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The Great Moon Hoax (1835)
"D'ya hear about the moon-bison?" How Twain and other writers pulled off elegant pranks against 19th century life science ... From 1835-1880, famous writers including Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe published dozens of hoaxes in American newspapers, many of them about discoveries in zoology...- ramonmercado
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Science Hoaxes (General; Miscellaneous)
"D'ya hear about the moon-bison?" How Twain and other writers pulled off elegant pranks against 19th century life science By Lynda Walsh [Published 2nd March 2007 03:10 PM GMT] It was September 1880, and the famous American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope was in Arizona, furiously digging...- ramonmercado
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The Cardiff Giant
There is a site about a C19th fake in New York State here: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYCOOgiant.html- austen27
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- Forum: Earth Mysteries: Historical & Classical Cases