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Understanding The Voynich Manuscript #4 If not Latin, then what? Please see the links at...

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Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #3 Plants and the moon. For thousands of years, people...

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However
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Businessman Jim McCormick Guilty

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For some years now, scientists, science writers, bloggers and others have been writing about the bogus bomb detector scam perpetrated by Jim McCormick.  Now, at last, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has done what it should have done sooner: put on its best hobnail boots and jumped all over the guy.


Image source: explosivedetectorfrauds.blogspot.co.uk