In England, the judge who resided over Dan Brown’s plagarizism trial, hide a message in his court papers:

A secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” has been cracked, but far from revealing an ancient conspiracy it is simply an obscure reference to a Royal Navy admiral.
British High Court Justice Peter Smith, who handed down a ruling that Brown had not plagiarized his book, had embedded his own secret message in his judgment by italicizing letters scattered throughout the 71-page document.
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The judge’s secret message was: “Jackie Fisher, who are you? Dreadnought,” Tench wrote in the Guardian newspaper.
Judge Smith is known as a navy buff, and Fisher was a Royal Navy admiral who developed the idea for a giant battleship called the HMS Dreadnought in the early 20th century.
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“The message reveals a significant but now overlooked event that occurred virtually 100 years to the day of the start of the trial,” he said in a statement.

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