History doesn’t often remember people like Richard Hayes, the quiet librarian with Mayo roots who outsmarted the Nazis, ...
A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 98. Ruth Bourne, a Jewish veteran from High Barnet, north London, joined the ...
That's actually not true, since I’ve SEEN him cry (even though he won’t admit it), and that was when we watched 1996’s ...
Codebreaker Alex Baber says he used AI to conclude a single suspect, Marvin Margolis, was behind both unsolved cases.
Death can no longer present itself as an abstract noun for someone who was grievously stabbed more than a dozen times, after having lived under the shadow of a fatwa and a multi-million dollar bounty ...
The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...
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We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese.
Without a doubt, 2025 will be defined as the year of the thriller; television certainly took a darker turn, with slow, suspenseful horror permeating through scripts and screens. Psychological dramas, ...
In a year of reflection and remembrance, the world lost luminaries whose talents and stories enriched our lives, leaving ...
In a world exclusive, the Daily Mail can reveal that a new investigation has concluded that the Zodiac killer and the ...
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“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...