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Help finding special signature of someone

Alchemist449Alchemist449 Registered User regular
edited November 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So my AP US history teacher tasked me with finding the person that this signature belongs to. Problem is, after an hour of useless googling, I got nothing. This person that I need to find wrote out their signature then would go back and fill in any letters they missed. That's all the information I have to go on. Any ideas/ signature resources anyone can point me towards?

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited November 2009
    No idea. Is there anything unique about the handwriting?

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  • Alchemist449Alchemist449 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Not that I was told, which is part of what makes this kinda impossible.

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Davinci was a fucking cook.

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  • Chief1138Chief1138 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    She didn't give you a picture of the signature? Just said "find out what person writes his name and then goes back and fills in missing letters"...?

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Do you at least know the general era of U.S. history the person was in? If you know it's a Revolutionary figure, for example, your first step should be to pull up a copy of the Declaration of Independence and check it against all of the signatures there.

    If you don't know? Damn.

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    Signature not found.
  • Alchemist449Alchemist449 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I'm assuming that they're either Civil War or later seeing as this is the point in the course he's brought it up.

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  • CervetusCervetus Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    That sounds like something a lot of people would do.

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  • TheFullMetalChickenTheFullMetalChicken Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Just going on what you said and the fact that no actual signature or picture or anything was given this seems to me more of a riddle, bad history joke, or pun. But that's just me.

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    TheFullMetalChicken wrote: »
    Just going on what you said and the fact that no actual signature or picture or anything was given this seems to me more of a riddle, bad history joke, or pun. But that's just me.

    Or the OP's teacher heard that story about the "unsolvable" math proof that someone solved accidentally as homework and thought "Man, I need to pull something like that on MY students."

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