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The museum of hoaxes : a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millennium

The Museum of Hoaxes takes you on a tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; be astounded at the imposters, pretenders, and tricksters of the twentieth. The Queen of England, Jimmy Carter, the editors of The New York Times -- no one is immune to the cunning of history's hoaxers. From the origin of April Fools' Day to the Taco Liberty Bell, from Bigfoot to the War of the Worlds -- it is filled with photographs and illustrations.

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  • "The Museum of Hoaxes takes you on a tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; be astounded at the imposters, pretenders, and tricksters of the twentieth. The Queen of England, Jimmy Carter, the editors of The New York Times -- no one is immune to the cunning of history's hoaxers. From the origin of April Fools' Day to the Taco Liberty Bell, from Bigfoot to the War of the Worlds -- it is filled with photographs and illustrations."@en
  • "This is a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, fakery, hornswoggle and hoaxes inflicted on the gullible public from long ago to the present day, taken from the web site www.museumofhoaxes.com."
  • "Presents a collection of hundreds of documented historical hoaxes, pranks, deceptions, and stunts that have fooled the public from the Middle Ages to the present day."

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  • "The museum of hoaxes : a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millennium"@en
  • "The museum of hoaxes : a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millennium"
  • "The museum of hoaxes : a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millenium"@en
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  • "The museum of hoaxes : a history of outrageous pranks and deceptions"
  • "The museum of hoaxes : a history of outrageous pranks and deceptions"@en
  • "The museum of hoaxes a collection of pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the new millennium"@en

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