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The English philologist Robert Nares (1753–1829) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", "to impose upon" [3] or (according to Merriam-Webster) "to befuddle often with drugged liquor." [4] Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus, [4] whose ...
The Cardiff Giant, a hoax of a hoax; P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item. The CERN ritual , a supposed occult sacrifice on the grounds of CERN . China Under the Empress Dowager , co-authored by Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet using a forged diary as a major source, with a manuscript of Backhouse ...
Hoax pamphlet "Miscegenation" that coined the term miscegenation. Miscegenation comes from the Latin miscere, 'to mix' and genus, 'kind'. [2] The word was coined in an anonymous propaganda pamphlet published in New York City in December 1863, during the American Civil War.
An article's inclusion on this list is not intended to disparage the authenticity of the report, but to denote that it is in general considered, or evidenced, as having been created as a hoax, or was known to be false (or a joke) as created.
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There is a certain phrase that should now get your Spidey sense tingling. This three-word message is one that scammers rely on and could make you high-risk to fall for a scam text: “Would you ...
In early 2020, when the world learned about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or the virus that causes Covid-19) during the initial outbreak in China ...
The third word is something everyone uses every day. Everyone knows what the third word means. What is the third word? [3] [21] The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day.