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*** The 1956 version of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' has Moses killing a high-ranking Egyptian to rescue a Hebrew slave and then being declared an Unperson by his foster father Seti, after the crime is discovered. |
*** The 1956 version of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' has Moses killing a high-ranking Egyptian to rescue a Hebrew slave and then being declared an Unperson by his foster father Seti, after the crime is discovered. |
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*** Ironically, because of this modern scholars often have a better idea of the lineage of pharaohs than they themselves did, because we have access to records that were sealed in tombs and thus not altered to erase someone the way the records they would have access to were. |
*** Ironically, because of this modern scholars often have a better idea of the lineage of pharaohs than they themselves did, because we have access to records that were sealed in tombs and thus not altered to erase someone the way the records they would have access to were. |
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*** The latest to receive this punishment are Hosni Mubarak and his wife. |
*** The latest{{when}} to receive this punishment are Hosni Mubarak and his wife. |
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* The Soviet Union did this often; ''1984'''s use of it is a direct allusion. |
* The Soviet Union did this often; ''1984''{{'}}s use of it is a direct allusion. |
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** [[Josef Stalin]] was the biggest practitioner of this as alluded to in the main article, manipulating historical accounts and photographs to remove certain people, or, more rarely, insert people (usually himself). [[Leon Trotsky]], former head of the Red Army, is probably the most famous case of this. |
** [[Josef Stalin]] was the biggest practitioner of this as alluded to in the main article, manipulating historical accounts and photographs to remove certain people, or, more rarely, insert people (usually himself). [[Leon Trotsky]], former head of the Red Army, is probably the most famous case of this. |
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*** This continued even after the tirant's death: Cosmonauts were edited out of pictures. It is believed by some that there was a conspiracy: Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space... He was the first man in space ''to live to tell his tale''. The others may have died while returning to earth via burning in the athmosphere or froze when their poorly-built shuttles decreased in temperature, leaving them floating in space. It is probable these cosmonauts were edited out of pictures because of their deaths in the Soviet space program. |
*** This continued even after the tirant's death: Cosmonauts were edited out of pictures. It is believed by some that there was a conspiracy: Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space... He was the first man in space ''to live to tell his tale''. The others may have died while returning to earth via burning in the athmosphere or froze when their poorly-built shuttles decreased in temperature, leaving them floating in space. It is probable these cosmonauts were edited out of pictures because of their deaths in the Soviet space program. |
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