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- Jul 6, 2003
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lots of fakes
in Baltimore Maryland they used to show a ship called the Constallation that they gave you a tour of as an American Naval war vessel dating to 1757 and it cost a good amount of $ to go on the tour. Then about 1991 they admitted that it was a total fake, and that they had created all of these fake newpaper articles and historical "facts" about the ship. Baltimore was outraged, this ship was a huge tourist attraction. Here is a little more:
"Regarding the putative controversy regarding the origin of this "Constellation", the so called transcript of an 1853 Portsmouth newspaper article is a fake as are all the other "transcripts" which support that totally bogus pseudo history. An entire history of evidence was manufactured by a single crazed individual with the intent of perpetuating this fraud. The fact that it was a fraud has been perfectly well documented in "Fouled Anchors: The Constellation Question Answered", by Dana M. Wegner, et aliis. This paper was published by the US Navy's David Taylor Research Center ini 1991. This is the definitive, scholarly paper. In addition, in the course of disassembling the vessel for the repair, we have found absolutely no evidence of any material that predates 1853. "
I just wonder how many other, more successful tourist attractions are really fakes like this, but rake in the money so they keep it under wraps?
in Baltimore Maryland they used to show a ship called the Constallation that they gave you a tour of as an American Naval war vessel dating to 1757 and it cost a good amount of $ to go on the tour. Then about 1991 they admitted that it was a total fake, and that they had created all of these fake newpaper articles and historical "facts" about the ship. Baltimore was outraged, this ship was a huge tourist attraction. Here is a little more:
"Regarding the putative controversy regarding the origin of this "Constellation", the so called transcript of an 1853 Portsmouth newspaper article is a fake as are all the other "transcripts" which support that totally bogus pseudo history. An entire history of evidence was manufactured by a single crazed individual with the intent of perpetuating this fraud. The fact that it was a fraud has been perfectly well documented in "Fouled Anchors: The Constellation Question Answered", by Dana M. Wegner, et aliis. This paper was published by the US Navy's David Taylor Research Center ini 1991. This is the definitive, scholarly paper. In addition, in the course of disassembling the vessel for the repair, we have found absolutely no evidence of any material that predates 1853. "
I just wonder how many other, more successful tourist attractions are really fakes like this, but rake in the money so they keep it under wraps?