Layer upon layer: Opening Obama's birth certificate in Adobe Illustrator

1.Tiny fragments the same color as the safety paper pattern on the top edge just left of center

2.Tiny fragments the same color as the safety paper pattern on the top edge just above the certification date

3.The letters "Non" from the word None in box 17a.

4."AUG - 8 196" - part of a stamped date in box 20.

5."AUG - 8" and the digit 6 in 1961 in box 22.

6."APR 25 2011" at the bottom left of the page.

7.The certification stamp of the state registrar at the bottom right.

8.Most of the remaining typed letters on the form, the handwritten dates, and the last half of Ann Dunham Obama's name.

9.Everything else -- the safety paper pattern, with white ghosts or haloes around the letters were first half of Ann Stanley Obama's signature, the signature of the Physician, all but one letter of the original registrar's signature, the form grid, and scattered letters -- the R in Barack, the K in Kenya, the S in Stanley, the last digit of the sequence number in the upper left of the page, and the handwritten numbers (which look like coding for statistical purposes)

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