bi3mw > 24-09-2022, 05:59 PM
(24-09-2022, 04:18 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.- The Hitler diaries were a series of sixty volumes of journals.
- Doug+Dave spent a couple of hours traipsing around a Kentish field at midnight crushing wheatstalks below their feet
knowing that their 'work' may not be seen let alone getting paid for it and they did it repeatedly for years.
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(24-09-2022, 04:18 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The reasons humans have for doing stuff is as varied as the number of humans itself.
Koen G > 24-09-2022, 06:08 PM
nablator > 24-09-2022, 06:10 PM
(24-09-2022, 05:52 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... painted possibly by a youngster who may have made the chicken scratches as well as the slapdash painting.It was the little cousin who liked to paint but was 6 years old at the time and easily confused by interior/exterior outlines.
Anton > 24-09-2022, 06:53 PM
cvetkakocj@rogers.com > 24-09-2022, 09:04 PM
davidjackson > 25-09-2022, 08:09 AM
(24-09-2022, 05:52 PM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Bored, so wrote this theory because Human. --This post is kinda relevant so Admins move or remove as you deem fit
Five students have a beef with their Professor,
so they want to make a nonsense mss and totally fool him to prove to themselves he is the chump that they take him for.
They get a bargain basement batch of vellum from one of their buddies who is the son of a parchment producer.
Yes its got holes and flaws in some sheets, the sheets have differing thicknesses and havent been trimmed but its a good price for that much vellum.
Mark Knowles > 25-09-2022, 02:14 PM
Koen G > 25-09-2022, 03:51 PM
(24-09-2022, 02:44 PM)Hermes777 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The story that Rudolf paid a large sum for it (150+ years later!) provides no evidence as to the original purpose of the work whatsoever and cannot be taken as proof the "hoax" was profitable and well-calculated.
RobGea > 25-09-2022, 05:00 PM
Koen G > 25-09-2022, 05:38 PM
Quote:The New York book dealer Hans P. Kraus, who decided to take Anne Nill as his secretary, bought the MS on 12 July 1961 for $24,500. He valued it very highly and tried to sell it for $160,000 (equivalent with the amount Voynich had asked for it before), but he did not succeed.