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The cipher craze began with a fiery American congressman and utopian reformer named Ignatius Donnelly, who in 1888 published a thousand-page tome called The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays. Donnelly also credited Bacon with the so-called works of Marlowe, Montaigne, and many others--780 plays in all.

This must be the same Ignatius Donnelly who came up with the idea that Plato's Atlantis really existed in the Atlantic and was the site of a super advanced civilisation, refugees from which founded all other ancient civilisations.


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