2007-09-29 00:00:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Thanks Colt I will.
2007-09-29 00:17:00 · update #1
The staging of counter-intelligence for the invasion of Normandy in WW2. Massive numbers of fake tanks and fake aircraft staged at area's to decieve the Germans as to which point the invasion would come across the channel to. Not just the fake tanks & planes though, it was an entire network through the french underground, double agents, and deception all around. It had to be that way and it was successful. The Allies orchestrated the hoax, decieved the German Army, and the lives of millions of people not only hung in the balance with regards to how successful it was, but also with the outcome. If it had not worked, there is a pretty good chance that we'd be typing this in German.
2007-09-29 12:34:03 · answer #1 · answered by Zipperhead 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1912, someone discovered a skull and jawbone in a gravel pit in Piltdown, East Sussex, which were identified as being from the very earliest type of man ever found.
They were kept in a museum and were believed to be real until they were exposed as a fraud 41 years later in 1953.
The skull was from a modern man and the jawbone was from an Orangutan. The person who did this hoax was never discovered.
The Piltdown Man remains the most famous archaeological hoax ever perpetrated.
2007-09-29 01:51:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
H.G. Wells radio hoax broadcast of "War of the Worlds".
It created an unintended panic and changed the way the media was allowed to broadcast from that point forward.
It was the dawn of the communication age and cemented in societies mind just how powerful suggestion could be through mass media.
2007-09-29 12:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by JC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When they said Paul McCartney was dead. Girls cried, radio stations played Beetle records backwards, guys steamed off the cover the White album ,in the USA it's the White album. Under the white cover there was a picture of the fab four with meat hanging on them. In front of them was toy cars in a wreck.
At the end of the song I am the walrus, you can clearly hear Lennon I think say.........I buried Paul.
Paul is the only one on the cover of Abbey Road with bare feet.............there's a lot more.
2007-09-29 00:12:18 · answer #4 · answered by Colt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with Wrythought. It must be religion, it has caused more wars and subjugated more people than any other hoax
2007-09-29 00:42:14 · answer #5 · answered by peter b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question because I thought you were going to have us choose from hoax's that were written out.
2007-09-29 00:03:56 · answer #6 · answered by What'd You Say? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The left handed burger.... Because only someone with the IQ of 5 would have bought it!
2007-09-29 00:03:36 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jeremy Beadle & the space ship I felt for that lady
2007-09-29 00:29:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one they do on Oceans 11 and 13 lol
2007-09-29 00:02:47 · answer #9 · answered by missmollie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Spaghetti Harvest
Because it was ..... Tomorrow's World.
2007-09-29 00:10:08 · answer #10 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