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English musician, songwriter and record producer This article is about the artist associated with Eurythmics and other acts. For other […]

Platinum Weird is a musical collaboration formed in 2004 between Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi. It is also the subject […]

Fictional college created as a hoax Plainfield Teachers College was an imaginary college, created as a hoax, that fooled The […]

Non-scientific term for a transitional fossil A symbolic portrayal of human evolution, wrongly implying that evolution is linear and progressive. […]

Paleoanthropological hoax The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of […]

Archaeological hoax The Persian Princess or Persian Mummy is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess who surfaced in Pakistani […]

American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine A diagram of Redheffer’s first machine Charles Redheffer was […]

American inventor and fraud John Ernst Worrell KeelyKeely c.  1895 with a nonfunctional “Keely Engine”Born(1837-09-03)September 3, 1837DiedNovember 18, 1898(1898-11-18) (aged 61)Philadelphia, […]

Work being continuously done without an external input of energy Robert Fludd’s 1618 “water screw” perpetual motion machine from a […]

Urban legend about Paul McCartney “Paul is dead” is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging that English musician Paul […]