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  • Purportedly the illegitimate son of the Earl of Spencer he was put out to be raised by a tailor and his wife.

    2009 October 14 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Purportedly by Pollock, the work was called "Untitled, 1950."

    Fake Pollock Alleged Chad Bray 2011

  • Purportedly aimed at shedding light on the long and complicated history of the region, the program with novelists Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra, and a Kashmiri graduate student Mohamad Junaid is emblematic of the manner in which many of America's intellectual elite institutions, including the Asia Society and the New York Times, prefer pretty prose over substance and ideology over actuality when exploring the complexities that rile Southeast Asia.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

  • Purportedly the illegitimate son of the Earl of Spencer he was put out to be raised by a tailor and his wife.

    Publisher William Pickering: The First to Use Cloth Bindings? 2009

  • Purportedly I'm a Latino, although I rarely call myself this.

    Luis J. Rodriguez: Latino Heritage Month: Who We Are... And Why We Celebrate? Luis J. Rodriguez 2011

  • Purportedly aimed at shedding light on the long and complicated history of the region, the program with novelists Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra, and a Kashmiri graduate student Mohamad Junaid is emblematic of the manner in which many of America's intellectual elite institutions, including the Asia Society and the New York Times, prefer pretty prose over substance and ideology over actuality when exploring the complexities that rile Southeast Asia.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

  • Purportedly aimed at shedding light on the long and complicated history of the region, the program with novelists Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra, and a Kashmiri graduate student Mohamad Junaid is emblematic of the manner in which many of America's intellectual elite institutions, including the Asia Society and the New York Times, prefer pretty prose over substance and ideology over actuality when exploring the complexities that rile Southeast Asia.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

  • Purportedly aimed at shedding light on the long and complicated history of the region, the program with novelists Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra, and a Kashmiri graduate student Mohamad Junaid is emblematic of the manner in which many of America's intellectual elite institutions, including the Asia Society and the New York Times, prefer pretty prose over substance and ideology over actuality when exploring the complexities that rile Southeast Asia.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

  • Purportedly I'm a Latino, although I rarely call myself this.

    Luis J. Rodriguez: Latino Heritage Month: Who We Are... And Why We Celebrate? Luis J. Rodriguez 2011

  • A faded piece of parchment, found in the parish archives of San Sebastiano in Porto Ercole, is even more precise: Purportedly written by a friar after the painter's death, it states in barely legible lines that Caravaggio died at a local infirmary and was buried in the cemetery of San Sebastiano.

    Next on CSI: Renaissance, Who Killed Caravaggio? Stacy Meichtry 2010

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