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...Unlike the careful and uniform script once taught in the schools, like the one based on the hallowed Palmer method, handwriting today is sloppy and therefore more individualistic. That makes it more difficult for forgers to emulate and easier for document analysts to spot variations from the genuine article...
...fabricated evidence that Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, passed sensitive information to the Germans and Italians. Convicted of treason in 1894 and sentenced to Devil's Island for life, Dreyfus had to endure a ceremony in which his sword was broken and the insignia stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), a book that led to the founding of the modern Zionist movement and, ultimately...
...struggles with big countries, big armies, big bank balances. Few, claims Kirkpatrick, even thought a place like Nicaragua was very "interesting." By chance she was speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, her back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent in his Rough Rider uniform atop Texas, his indomitable horse. T.R. said his charge at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt...
Witness the golf team. They showed up at Braeburn Country Club in Newton yesterday, ready to take on area colleges in the Greater Boston Championships. They waited in the rain for anyone wearing an Eagle, an Engineer or a Jumbo uniform to appear But all they met was the club professional, who advised them that the match had been postponed...
...federal legislation spelled out the first uniform, national standards for truck weights and measurements. It allows trucks up to 80,000 Ibs. in weight, 102 in. wide and 56 ft. long (plus the cab) to operate the full length of the 42,268-mile interstate system. The law also requires each state to designate other highways that could handle these loads...