Mary, Queen of Scotsin a sentence
- Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.† (source)
- There was a description of the execution of Queen Mary Stuart, and you could see Napoleon's signature.† (source)
- I'm supposed to be Mary, Queen of Scots, headless already.† (source)
- I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.'† (source)
- Here is Schiller's Mary Stuart and a tutor who loves to teach."† (source)
- It had a high collar with a tiny ruff, reminding her of Mary, Queen of Scots, and making her, she thought, look wonderfully a woman, and dignified.† (source)
- He surveyed the house with interest, and then walked round and scanned the outer boundary of the garden, as one might have done had it been the birthplace of Shakespeare, the prison of Mary Stuart, or the Chateau of Hougomont.† (source)
- An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest temerity with a manner of extreme discretion.† (source)
- At this time she had a cult for Mary Stuart and enthusiastic veneration for illustrious or unhappy women.† (source)
- Like Mary, queen of Scots, something.† (source)
- , Mary Stuart, Charles I., the three Henrys of France, the Emperor Henry IV.† (source)