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X-WR-CALDESC:21 June 1843: Publication of the first installments of the inf
 luential cryptologic story\, 'The Gold Bug\,' by Edgar Allen Poe.\n\nPoe h
 ad become aware of the public's interest in secret writing in 1840 and ask
 ed readers to challenge his or her skills as a code-breaker. Poe took adva
 ntage of the popularity of cryptography as he was writing 'The Gold-Bug\,'
  and the success of the story centers on one such cryptogram. \n\nExcerpte
 d from Wikipedia:\n\nThe story involves cryptography with a detailed descr
 iption of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter f
 requencies. The cryptogram is:\n\n53‡‡†305))6*\;4826)4‡.)4‡)\;806*\;48†8\n
 ¶60))85\;\;]8*\;:‡*8†83(88)5*†\;46(\;88*96\n*?\;8)*‡(\;485)\;5*†2:*‡(\;495
 6*2(5*—4)8\n¶8*\;4069285)\;)6†8)4‡‡\;1(‡9\;48081\;8:8‡\n1\;48†85\;4)485†52
 8806*81(‡9\;48\;(88\;4\n(‡?34\;48)4‡\;161\;:188\;‡?\;\n\nThe decoded messa
 ge is:\n\n53‡‡†305))6*\;4826)4‡.)4‡)\;806*\;48†8\nagoodglassinthebishopsho
 stelinthede\n\n¶60))85\;\;]8*\;:‡*8†83(88)5*†\;46(\;88*96\nvilsseattwentyo
 nedegreesandthirteenmi\n\n*?\;8)*‡(\;485)\;5*†2:*‡(\;4956*2(5*—4)8\nnutesn
 ortheastandbynorthmainbranchse\n\n¶8*\;4069285)\;)6†8)4‡‡\;1(‡9\;48081\;8:
 8‡\nventhlimbeastsideshootfromthelefteyeo\n\n1\;48†85\;4)485†528806*81(‡9\
 ;48\;(88\;4\nfthedeathsheadabeelinefromthetreeth\n\n(‡?34\;48)4‡\;161\;:18
 8\;‡?\;\nroughtheshotfiftyfeetout\n\nThe decoded message with spaces\, pun
 ctuation\, and capitalization is:\n\n    A good glass in the bishop's host
 el in the devil's seat\n    twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northe
 ast and by north\n    main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the le
 ft eye of the death's-head\n    a bee line from the tree through the shot 
 fifty feet out.\n
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DESCRIPTION:21 June 1843: Publication of the first installments of the infl
 uential cryptologic story\, 'The Gold Bug\,' by Edgar Allen Poe.\n\nPoe ha
 d become aware of the public's interest in secret writing in 1840 and aske
 d readers to challenge his or her skills as a code-breaker. Poe took advan
 tage of the popularity of cryptography as he was writing 'The Gold-Bug\,' 
 and the success of the story centers on one such cryptogram. \n\nExcerpted
  from Wikipedia:\n\nThe story involves cryptography with a detailed descri
 ption of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter fr
 equencies. The cryptogram is:\n\n53‡‡†305))6*\;4826)4‡.)4‡)\;806*\;48†8\n¶
 60))85\;\;]8*\;:‡*8†83(88)5*†\;46(\;88*96\n*?\;8)*‡(\;485)\;5*†2:*‡(\;4956
 *2(5*—4)8\n¶8*\;4069285)\;)6†8)4‡‡\;1(‡9\;48081\;8:8‡\n1\;48†85\;4)485†528
 806*81(‡9\;48\;(88\;4\n(‡?34\;48)4‡\;161\;:188\;‡?\;\n\nThe decoded messag
 e is:\n\n53‡‡†305))6*\;4826)4‡.)4‡)\;806*\;48†8\nagoodglassinthebishopshos
 telinthede\n\n¶60))85\;\;]8*\;:‡*8†83(88)5*†\;46(\;88*96\nvilsseattwentyon
 edegreesandthirteenmi\n\n*?\;8)*‡(\;485)\;5*†2:*‡(\;4956*2(5*—4)8\nnutesno
 rtheastandbynorthmainbranchse\n\n¶8*\;4069285)\;)6†8)4‡‡\;1(‡9\;48081\;8:8
 ‡\nventhlimbeastsideshootfromthelefteyeo\n\n1\;48†85\;4)485†528806*81(‡9\;
 48\;(88\;4\nfthedeathsheadabeelinefromthetreeth\n\n(‡?34\;48)4‡\;161\;:188
 \;‡?\;\nroughtheshotfiftyfeetout\n\nThe decoded message with spaces\, punc
 tuation\, and capitalization is:\n\n    A good glass in the bishop's hoste
 l in the devil's seat\n    twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northea
 st and by north\n    main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the lef
 t eye of the death's-head\n    a bee line from the tree through the shot f
 ifty feet out.\n
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SUMMARY:1843: Publication of first installments of 'The Gold Bug' by Poe
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