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Spanish Treasure Symbols

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January 1, 2010

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The impact of the Spanish explorers, conquistadores, and colonists in the New World was significant and long-lived. One of the main drivers that brought the Spanish to Central, South, and North America and the Caribbean (as well as other world locales) was the pursuit of wealth. Or treasure, to put it bluntly.

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Cemetery Monument Conceals 150 Year Old Documents

Athol, Mass-It is as close to a real treasure hunt as the town could imagine — a bit of a mystery, clues in old documents, and an eclectic group of people looking for answers.
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Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

Mavis Batey is known in Oxford as a conservationist and expert on garden history, but her latest book is about her wartime boss at Bletchley Park, Dilly Knox, the code-breaker who helped to break the Nazis’ secret ciphers.
A brilliant but absent-minded man, he had been known to stuff his pipe with sandwiches rather than tobacco, [...]

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Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers

This is an unofficial list of well-known unsolved codes and ciphers. A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to [...]

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The Beale Codes

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I have deposited in the county of Bedford, about four miles from Buford’s, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles: …
The deposit consists of two thousand nine hundred and twenty one pounds of gold and five thousand one hundred pounds of silver; also jewels, obtained in [...]

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Are You A Genius? Can You Decode The Secret Message?

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