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Let's have some threadi about them. I got the idea to this when watching a doc about the search for the "missing link" in human evolution, where they also had a story about the so-called "Piltdown Man":
more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man (yeah, it's Wiki, so what, if you find errors feel free to point them out)
Interesting was esp. how many British aggressors...I mean...scientists in the same period dismissed the findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart, but easily bought into the "Piltdown guy" cuz they couldn't believe that such an important element of human evolution came out of Africa, not from Europe or Asia as they thought.
I'll add two more examples, first this one:
And finally, since this thread is nothing without Nazis, this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident (though it suffers a bit from the fact that probably noone believed it really outside Krautland)
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P.S. Any silly comments about moon landings, 9/11 and stuff are only allowed if they're new and funny. As always I negotiated with the mods that otherwise they lead to an automatic permaban
The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, East Sussex, in England. The fragments were thought by many experts of the day to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human. The Latin name Eoanthropus dawsoni ("Dawson's dawn-man", after the collector Charles Dawson) was given to the specimen.
The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan combined with the skull of a fully developed, modern man.
The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan combined with the skull of a fully developed, modern man.
Interesting was esp. how many British aggressors...I mean...scientists in the same period dismissed the findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart, but easily bought into the "Piltdown guy" cuz they couldn't believe that such an important element of human evolution came out of Africa, not from Europe or Asia as they thought.
I'll add two more examples, first this one:
The Donation of Constantine (Latin, Donatio Constantini)[1] is a forged Roman imperial edict devised probably between 750 and 775, the earlier date being the more probable. It is often said that the document could have been written around 752. Albert Hauck suggested in 1888[2] that assuming that the document was forged shortly before the Council of Quierzy, 754, would explain demands made by the Pope on that occasion, "demands which had no basis in law or fact", commented F. Zinkeisen.
And finally, since this thread is nothing without Nazis, this:
The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack on 31 August 1939 against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe.
This provocation was one of several actions in Operation Himmler, a Nazi Germany SS project to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which would be used to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.
This provocation was one of several actions in Operation Himmler, a Nazi Germany SS project to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which would be used to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.
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P.S. Any silly comments about moon landings, 9/11 and stuff are only allowed if they're new and funny. As always I negotiated with the mods that otherwise they lead to an automatic permaban
The news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode launched Welles to fame.
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