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Litter boxes in schools hoax (8,163 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response to several school districts enacting protections for transgender

1967 British flying saucer hoax (521 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Somerset. The hoax was undertaken by aircraft engineering apprentices from the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough. The idea behind the hoax was

Henryk Batuta hoax (913 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

nonexistent socialist revolutionary, Henryk Batuta. The perpetrators of the hoax created an article about Henryk Batuta (supposedly born Izaak Apfelbaum)

Civil War gold hoax (1,077 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

before anyone realized the proclamation was a forgery. Misunderstanding the hoax as an intelligence leak Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered

Morristown UFO hoax (2,070 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

perpetrated by Joe Rudy and Chris Russo. Rudy and Russo have described the hoax as a social experiment, with the ambition of exposing "ufology" as a pseudoscience

Jar'Edo Wens hoax (691 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the shorter-lived "yohrmum" page. An entry was also created on Wikidata. The hoax was unwittingly copied into a book on atheism in 2012, as part of a list

Piltdown Man (5,323 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review

Ern Malley hoax (3,626 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Circle fell for the hoax, and, enraptured by the poetry, devoted the next issue of Angry Penguins to Malley, hailing him as a genius. The hoax was revealed

Dreadnought hoax (2,367 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole's collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat

Bananadine (389 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

San Francisco Oracle issue, which was likely done in an attempt to give the hoax more validity. Just a few months earlier, Donovan's hit single "Mellow

Sick baby hoax (311 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and are struggling to pay for their medical expenses. Some versions of the hoax ask people to make a monetary donation directly, while others simply encourage

Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident (2,662 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

president John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy. After the hoax was discovered and corrected later in September, Seigenthaler, a friend

Seriously McDonalds (866 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"#SeriouslyMcDonalds" and "#seriouslymcdonalds" for a few days. The company's response to the hoax has received praise from journalists and public relations professionals

Sheng Long (3,671 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Long in Street Fighter II re-releases, and for the 25th anniversary of the hoax temporarily posted artwork and a profile for the character on their website

U.S. presidential IQ hoax (820 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

IQs of the U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. The hoax email showed Bill Clinton having the IQ 182, and George W. Bush 91. However

Great Moon Hoax (2,148 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and the hoax resembled crime reports that allowed the readers to play detective, trying to discover the truth. However, the degree to which the hoax increased

Taxil hoax (2,180 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"lots of money" to be made in publishing them, he continued to perpetrate the hoax. Despite this debunking, belief in Vaughan and the Palladists did not entirely

The Joe Schmo Show (3,013 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the second hoax was a Bachelor-like dating series. In the third season, the hoax featured aspiring bounty hunters tracking down "real" fugitives. Over the

Grievance studies affair (4,202 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

planned for the project to run until January 2019, the trio admitted to the hoax in October 2018 after journalists from The Wall Street Journal revealed

Toothing (1,837 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank on the media who reported it. The hoax was created by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at the gaming magazine

Disappearing blonde gene (824 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

copy of the blond allele in the genome of said offspring. Nevertheless, the hoax was repeated as fact by some mainstream Western media outlets, such as

Paul is dead (6,655 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

sociology, psychology and communications during the 1970s. McCartney parodied the hoax with the title and cover art of his 1993 live album, Paul Is Live. The

This Man (2,616 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

for Bertino and Ghost House's film. Even after Natella's confirmation of the hoax, serious coverage of This Man continued into the mid-2010s. In 2015, Vice

Military Personnel Records Center (2,713 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"destroy all hard copies" when the process was complete. The source of the hoax was a sham email circulating online that advised veterans and dependents

Virus hoax (1,202 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

mainstream news media. These bogus sources are quoted in order to give the hoax more credibility. Typically, the warnings use emotive language, stress

Kaycee Nicole (2,118 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1960), in an early case of Münchausen by Internet. Between 1999 and when the hoax was discovered in 2001, Swenson, playing the role of Kaycee, represented

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is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." After the hoax was revealed, Anderberg insisted that Peter's work was "still the best

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1,044 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

story traces the journey of a voyage to the moon. Poe planned to continue the hoax in further installments, but was pre-empted by the Great Moon Hoax which

Driver 8 (742 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

this is a way to improve that.' And 'Wow, that's really good. You're not the hoax you think you are.'" A harmonica was played in a mimicking fashion to sound

List of UFO-related hoaxes (923 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

" The hoax was discovered when the bird landed on the roof of the local high school and the burning cotton ball set fire to the school. Although the hoax

George Mason University's historical hoaxes (1,314 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Wikipedia. After some media outlets and academics reported the hoax as factual, the class divulged the hoax. The Reddit serial killer hoax was a second historical

Flemish Secession hoax (382 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

with prominent Belgian politicians (some of whom had been informed about the hoax) as well as staged footage of the evacuation of the royal family as well

Thatchergate (564 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

that to this day it is a mystery as to how Observer journalists traced the hoax back to them. In January 2014, official government documents were released

Mary Toft (5,217 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

under intense scrutiny and producing no more rabbits she confessed to the hoax, and was subsequently imprisoned as a fraud. The resultant public mockery

Twin Falls saucer hoax (1,588 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

be a hoax. Press reported that local teenagers admitted to perpetrating the hoax. On June 24, 1947, civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of

Talking Angela (927 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

says in the game, since the game is based on chat bot software. In 2015, the hoax was revived again on Facebook, prompting online security company Sophos

Manti Te'o (5,143 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(/roʊˈnaɪə ˌtuːjɑːsoʊˈsoʊpoʊ/ roh-NY-ə TOO-yah-soh-SOH-poh) as involved in the hoax of a relationship with Te'o. Tuiasosopo has been described as a family

Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax (1,556 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

after the hoax was confirmed, including multiple true crime documentaries, newsmagazine episodes and podcasts. The first scripted film based on the hoax was

Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (1,025 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

that garnered media attention. Looking to expand the range and impact of the hoax, Abel persuaded the actor Buck Henry to assume the role of the group president

Atlanta Nights (1,363 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it. It was accepted; after the hoax was revealed, the publisher withdrew its offer. The primary purpose of

Max Harris (poet) (1,378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

most poignant and compelling in all written about the hoax and its aftermath. "Ern Malley: The Hoax and Beyond". aCOMMENT. Retrieved 24 July 2014. Samela

Suicide of Megan Meier (3,198 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

According to her father, Ron Meier, and a neighbor who had discussed the hoax with Drew, the final message sent by "Josh" read: "Everybody in O'Fallon

King Edward VII's Hospital (3,253 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

hospital. Soon afterwards, nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who had passed on the hoax call to the other nurse in the Duchess's private ward, was found dead.

Kalantiaw (2,077 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History. Regardless, the hoax continued to be promulgated until the latter half of the 20th century.

Kalantiaw (2,077 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History. Regardless, the hoax continued to be promulgated until the latter half of the 20th century.

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would retain the player's rights if he did not. Once Imlach confessed to the hoax, Campbell did not find it funny, and the NHL would eventually change the

Media prank (2,292 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

by mass media, and the band wrote later songs about having perpetrated the hoax. In 2003 the band issued a series of press releases accusing Seattle, Washington

Naked Came the Stranger (1,086 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity. Mike McGrady was

My Life as a Fake (388 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

was not interested in James McAuley and Harold Stewart who perpetrated the hoax but in "magical thinking". It is told as a first-person narrative from

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legends related to video gaming by publications. The attention surrounding the hoax influenced developers to acknowledge it as an inside joke by seeding Easter

Plainfield Teachers College (524 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and radio sales executive Alexander "Bink" Dannenbaum jointly planned the hoax in 1941. Using the name Jerry Croyden, Newburger phoned several New York

Sawing-off of Manhattan Island (487 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

of the hoax was itself a hoax, which is the conclusion Joel Rose suggests in his book, New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical (2001). The hoax was

Leonard C. Lewin (517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

US and UK early in the spring of 2025. Called Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America

Hexagonal water (639 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

chemistry, physics, and physiology. Gel water is referenced in the version of the hoax in which plants or animal fascia are said to create or contain a "fourth

Nullarbor Nymph (632 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the hoax was Geneice Brooker, the partner of Laurie Scott, one of the kangaroo-shooter hoaxers. Scott admitted to Murray Nicoll of The News that the hoax

Isaac Bickerstaff (883 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

well, In Physick, Stolen Goods, or Love, As he himself could, when above. The hoax gained immense popularity, and plagued Partridge to the true end of his

