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The Code in the Quilt

Arts, Culture & Media

Studio 360’s Leital Molad learns how a secret stitched language transported coded messages to slaves trying to escape through the Underground Railroad. (Originally aired: July 21, 2001)

Students at COSAT shave each other's heads

School Year: A dress code to keep the ‘gangsters’ away

Development & Education

‘Codebreakers’ Author on the Undecipherable

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