On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:32, L. Michael Gozia complained: > It is scary: I love history and now people can edit or > <underline>change</underline> history!
This isn't that new. There are plenty of "official" photographs from the USSR of the 1950s where somebody like Trotsky or Beria is no longer there.I read a fascinating book on this called The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in the Soviet Union. There's a Web site with examples. <http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/> There's also a famous case of a painting in the Vatican that was ordered to be doctored by the Pope to remove the face of a politically inconvenient cardinal shortly after his death in the 1500s. The face was revealed by X-rays during a restoration during the 1990s. Remember the movie Zelig? | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