Martian Monkey (466 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Earth. The United States Air Force was also called in to investigate. The hoax was discovered hours after the event by Herman Jones and Emory University

George Montandon (221 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

exhibition Le Juif et la France. George Montandon helped to perpetuate the hoax of De Loys's ape and fought for it be scientifically recognised as a new

Joey Skaggs (4,310 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

office for operating a bordello for dogs. At the hearing, he revealed the hoax, emphasizing the role of media in misrepresentation. WABC-TV did not issue

Moon landing conspiracy theories (16,730 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

third-party evidence for the landings exists, and detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims have been made. Since the late 2000s, high-definition photos taken

Mars hoax (1,095 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

would look as large as the full Moon to the naked eye on August 27, 2003. The hoax has since resurfaced each time before Mars is at its closest to Earth,

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John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He also wrote chapters for the "hoax-novel" Atlanta Nights. Finlay guest edited the July/August 2014 issue

Ivar's (706 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

earlier in 2009, and local historian Paul Dorpat had deliberately furthered the hoax. Dorpat, of HistoryLink contributes a weekly column to the Seattle Times

The Journal of Arthur Stirling (288 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

a sensation", but was widely criticized by journalists and editors for the hoax. Upton Sinclair's original version is currently in the Public Domain. A

Drake's Plate of Brass (2,639 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Drake posted while anchored in Drake's Bay in Northern California in 1579. The hoax was successful for 40 years, despite early doubts. After the plate came

Charles Dawson (2,276 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

through new, rigorous technological methods which ultimately uncovered the hoax. Fluoride-based tests, chemical tests that date fossils by the amount of

Progesterex (773 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

been documented or confirmed. The most high profile person falling for the hoax was British MP Lynne Featherstone, who asked a question about the fake

The English Mercurie (769 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Yorke, in the 18th century as a literary game with some friends. Although the hoax was exposed in 1839, copies of the Mercurie are still mistakenly referred

The Slant (555 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Gordon Gee. The hoax received some attention from national media, including an appearance on the Drudge Report. Gee's office responded to the hoax by releasing

I, Libertine (708 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

weeks before publication, The Wall Street Journal officially "exposed" the hoax, already an open secret. I, Libertine tells the story of a social climber

2010 Georgian news report hoax (4,743 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

government officials, culminating in an invasion of Georgia by Russia. The hoax was intended as a hypothetical pseudo-documentary. The broadcast's close

Ask Ann Landers (1,978 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

assistance in dispelling the hoax that a film was going to depict Jesus as gay. Lederer replied that "Hoaxes die hard, and the zanier the hoax, the more difficult

Suicide of Jacintha Saldanha (2,814 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Duchess of Cambridge, who was a patient there at the time. Saldanha fell for the hoax and transferred the call to the nurse looking after the Duchess. Saldanha's

Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 (1,130 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Wright of 21 Publishing, which published the book) were all participants in the hoax. "Nat Tate" is a combination of the names of two London art galleries,

Wag the Dog (2,375 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

theme song and fake film footage of a fleeing orphan to arouse sympathy. The hoax is initially successful, with the president quickly gaining ground in the

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screenwriter, producer, film director and big-game hunter. He was responsible for the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster. Born in Bodmin, Cornwall

Ian Colin (249 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and big-game hunter, in creating the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster -- he bought the materials

Great Wall of China hoax (1,197 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

invasion in Shandong during March 1899—before the hoax was invented. No Chinese history reference relates the hoax to the Boxer Rebellion. The cultural historian

Lenin was a mushroom (487 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Sholokhov. It was first broadcast on 17 May 1991 on Leningrad Television. The hoax took the form of an interview on the television program Pyatoe Koleso (The

Wearside Jack (2,795 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

of this cold case review, DNA from envelopes sent by Humble as part of the hoax were matched in the United Kingdom National DNA Database with samples police

Bad Times (292 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of the Goodtimes virus hoax. The "Badtimes" email followed the principles

Eolith (346 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

oldest known fossils. The English finds helped to secure acceptance of the hoax remains of Piltdown Man. Because eoliths were so crude, concern began to

Dead fairy hoax (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The dead fairy hoax was an April Fools' Day prank in 2007. Dan Baines, a sculptor and illusion designer, managed to sell his creation, the fake corpse

Leon Carmen (565 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Leon Carmen (born 1949) is an Australian author who is best known for the hoax that resulted from his authorship of the novel My Own Sweet Time—which he

The Yes Men (5,133 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Bhopal when producing the hoax. According to the interviewer, "there were many people in tears" upon having learned of the hoax. Bichlbaum said that,

Cambodian Midget Fighting League (316 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

that was widely circulated around the Internet beginning in May, 2005. The hoax was particularly significant as the article was taken on face value by

Udo of Aachen (390 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

goliards, found in the German Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern Abbey. The hoax was lent an air of credibility because often medieval monks did discover

Travis Walton incident (4,538 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

writers Philip J. Klass and Michael Shermer highlight a potential motive for the hoax was to provide an "Act of God" that would allow the crew to avoid a steep

Craig Silverman (328 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Institute for Media Studies as an adjunct faculty member. He also founded the hoax and rumor tracking website Emergent and co-authored a biography of Michael

Craig Silverman (328 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Institute for Media Studies as an adjunct faculty member. He also founded the hoax and rumor tracking website Emergent and co-authored a biography of Michael

The Amber Witch (1,035 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle. Meinhold later admitted to the hoax but had some difficulty in proving that he was its author. In 1844, it

Basil Banghart (1,294 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the 1920s and early 1930s, he is best remembered for his involvement in the hoax kidnapping of Chicago mobster Jake "the Barber" Factor, a crime for which

Lieutenant Kijé (848 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ranks. When Paul asks to meet the now renowned officer, the creators of the hoax are cornered into a final lie that the soldier has died in battle. The

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himself appeared on The Mike Douglas Show to discuss the SINA mission. The hoax began as a satire of media censorship, but took on a life of its own with

Johann Beringer (380 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lithographiae imaginibus Wirceburgensis ducentis published in 1726. He discovered the hoax shortly after and tried to recall all copies of the book and took the hoaxers

The Poppy Fields (724 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

several headlines being published globally. Immediately after exposing the hoax, the music video for "45 RPM" was replaced by an edited version that included

Hurricane Shark (1,960 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

was unable to determine whether it was a shark. Both the re-emergence of the hoax in hurricane after hurricane and the eventual appearance of a plausible

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Beat, Mulu, Underachievers, and a live version of Fight) were added to the hoax The Prodigy album The Castbreeder in 1998 under different names. "Underachievers"

Helicopter Shark (425 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Geographic publicly disavowed the photo and the claimed award as a hoax. The hoax has been discussed in various texts, including a marketing book to teach

Maury Island incident (1,456 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

At the last minute it was decided, after talking to the two men, that the hoax was a harmless joke that had mushroomed, and that the loss of two lives

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage (1,925 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

reported was also alleged by some to be indicative of anti-Microsoft bias. The hoax was arranged by Tarandeep Gill, a web developer from Vancouver, British

Herman Rosenblat (2,707 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

admitted to lying on purpose with the intention of "bringing joy". Before the hoax became public, the film rights to the book were purchased for $25 million

Spectra (poetry collection) (456 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

admitted in a public speech that he had co-authored the book and explained the hoax. Both Bynner and Ficke were accomplished poets of their time, but the Spectra

Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes (278 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and posted content. The hoax takes the form of a Facebook status that urges others to post the same or a similar status. The hoax first became popular

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have been an explorer, missionary, or captive of a Native American tribe. The hoax was generally accepted as authentic for the next seventy years, and after

Space Cadets (TV series) (2,676 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

illusion. Channel 4 had contingency plans if the contestants realised the hoax; Johnny Vaughan repeatedly suggested they would have to play old rerun

Ken Tipton (152 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

first came to the notice of the general public because of his creation of the hoax website ourfirsttime.com. "Radio interview with Ken Tipton". n.d. Retrieved

Microsoft acquisition hoax (535 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

information technology company Microsoft had acquired the Roman Catholic Church. The hoax comprises part of a cycle of "Microsoft jokes" in which Microsoft Corporation

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their sites, and Riverhead offered refunds to those who purchased it. The hoax was discovered when the publisher was contacted by Seltzer's sister. Speaking

Gruban Malić (322 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

public the hoax was quickly detected but the charges against the character were not dropped until 1998. Jevrić later published a book about the hoax, Hero

