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Remember Mary Ingalls, who went blind from scarlet fever in On The Shores of Silver Lake? Well, it probably wasn’t scarlet fever.
Also — those Norse runes? Turns out a lot of them are also written in code. And a lot of those coded messages turn out to say things like “kiss me” and “interpret these runes” . . . any day now, they’re going to find one that says, “for a good time, call Gudrun Osvifsdottir.”
And speaking of codes, the mysterious Voynich Manuscript may have been decoded at last — not by cryptanalysts, but by botanists.
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