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Art and UFO (Popularity: )
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm
A study about the alleged UFOs in renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects" someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.
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1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast (Popularity: )
http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
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Museum of Hoaxes (Popularity: )
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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Spud Server (Popularity: )
http://totl.net/Spud
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
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MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery (Popularity: )
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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James Randi Educational Foundation (Popularity: )
http://www.randi.org/
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.
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Tracking the White Salamander (Popularity: )
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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Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes (Popularity: )
http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
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Piltdown Plot (Popularity: )
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
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Net Hoax Hall of Fame (Popularity: )
http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
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The Hoax Files (Popularity: )
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
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Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes (Popularity: )
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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World's Biggest Telescope to Prove Americans Really Walked on Moon (Popularity: )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/24/nmoon24.xml
Daily Telegraph article by Robert Matthews.
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April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes (Popularity: )
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.
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History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles (Popularity: )
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html
Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.
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MoodShadows Index (Popularity: )
http://www.futuresunltd.com/sudarshan/MoonShadows/moon_index.htm
Presented by a man who claims to have grown up next door to a space program worker.
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Dark Side of the Moon Landings (Popularity: )
http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/094_moon.shtml
In-depth analysis of the usual photos, as well as some which are not usual.
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The Great Moon Hoax (Popularity: )
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
Rebuttal from NASA in which they explain their assertion that both moon rocks and common sense prove that the astronauts landed on the moon.
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The Straight Dope Mailbag: Was the Apollo Moon Landing a Hoax? (Popularity: )
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmoonhoax.html
Rebuttal of claims that the NASA moon landings were an elaborate hoax.
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NASA Debunks Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy (Popularity: )
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/19/nasa.moon/
CNN's Sci-Tech article about the television show which re-popularized the issue. Includes message boards and related stories.
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