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Superbe visite de la maison de Thmas Jefferson

Nice story of Thomas Jefferson/Montecello by Maira Kalman

Thomas Jefferson

beautiful and a little sad. hand-drawn and -written essay about thomas jefferson and ach wie flüchtig.

artists illustrations from a visit to Monticello

an important piece on Thomas Jefferson

a visit to Thomas Jefferson's residence

One artist blogs about the impact visiting Monticello had on her and her impressions of Jefferson.

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now. The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them.

Sweet

Interesting, though the codebreaker did use a computer to solve it.

200 anos depois um texto criptografado é decodificado.

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A cipher by Mr. Patterson. Simple to use without a computer, hard to crack.

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.