Kinderhook plates (2,433 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

defended the plates until 1981.: 131 In 1980, scientific testing confirmed the hoax, and that the plates were a modern creation. Within the Latter Day Saint

Arthur Conan Doyle (9,861 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

contain several clues referring cryptically to his having been involved in the hoax. Samuel Rosenberg's 1974 book Naked Is the Best Disguise purports to explain

The Gibson Goddess (463 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Nanette. You may imagine the chagrin of the others when they learn of the hoax. Fitzie is now the favoured one. As for the others, they are a disgruntled

KROQ-FM (4,606 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

segment. The hoax resulted in investigations by the Sheriff's Department, the FCC, NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" and other news media. The hoax was exposed

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was hosted for several years in the town of Brattleboro to commemorate the hoax publisher, and will be re-launched in October of 2022.[needs update] Parker

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fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine." The success of the hoax, however, is open to question. While Mobile for Tape and Percussion was

A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century (632 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

foreign communist plot to increase racial tensions in the United States. The hoax gained public notoriety when a congressman read a supposed quotation from

Cello scrotum (521 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

raised back in 1974, but seems to have been overlooked. Murphy admitted the hoax in 2009 in another letter to the BMJ after an article in the 2008 Christmas

Galvão Bueno (1,510 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

were replied. Later, a YouTube video was uploaded in order to support the hoax. A second wave of jokes started when Brazilian users claimed "Cala Boca

Feminist geography (3,005 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

been retracted. The hoax has been criticized as unethical and mean-spirited, as well as race-baiting and misogynist and critics of the hoax have suggested

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to be captured. But Trigger escapes from prison and returns to expose the hoax and Bill is made a prisoner. Tim McCoy as Captain William "Lightning Bill"

Columbian Chemicals Plant explosion hoax (946 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

enforcement authorities have been contacted and are following up on this matter. The hoax was reported to have involved "dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds

Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1,902 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

lawyers to the Brussels newspaper Le Soir, de Wael attempted to defend the hoax, claiming that the story of "Misha" "is not actual reality, but was my

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important. He gave the money to Scouts Canada. The book was a sensation. The hoax began to unravel when a retired Royal Canadian Air Force officer appeared

Ste Curran (369 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Gizmodo, a gadget blog. BBC, Reuters and Wired news desks all fell for the hoax. Curran was a speaker at the Nordic Game Conference and Career Expo in

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suspended from the French Actor's Guild Council for her participation in the hoax. Her film credits include Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951), La Reine Margot (1954)

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newsletter concerned with chemistry for school teachers. According to the hoax, Claude Litre was born on 12 February 1716, the son of a manufacturer of

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involved in a vacation hoax because she resembles a woman involved in the hoax. A strange green sorcerer who appears in the woods and a lost treasure

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seemed so totally absurd at the time". Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. The actual origin of the email was mcvax, one

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they had been asked by Zmuda's management not to comment, with a link to the hoax Facebook story. Two days later, comedy news website The Interrobang posted

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engage in email address harvesting of the contacts of those who fall for the hoax. This hoax was also used as an example of a typical cancer victim hoax

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investing in a phony diamond mining operation. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars. Arnold was a poorly educated hatter's

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Archived 2006-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (2003 review of the book before the hoax was revealed) Forbidden Lie$ at IMDb (2007 docudrama of the hoax story)

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Times article on culture jamming, "The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax" was the first mention, in the mainstream media, of the phenomenon; Dery

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Despite being debunked at the time (with the author admitting to the hoax), the hoax remained in Baidu Baike until July 2011, when it was quoted by a

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Irving; Peter Brookesmith (15 December 2009). "Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax". Smithsonian.com. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved

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Castelnau's accompanying figure, is also reported in the letter revealing the hoax. In selecting the name of the genus, Castelnau says "In our present knowledge

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London and by Prentice-Hall in the USA, the hoax name has appeared in the game Trivial Pursuit (fooled by the hoax, the gamemakers listed Otto Titzling as

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The spirit guide Silver Belle was made from cardboard. Both Parrish and the lady standing outside the curtain were in on the hoax.

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including YouTube and YouTube Kids videos about Peppa Pig and Fortnite. The hoax had reached the status of a worldwide moral panic. More advisories were

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birth to rabbits, although the whole affair was eventually exposed for the hoax that it was. The eponymous character of EB White's children's novel Stuart

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of his stories. The essay was an important speculation on the secret of the hoax chess-playing automaton the Mechanical Turk, titled "Maelzel's Chess Player"

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fueling an obsession with the supernatural. In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with SyFy, going so far as having SyFy staffers sign non-disclosure agreements

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Award and Chautauqua Prize. Among the publisher's best known books is The Hoax, Clifford Irving's account of his fraudulent interviews with Howard Hughes

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segment. The hoax resulted in investigations by the Sheriff's Department, the FCC, NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" and other news media. The hoax was exposed

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of a hoax. It is suspected that the Pereira family may have perpetrated the hoax for financial gain. Reports of appearances in Bélmez began on 23 August

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the 13th century and circulates through the 17th century. Authorship of the hoax book was variously ascribed to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian writers. Fabrications

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particularly as a member of Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs on their No. 8 album, The Hoax Is Over (1971) and Coloured Balls for a Top 20 album Ball Power (1973)

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"Shakalaka" - 6:18 "Kathelin Gray" (Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny) - 6:54 "The Hoax" - 1:00 "Mumbo Jumbo" - 10:43 "Birdsong I" - 1:34 "Mode VI" - 7:29 "Two

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London Psychogeographical Association pose as close friends of Kipper's. The hoax goes on until "Luther Blissett" claims responsibility for it. September

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or accuracy to its subject. The three MIT graduate students who wrote the hoax article said they were unaware of the Sokal affair until after submitting

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has been the subject of a number of scholarly articles, many focusing on the hoax and on the impact of the author's white supremacist background on the work

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is purportedly a man identifying himself as Mark Cox, who has claimed the hoax was designed to expose the gullibility and scientific illiteracy of global

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William Chapman Ralston. Death Valley Days aired a third story devoted to the hoax, the 1968 episode "The Great Diamond Mines", with Philip Arnold played

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from the United States Department of Agriculture. Snopes.com debunked the hoax, stating that it originated with the satirical and fake news website National

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as a hired actress named Elyse Porterfield. Some news sources suggested the hoax was inspired by the dramatic resignation of JetBlue flight-attendant Steven

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hoax that involved the "discovery" of a petrified stone giant in 1869. The hoax was a moneymaking success for some time until it was proven that the giant

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recognizes Cheese's name. McNulty admits that he has told Greggs about the hoax, much to Freamon's dismay. While tracking Marlo, Sydnor pulls out a street

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The hoax was successful, with a number of Australian media groups, including the AAP, running stories based on the material. When revealed, the hoax was

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international news and generated fierce controversy in the local press. The hoax runner's identity was not widely known until 1998, so he was simply described

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safe. You can't plan for disaster. The hippo can get you at any time." The hoax first appeared in 1988; it was reported in the National Lampoon magazine

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formed by Joe Oliva prior to The Essentials Humdinger, a 1997 album by The Hoax, a group led by Robin Davey "Humdinger", a song by J. J. Cale from the

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Facebook refuted the viral story as part of its efforts to combat fake news. The hoax may have been spun from a real 2014 news story by VICE columnist Andrew

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Him, has also been cited as the hoax, though it is definitely known to have existed. No formal clarification of the hoax film was provided by the subsequent

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there had never been a Comte de Fortsas. It was eventually revealed that the hoax had been planned and carried out by antiquarian and retired military officer

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belongs to a belt of many similar small objects. Thus, at the time of the hoax, Pluto was considered to be the ninth planet in the solar system. On 1

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hours and over 1 million hits in the first two months. The premise of the hoax is that the website tricked users into thinking that software downloaded

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publish it,... Who knows if it's true, but it's unbelievable reading. The hoax was originally spotted by The Strad magazine. The author had submitted

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prove Teilhard innocent of all involvement in the hoax.” Teilhard also wrote multiple letters about the hoax at the request of and in reply to Oakley, one

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scholar Robert Burton. However, he is most well known for originating the hoax art movement Disumbrationism. Paul Jordan Smith (his name was not hyphenated

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and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on Max Harris, at this time a 22-year-old avant garde poet and

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first taste of success, he had previously drummed for Manchester band The Hoax and Northern Irish punk rock group Victim. Immediately after the break-up

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investigation, along with an FBI announcement that it was to investigate the hoax. The prosecution of the site by the FBI was welcomed by animal activists

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Newell. By then, he had spent US$2,600 (equivalent to $61,000 in 2024) for the hoax. On a night in late November 1868, the giant was buried in a hole in Newell's

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1994 hoax claiming that Microsoft had acquired the Roman Catholic Church. The hoax is considered to be the first hoax to reach a mass audience on the Internet

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magazine retracted the article after the hoax was brought to its attention. According to socialist magazine Jacobin, the hoax brought Quillette's fact-checking

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which was later revealed to be a scam. Elf lost over $150 million in the hoax. In France, the scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes")

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Hugo N. Frye was a fictional figure, purportedly the founder of the Republican Party in New York state, made up by Cornell University students in 1930

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reality quackery kept the hoax going long after Swift finally dispensed with it. Partridge reportedly suffered from the effects of the hoax for the rest of

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and the shed, some said they wanted to come back and would recommend it. The hoax was plausible because micro-restaurants were then a fashionable trend.

