Shakespeare is writing dramas, not schoolbook texts, and he freely alters dates and facts and emphases.
But in the memos they were able to promote false facts, even altering dates, to make their claims work.
The first such edition was published between 1871 and 1883, but was doctored to suppress or alter articles that were an embarrassment to him (e.g. those praising Meyerbeer), or by altering dates on some articles to reinforce Wagner's own account of his progress.
And Mr Brown has again altered the dates of the cycle over which the golden rule is assessed, so that it extends for 12 years to 2008-09.
Dating apps may have altered modern dating rituals – namely by adding the term "swipe" to the language of romance – but what Vanity Fair inadvertently shows is that it really hasn't changed anything about dating in New York, which is where the magazine's article is set.
This altered image dated back to 1890.
On display at the Cather Center is the family Bible, open to the page on which a mature editorial hand has changed Wilella to Willa, added Sibert, and altered her date of birth from 1873 to 1876.
In a statement, Theo Sapoutzis, chief executive of AVN, said that because C.E.S. did not overlap on a weekend this year, that would have altered the "date pattern of AVN and the AVN Awards," the latter of which typically occurs on a Saturday night.
But on Monday, the National Archives disclosed that Dr. Lowry had altered the date on the original pardon to promote his book, changing the year to 1865 from 1864, possibly to make it look as if the pardon was one of the president's final acts — and thus historic.
