Hoax

Balloon Hoax, The

news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe]

Piltdown man

missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 46; Time, October 13, 1978, 82]

Mentioned in

Aleksandra Osipovna Smirnova
Aleksandra Smirnova
Alien Autopsy
Amis, Kingsley William
Angel of Mons
antivirus
April Fools' Day
April Fool's Joke
Balloon Hoax, The
Ballooning
Carberry Day
Cardiff giant
Christ of Nazareth
computer virus
Cottingley Fairies
Croglin Grange, The Vampire of
Crop Circles
Crystal Skulls
ectoplasm

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