Re: Piltdown Man
Matthew Goolsby (catbutt@nmt.edu)
Wed, 9 Aug 1995 17:25:57 GMT
In article <elliot-0808951456550001@slip-36-12.ots.utexas.edu>,
Elliot Richmond <elliot@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>In article <NADEL.723.04B11760@litc.lockheed.com>, NADEL@litc.lockheed.com
>(Ron Nadel) wrote:
>
>>
>> You may be interested to learn that one famous person who was taken in by the
>> ruse and narrowly avoided a scandal was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
>>
>> Ron
>
>Of course, Sir Arthur was a professional dupe. He seems to have been
>taken in by just about every hoax imaginable, including photographs of
>fairies. His creation was much more skeptical than Sir Arthur.
>
To take to list waaaaay off topic, I have been looking for a poster-sized copy
of the photograph of fairies that fooled Sir Arthur. Does anyone have any idea
what its name/creator is?
Matt Goolsby
catbutt@nmt.edu
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