On 1/17/2004 16:54, Lee Larson wrote >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?
Not to mention Forrest Gump... or the removal of Brigham Young's beard from his portrait at BYU when BYU decided that beards were for subversives. Bill | 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>.
