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History's Greatest Hoaxes: With Tom Ward, Guy Walters, Linda Papadopoulos, Alex Boese. History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at some of the most spectacular hoaxes that show that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.
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- 2016
- Documentary
- Tom Ward, Guy Walters, Linda Papadopoulos
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- The Birth of The Bathtub
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- Italy’s Secret Pasta Gardens
- The World’S Worst Bestseller
- Bipedal Beavers, Unicorns, and Other Moon Monsters
- A Math Whiz Horse
- The Supergroup That Never Got to Rock
- Indecent Animals
- A Bordello of Barks
As Joseph Boskin would tell you, the origins of April Fools’ are murky. In fact, the Boston University professor and pop culture historian was trying to say just that in a 1983 interview with reporter Fred Bayles. But each time Boskintold Bayles that no one is quite sure how the holiday started, the interviewer pushed him for a more concrete answer...
December 20 gets no respect. On the calendar, it’s just another winter day best known for not being Christmas. But in 1917, writer H. L. Mencken set out to change that. When readers of the New York Evening Mail opened the paper in late December, they found Mencken’s 1,800-word essay “A Neglected Anniversary,” detailing the arrival of the bathtub in...
Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, scientists have been looking for the missing link—a transitional fossil that would seal the argument for human evolution. In 1912, an amateur geologist and archaeologist named Charles Dawson found it. The skull he pulled from a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, seemed to conclusively fit ...
Where does spaghetti come from? On April 1, 1957, the BBC news program Panoramatackled the question with a segment about a Swiss town’s robust spaghetti crop, brought on by a warm spring and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil. “For those who love this dish, there’s nothing like real homegrown spaghetti,” anchor Richard Dimbleby said. Viewers...
Everyone knows you can’t judge a book by its cover. But the aphorism got an extra dose of validity in 1969, when Penelope Ashe, a bored Long Island housewife, wrote the trashy sensation Naked Came the Stranger. As part of her book tour, Ashe appeared on talk shows and made the bookstore rounds. But Ashe wasn’t what her book jacket claimed. The auth...
Much like submarines, submarine sandwiches, and the U.S. Constitution, the ethics of journalism were still evolving in the early 19th century. One rule that hadn’t totally sunk in yet: Don’t ply your readers with outright fabrications. The newspapers of the day routinely manufactured stories to generate sales, but none was as outrageous as the New ...
Is a hoax still a hoax if the perpetrator doesn’t know it? Wilhelm von Osten would likely say no. At the turn of the 20th century, the German math teacher was determined to prove the intelligence of animals. After trying (and failing) to teach a cat and a bear how to add, he finally found a sufficiently studious beast. With years of training, a hor...
Music fans got exciting news in 1969 when Rolling Stone reviewed the first album by the Masked Marauders, a supergroup featuring Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. Due to legal issues with their respective labels, the stars’ names wouldn’t appear on the album cover, but the review extolled the virtues of Dylan’s new “deep bass...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, one man went on a public crusade against animal nudity. His name was Clifford Prout Jr., and using his wealthy father’s inheritance, he founded SINA: the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. Prout insisted dogs, horses, and other creatures were no less deserving of modesty than humans. Bermuda shorts and burlap...
Joey Skaggs is a professional prankster who plays the media like his instrument. He’s made waves posing as an outraged gypsy hell-bent on renaming the gypsy moth. He launched Walk Right!—a fictional group dedicated to enforcing proper walking etiquette through militant tactics. But perhaps the best illustration of his life’s work is the brothel for...
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History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at the case of the Hitler Diaries which purported to be sixty-two volumes of Adolph Hitler's personal journals. Convinced of their reality, Rupert Murdoch paid over a half a million dollars to publish them. The hoax turned out to be one of the greatest scam ever done to a newspaper. 6.4/10 (9) Rate. Top-rated.
History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at the case of the Hitler Diaries which purported to be sixty-two volumes of Adolph Hitler's personal journals. Convinced of their reality, Rupert Murdoch paid over a half a million dollars to publish them. The hoax turned out to be one of the greatest scam ever done to a newspaper.
3. Apr. 2024 · Am 3. April 2024 um 19:26:16 Uhr haben wir 55 Streaming-Dienste nach diesem Titel durchsucht und aktualisiert. Etwas stimmt nicht? Lass es uns wissen. History's Greatest Hoaxes online anschauen: Stream, kaufen, oder leihen. Du kannst "History's Greatest Hoaxes" bei Canal+ legal im Stream anschauen. Neuste Episoden. S1 E6 - Piltdown Man.
