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Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents ...
Epistle to the Alexandrians — an unknown text derided as a forgery in a 7th-century manuscript; Epistle to the Laodiceans — a lost letter of Saint Paul, often "rediscovered" by forgers; Essene Gospel of Peace — a text which claims, among other things, that Jesus was a vegetarian; Gospel of Josephus — a forgery created to raise publicity ...
M. Jose E. Marco; Władysław Machejek; James Macpherson; Ern Malley hoax; Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora; Gina Marks; Mathilde Lefebvre letter
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Such pseudo-historical ideas also influence the educational and research process through secondary, secondary specialized, and higher educational institutions and the scientific environment by issuing educational and methodological literature, which includes the Book of Veles without scientific commentary or recommends it for study as a ...
A forgery of Shakespeare's signature by Ireland, circa 1795. The Ireland Shakespeare forgeries were a cause célèbre in 1790s London, when author and engraver Samuel Ireland announced the discovery of a treasure-trove of Shakespearean manuscripts by his son William Henry Ireland.
The spangram describes the puzzle’s theme and touches two opposite sides of the board. ... The spangram highlights in yellow when found. An example spangram with corresponding theme words: PEAR ...
Page from a manuscript purportedly written in 1805 by James Cowell, which has since been determined to be a forgery. MS 294, Senate House Library, University of London. In the early twentieth century a document—since identified as a forgery—appeared to demonstrate that a Warwickshire cleric, James Wilmot , had been the earliest person to ...