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and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on Max Harris, at this time a 22-year-old avant garde poet and

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reality quackery kept the hoax going long after Swift finally dispensed with it. Partridge reportedly suffered from the effects of the hoax for the rest of

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the Bundestag is based on the RTL Samstag Nacht character Karl Ranseier. The hoax is paralleled in Germany in a number of other areas; for example, Friedrich

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"electroscope" (some kind of television apparatus) imagined by the author of the hoax published in the New York Sun, 30 March 1877. The first such attempt at

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from the political right. Other people thanked her for clarification. The hoax usually is spread due to prejudices of those holding a simplistic view

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agencies, have sometimes unknowingly contributed to the credibility of the hoax by reporting it to the public as it if was factual. Security experts have

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board. The astronauts realize officials will need to kill them to keep the hoax a secret. They escape in a small jet which quickly runs out of fuel, forcing

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United States, and appeared in a panel of Ripley's Believe It or Not!. The hoax began in Loveland, Colorado. W. L. Thorndyke, editor-in-chief for a local

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having doubts, parodic bloopers were added in the end credits to make the hoax obvious, in case someone would believe it until the end. The film uses

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Serriffe featured heavily in The Guardian's cryptic crossword. The idea for the hoax came from The Guardian's Special Reports Manager Philip Davies. In a 2007

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language was ki-flong. The hoax is well described, along with images of the pages in the seven page special report which perpetrated the hoax on the Museum of

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industry. The hoax was created by satirical fake news website World News Daily Report on April 9, 2015. Monsanto created a "standing denial" of the hoax on their

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Miyamori, in Ironwood magazine. After the 'hoax' was discovered, several journals rejected previously accepted poems. The hoax has allegedly been called "a criminal

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Luisa Sigea de Velasco (1522 in Tarancón – October 13, 1560 in Burgos), also known as Luisa Sigeia, Luisa Sigea Toledana and in the Latinized form Aloysia

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Historical Review (1–2): 130–157. Kavalski, Emilian; Zolkos, Magdalena (2007). "The Hoax of War: The Foreign Policy Discourses of Poland and Bulgaria on Iraq, 2003–2005"

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released on Disney+ in November 2022. In 2023, Marsden starred as himself in the hoax reality television series Jury Duty, a role which garnered him a Golden

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Kalleberg claimed to have used the Hitler Diaries as an inspiration for the hoax. To back up his claim, Kalleberg referred to an autobiography he had written

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Herald. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2020. About Hoax Slayer Groskop, Viv (10 June 2008). "Beware of the hoax". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2014.

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young woman editing a literary magazine who encounters the perpetrator of the hoax (called Bob McCorkle, not Ern Malley, in the story) after many years. Carey

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been criticized as a pay-to-publish operation. The authors later revealed the hoax in Skeptic magazine. Boghossian and Lindsay stated that they intended to

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Hadfield's 2013 autobiography An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (predating the hoax), he described the bag of eggs being permanently stowed on the station

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was reported for the first time. Depending on the subject and type of the hoax, it's been reported to Singapore Police Force, there may be an investigation

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Arizona State University." McLaughlin soon after admitted responsibility for the hoax. McLaughlin was born in Boston and raised in St. Louis and New Hampshire

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hoax, when a sample of the meteorite was contaminated with a rush seed. The hoax was discovered in the 1960s when the meteorite was being examined for evidence

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As a means to establish credibility to the identity, the creators of the hoax planted text into Wikipedia articles and forged Associated Press reports

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that the person was an impostor, though writers at InfoSecIsland believe the hoax was created by The Jester himself.[self-published source] In February 2011

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Damascus. In May 2011, Katherine Marsh of The Guardian, then deceived by the hoax, described the blog as "brutally honest, poking at subjects long considered

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Companion to Comics 2016. 2012 – 2018. Thornton designed and delivered The HOAX Project, based on the poetry of her younger brother who lived with schizophrenia

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Several checks were issued, and deposited in an escrow account, before the hoax was uncovered. The funds were returned and the matter dropped. In 1985

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residents out of their homes and using the town as a base of operations. The hoax report circled on the Internet. Sarita is located in northern Kenedy County

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the fictional girl "Kodee Kennings" wanting to talk to staff. Throughout the hoax, Jaimie Reynolds also passed herself off as the twin sister of the fictional

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and owner of Olivia, a travel company catering to lesbians, described the hoax as an "outrage." Suzanne Goldenberg said that the lesbian community on

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'Pig' Morgan (piano, backing vocals) had joined and the band recorded The Hoax Is Over, which was released in January 1971. Thorpe described their sound:

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association and later turned up in texts by writers who were not party to the hoax and thought Botul was a real person, notably the French philosopher Bernard-Henri

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continued to elicit strong debate whenever the subject was broached, and the hoax constituted one of the most important or defining events in the history

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programming interface, due to its logical superiority over all other languages. The hoax circulated around Greek website and was widely reproduced without verification

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by Israeli-United States dual citizen Michael Ron David Kadar, who made the hoax calls from Israel. While the motive of Kadar remains not entirely confirmed

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the reporter's intimate knowledge of the hoax and what he described as her "triumphant" tone when disclosing the hoax to him, Windschuttle accused the online

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was in fact glue. Whilst the perpetrator is unknown, it is thought that the hoax was aimed at influencing 19th century debate on spontaneous generation

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number, and address, as well as those of a pastor friend who knew about the hoax and had agreed to expose it to anyone who called seeking verification.

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of the third and the fourth class. Two Farthings (Dva cvancika), 1882. The Hoax (Podvala), 1885. Ni oko šta Vujina prosidba Učitelj Redak zver Tetka Desa

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supposedly by Gilmore, when it was simply the work of Adler. Eventually the hoax was discovered and the album was withdrawn, although copies circulated

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field—which would have worked fine but for Sherlock Holmes seeing through the hoax. One difference between the two stories—and I am not sure that it is an

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meteorite crater. Police warned of a possible criminal investigation into the hoax. Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum in London

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artifacts which he had found were his fabrication. Since the discovery of the hoax, only a few sites can tentatively date human activity in Japan to 40,000–50

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to publicly debunk the rumours. Despite this, the hoax continues to circulate on social media. The hoax originated from an Islamophobic post on the "Meanwhile

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contributing factors to the wide acceptance these claims received. When the hoax appeared, it would have been illegal at the US federal level for a large

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Dartanyan Brown, one of the sources for the article, recalled hearing about the hoax from other musicians and reading about it in some underground newspapers

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forested area. "Fuze", "Leave You Far Behind" and "The Sound" were added in the hoax Prodigy album "The Castbreeder" in 1998 under the names "The Castbreeder"

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Amway distributors, Amway being one of Procter & Gamble's competitors; the hoax was spread by fax, photocopier, and later by voice mail and email. Another

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a Philosopher. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997, p. 46. Sokal, Alan. Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 182-183

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random noises, as a new avant-garde piece by a fictitious Polish composer. The hoax was designed to demonstrate the poor quality of critical discourse surrounding

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the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity. 1985: In the comedy/thriller

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entry about him as "Internet character assassination". The perpetrator of the hoax, Brian Chase, who was trying to fool a coworker as a prank, was identified

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University of Nottingham, which both accepted it without any reservations. The hoax, which Boudry revealed in mid-2012 on Facebook but became more widely known

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claiming that Trump had died to circulate on social media. The origin of the hoax was traced to comedian Tim Heidecker, who had one day earlier posted a

