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Voynich Manuscript Partially Decoded

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the somebody-call-in-Enoch-Root dept.

Thexalon writes:

"University of Bedfordshire professor and applied linguist Stephen Bax has decoded 10 words of the baffling Voynich Manuscript. He focused on proper names that would match the accompanying drawings, which allowed him to find similar drawings in other books of the period."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Subsentient on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:39AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:39AM (#3132) Homepage Journal

    In Soviet Russia, Voynich Manuscript decodes YOU!!!

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