Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

In 1903, at Leavenworth Penitentiary, a new prisoner named Will West arrived. The prison clerk, using the popular Bertillon system of body measurements for identification, was shocked to find an existing inmate, William West, with a nearly identical name and a set of measurements that were nearly a perfect match. To make the coincidence even more astounding, the two men looked so much alike they could have been twins, even though they were unrelated. The confusion exposed a major flaw in the Bertillon system, but the prison staff then took the men's fingerprints. Their prints, unlike their body measurements, were completely different, proving the superior reliability of fingerprinting and cementing its place as the future of criminal identification.


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A 2,000-Year-Old Sun Hat Worn by a Roman Soldier in Egypt Goes on View After a Century in Storage​

The felt cap—one of only three surviving examples of its kind—was recently conserved by a museum in England

Now, a fashion-themed display at the Bolton Museum in Bolton, England, will allow visitors to see how a Roman soldier in ancient Egypt dealt with the excruciating power of the sun.
 
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