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bufala dei migranti che uccideranno gli europei" [What is the Kalergi plan, the hoax about migrants killing Europeans] (in Italian). Linkiesta. September 28

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authors list (link) [1] archive of http://thenewsfromwaterloo.com/the-hoax-diary.html "The Hoax Diary", thenewsfromwaterloo.com; accessed December 28, 2015

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columnist Mark Curtis reported that two MUFON investigators who confirmed the hoax were themselves "literally chased out of MUFON by its remaining 'true believers'"

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hiding in the residence." The affidavit alleges that the couple planned the hoax about two weeks before releasing the balloon on October 15 and "instructed

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Florence's struggling Georgetown newspaper did cause sales to skyrocket. The hoax claimed the discovery of the body of an Icelandic Christian woman, who

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The emergency and military services took them seriously for some hours. The hoax was only made public by The National Archives in 2011. Today, Farnborough

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several other publications, before the hoax was generally known. In 1927 the magazine Public Libraries called the hoax "a good piece of foolery, bright

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portions. According to the report, which was added later to the same site, the hoax lowered visit count and visit-to-download rate. List of text editors Comparison

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claiming to have been magicians, such as Cagliostro and Aleister Crowley, the hoax perpetrated by Léo Taxil and others that purported to expose Freemasonry

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been proven false, the hoax was still considered "pretty amusing" to the Animusic staff. It is currently unknown who started the hoax. Intel later commissioned

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building. Police tried to search for the bomb for two hours but failed. The hoax caused RTM to increase security for its buildings across Malaysia to protect

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construction when World War II broke out. The Soviet Union actively perpetrated the hoax class of warships. A Soviet 'fleet recognition manual' planted in the West

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apology was posted on the radio station's website. The statement said that the hoax was perpetrated without the knowledge of the station's management. The

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through her "one woman operation", Mt. Ivy Press. Prior to the uncovering of the hoax, the book had spawned a multimillion-dollar legal battle between Defonseca

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Peninsula. At least half a dozen locals—probably more—were likely duped by the hoax, which has for years puzzled North American authorities. Young Israelis

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Amateur Photographer requested clarification from the park officials, and the hoax was soon revealed. Keith Harris, the head warden at the park, "told AP's

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Tennessee State University, Winona State University (Minnesota) and even the hoax Plainfield Teacher's College. It is the tune of the alma mater of New York

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filed police reports. Brooklyn restaurant Roberta's was also pulled into the hoax, receiving harassing phone calls, including a call from an unidentified

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was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice for sending the hoax letters and tape. He was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted

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the Swedish Academy to investigate the incident "because I don't think the hoax was aimed at me, I think it was aimed at damaging the Academy or one or

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investigate it for smuggled armaments, in what the UVF leadership called the Hoax. In addition, the UVF arranged for a large truck to be waiting at the Belfast

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to demonstrate how poor their editorial process was. The hoax was uncovered only in 1973. The hoax was foisted by Hans Malicky, who was the chairperson

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who cite how the app doesn't log user locations and general anonymity, the hoax became pervasive to the extent that various police departments, school

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YouTube Democrats". Washington Post. Abbas, Wael (December 5, 2007). "The Hoax of Restoring my Account by YouTube". Gorani, Hala. "Blogging and brutality"

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Press, agreed to publish the book as non-fiction. To lend credibility to the hoax, Galbraith wrote a review of the book under the pen name Herschel McLandress

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Titor also geolocated to Kissimmee. In 2009, a report by John Hughston of the Hoax Hunter website pointed to Larry Haber, a Florida entertainment lawyer,

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of being sent to the war front in New Guinea Rainey, David. Ern Malley: The Hoax and Beyond. Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2009. ISBN 978-1-9213-3010-0

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commercial publishing world. (He was one of the two fans responsible for the hoax fan 'Carl Brandon' after whom the Carl Brandon Society takes its name.)

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Franklin's almanac. Franklin used the first edition of his almanac to promote the hoax prediction of Leeds's death (Oct. 17, 1733, 3:29 P.M., at the very instant

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learns of Peter's deception and tells Martin that she plans to expose the hoax if the book is published. Unaware that his book has been canceled, Peter

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that was used in the Patterson film. Morris says he discussed his role in the hoax "at costume conventions, lectures, [and] magician conventions" in the 1980s

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coming to the hoax there was rising Flemish separatism and the Vlaams Belang party received strong support in the regional elections. The hoax almost became

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that was used in the Patterson film. Morris says he discussed his role in the hoax "at costume conventions, lectures, [and] magician conventions" in the 1980s

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Franklin's almanac. Franklin used the first edition of his almanac to promote the hoax prediction of Leeds's death (Oct. 17, 1733, 3:29 P.M., at the very instant

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number of drummers including Rob Flanagan, Dave Raeburn of The Hoax and Mark Barrett of The Hoax who joined the band in July 2000. Their sets were composed

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Henry W. (1909). The Old Librarian's Almanack. Retrieved 2021-08-03. The hoax curse is on p. 27. Cyrus, Cynthia J. (2009). The Scribes for Women's Convents

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CO2 Coalition said "Since 2000, he has been writing and speaking out on the hoax that humans are controlling the temperature of the earth." In 2010, Cunningham

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on a military jet to Congo, a former Belgian colony. The RTBF justified the hoax on the grounds that it raised the issue of Flemish nationalism, but others

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DEAD". The hoax received some attention from national media, including an appearance on the Drudge Report. Gee's office responded to the hoax by releasing

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authentic, until Walken's publicist dismissed the claims. When asked about the hoax in a September 2006 interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken said he was amused

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year after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper revealed that the hoax caller had been Sheikh. Using a mobile phone smuggled into his prison cell

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The drawing of the hoax "fish" Ompax spatuloides by Karl Theodor Staiger, sent to Castelnau in 1879, who went on to give the "species" a scientific description

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his remaining years teaching and working as a musicologist in Hamburg. The hoax was not acknowledged in some later publications. The work continues to

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committed suicide in October 2013, and the emeralds used to perpetrate the hoax remain in legal limbo as of 2019. Joseph "Jay" Miscovich was a Pennsylvania

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Sergeant Joe Capriotti / Hugh 2 episodes 1957 The Big Story Tyler Episode: "The Hoax" 1959 Armstrong Circle Theatre Pfc. Elwood Johnson Episode: "Thunder Over

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atop the slab. (According to writing on the slab, this was done in 1945.) The hoax theory is primarily based on a 1980 Time magazine interview with Etta Pegues

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and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on Max Harris, at this time a 22-year-old avant garde poet and

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published in the spring of 2025 in the US and UK. Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America

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Admixture". academic.oup.com. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-27. "Kalantiao – the hoax". Paul Morrow. Archived from the original on 15 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-26

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fooled (as many had believed) but that he was an active participant in the hoax, and that he had a sexual involvement with the attractive medium. Though

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365, which is the source of this image. Shamsy, Ahmed El (2021-10-28). "The Hoax in the ISIS Flag". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-04. "The story

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newspaper. Skeptics have suspected that Hamilton may have been behind the hoax. Mediums Rita Goold and Alec Harris dressed up in their séances as ectoplasm

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and that Macari apparently got the advice elsewhere. The night before the hoax on 25 May, Poynting drove Macari to the Hertz depot in Alexandria, where

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however, the accident report did not offer any explanation as to what the hoax might have involved. Even though no charges were brought against Steeves

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Ross C. Jobe of Sault Ste. Marie. The purchaser of the fish learned of the hoax after presenting it to the Royal Museum of Scotland. The white fur of a

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who claimed to have been captured and tortured by German soldiers. When the hoax was exposed, Bennett Cerf, of Random House, Reynolds's publisher, reclassified

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Bramley, Ellie Violet (22 March 2021). "'The fakery is all part of the fun': the hoax of the mirror selfie". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 March

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Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result. Of the hoax Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Wiles said the authors had "accurately

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was the winner, the crowd began cheering him before officials realized the hoax and security escorted Sudhaus off the track. Arriving seconds later, Shorter

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last poems is "Canzone del danno e della beffa" ("Song of the harm and the hoax"), also published posthumously on Corriere della Sera in 2004. Andrea Cortellessa

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United States Intelligence Community as a cyberweapon during the Gulf War. The hoax originated in a 1991 InfoWorld article published as an April Fools' Day

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Coleman and various talent agencies sought to represent her, even after the hoax was revealed. Larter herself received a considerable amount of attention

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was the winner, the crowd began cheering him before officials realized the hoax. Shorter arrived 35 seconds later, as Südhaus was being escorted off the

