Popular Post Claire. Posted July 20, 2017 Popular Post #1 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Abe Lincoln mystery 'almost certainly' solved using technique that unmasked JK Rowling A team of forensic linguistics experts believe they have solved a longstanding mystery, using a method similar to the one which discovered that Robert Galbraith – the author of detective story The Cuckoo's Calling—was in fact an alias for Harry Potter writer JK Rowling. Read more: Phys.org 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozfactor Posted July 21, 2017 #2 Share Posted July 21, 2017 I had never heard of this letter as I am not American so I looked it up and it is a beautiful letter, as apt today as it was then poor Mrs Bixby , what a sacrifice her family made x 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebDandelion Posted July 21, 2017 #3 Share Posted July 21, 2017 I don't understand why the author of the letter is important. It's beautifully written for a family that suffered a great loss. Who wrote it isn't important (to me anywho), it's the letters' content that is the masterpiece and the grieve it brought the tragedy... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boozemonkey Posted July 21, 2017 #4 Share Posted July 21, 2017 To lose 5 sons to a just cause.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted July 22, 2017 #5 Share Posted July 22, 2017 On 21/07/2017 at 5:38 PM, Ozfactor said: I had never heard of this letter as I am not American so I looked it up and it is a beautiful letter, as apt today as it was then poor Mrs Bixby , what a sacrifice her family made x There's something familiar about that letter, ahhh yes, found it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire. Posted July 22, 2017 Author #6 Share Posted July 22, 2017 (edited) 14 hours ago, Boozemonkey said: To lose 5 sons to a just cause.... Lydia Bixby did not lose all five sons. Two sons (and possibly a third one) survived. One deserted the army, one was honorably discharged, and another either deserted or died a prisoner of war. I don't know how the confusion occurred and why the condolence letter mentioned all five of them. Edited July 22, 2017 by Claire. Typo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L Palmer Posted September 13, 2017 #7 Share Posted September 13, 2017 They've had wordprint analysis for decades now. It's been used from everything to determining whether Shakespeare or Marlowe wrote certain poems to identifying how many different people contributed to the Book of Mormon. It's not a new technology, bit I'm glad to see it's still in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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