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The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego , California as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends , both past and present.[1] [2] [3] [4]
In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without",[5] [6] [7]
Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes [8] Hippo Eats Dwarf : A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.[9] Elephants on Acid ,[10] Electrified Sheep published in 2011.[11] Psychedelic Apes is about the weirdest theories in science and history was published in 2019.[12]
Notable hoaxes covered [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Terdiman, Daniel , "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists" , The New York Times
^ Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007). "The April Fools' Day Defense Kit" . Slate. Retrieved 29 October 2018 .
^ "Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile) Federated Media Publishing , URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
^ "The Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine , PC Magazine , April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
^ Dellamonica, A. M., "Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , Sci Fi Weekly , February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).
^ E.P. Dutton , 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0
^ Harvest Books, 2006, ISBN 0-15-603083-7
^ Harvest Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6
^ Boxtree, 2011, ISBN 9781250031709
^ Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-1509860524
^ "90 Day Jane" . Museum of Hoaxes . Retrieved 2022-11-11 .
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum_of_Hoaxes&oldid=1169916648 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● F a c t - c h e c k i n g w e b s i t e s ● P u b l i c a t i o n s e s t a b l i s h e d i n 1 9 9 7 ● H o a x e s ● U r b a n l e g e n d s ● W e b s i t e s t u b s H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● W e b a r c h i v e t e m p l a t e w a y b a c k l i n k s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n w i t h e m p t y W i k i d a t a d e s c r i p t i o n ● C o m m o n s c a t e g o r y l i n k f r o m W i k i d a t a ● A l l s t u b a r t i c l e s
● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 1 2 A u g u s t 2 0 2 3 , a t 0 3 : 2 9 ( U T C ) . ● T e x t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r t h e C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s A t t r i b u t i o n - S h a r e A l i k e L i c e n s e 4 . 0 ;
a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
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