This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 4 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 2000
Page
5
In Williams College Williams town a 151 year old Poe cipher puzzle is cracked by computer programmer Gil Broza and Poe scholar Shawn Rosenheim. The second cipher proved far tougher, using multi variant letters and typographical quirks. The winner received 2500 dollars in October.
Shawn Rosenheim of Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts holds a wheel cipher in his office Tuesday. He helped organize a contest to decode an 1841 cipher published by Edgar Allan Poe.
The two secret messages decoded from Poe’s 1841 ciphers are outlined, with the first solved in 1992 and the second deemed solved in October. The second credits typographers for misreads, and an added Poe line envisions immortal youth despite apocalyptic elements, while an 1713 Addison play excerpt appears alongside.
Fourteen Sandia National Laboratories employees, mostly security guards, pooled $10 each to win a $131 million Powerball prize in Albuquerque. Felix Silva said the group bought the ticket at a local store and arrived at the lottery headquarters before staff. Winners may take a $70.3 million lump sum or 25 annual installments.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.