Google's metadata mish-mash

Mon Dec 20 18:24:49 UTC 2010

At 12/20/2010 02:36 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>Some 8s and 3s also get misinterpreted.

I'm convinced Alice Morse Earle did this, turning a 1718 (in her
notes, probably) into 1713 and leading astray modern researchers on
dance in colonial America.  And she didn't even use Google.

Joel

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