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Jean Cocteau’s birthday today. (July 5)

A drawing by Jean Cocteau
Raymond Radiguet and Jean Cocteau

Dead Presidents’ Questions

John Adams’s final words were (supposedly), “Thomas Jefferson survives.” But he was wrong. Jefferson had died just hours earlier at Monticello.
Five years to the day after Adams and Jefferson died — on July 4, 1831 — the fifth President, James Monroe, passed away. So three presidents have died on the same date: July 4th

Cryptographer cracks secret coded message to Thomas Jefferson

In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson received a taunting message written in secret code. Its author bragged the message would “defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race.”
But more than 200 years later, the code has finally been cracked.

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