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Mary Queen of Scots: Secret letters written during imprisonment decoded. Secret letters written in code by Mary, Queen of Scots during her imprisonment in England have been uncovered and decoded by a team of cryptographers. The documents, which were believed to have been lost, were found in...

A team of researchers has cracked a five century-old code which reveals a rumoured French plot to kill the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V. Charles was one of the most powerful men of the 16th century, presiding over a vast empire that took in much of western Europe and the...

There's a photo in the latest Fortean Times letters page of a British postbox, traditional red pillar design, with a knitted top on, like a tea cosy. Nobody knows who made it, or why it was there. Well, there's one near me, and it's not the one in the mag! It's a white, winter's one, with a...

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Long time coming (long delayed mail and other blasts from the past) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_829408.html?menu=news.quirkies

Yesterday at the car booty I found two copies of 'TP's Weekly' which was a radical newspaper founded by TP O'Connor ( radical Irish Nationalist MP) in 1902. One had a letter from 'Charles Fort, London' entitled 'Explorers from other Worlds?' which described, with references, apparent UFO...

I am watching a slightly pedestrian documentary about an outbreak of poison pen letters in Mansfield, N. Yorkshire. Have Board Members ever received or been tempted to send an anonymous letter, poisonous or otherwise? God forbid they should have actually sent one! :eek: