hoax

Literary hoax The English Mercurie is a literary hoax purporting to be the first English newspaper. It is apparently an […]

Deliberate attempt to interfere with and subvert the free market In economics and finance, market manipulation is a type of […]

The Emulex hoax, an instance of securities fraud, was perpetrated by 23-year-old Mark Jakob on August 24, 2000.[1] Jakob, a […]

Arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native […]

Hoax in Australian folklore The drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous […]

Naval warfare force of the United Kingdom Military unit The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom’s naval warfare force. […]

1270–1974 empire centered in Ethiopia and Eritrea The Ethiopian Empire (Ge’ez: መንግሥተ ኢትዮጵያ, romanized: Mängəstä Ityop’p’ya, lit. ’Government of Ethiopia’), also formerly […]

Irish prankster Horace de Vere Cole in 1910 William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881 – 25 February 1936) […]

Practical joke by Horace de Vere Cole The Dreadnought hoax was a prank pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in […]

American geographic and cultural region Place in California, United States Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal) is a geographic and […]