Every person a writes differently. A supreme court ruling on this that goes back to the, i want to say ei ten, forty six, something like that. This was not the holland will, but the howland will. It's just no two people write alike. If you have enough handwriting, you will see the difference. How his handwriting changed over the decades? Yes. Because if you look at a document from the 18 hundred, it's gorgeous. And if you look into a note that some one leaves for the mail man, it's garbage. So what happened to our beautiful handwriting? Well, people quit practising, te quit to learning cursiveri over the
Is it weird to have different handwritings? How do you forge ancient documents? What pen should you use to write checks? Who is the greediest person in American history? Forensic document examiner Sylvia Kessler met up with Alie in the back of a Nebraska office store to chat about penmanship, ransom notes, court cases, self-expression, and we *very* lightly touch on the fringe -ology that uses handwriting to analyze personalities and how Barnum knew best when it comes to carnival "magic."
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