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user-inactivated · 2885 days ago · link · · parent · post: "After a calligraphic study, 80 experts say Columbus and Pedro Madruga are the same person"
That's not remotely the area I studied, unfortunately. I think it's fascinating that there's any sort of question about it.
user-inactivated · 2885 days ago · link ·
Also everyone but Shakespeare was Shakespeare. Amusingly, authorship identification is a thing in computational linguistics because of that question, so you have English professors' conspiracy theories to thank for Big Brother being able to figure out who you are from your hubski posts.
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On The Media did a whole hour recently about where Shakespeare conspiracy theorists come from and why they continue to exist. Worth a listen if you have some time.