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History: An Exploration of Overlooked Historical Events ; Tuesday ; Period 3
This week, Riley wasn't late. He still took a few moments to style his hair with his fingers before the students arrived but his time management skills were much improved so he wasn't looked harried and rushed at the start of class today. Success!
"Welcome back," he greeted with a nod. "It looks like we all didn't decide that this island was too insane to run away so we're all back here to enjoy each other's company again. I'd say that's a moderate success."
You hadn't run into anything too strange yet, Riley. Don't get cocky.
"So today, we're gonna jump right into things. We're going to start with something called The Voynich Manuscript. Anyone heard of this? Probably not, right? The only reason I know anything about it is that a friend back home is a cryptographer and a pretty good one and even he can't figure this out."
Riley passed out a sheet with some information about the manuscript. "This manuscript is written in an unknown language complete with some pretty detailed illustrations and no one has managed to crack it yet so no one knows what the heck it's saying. Of course, this means people come up with all sorts of off the wall theories and speculation because they can. And you and I can't say they're wrong because maybe they're right. Most people think that the manuscript is addressing topics of medieval or early modern medicine just due to the illustrations that are in the manuscript but again, it's not for certain. At times, the pictures do make you think that the book is about medicine but then you'll find drawings of astronomical charts or things that look like sunflowers and you're back to the drawing board."
Riley stopped for a moment and let everyone skim the worksheet. "And then, of course, a lot of people seem to think this manuscript is a complete and utter hoax. People point to being unable to read the freaking thing as supporting evidence for not meaning anything at all while those that think it's real say it's too sophisticated to be fake. The bottom line is no one knows. Today, we're going to try and replicate the Voynich Manuscript. Basically, I want you guys to think of something you want to say to the future and write it in code. Then, we're gonna put them in this box -- "
Riley pointed to an old shoe box that was sitting on his desk. " -- and I'm going to take the box and bury them somewhere here on the island. At some point in the future, someone's going to dig them up and they'll find your letters and they'll most likely wanna know what they say so they'll try and crack the code. See how hard you can make it for them and if you need any help with ways to write your words, let me know."
"Welcome back," he greeted with a nod. "It looks like we all didn't decide that this island was too insane to run away so we're all back here to enjoy each other's company again. I'd say that's a moderate success."
You hadn't run into anything too strange yet, Riley. Don't get cocky.
"So today, we're gonna jump right into things. We're going to start with something called The Voynich Manuscript. Anyone heard of this? Probably not, right? The only reason I know anything about it is that a friend back home is a cryptographer and a pretty good one and even he can't figure this out."
Riley passed out a sheet with some information about the manuscript. "This manuscript is written in an unknown language complete with some pretty detailed illustrations and no one has managed to crack it yet so no one knows what the heck it's saying. Of course, this means people come up with all sorts of off the wall theories and speculation because they can. And you and I can't say they're wrong because maybe they're right. Most people think that the manuscript is addressing topics of medieval or early modern medicine just due to the illustrations that are in the manuscript but again, it's not for certain. At times, the pictures do make you think that the book is about medicine but then you'll find drawings of astronomical charts or things that look like sunflowers and you're back to the drawing board."
Riley stopped for a moment and let everyone skim the worksheet. "And then, of course, a lot of people seem to think this manuscript is a complete and utter hoax. People point to being unable to read the freaking thing as supporting evidence for not meaning anything at all while those that think it's real say it's too sophisticated to be fake. The bottom line is no one knows. Today, we're going to try and replicate the Voynich Manuscript. Basically, I want you guys to think of something you want to say to the future and write it in code. Then, we're gonna put them in this box -- "
Riley pointed to an old shoe box that was sitting on his desk. " -- and I'm going to take the box and bury them somewhere here on the island. At some point in the future, someone's going to dig them up and they'll find your letters and they'll most likely wanna know what they say so they'll try and crack the code. See how hard you can make it for them and if you need any help with ways to write your words, let me know."
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She started writing a quick thing about the Great War and the Western front and how proud she was of her brothers and friends and then was frowning at the paper, trying to come up with a code.
She didn't think "put it in French" would really count.
Re: Create A Code [H: OHE 09/10]
01101110 01101010 01110001 01100010 00100000 01100101 01110011 01100110 01100110 00100000 01110011 01100010 01110110 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100011 01110000 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100010 01101101 00100000 01101111 01110110 01101111 01100100 00100000 01100010 01110100 01100110 01110011 00100000 01100110 01100100 01110000 01101110 00100000 01110000 01100110 01101101....
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After a fair amount of pondering, she wrote the alphabet at the top of her paper, then using that as a guide to make sure she got all the letters without having to keep going back and recounting, she wrote it again only all mixed up and out of order. Then she tore the second, mixed up alphabet off in a long strip, wound it around her pencil, and reassigned the letters based on what other letters they ended up lining up with, then wrote out a short note about her hopes for the future of mutant rights using the newly invented code.
Well, it looked mysterious enough to her, and possibly would involve someone figuring out the diameter of her pencil, so she figured it would do well enough.
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