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| | The Unexplained : The Voynich Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In 1917 the manuscript even captured the attention of the cryptological section of the United States Military Intelligence Division - MI-8. |
 | | MI-8 was headed by a brilliant young director, Herbert Osborne Yardley, who was later to become a legend in the world ofcodebreaking, and his equally brilliant assistant, Captain John M. Manly, Ph.D., who had been, before the war, head of the department of English at Chicago University. |
 | | But after a long struggle with the Voynich manuscript, he too gave up, along with his boss Yardley, referring to the text as 'the most mysterious manuscript in the world'. |
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