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Museum of Hoaxes - http://www.museumofhoaxes.com
Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references. |
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MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery - http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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SCIgen - An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator - http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
SCIgen is a program that generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Generated papers are meant for amusement. |
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Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes - http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment |
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Piltdown Plot - http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history. |
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1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast - http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. |
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History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles - http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html
Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they almost sawed off Manhattan. |
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Piltdown Man - http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html
Piltdown man was one of the most famous hoaxes in science. Covers the history of the hoax, its reception by the paleontological community, how the hoax was executed, its exposure, myths and misconceptions, and theories about the perpetrator. |
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The Hoax Files - http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries |
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Tracking the White Salamander - http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder |
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Don't Be Fooled: Strange Hoaxes That Endure - http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal article that discusses ten hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery. |
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Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes - http://www.pickover.com/hoax.html
Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (about which he authored a book). Includes links and images. |
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Bibliography of Hoaxes - http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm
Bibliography of books about hoaxes. |
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Spud Server - http://totl.net/Spud
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC. |
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April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html
National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history. |