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  • Treasured Galileo manuscript is a forgery, University of Michigan says

    08/23/2022 4:16:16 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 27 replies
    theguardian.com ^ | Edwin Rios
    The university announced on Tuesday that the so-called “Galileo manuscript” – a one-page document that includes a letter accompanying the astronomer’s presentation of his telescope and his supposed notes observing Jupiter’s moons through his telescope in 1610 – was crafted by Tobia Nicotra, a well-known forger from Italy who was fined and sentenced to two years in jail for crafting fake Galileo documents in 1934. He also infamously produced fake autographs of Christopher Columbus and Mozart. The possibility came to light in May when the Georgia State University professor Nick Wilding expressed “serious doubts about its authenticity”. Wilding found while...
  • Trump’s Inauguration Photos Were Cropped to Make Crowds Look Bigger, Report Says

    09/08/2018 10:46:59 PM PDT · by vannrox · 59 replies
    Mother Jones ^ | 8sep18 | Edwin Rios
    Workers were given the impression the president wanted “pictures that appeared to depict more spectators.” Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump boasted about the size of the crowds in attendance, and then-press secretary Sean Spicer, in his first press conference, sided with his boss and insisted that it had been “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period.” This wasn’t true, of course, but a government photographer did his best to make it seem like it was. Newly released documents obtained by the Guardian show that a National Park Service photographer, following a request from the White House,...