The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week about a letter written to President Thomas Jefferson from Robert Patterson. The letter contained a cipher that hasn't been cracked in over 200 years! Pretty dang impressive if you ask me! (Yes, I know that we probably could have cracked it years ago if we stuck the intelligence agencies on it, but we didn't so it remains cool)
Check out the article: http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2FSB124648494429082661-email.html&nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email%2FSB124648494429082661-lMyQjAxMDI5NDA2MjQwODI0Wj.html
What I really found humorous was imagining the look on the poor guy's face when he figured out what it said. He probably had weeks of sheer excitement leading up to one climactic moment, all the while thinking of the movie National Treasure, dreaming of the riches that were on the other side of those pages... only to find a joke. Sorry dude.
Here's one of the pages:
My first step to decode this would be relearning how to read "proper" cursive. That must have taken hours to write!
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