich Collection by Martha Stewart.

79 posted on 02/11/2011 8:09:38 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

“Paging Dr. Daniel Jackson...”


80 posted on 02/11/2011 10:28:22 AM PST by pabianice
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