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 […]

English sailor and privateer (1540–1596) Sir Francis Drake (c.  1540 – 28 January 1596)[3] was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, […]

Process of making, adapting, or imitating objects to deceive On the right, the real sheet of a theatre surimono by […]

Forged plaque allegedly placed by Francis Drake when landing in California in 1579 The so-called Drake’s Plate of Brass. Note the hole in […]