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Cracking a German Secret Society's Centuries-Old Encrypted Code
Colin Schultz, 2012. Smithsonian Magazine (Smart News).
Report of 19 November 2012, drawing on Noah Shachtman's Wired article, on the Oculists at Wolfenbüttel, the Masonic high-degree rituals described from page 27, and Önnerfors's reading of the cat-and-mouse insignia.
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Schultz, C. (2012). Cracking a German Secret Society's Centuries-Old Encrypted Code. Smithsonian Magazine (Smart News). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cracking-a-german-secret-societys-centuries-old-encrypted-code-134867115/
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Schultz, Colin. “Cracking a German Secret Society's Centuries-Old Encrypted Code.” Smithsonian Magazine (Smart News) (2012).