So, let me get this straight  [and pre-empt next season's exclusive
shock revelation photo revelation] .... Does this mean that Amelia
Earhart was really Shemp Howard?  
Alasdair's silence on the matter just makes this more compelling.
Denis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY" 
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Sent:Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:59:02 -0700
Subject:Re: news feed: new photo may show Emilia Earhart after crash

 The History Channel has form with misrepresenting photographic
evidence.

 This time last year I was in Argentina helping to film what turned
out to be a couple of episodes of the History Channel show 'Hunting
Hitler'. More complete details (including my reasons for agreeing to
participate in the first place) are available in last year's Fall SHA
Newsletter, but one point is particularly relevant here...

 The first episode of the second season begins with someone
melodramatically throwing a photograph of an elderly man down on the
table and declaring that 'this is a photograph of Hitler in Misiones
[province, Argentina]'.

 Unfortunately, that photograph turned out to be an elderly Moe Howard
from the Three Stooges, apparently sourced from this website:
http://web2.airmail.net/~/z1528052/ (scroll down the page and look for
the photograph directly under the headline 'MY PAL MOE by Bob Bernet'
when the main story begins). Once a few observant people on the
blogosphere pointed this out, the photograph mysteriously disappeared
from most later episodes, with a subsequent 'scientific test'
obscuring Moe's face, and reaching the conclusion (unsurprisingly)
that Moe wasn't Hitler (or vice versa) after all.

 I stress that I had absolutely nothing to do with that rather awkward
segment, but it does rather help to display the level of academic
rigour being used in these programmes - even the ones that don't
involve aliens.

 And no, they didn't find Hitler either, oddly enough.

 Alasdair Brooks