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...some other Baconians, Shakespeare's epitaph was the source of all sorts of speculation. Using Bacon's cipher, one man translated the inscription to read SAEHR/BAYEEP/RFTAXA/RAWAR, crossed out the letters S-H-A-X-P-E-A-R-E, and by rearranging the remaining letters got FRA BAWRT EAR AY (i.e., "Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays"). Another investigator made each capital in the inscription stand for one, and, after counting the number of letters between them, produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scrambled Ciphers & Bacon | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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