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“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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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 7/27/2022 1:46:00 PM

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-26/somerton-man-identified-melbourne-born-engineer-researcher-says/101272182

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 7/30/2022 7:27:00 PM

CASE SOLVED, July 2022.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 7/27/2022 1:49:00 PM

intriguing, but what of the coded message, and the slip of paper Tamam Shud...a perplexing mystery.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/12/2020 5:25:00 PM

The Somerton Man Case.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 1/29/2022 2:06:00 PM

https://sites.psu.edu/jiyoonnicky/unsolved-crimes/taman-shud-case/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 5:28:00 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."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 5:26:00 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."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 5:26:00 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...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 5:26:00 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"

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/12/2020 5:24:00 PM

H.C. Reynolds.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 6:03:00 PM

https://ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/15/update-on-the-elusive-h-c-reynolds

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 5:24:00 PM

https://ciphermysteries.com/2013/03/15/sorry-but-the-unknown-man-is-almost-certainly-not-h-c-reynolds

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/12/2020 12:45:00 PM

"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 12:46:00 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.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 12:45:00 PM

http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html

Robert Lindley

Date: 10/12/2020 5:06:00 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...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/12/2020 11:55:00 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.

Ts Poetry

Date: 10/11/2020 7:34:00 PM

? red circle...we need to leave no clue unclothed

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/11/2020 8:19:00 PM

https://youtu.be/gD3SLxibaH0

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/11/2020 8:17:00 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.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/11/2020 5:20:00 PM

...for the sleuths...