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Eaton, Gale, 1947-
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History -- Miscellanea
Hoaxes -- History -- Miscellanea
Ambition -- History -- Miscellanea
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Eaton, Gale, 1947-
History -- Miscellanea
Hoaxes -- History -- Miscellanea
Ambition -- History -- Miscellanea
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A
history
of
ambition
in 50 hoaxes / Gale Eaton ; introduction by Phillip Hoose.
by
Eaton, Gale, 1947-
Tilbury House Publishers, c2016.
Call #:
001.95 E14h
Subjects
History
--
Miscellanea
Hoaxes
--
History
--
Miscellanea
Ambition
--
History
--
Miscellanea
Series
History
in 50.
ISBN:
9780884484653 (hc)
0884484653 (hc)
Alternate title:
History
of
ambition
in fifty hoaxes
Edition:
1st hardcover ed.
Description:
xvi, 270 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-265) and index.
Contents:
The original Trojan horse
--
The forgery underlying the power of medieval popes
--
A letter from the mythical Prester John
--
Did Marco Polo really go to China?
--
The world's most mysterious book
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Was Lambert Simnel a lost prince?
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Michelangelo fakes an antiquity
--
A mythical island appears on maps of the North Atlantic
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Secrets of an imaginary alchemist
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The stagecraft of Athanasius Kircher
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Dr. Beringer reads lying fossils
--
An ancient bard awes the literary world
--
Benjamin Franklin pretends to be the King of Prussia
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The Potemkin village: more than just a pretty façade
--
Newly discovered Shakespeare play jeered by theater-goers
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An astronomer discovers intelligent life on the Moon
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The Walam Olum: 90 generations of oral
history
of a hoax?
--
Was the Fejee mermaid a genuine fake?
--
The Fox sisters invent spiritual telegraphy
--
Faking a trip to gold rush territory
--
When giants roamed the earth
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The Keely Motor Company promises efficient world travel
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The case of the living encyclopedia
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Extracting gold from seawater
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Viking runes in Minnesota
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A conspiracy to justify murder
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A future great novelist helps hoax the Royal Navy
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Missing link found at Piltdown
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Naked man conquers Maine woods
--
The spectric poets unmasked
--
The original Ponzi scheme
--
Fairies are caught on camera
--
Did Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the Revolution?
--
Houdini debunks a medium
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If you believe that, I have a tower to sell you
--
The Loch Ness Monster
--
Martians attack
--
Operation Mincemeat deludes Hitler
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Dutch artist arrested for selling a Vermeer to Hermann Göring
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The cursed tomb of the last Aztec emperor
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Donald Crowhurst vanishes at sea
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The Tasaday: a stone-age tribe or a hoax?
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A faked autobiography of Howard Hughes
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Moon landing conspiracy theory
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Genuine fake Hitler diaries
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More lying stones: Moroccan fossils in the Himalayas
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Crop circle artists confess
--
Physicist Alan Sokal spoofs postmodern scholarship
--
Joining the campaign to ban DHMO
--
Microsoft technical support.
Summary:
What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.
Other authors:
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
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