On 3/24/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
I didn't mean the claim that it was possible: the
video should document
that pretty well. I meant the claim that he invented it, and that the
name he coined for it is accepted. Those would need verification, or,
in its absence, should at most be documented as claims of one person only.
In this particular case I wouldn't put the bar very high, but we're to
take his claims at face value, we at least ought to be able to point to
another source and say "Well, at least this other guy agrees with him."
Ah, interesting, I hadn't thought of that. I actually hadn't thought
of questioning the claim - in this particular case, the guy (a very
creative, young juggler from the US) created a named series of tricks
for each letter of the alphabet, Hermine being the 8th.
But there are probably hundreds of better known tricks that I would
focus on first.
Steve