Speakeasy Password
Passwords PINs and Paper are a concern for ordinary users who want to keep their apps and accounts safe from trolls and thieves. Often, passwords are not a problem: people are a problem. This is a wacky reminder of paper and pen.
Kipling Opium
Young Kipling technical journalism about the Ghazipur Opium Factory in India. He did not include the article in his collected works and it was discovered in an attic in 2007.
Silk Secret
Jim Thompson, silk story and The King and I. Who was he and where did he come from? The unanswered question is where did he go? He vanished on Easter Sunday 1967. No one knows.
Mary Stuart Cipher Letters
Recently deciphered letters of Mary Stuart - found in the French National Library.
Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller disappeared in December 1944 but no one appeared to notice for days.
Charles V Cipher
King Carlos of Spain wrote to his ambassador in Paris after the death of King Henry VIII of England. His cipher letter has finally been translated in November 2022.
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury, woman of mystery, longest-serving American actress, from a British family marked for extermination in a concentration camp
Freezine Epub
Publications are increasingly going online and writers must adapt to changing requirements
A 16th-century transposition cipher based on square numbers.