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    List of impostors (redirect from Imposture)
    part of humorous stunts and media pranks protesters have also engaged in imposture, often revealing their true identity at a later stage. Princess Caraboo...
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  • Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1652. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the...
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  • L'effroyable Imposture (or "The Horrifying Fraud") is the original French title of a highly controversial and discredited 2002 book by French journalist...
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  • Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (UK: Intellectual Impostures), first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by physicists Alan...
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    French peasant of the 16th century, was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village...
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    Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (born Sylvester Clark Long; December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932) was a mixed race African-American journalist, writer and...
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  • Bricmont co-wrote Impostures intellectuelles (US: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science; UK: Intellectual Impostures, 1998). The...
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    the Revolution was, indeed, over. "A shabby compound of brute force and imposture, the 18th Brumaire was nevertheless condoned, nay applauded, by the French...
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    Gerbi, Alexandre Histoire occultée de la décolonisation franco-africaine: Imposture, refoulements et névroses, L'Harmattan 2006. Dorothy Shipley White, Black...
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  • Vigne [fr], and starring Gérard Depardieu. It was based on a case of imposture in 16th century France, involving Martin Guerre. The film relates the...
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    into the Catholic church. Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture) challenges the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist...
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    wrote: [M. Petis de la Croix] tells us, that there are calumnies and impostures, which have been published by authors of romances, and Turkish writers...
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    England (1589), by William Warner; and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603), by Samuel Harsnett, which provided some of the language used by...
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  • G. Bouladou (2006). Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, p. 27. G. Bouladou (2006). Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, pp. 23; 110-112...
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    Postmodernist Myths About Science, Oxford University Press, 2000 Intellectual Impostures, Economist Books, 2003 Tan, Sy; Tatsumura, Y (July 2015). "Alexander Fleming...
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    Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt and Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. These books are famous for their criticism...
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  • of Elizabeth I of England. The Return of Martin Guerre 1982 1542–1560 Imposture of French peasant Martin Guerre in Artigat, France. Jodhaa Akbar 2008...
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    ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now, but never...
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    made for himself a wisdom or made a wisdom of his own: a polymathy, an imposture. Two other surviving fragments of ancient sources on Pythagoras are by...
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  • shocking thing about Flip's (Adam Driver's undercover detective role) imposture is how easy it seems, how natural he looks and sounds. This unnerving...
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  • District 13 Yes Yes 80% 2005 Unleashed Yes Yes 65% Bunker Paradise No Yes Imposture No Yes The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada No Yes 85% Transporter...
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    Récentes – Maria Valtorta (1897–1961) – Anachronismes et incongruités". Impostures mystiques [Mystical Frauds] (in French). Éditions du Cerf. ISBN 978-2-204-15520-5...
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    the Temporal power of the Holy See was a "historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality". In early March 1849, Giuseppe Mazzini arrived...
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    Fashionable Nonsense (from 1997, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) the physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont criticised falsifiability...
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  • with imposture 124-135 Hūd claims the prophetic office, and preaches to the Ádites 136-139 They reject Hud's warnings and charge him with imposture 139-140...
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    and unproven health schemes for profit and does not necessarily involve imposture, fraud, or greed. The real issues in the war against quackery are the...
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    scientific skeptics rather than as a reaction to her alleged frauds and impostures. Thus, all critics of her are deflected by her believers (who say that...
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    books about language, well into the 19th century, even after his larger imposture had been exposed. Amy Pornio dan chin Ornio vicy, Gnayjorhe sai Lory,...
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    Psyché (17 January 1671)—Psyche Les Fourberies de Scapin (24 May 1671)—The Impostures of Scapin La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas (2 December 1671)—The Countess of...
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    Press. ISBN 0-87013-337-3. Stone, William Leete (1835). Matthias and his Impostures- or, The Progress of Fanaticism. New York. Vale, Gilbert (1835). Fanaticism...
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