The Secret Message in Copley Library

It's not quite up to the standards of National Treasure, but Greg Ross dug up a secret message in the facade of the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library: "Moses, Cicero, Kalidasa, Isocrates, Milton, Mozart, Euclid, Æschylus, Dante, Wren, Herrick, Irving, Titian, Erasmus. These names form an acrostic, the first letters spelling the names of the firm of architects which has furnished the plan for the building." Sadly, the inscription was later removed. [Futility Closet]

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