…but what a pain in the neck moving a large blog from a single-site WordPress install to a WordPress multisite install is. 🙁 I started trying to count how many individual steps it took to get it all working again, but gave up around ninety (for what it’s worth, I’d guess the final figure was closer to 150). Astonishing (and not in any good sense of the word).
Anyway, even though I *think* I’ve got everything basically working again, please use this page to let me know if you find anything broken. Which is entirely possible, unfortunately. Thanks!
Second try — perhaps there is a limit to number of words/length of sentence etc?
I have bypassed code-mode – and will be answering the FBI’s solicitation of material related to Ricky McCormick’s notes. (Which translate to his visit to the hospital and the meds they gave him (which he probably overdosed.)
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ps: You should be getting a letter from me in a day or so (snail mail/air mail). My husband mailed it for me. McCormick’s other note was about the tonnage of NCBE(nuclear bomb explosives being ‘dulmped ‘ with further references to Wld (Weldon Spring).
I’m hoping that Rick Roberts and Charles Witteck will be catching up with us.
bd
Do you suppose the Voynich manuscript is an early draft WordPress user manual? Lengthy, unreadable, obscure, and ultimately frustrating.
Congratulations on being back!
Ken: I just don’t have words to describe the struggle adequately. But on the bright side, cracking the Voynich should be a piece of cake by comparison. 🙂
I just discovered this place today (indirectly because of Collegehumor and their video on the optical illusion girlfriend which made me look up the image on her licence which made Google Image bring me here, oddly enough) and I have to say I’m simply amazed, I’ve spent some time reading about the Voynich Manuscript and after learning a lot of new words (My first language is French, not English) it was discovery (as in learning about other people’s discovery) after another, I’ll be sure to come see what came up here from time to time, continue the great job! Also, I’d be curious to know if there is any must-read articles/resources?
Étienne ZC: I’m not sure there’s any article or book on the Voynich Manuscript that I’d currently recommend as a way of “getting started” with it.
My own book “The Curse of the Voynich” (which covers many aspects of it in great detail) is probably too specialized to be a good introductory text. Reading that first would be a bit like using quantum mechanics to start to learn physics. 😉
Even though it’s now a little outdated, you might try getting hold of a copy of Gerry Kennedy & Rob Churchill’s book “The Voynich Manuscript”, that’s a fairly comfortable read. At the very least, it’s no worse than Wikipedia. 😉
It was several weeks after McCormick’s rotting body was found, and sent to the morgue, that someone finally found his notes in the pocket of his filthy jeans/pants.
Ennyway, his nearly illegible notes were his observations of tons of nuclear waste materials being dulmt/dumped into WLD/Weldon Spring and, perhaps nearby Bridgeton Landfill Quarry.
I sincerely wish that SOMEBODY would notify the US government FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) that there is NO CODE in those notes found in Ricky McCormick’s filthy, stinking, trousers — weeks after his body was delivered to the morgue.
His notes were keeping track of the truckloads of nuclear waste products being dulmt / dumped at Westlake and Bridgeton landfill dumps and quarries. One last paragraph of the notes mentions his feeling ill — and the prescription and instructions for dosage.
One can find an entire map of both of those dumps by simply searching for West Lake Landfill Map . Nick and friends: could one or somebody notify the FBI’s Codiology Group (who have been investigating and have requested help/information from the Public at Large) that there is no code. Try phonetics and contractions.
bd
“ince” again ? On purpose?
Nick,
Good to see ciphermysteries up and running again. Glad that you decided it worth the time and effort.
Book: ‘From Knights to Pioneers’ – Anita M. Malinckrodt
page 243: railroad fever
pages 425 and 426: references to Malinckrodt Chemical Company – purification of a ton of uranium daily – wear respirators and go to Barnes Hospital …
Note to myself: Mind my manners — and thank Nick for not dropping off the WWW.
Nick, I hope you are working on a sequel to your book. I’ll pay full price for each when you publish the sequel .
🙂
bd
BTW/Correction: Ma ll in ck rodt : Westphalian (Dortman area) immigrants to Missouri . Anita M. Mallinckrodt dedicates her book to her brother Hubert E. Mallinckrodt — and in memory of their parents Hubert W. and Olga M. Mallinckrodt.
Part three, section 25, page 377 : Mallinckrodt Chemical Company Begins
I’m still 1-dring why you used a lower-case i in your title for this episode instead of a numeral 1….. ? 1nce.
The next place my parents wandered off to was Inyokern. Because I was a small child (5-6 y.o.) I had no idea that ‘bits and pieces’ of the bomb were being enhanced and developed there. Also, Vandenberg AFB was nearby — and being used for development of much more powerful aircraft. For a while our family lived in government-issued quonset huts at Inyokern, and also Lompoc.
Only very recently did I discover that Lompoc was right next door to Vandenberg Air Force Base . Weird!
bd
@Étienne ZC
If French is your language, you might find the following Doctoral thesis, in French, by A. Casanova
http://voynich.free.fr/a_casanova_these_19mars1999.pdf
Titre : méthodes d’analyse du langage crypté : Une
contribution à l’étude du manuscrit de Voynich
of some interest.
@ James Pannozzi (and A. Casanova:
I hate to squash your hopes of solving B-408’s code, language, or crytography . Over the past two years, I have TRANSLATED the Nahuatl and Spanish dual-lines of discussion which appears on every folio (illustrated or not).
Quite simple: Read the Spanish lines of text (Espanol) — even if you have to buy a Spanish/English, or a Spanish/Italian, or a Spanish/French, or a Spanish/German , or a Spanish/Nahuatl dictionary.
You can find every iitem (illustrated or not ) of the so-called “Voynich” manuscript (B-408 at Boenicke Library, Yale). Yale has not been able to decode B-408 because the various professors, academics, historians, art specialists, have great respect for Professors of Shakespeare’s enormous archive.
I suggest you look up Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s amazing library of worldwide history. His ‘take’ on ‘global’ history is fascinating AND facilitating, when it comes to world history. Fray Sahagun’s enormous manuscript which is identified as “The Florentine Codex” was separated from him, as was his private diary (which was eventually discovered in a small section of the Papal library) which was being offered for sale by Papal monks. When Mr. Voynich heard of the sale being held near Frascati, he apparently was first in line to purchase a whole bunch of manuscripts.
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