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congratulate him for "imaginative effort". Solway convinced him to join the hoax. The fame of Karavis spread. There were reports of international conferences

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San Francisco denied that their employees had been the ones to call in the hoax. Three months after the crash, the aircraft had still not been located

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journalists as a bedridden and sometimes moribund invalid. He pursued the hoax since 1961 until his death and was not exposed until a year after it. Antonin

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Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, it was believed by George Sinclair that the hoax event was the most plausible source of the name for the Tom Collins cocktail

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from zero to 50 mph in 5.2 seconds selling for just $8,000. Ironically, the hoax was a stunt perpetrated by the Portland Area Radio Council to increase

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found in fictional series, and were skeptical of her lack of response to the hoax accusations and her rising fame, the consistent neatness of her room, the

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to suspect that the tsunami wasn't real, it made it difficult to do so. The hoax seemed too grand a scheme to be pulled off without more people realizing

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remains a standard text today. In 1962, he described Golfballia ambusta. The hoax species was described from a collection of burnt golf balls and, according

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actually sculpted in 1936 and buried the same year by an artist who imagined the hoax for advertising purposes. The statue was discovered on April 28, 1937,

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Die later posted a video featuring Christopher Lloyd "apologizing" for the hoax. Rumors circulated in 2001 that inventor Dean Kamen's new invention, codenamed

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mafia. Melandri starts sobbing out of laughter, because Righi believed the hoax, while the other friends also break up. Righi, believing that they are

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found in fictional series, and were skeptical of her lack of response to the hoax accusations and her rising fame, the consistent neatness of her room, the

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"Fiorelli" in 1801. When it became an immediate success, Méhul revealed the hoax he had played. Méhul also continued to compose works in a more serious

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that some on the pedagogical left lack." Her next book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and Its Danger to America’s Public Schools

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into the room by a trapdoor. Béraud also admitted to being involved with the hoax. In 1909, Béraud changed her name to Eva Carrière (Eva C) to hide the fraud

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references to the First World War, and so on)". Academic reviewers had praised the hoax studies of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose as "a rich and exciting contribution

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several variations between different areas of the city, as demonstrated when the hoax tapes purporting to be of the Yorkshire Ripper were analysed. The tapes

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Christianity and establish Zionist Israel. The editor V.T. Rajsekhar has treated the hoax text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as legitimate and has accused

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said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel. The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer)

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on a freight train after mailing a ransom note. Overheard talking about the hoax, Gertrude is arrested by the police. Pascual Orozco finds Foxine, and she

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food and to campaign for a tracking system of cloned animal products. The hoax was revealed on April Fool's Day with the message: "We believe you should

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win, which block the view of the basket from the side and thus exposing the hoax.) Sometimes the basketballs are also inflated to their full capacity, thus

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1993 Sub Pop-released album Sugarfix. Sub Pop did not respond well to the hoax and summarily dropped the band from its label. The Dwarves reformed in

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Justin Timberlake had been involved in a car accident in Los Angeles. The hoax sparked panic among fans, who called police and fire departments in the

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such as confusion, misinformation, waste of resources (especially when the hoax concerns people in danger) and even legal or commercial consequences. In

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hoax. Flavor Flav stated shortly thereafter that he was not a part of the hoax and disapproved of the stunt. After a hiatus from the music scene, Flavor

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Belgian UFO wave. In 2011, Patrick Maréchal demonstrated how he had created the hoax UFO, by cutting a piece of styrofoam into a triangle, painting it black

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Curley's guest. Eddie Collins, a Boston Globe reporter, was credited with the hoax. After the Prince visited Boston as the guest of Bayard Tuckerman Jr.,

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publications in the USSR had believed and picked up to boost public interest. The hoax had in fact been first perpetrated and then revealed by Lukyanenko and

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press release exposing the hoax, which was largely ignored until Time covered the story in July. Following the exposure of the hoax, Jammal was initially

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the report by posting pictures of himself on Twitter, even poking fun at the hoax by writing a caption about "the great things you can do when you're alive"

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by the hotel's owner, John Thompson, and two associates. The idea for the hoax had been inspired by the Cardiff Giant, a similar "discovery" in nearby

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during the 2020 George Floyd protests. NPR described the hoax as "well funded and well organized". The hoax described a US government shutdown of all civil

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Austrian researcher Andreas Schinner published in Cryptologia supported the hoax hypothesis. Schinner posited that the statistical properties of the manuscript's

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that influenced public perceptions about UFOs. Two years later, in 1952, the hoax was exposed in True magazine, with a follow-up article in 1956 presenting

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Fighting Irish football team Deadspin, the sports website that first reported the hoax after receiving an anonymous tip. Hastings, Christobel (July 20, 2022)

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creators, stating "The best part of any hoax is ultimately how believable the hoax could be and from top to bottom, this is one of the more believable hoaxes

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applied to ensure that all Muslims in America wear identifying markers...." The hoax was revealed at the end of the program. "Facility Technical Data for WSBN"

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announced Meyer's death on the German Wikipedia's biography of Meyer. The hoax was reported five days later by the Heise News Ticker and the article was

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Greek The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Crazy Love The Hoax Slavery and the Making of America, "Liberty in the Air" Naked World: America

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Centerville, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, purportedly started by ISIS. The hoax includes tweets and YouTube videos showing a chemical plant fire. Centerville

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community must have paid vanishingly little attention to those papers before the hoax rumors broke. The affair prompted many comments about the possible shortcomings

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perpetual motion machine hoax was created in Bradford in 1897 by J.M. Aldrich. The hoax was exposed in the July 1, 1899, issue of the Scientific American magazine

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totaling $130,105.15, of overtime authorities expended investigating the hoax. In November 2019, Smollett filed a countersuit against the city of Chicago

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by George P. Burdell." During World War II, service members continued the hoax, with Burdell's name appearing on various fronts. For example, he was listed

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caller was a supporter of Rangers' rival Celtic FC. Sandaza admitted to the hoax caller that he was only at Rangers for the money and would leave if an

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occurred between San Francisco and Oakland, California in the United States. The hoax Journal for Geoclimatic Studies published a fabricated global warming study

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caller was a supporter of Rangers' rival Celtic FC. Sandaza admitted to the hoax caller that he was only at Rangers for the money and would leave if an

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reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999, and he confirmed the hoax in 2012. Open-source software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's

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the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Basil Banghart – Convicted of the hoax kidnapping of John Factor, served 20 years before being declared innocent

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falsely attributed to British astronomer John Herschel and never retracted. The hoax featured man-bat creatures named the "Vespertilio-homo" that inhabited

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Yellow", with its lyric "Electrical banana/Is gonna be a sudden craze". The hoax was believed and spread through the mainstream press, and was perpetuated

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to the participants to work out as improvisation. As shown on the DVD, the "hoax" was on even before photography started as several media outlets announced

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would be a good fit for Cogent Social Sciences. When the authors announced the hoax, the article was retracted. In 2018, another Grievance studies affair article

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immediately fell upon the theatre's manager, Samuel Foote, for having originated the hoax. Foote claimed he knew nothing about the performance, but that he had warned

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his debut film. Initial screenings ran without credits and perpetuated the hoax. It was only on the eve of its Cannes debut that Lelouch took credit for

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go through with the case, and that the newspaper is as much a victim of the hoax as he is. The lawyer's partner, Snelgrove, however, says otherwise, and

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in Florida under her name, and called the Florida authorities to expose the hoax. Jones appealed to the Ocala prosecutor, who decided that she was an innocent

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calls on readers to write to the FCC to express their objections to it. The hoax was modeled on a chain email from 1996, and variations persisted into the

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realize that de l'Astran did not exist in any archives, and he traced the hoax back to the Rotary Club of La Rochelle. The article, created by members

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to the New York Observer, "Our piece was tongue-in-cheek, so I guess [the hoax] works. But how irritating." She prepared a correction but the Times never

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and Tumblr in 2012. Now the same hoax is circulating on WhatsApp (2018). The hoax has also been seen on Facebook in 2019. "Taxon details Telamonia dimidiata

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as a Lesotho Paramilitary Force Major in 1977 under a false identity. The hoax had resulted in Lekhanya financing the Lesotho Liberation Army against

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boom in value. The committee assumed that all six were responsible for the hoax and subsequent fraud. Cochrane had disposed of his entire £139,000 holding

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that there were another 50 works by him at his small house in Dunoon. The hoax was found out, but the exhibition attracted some attention – in particular

