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Orpheus

Lets say that Orpheus was part of the Demi-Gods and heroes group from the Greek mythology, but he had a really peculiar power from this other characters. Usually this figures tended to have powers muscle-bound, mortality-bound related topics, Orpheus had the gift of the music. With this gift, Orpheus could play music so beautiful that it could not only charm human beings and animals, but it could make other things like trees and inert individuals like rocks and water move. He is quoted in other mythology stories also, by helping different characters and heroes when the brute force couldn't win. For example, singing and playing his lyre, Orpheus charmed the clashing rocks that threatened to crush Argos and putted the Dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece to sleep.  He fell in love with Eurydice and they got married, but in the day of their wedding she was bitten in her ankle by a snake, this incident killed her. Leaded by his anger, Orpheus descended into the Underworld, h

Cicada 3301

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Hello people this is SpaceNostalgia, today we are gonna be talking about the Cicada 3301, this is an enigmatic organization, or let’s say group that posted on the web this series of puzzle with encrypted messages, to supposedly recruit cryptanalysts from the audience how could solve the puzzle.     The first puzzle was uploaded to the web on January 5 of 2012, then followed by the second one on the same date but a year later in 2013, and the last one that we heard about was released on January 5 2014, the main idea of this puzzle was that if you could solve the first one, you would be provided with the following ones, even thou there is several people who claim they solve the enigmatic puzzle, there is no recorded evidence that can prove this. The rumor has it that this puzzle was originally made to recruit “bright minds” for government institutions, secret societies or even cyber mercenaries groups, although there is no record of any individual recruited to any