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user-inactivated  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "After a calligraphic study, 80 experts say Columbus and Pedro Madruga are the same person"

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.





galen  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't get me started on people who question Shakespeare's identity. 9/10 times it's classist bullshit.

b_b  ·  2891 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.