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Breaking the Silk Dress Cryptogram - journal articlePDF
Link to the preprint. Final version published in Cryptologia (Aug. 6, 2023). In 2013, an archeological curator bought a Victorian-era silk bustle dress from an antique mall in Maine. When...
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Breaking the Silk Dress Cryptogram - videoMP4
A 17-minute video graphic novel of the solution to the Silk Dress cryptogram. [Note: If the video doesn't start playing automatically, move your mouse over the black window and click on...
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Commitment to Costumes blogHTML
Sara Rivers Cofield's "Commitment to Costumes" blog post about the Silk Dress cryptogram.
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Cipher Mysteries blog HTML
Blog post about Silk Dress cryptogram on cryptologist Nick Pelling's Cipher Mysteries website.
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NOAA Article - Cryptogram' in a silk dress tells a weather storyHTML
December 14, 2023 — Sometimes a dress is just a dress. In this story, a dress becomes a kind of time travel portal, where we get to return very briefly to the Industrial Revolution and...
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The Weather Network Article - Canadian researcher cracks 135 year old 'unsolvable' codeHTML
A secret code hidden in the pocket of a 19th century silk dress was one of the world’s unsolved mysteries. A researcher from Manitoba figured it out
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New York Post Article - Cryptic notes found hidden in 19th-century silk dress decoded after 10 years reveal surprising storyHTML
Within a secret pocket of a brown silk dress, paper notes containing messages written in code were discovered after being hidden for more than 100 years.
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Popular Mechanics Article - A Woman Hid This Secret Code in Her Silk Dress in 1888—and Codebreakers Just Solved ItHTML
For a decade, codebreakers have tried—and failed—to solve the case of the crumpled paper that was found stuffed in a secret pocket under the bustle and inside the seams of a silk dress...
Web services
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Video of Silk DressHTML
Video of Sara Rivers Cofield showing the silk bustle dress.
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Unsolved Codes TalkMP4
Discussion of the Silk Dress cryptogram by cryptologists Klaus Schmeh and Elonka Dunin, as part of a virtual presentation titled "More Famous and Not-So-Famous Unsolved Codes", hosted by...
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Unsolved Ciphers and Cryptograms IcebergMP4
Explanation of the Silk Dress cryptogram as part of a video that goes through an "iceberg" chart of unsolved codes and ciphers.
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Titre | 135-Year Old Code Mystery Highlights Forgotten Era of Meteorology |
Publication general type | graphic novel |
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Keyword Vocabulary | polar data catalogue |
Keyword Vocabulary URL | https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/keywordlibrary |
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Atmosphere
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Version | 1.0 |
Publisher | Canadian Watershed Information Network |
Date Published | 2023 |
DOI | 10.1080/01611194.2023.2223562 |
Langue | English |
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License Name | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Licence Type | Open |
Licence Schema Name | SPDX |
Licence URL | https://spdx.org/licenses |
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