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"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" code by Arthur Conan Doyle: Solved (solution given within the short story) 1917 Zimmermann Telegram: Solved within days of transmission 1918 Chaocipher: Solved 1918–1945 Enigma machine messages Solved (broken by Polish and Allied cryptographers between 1932 and 1945) 1939 D'Agapeyeff cipher: Unsolved 1939–1945
Credit for inventing the codes goes to Charles "Charlie" Hopper, communications director for the Illinois State Police, District 10 in Pesotum, Illinois. Hopper had been involved in radio for years and realized there was a need to abbreviate transmissions on State Police bands. [ 6 ]
The eight letters 'OUOSVAVV', framed by the letters 'DM' The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M on a lower plane – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting the Shepherds of Arcadia.
A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).
The mystery song is called "Subways of Your Mind," and was recorded by a little-known 1980s German band called FEX.
Among the Rolling Stones and other popular '80s bands was the mysterious song, which users attempted to uncover by picking apart every element in hopes for a lead. In 2019, the mystery made its ...
The dust jacket of the US version of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code contains two references to Kryptos—one on the back cover (coordinates printed light red on dark red, vertically next to the blurbs) is a reference to the coordinates mentioned in the plaintext of passage 2, except the degree digit is off by one. When Brown and his ...