Tamam Shud

“Tamam Shud”
Handsome comes as handsome goes forgotten not missed lies waiting intestate a code undeciphered Mystery in the end - far more interesting answers calling something whispers: "Death - open gate ... Come in" (LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Spin Spin Sugar" / Sneaker Pimps https://youtu.be/uGPdpWbg5bU
"Police found a book nearby from which, the piece of paper was torn - the works of a 12th century poet - and on the inside cover found some sort of code, and a local telephone number."
1. Tamam Shud Case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case 2. "The man, fully dressed in a business suit, was found propped against the seawall at Somerton Park Beach, in southern Adelaide, on December 1, 1948." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-08/new-animation-shows-face-of-mystery-somerton-man/12717590 3. Somerton Man/Blog https://tomsbytwo.com/2021/02/02/two-definable-patterns-in-the-tamam-shud-code/ 4. Somerton Man/CasoCriminal https://casocriminal.org/en/unsolved-cases/mystery-of-the-somerton-man-taman-shud-case/ 5. Tamam Shud / translate. "In Persian "tamam" is a noun that simply means "the end" and it can also be used in the sense when something is finished or completed. The "shud" bit on the end is an auxiliary verb that puts it into the past tense, so "tamam shud" means "ended" or "finished". 6. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam 7. Edward Fitzgerald (poet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_FitzGerald_(poet) 8. ASIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Security_Intelligence_Organisation 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Woomera_Range_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Hill Psychological Science/Criminology, double major. LYRICS/ "Spin Spin Sugar", Sneaker Pimps https://genius.com/Sneaker-pimps-spin-spin-sugar-lyrics
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Labyrinth Avatar
July 27, 2022 at 1:46 PM
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-26/somerton-man-identified-melbourne-born-engineer-researcher-says/101272182
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July 30, 2022 at 7:27 PM
CASE SOLVED, July 2022.
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July 27, 2022 at 1:49 PM
intriguing, but what of the coded message, and the slip of paper Tamam Shud...a perplexing mystery.
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October 12, 2020 at 5:25 PM
The Somerton Man Case.
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January 29, 2022 at 2:06 PM
https://sites.psu.edu/jiyoonnicky/unsolved-crimes/taman-shud-case/
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October 12, 2020 at 5:28 PM
According to the pathologist, John Burton Cleland, the man was of "Britisher" appearance and thought to be aged about 40–45; he was in "top physical condition". He was "180 centimetres (5 ft 11 in) tall, with grey eyes, fair to ginger-coloured hair, slightly grey around the temples, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, hands and nails that showed no signs of manual labour, big and little toes that met in a wedge shape, like those of a dancer or someone who wore boots with pointed toes; and pronounced high calf muscles consistent with people who regularly wore boots or shoes with high heels or performed ballet."
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October 12, 2020 at 5:26 PM
"He was dressed in a white shirt; a red, white and blue tie; brown trousers; socks and shoes; a brown knitted pullover and fashionable grey and brown double-breasted jacket of reportedly "American" tailoring. All labels on his clothes had been removed and he had no hat (unusual for 1948) or wallet. He was clean-shaven and carried no identification, which led police to believe he had committed suicide.Finally, his dental records were not able to be matched to any known person."
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October 12, 2020 at 5:26 PM
An autopsy was conducted, and the pathologist estimated the time of death at around 2 a.m. on 1 December, 1948. The heart was of normal size, and normal in every way ...small vessels not commonly observed in the brain were easily discernible with congestion. There was congestion of the pharynx, and the gullet was covered with whitening of superficial layers of the mucosa with a patch of ulceration in the middle of it. The stomach was deeply congested...
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October 12, 2020 at 5:26 PM
There was congestion in the second half of the duodenum. There was blood mixed with the food in the stomach. Both kidneys were congested, and the liver contained a great excess of blood in its vessels. ...The spleen was strikingly large ... about 3 times normal size ... there was destruction of the centre of the liver lobules revealed under the microscope. ... acute gastritis hemorrhage, extensive congestion of the liver and spleen, and the congestion to the brain. The autopsy also showed that the man's last meal was a pasty eaten three to four hours before death, but tests failed to reveal any foreign substance in the body. The pathologist, Dr. Dwyer, concluded: "I am quite convinced the death could not have been natural ... the poison I suggested was a barbiturate or a soluble hypnotic"
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October 12, 2020 at 5:24 PM
H.C. Reynolds.
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October 12, 2020 at 6:03 PM
https://ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/15/update-on-the-elusive-h-c-reynolds
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October 12, 2020 at 5:24 PM
https://ciphermysteries.com/2013/03/15/sorry-but-the-unknown-man-is-almost-certainly-not-h-c-reynolds
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October 12, 2020 at 12:45 PM
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
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October 12, 2020 at 12:46 PM
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a lyric poem in quatrains (four-line stanzas). Rather than telling a story with characters, a lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, and religion.
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October 12, 2020 at 12:45 PM
http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html
Lindley Avatar
October 12, 2020 at 5:06 AM
I broke the cipher, it says.. "To the mother sea I must return." " The waves churn and churn." Guy must have also been a poet/spy. Great poem my friend. Life is itself a mystery. As is its transition/ending... A fav...
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October 12, 2020 at 11:55 AM
Interesting. I am looking for the true identity of a dead man, who is all but forgotten by the world...to find out who he truly is...the Rubaiyat a gem to begin the unravelling.
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October 11, 2020 at 7:34 PM
? red circle...we need to leave no clue unclothed
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October 11, 2020 at 8:19 PM
https://youtu.be/gD3SLxibaH0
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October 11, 2020 at 8:17 PM
I found this highly intriguing...."Police found a book nearby from which, the piece of paper was torn - the works of a 12th century poet - and on the inside cover, found some sort of code, and a local telephone number." I shall leave you to encrypt and red circle your Hustler magazines.
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October 11, 2020 at 5:20 PM
...for the sleuths...
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