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Theodore Hook, perpetrator of the hoax, circa 1810

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with George Lutz by Dan Farrands". Horror.com. Retrieved June 3, 2011. "The Hoax in Amityville: Part 5". Chatanuga.org. Retrieved June 3, 2011. "1979 letter

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pretending the house is haunted by evil ghosts. However, Vincent sees through the hoax and confronts Alice. She tells him the whole truth. Vincent sympathizes

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assumes the role of a married man with six children, but Marion discovers the hoax. Helen runs into a scene with Anthony with his made-up family. Complications

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understand the gesture. Historian Bruce Michelson concludes that by means of the hoax, Twain both ridiculed the local politician Sewall and, with a story about

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"if Georgian society is not brought together against Russia's plans." The hoax was condemned by many public figures both in Georgia and abroad, including

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big lie. He breaks with his mentor, and tries to warn the public about the hoax. He convinces Bettina of Boyd’s lies, and both of them leave him to start

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Centerville, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, purportedly started by ISIS. The hoax includes tweets and YouTube videos showing a chemical plant fire. Centerville

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fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax. The glass photographic plates were bought for £6,000 by an unnamed buyer

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heartfelt speech to justify Larry's actions and Burns forgives them for the hoax, but explains he cannot be the family whom Larry needs. Larry understands

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Sherman Robertson 1994 – Live Dog – The Scabs 1994 – Sound Like This – The Hoax 1994 – Al Compás de la Banda – Danza Invisible 1995 – The Real Deal – John

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newspaper. Skeptics have suspected that Hamilton may have been behind the hoax. Psychologists and researchers who studied Pearl Curran's automatic writings

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roadkill, entrails and slaughterhouse leftovers. National Geographic called the hoax a "short lived one", as the whole affair lasted only a few days. Upon being

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great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, combined Poe’s famous 1836 essay on the hoax with the author’s fascination with tales of mystery and the macabre. The

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ending is also known as a feghoot. Whitman, Neal (February 21, 2014). "The Hoax Behind Little Bunny Foo Foo". The Babbler's Lexicon. Archived from the

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Clare Teleplay by : Frederick Brady December 13, 1955 (1955-12-13) 13 TBA "The Hoax" Gerald Freedman Story by : Irving Wallace Teleplay by : Irving Wallace

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comments from acquaintances (many folks that I play tennis with) about the hoax that climate change was,” he wrote to The Current. “Your periodic reminder

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Michael. Freamon informs McNulty that Daniels and Pearlman know about the hoax and the illegal wiretap. Levy goes through the Stanfield arrest warrants

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Deception Exposed. F. H. Revell. 1885. Retrieved 2013-04-24. (Exposé of the hoax grammar of the so-called Taensa language.) A Lenâpé-English Dictionary

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000 for her return. Was found four days later and revealed to have used the hoax for extortion in collusion with her boyfriend, Jasmin Osmanovic. Osmanivoc

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1st Baron Houghton. Canadian author John Glassco maintained and extended the hoax in 1967 by repeating the attribution and also claiming that Colman wrote

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target for the pranksters in opposing this new killing machine, and as such the hoax attracted much attention in the press once discovered. Grant is best known

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order..., the President of the United States. The first known reference to the hoax was in the book After the Crash: Life In the New Great Depression. The

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Brom murder story, with the album prominently sampling news coverage of the hoax. Negativland's next project was the U2 EP, with samples from American Top

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Burke and Jack Dickey speaking about the methods Deadspin used in exposing the hoax. Deadspin received attention for "buying" a vote for the Baseball Hall

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newspaper, the New York Herald. J. I. C. Clarke was the primary writer of the hoax, under the direction and inspiration of the Herald's managing editor, T

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Matthews, Dylan (August 9, 2019). "How 'Archie Carter' hoaxed Quillette, the hoax-loving 'Intellectual Dark Web' site". Vox. Archived from the original on

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release the list indicates that it actually believed the credibility of the hoax list and used it in investigations and litigations. The perpetrators of

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posted an apology. The hoax message quickly went viral when "several gullible, unsophisticated opinion leaders" repeated the hoax message. Within days

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Burke and Jack Dickey speaking about the methods Deadspin used in exposing the hoax. Deadspin received attention for "buying" a vote for the Baseball Hall

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newspaper, the New York Herald. J. I. C. Clarke was the primary writer of the hoax, under the direction and inspiration of the Herald's managing editor, T

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confirmed it was a prank. He came to regret the publicity and harassment that the hoax generated. Dragonstar series (with David Bischoff): Day of the Dragonstar

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appearances was not credulous, the hoax "at least showed that they could benefit by being a touch more sceptical". The hoax was exposed on 60 Minutes Australia;

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Shatner issued a tweet confirming them to be false. The perpetrator(s) of the hoax have never come forward. Ebenezer Latham (c.1688–1745), Presbyterian minister

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had upset young viewers, and had shocked Barry when they re-surfaced. The hoax was said to have initially spread via Facebook in 2008, but re-surfaced

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conspiracy by Jews that structurally replicate the Protocols without mentioning the hoax document. Another way conspiracy theories try to avoid the label of anti-Semitic

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areas. The town received a budget appropriation and several grants before the hoax was revealed. The German-language Der neue Pauly. Enzyklopaedie der Antike

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gang, and 36 international brothers/ red international army according to the hoax of Chinese triads history. The gang was formerly headed by Bull Head, Ong

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person, and that Heth was alive, on a tour to Europe. Barnum later admitted the hoax. Human zoo Sarah Baartman John Smith, subject of another longevity hoax

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newsgroup on April 1, 1998, by Thomas who later that day confessed to the hoax. Several clues were included in the original post, including the author

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circulated on the Internet that Raynor had been shot dead; he addressed the hoax via a letter he e-mailed to the sites in question, that instead directed

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doi:10.1525/sp.1985.32.3.03a00020. Sokal, Alan D. (March 2008) "Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture" Boghossian, P. Fear of Knowledge: Against

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her appear dead for 42 hours. Friar Laurence plans to inform Romeo of the hoax so that Romeo can meet Juliet after her burial and escape with her when

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law Code of Hammurabi Sa Aking Mga Kabata Justiniano 2011. "Kalantiaw : The Hoax". paulmorrow.ca. Retrieved August 26, 2022. Agoncillo 1990, p. 26. Zulueta

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Arturo and Morris, S. Brent, 1988, 2nd edition, p. 27-36, Leo Taxil: The Hoax of Luciferian Masonry ISBN 1590771532 Story of Freemasonry by W. G. Sibley

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1990, Dery's New York Times article "The Merry Pranksters and the Art of the Hoax" offered an early discussion in the mainstream media of the practice of

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was not revealed that it was a work of fiction, and some were duped by the hoax; it was launched at a lavish party, with excerpts read by David Bowie and

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everyone there that his fake alien has led to world peace and revealing the hoax will undermine it and make the deaths for naught. All agree except for

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"Eisenstadt's 'work' had been quoted and debunked before," reported that the hoax "was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin - not

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Young & Turner 2013, pp. 61–62. Young & Turner 2013, p. 64. ""Zaire: The Hoax of Independence", The Aida Parker Newsletter #203, 4 August 1997". cycad

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trying to help her along too." Wikipedia Signpost article describing how the hoax was discovered and removed Alan McIlwraith's Wikipedia article as of 10

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celebrities such as Jane Seymour, Gloria Hunniford and Philippa Forrester. The hoax documentary was launched on 1 April, and despite the suspicions caused

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rampant gunfights and bank robberies. Nobody was privy to knowledge of the hoax except the residents, and the showmanship died off after several years

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Science Femme Twitter account was created in January 2019. At the time of the hoax discovery in October 2020 it had 19,000 followers. The account operator

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Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 14 January 2014. The hoax (available online) and discussed by director of Wawel Royal Castle Prof

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including the NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. The hoax was finally revealed in February 2013, before the series premiered, by

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At the last minute it was decided, after talking to the two men, that the hoax was a harmless joke that had mushroomed, and that the loss of two lives

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tree is dying and that they are leaving. When Sheila eventually discovers the hoax with O'Davern's help, her faith in people, as well as her faith in pixies

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Terbot". He went on The Bert Newton Show with Derryn Hinch who was in on the hoax, and accused him of being a charlatan. He also performed shows to live

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the time to produce each page; the counter-argument is that this makes the hoax too complex to be plausible. Regarding statistics, Rugg points out that

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forged, acting as a medium for the letters written by "Major Hann". He used the hoax to raise his own profile in the U.S. as a war hero, while also attempting

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claimed to have seen a UFO hovering over the town of Warminster, admitted to the hoax in 1994.[citation needed] In 1995, the group were the only official UFO

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was displayed at the museum. Twenty years later, Jeffries admitted to the hoax. In Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, folklorist Richard Dorson outlines

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Alexander Cockburn, who devoted a series of columns in The Nation exposing the hoax. ... The periodicals in which From Time Immemorial had already been favorably

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Evan McNeil, Jay Adler, Arline Hunter, and Sam Balter guest-star. 26 "The Hoax" Unknown Unknown April 4, 1962 (1962-04-04) Scott tries to free a young

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Hughes, the cat ate only chicken and ice cream. The cat won a ribbon, but the hoax was eventually exposed. Later, Hughes bought a retired trolley horse and

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the children and recruited Sabine McNeil to help her. In a podcast about the hoax, Alexi Mostrous describes McNeil as a 76-year-old German former scientist

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the other Beatles had shoes. This mismatch was viewed as an eyecatch to the hoax. McCartney is putting his left foot forward; on Abbey Road he is seen with

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laughed off stage and not performed again. Ireland eventually admitted to the hoax and tried to publish the play by his own name, but had little success.

