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    The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835" was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning...
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    Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly...
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    A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either...
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  • scandal but was later revealed to be a hoax. Stephen Glass, reporter for The New Republic. The Great Moon Hoax of 1835; Edgar Allan Poe would later claim...
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    "Great Moon Hoax" by Richard Adams Locke, Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, and H. G. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon....
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    primarily working class readers. The Sun is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church's 1897 editorial containing...
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    prior journalistic hoax known as the "Great Moon Hoax", published in the same newspaper in 1835. One of the suspected writers of that hoax, Richard Adams...
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  • Life on the Moon may refer to: Colonization of the Moon The Great Moon Hoax Il mondo della luna, an opera buffa written by Joseph Haydn Planetary habitability...
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    The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (category Journalistic hoaxes)
    the moon. Poe planned to continue the hoax in further installments, but was pre-empted by the Great Moon Hoax which started in the August 25, 1835 issue...
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  • Moonbat (redirect from Moon bat)
    [citation needed] Descriptions of bat-like people on the Moon were part of the 1835 Great Moon hoax. A long poem, The Proving of Gennad: A Mythological Romance...
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    13 "Moon Split Miracle Chain Letter". Hoax Slayer. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Soora, Gayathri (14 April 2020). "Split Moon image...
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    the Moon are fake, or the Moon landing itself never happened. Karel himself received e-mails congratulating him for "exposing the Moon landing hoax", which...
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    article was widespread at the time and now is referred to as "The Great Moon Hoax". Day is credited with stretching the truth that came to be known as...
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    Apollo Moon landing hoax theorists (the second party). This evidence provides independent confirmation of NASA's account of the six Apollo program Moon missions...
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    Fake news (redirect from Hoax news)
    he was frequently sued for libel. One instance of fake news was the Great Moon Hoax of 1835. The Sun newspaper of New York published articles about a real-life...
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  • Hoax Captured the World's Imagination for a Decade". Time. Retrieved 19 April 2017. Dan, Gunderman (25 August 2016). "As we remember the 'Great Moon Hoax...
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    campaign was the Great Moon Hoax, published in 1835 in the New York The Sun, in which a series of articles claimed to describe life on the Moon, "complete with...
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    refer to the second Book of Samuel and also echo a line from the "Great Moon Hoax". In the town of Rattleborough, the wealthy Barnabas Shuttleworthy...
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  • October 9, 2009. Fraknoi, Andrew (October 2009). "The 'Great Moon Hoax': Did Astronauts Land on the Moon?". Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource...
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  • was a hoax and that Rogers only went to visit a friend in Brooklyn. The New York Sun had previously published a story known as the Great Moon Hoax in 1835...
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    October 2009. Fraknoi, Andrew (October 2009). "The 'Great Moon Hoax': Did Astronauts Land on the Moon?". Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource...
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  • is published in the New York Sun. This incident is now known as the Great Moon Hoax. Berlin Observatory opened. Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville become...
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  • Apollo Moon landings were hoaxes perpetrated by NASA and other agencies has appeared many times in popular culture. Not all references to Moon landing...
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  • journalistic/media hoaxes around the same time are: Great Wall of China hoax The Balloon-Hoax The Bathtub Hoax The Man Eating Tree of Madagascar The Great Moon Hoax The...
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    Thomas J. Clapperton. Circa 1836, Richard Adams Locke (author of the Great Moon Hoax) composed a fictional Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park, in which Park...
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  • the Moon. In the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, a newspaper reporter concocted a series of stories purporting to describe the discovery of life on the Moon, talking...
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    Lancaster Journal refuting the Great Moon Hoax, a sensational story claiming that life had been observed on the moon. That same year his former professor...
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    informed. They also launched hoaxes with the aim of attracting attention, such as the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 or The Balloon-Hoax. Theses innovations led the...
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  • to you, deceive you and stage elaborate deceptions, put-ons and hoaxes. Man on the Moon ended a string of films starring Jim Carrey that had very successful...
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  • Bill Kaysing (category Moon landing conspiracy theorists)
    and conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes. Kaysing served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during...
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