The Museum of Hoaxes

The Museum of Hoaxes
Author :
Publisher : Orion Media
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0752864262
ISBN-13 : 9780752864266
Rating : 4/5 (266 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Museum of Hoaxes by : Alex Boese

Download or read book The Museum of Hoaxes written by Alex Boese and published by Orion Media. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that gives us such delight in hoaxing the gullible?The April Fool perpetrated by Burger King who advertised they were to produce left-handed hamburgers for the 32 million left-handed Americans. They were inundated with eager buyers...The famous BBC TV 'Spaghetti Tree' hoax...The outrage caused by Taco Bell's announcement that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and henceforth it would be known as the 'Taco Liberty Bell' ... Taken from the website www.museumofhoaxes.com this is a hilarious collection of hoaxes which proves just how gullible human beings are.


The Museum of Hoaxes Related Books

The Museum of Hoaxes
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Alex Boese
Categories: Fraud
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03 - Publisher: Orion Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What is it that gives us such delight in hoaxing the gullible?The April Fool perpetrated by Burger King who advertised they were to produce left-handed hamburge
Hoax: A History of Deception
Language: en
Pages: 487
Authors: Ian Tattersall
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, musi
The Museum of Hoaxes
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Alex Boese
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Dutton Adult

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection fo pranks, stunts, deceptions, and other wonderful stories contrived for the public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium.
Bunk
Language: en
Pages: 575
Authors: Kevin Young
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-14 - Publisher: Graywolf Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely wa
Sting in the Tale
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Antoinette LaFarge
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-19 - Publisher: Doppelhouse Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practi