The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained
15th May 2019
Well, let’s see if these claims stand the test of peer-review.
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15th May 2019
Well, let’s see if these claims stand the test of peer-review.
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14th May 2019
This is about a sign that says “Grassy Knoll.” To understand this story, you have to know that the words “grassy knoll” are forbidden in Dallas. No one is allowed to say them out loud, let alone put them on a sign.
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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14th May 2019
How many does that make? Really, I’m losing count.
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14th May 2019
The resistance rises.
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13th May 2019
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13th May 2019
Some good news for a change.
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13th May 2019
I am curious as to how this particular pissing match is going to turn out.
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13th May 2019
The bizarre and mysterious explosions that rocked the UAE port of Fujairah on Sunday just got even more strange after Saudi Arabia admitted overnight that two of its oil tankers were attacked while sailing toward the Persian Gulf possibly as part of the incident.
The world just got more interesting.
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12th May 2019
Amid China’s increasing military threat, Taiwan unveiled a miniature model of the country’s first indigenous submarine at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, reported Focus Taiwan.
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11th May 2019
Obama’s lies to the contrary notwithstanding.
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11th May 2019
In a nutshell, this team found that if you start learning a language before the age of 18, you have a much better likelihood of obtaining a native-like mastery of the language’s grammar than if you start later. This is a much older age than has been generally assumed and is really interesting for reasons I’ll get into a bit later.
I question the characterization of 18-year-olds as ‘adults’ but it’s still interesting.
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11th May 2019
Marine experts, scientists and archaeologists have spent the past 15 years meticulously mapping thousands of kilometres under water in the hope of unearthing lost prehistoric tribes.
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9th May 2019
But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.
Just remember that.
Absolutely nothing.
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9th May 2019
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9th May 2019
Really, you can’t make this stuff up.
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9th May 2019
It’s all in the genes … sort of.
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9th May 2019
Raytheon Company has successfully shot down multiple drones using its advanced high powered microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems, stated the company press release Tuesday.
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8th May 2019
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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8th May 2019
Or maybe not. (I’m wondering who the ‘we’ is in that headline.)
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7th May 2019
Women and minorities hardest hit, no doubt.
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5th May 2019
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5th May 2019
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5th May 2019
After 201 years, German firm, Koenig & Bauer AG – the market leader for machines that print the world’s banknotes – is pushing into printing on Coke cans and beverage cartons.
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3rd May 2019
That will preserve us from a lot of whining.
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2nd May 2019
Democrat family values.
If ‘families’ get a break under the immigration laws, guess what? You get more ‘families’.
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1st May 2019
Recycled materials are only valuable if they’re pure—a collection of a single type of metal or plastic that can serve as a feedstock for manufacturing or other industrial processes. The economics of recycling would actually be spectacular if you could get people to separate out a dozen individual classes of recyclables and then deliver them to a recycling center.
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30th April 2019
On Sunday, Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton reported on Peter Schweizer’s investigation of former vice president Joe Biden’s family’s business dealings with China’s government, concluding that Biden was “compromised by a foreign power and unfit to be president.”
But you knew that.
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30th April 2019
In the next several weeks, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to issue his summation of the potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by top officials in the Obama Administration and holdovers in the early Trump Administration who were overseeing the investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
And the perpetrators of the so-called FISAgate scandal now are scrambling for cover as the bad news looms.
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30th April 2019
Good. I would hate to think that her defective genes were being propagated.
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30th April 2019
I gave up wearing a watch when I was able to buy a cellphone that told time.
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29th April 2019
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28th April 2019
If you own Amazon stock, feel free to pat yourself on the back.
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26th April 2019
Now that is a useful parrot.
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26th April 2019
Carbon dating has already indicated that the bones are from a person who died between 1590 and 1620, while DNA tests have confirmed that the bones are of a Westerner from northern Europe. Japanese researchers are planning to reach out to sources in Britain to try to trace the Adams family line to a surviving descendant in order to compare the DNA.
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25th April 2019
I’m not really sure what an ‘Instagram model’ is, but I’m glad we cleared that up.
For the record, my butt is actually real, too, if that matters.
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25th April 2019
People were migrating, on the whole, to states in the south and west, according to researchers. The reasons they cited for that were lower costs of living, state budgetary challenges, weather, and job growth, among other factors.
If they had asked about ‘absence of crazy socialists’, I’m sure that would have gotten a lot of play.
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25th April 2019
You can’t be a Real Democrat Candidate without a cadre of fat ugly black women on staff.
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21st April 2019
Read it. And watch the vixeo.
Anybody who buys or drives a Tesla is insane.
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20th April 2019
On the other hand, I will not lend my stuff to anybody who has to be convinced of the necessity to clean equipment every time it’s used.
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19th April 2019
Steve Sailer ran it down.
The way it works is there are different topics. You get “points” for how you answer each topic. For example, in the “Religion” category, if you’re Jewish, you get 25 points. If you’re Christian, you get just five points.
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17th April 2019
Manufactured by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group under China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), the new drone boat, dubbed Marine Lizard, passed “delivery checks” and left the factory on April 8 in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, state-run Global Times reported on Monday.
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17th April 2019
Talk about one-issue voters….
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17th April 2019
Why couldn’t Clinton have the grace to do that>
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17th April 2019
Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) won a landslide victory against the liberal New Democratic Party (NDP) Tuesday night.
UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s first priority: repeal the province’s carbon tax.
It’s the first time an Albertan government has been toppled after only one term in power, and it’s the third time in the last year conservatives have won a landslide victory on a platform centered around repealing carbon taxes.
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16th April 2019
Note that they re-enact the medieval European culture, not the medieval (if that term even applies) native Argentinian culture.
No mention of the SCA, and I’m not aware of any SCA activity in Latin America.
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16th April 2019
Some good news for a change.
I think kids ought to be taught not just ‘cursive’ but actual calligraphy.
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15th April 2019
Read it. And watch the video.
With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.
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14th April 2019
Goldman Sachs must be one of the most heavily Democratic business organizations in the U.S., and it’s a good thing: given the company’s pervasive influence on American business, if its partners were Republicans they would be more vilified than the Koch brothers. So it is a day-brightener to see that Goldman predicts a Trump re-election in 2020: narrowly, but still.
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14th April 2019
I’m sure you all want to know how to do that.
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13th April 2019
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifted an order suspending the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a Trump administration policy that requires Central American asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico before their appearance in immigration court.
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