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families but sometimes the prank can go too far when their targets believe the hoax is true. Others, such as the owners of pubs, hotels or ghost hunting tours

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Genius" 2004 (2004) 94 43 "Cocco Bill No Good" 2004 (2004) 95 44 "Cocco and the Hoax Dinner" 2004 (2004) 96 45 "Cocco and the Preacher" 2004 (2004) 97 46 "Cocco

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Warren 'Pig' Morgan (piano, vocals) had joined and the band recorded, The Hoax Is Over, which was released in January 1971. Loyde left to reform Wild

Hamas baby beheading hoax (2,801 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

rescue groups, in interviews with local and international journalists. The hoax was initially endorsed by US President Joe Biden and the office of Israeli

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similar to his Hand and Eye, but was simply an ordinary severed head. The hoax takes advantage of the fact that the Eye and Hand require a person to remove

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in general, with labour aristocracy controlling the trade unions, under the hoax that this was "repudiating the main error of CPI(M-L)'s past under the

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of presenting a theory in an entertaining form." However, the notice of the hoax garnered little attention, and the myth of the Indian Rope Trick persisted

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the children and recruited Sabine McNeil to help her. In a podcast about the hoax, Alexi Mostrous describes McNeil as a 76-year-old German former scientist

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original on February 24, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2019. Pulling off the hoax would be harder than pulling off the reality. Footage from the moon shows

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boys admitted to making the tablet as a prank in 1913. As a result of the hoax, though, Harlan had become interested in the scenic area and helped spark

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conceived by Tsunekazu Ishihara and Satoru Iwata. On Ishihara's initiation, the hoax was turned into an actual video game developed by Niantic. Ishihara was

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circulated the email) at a "World Environmental Conference." Specifically, the hoax websites allege that aspartame is responsible for multiple sclerosis, systemic

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fight for you to the very end." Radio announcer Neil Mitchell described the hoax as "immature" and pondered whether it demeaned her office. Jasper Tsang

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from the case and demoted to pawn shop detail. He expressed regret for the hoax. That same year, Maupin also received a purported Zodiac letter. SFPD investigated

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like we do dogs to prevent rape culture". The article was retracted after the hoax was exposed. By the time of the reveal, seven of the group's twenty papers

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in Muslim countries saying that Armstrong had not converted to Islam. The hoax surfaced occasionally for the next three decades. Part of the confusion

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"Satan's paper" by religious groups sympathetic to the perpetrator of the hoax. In 2011, the paper's Oregon-based owners offered if for sale, after having

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Dacia, not realized due to his assassination. However, Octavian only used the hoax of the "Dacian threat" as a pretense to gain control over a large amount

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"Tears of a Clone". People. Retrieved December 1, 2019. Seibold, Whitney. "The Hoax Report: Gallagher Too". 90ways.com. Archived from the original on June

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October 2004, MetaFilter members uncovered the identities of the writers of the hoax Website Nick Nolte's Diary. An astroturfing campaign by Holden Karnofsky

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Today even repeating the information. The Los Angeles Times responded to the hoax with the headline, "Cormac McCarthy isn't dead. He's too tough to die."

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and Yorkshire Evening Post followed on Monday. On Tuesday 19 May, when the hoax was revealed, the holiday story was covered on television, radio and, in

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Edition: Legal threat over World Cup prank. 8 July 2000. David Crossland. The Hoax That Brought the World Cup to Germany, Spiegel Online, 17 January 2006

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satellites". Both Dr. Hayall and the University of the Sierras were fictitious. The hoax gained worldwide attention when Houston's claim was repeated in earnest

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"infamous" for its headline-grabbing stunts in the late 1990s, including the hoax "Fuckart & Pimp" exhibition where Angela Marshall pretended to offer her

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furious. He demanded an inquiry by John Hoadly, Archbishop of Dublin, but the hoax was quickly exposed.[citation needed] Lord Kildare married Lady Mary, daughter

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Paul grassroots group. She was later asked to leave the group because of the hoax. The Drudge Report included some articles intimating that U.S. president

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Jesus, Jens Jørgen Thorsen's abandoned pornographic film about Jesus, the hoax initially implied that the film's would-be producer was a magazine that

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mankind. Both Dr. Hayall and the University of the Sierras were fictitious. The hoax soon gained worldwide attention in May 1959 when a similar theory was proposed

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two decks: one featuring the Vulca characters and the other highlighting the Hoax characters. The dimensions of the Blue Moon cards measure 120 mm × 70 mm

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about Steve Jobs' health, which caused Apple's stock to temporarily drop. The hoax was attributed to users of the web forum 4chan. In 2011, CNN held the first

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championship, but it was actually Windham who was dressed like Sting. Once the hoax was noticed, the match was restarted and the real Sting defeated Sid Vicious

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video. The so-called Poppy Fields took "45 RPM" into the UK Top 30 before the hoax was revealed, setting the stage for the album In the Poppy Fields. The

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six media interviews. Around this time was also when he and Barker made the hoax Lost Creek saucer video. Moseley attended the first large-scale gathering

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devoted to Moon landing hoax conspiracy theories, Plait examines aspects of the hoax theory and compares its claims against basic laws of physics. Astronomical

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doi:10.1177/1948550613516876. hdl:1808/19002. S2CID 34738568. Loudin, Jo, The Hoax of Romance. New York: Prentice Hall, 1980. Young-Eisendrath, Polly, You're

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gains the attention of Josie, a waitress he likes. Ryan doubles down on the hoax, learning official procedures from YouTube and modifying a decommissioned

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immediate suspect for the literary forgery: the Sunday Times article revealing the hoax was accompanied by a prominent picture of Hillier and noted that an envelope

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Hollywood war film populated by third-class actors." A later variant of the hoax linked with Marcos historical distortionism falsely claimed that the whole

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was reportedly last seen at Grants Hill House in Uckfield. In addition, the hoax of the Piltdown Man occurred in the nearby village of Piltdown. There is

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addition to releasing another episode on the podcast's feed discussing the hoax. The Washington Post argued that the editors note "fell short of a full

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and the dropping of the vilified Noel's House Party were chastened by the hoax guests on The Vanessa Show. Alan Yentob said "The spring package is to

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trial's success. In 2007, the BBC website repeated an online version of the hoax, as did Google in 2013, in tribute. In 1969, the public broadcaster NTS

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skeptics of the case to have been planted following the incident to solidify the hoax. John B. Alexander writing in the Journal for Scientific Exploration states

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the CBS sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show and in the 1962 series finale, "The Hoax," of the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, starring Brian Kelly and John

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same night, Chand encounters Dhakosla again, who dreading the wrath of the hoax he played uses his wits and takes Chand to Shankar Dada's (Raj Mehra) place

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The fake article was cited by several newspapers and organizations until the hoax was exposed in July 2022. The actual development of the pop-up toaster

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newspapers print a denial of Torchy's story. It is later learned that the hoax victim, Harvey Hammond, has actually been murdered and Torchy once again

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implied he believed elements of the Pizzagate hoax were real. At the time, the hoax had rapidly evolved into an elaborate conspiracy theory that ostensibly

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Election Results" (PDF). Official Congressional Biography Guide "Veterans: The Hoax" Time. October 25, 1954. "Like many other persons suddenly thrust into