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One of the highlights of Cercas's portrait of his impostor quarry is a tour de force imposture of his own, in which he captures Marco's grandiose comic rhetoric — an imposture of an impostor.

The most shocking thing about Flip's imposture is how easy it seems, how natural he looks and sounds.

A more recent imposture, which is still having harmful effects, is the vaccine scare that began in 1998.

As when Dave Chappelle's "black white supremacist" tears off his hood, the inspector's imposture leaves the town in chaos.

Marianne explains that part of her method is to make sure that, whatever the details of the imposture, the feeling is real.

The courage of the French Resistance, a courage immeasurably beyond chatter and imposture, helped make "resistance" a holy word in our common tongue.

Mike was going to let Henry expose his imposture through a "tell," per a bet with (his budding romantic interest?) Anita (Tamara Tunie).

Cercas believes this is because the entire Spanish nation was resolving its shameful complicity in fascist rule and Hitler friendship and forging its own imposture of resistance.

Imposture is the ethical key to Nazi-mocking, a way of revealing the vanity and stupidity of people who insist above all on their own deadly seriousness.

"The Good Lord Bird," for example, has not only John Brown the abolitionist to drive it along, but a surprising case of gender imposture at its heart as well.

My only dissatisfaction is Cercas's recurrent attempt to draw a parallel between Marco's imposture and that other Spanish fabulist Don Quixote, who also lied to become the hero of his fantasies.

That Gallimard (and his real-life prototype, Bernard Boursicot, whose case became an international scandal in the mid-1980s) failed to register the imposture has been the subject of much bewildered speculation and many jokes.

The similarities are so strong that you don't much need French to get it: Pour parler de la France, Marine Le Pen est obligée de plagier MOT POUR MOT un discours de Fillon ... #Imposture pic.twitter.

"Comedian" is not a one-note Dadaist imposture in which a commodity is proclaimed a work of art — which would be an entire century out of date now, as dated as a film director mimicking D.W. Griffith.

As John le Carré, he has for the past half-century written labyrinthine novels about espionage and other sorts of subterfuge and imposture, all of which suggest that in this world it's best to be very, very wary.

His opacity is perhaps appropriate, given that the actual Kosinski was a figure almost lost beneath his layers of imposture, but, as the book goes on, it becomes harder to invest much feeling in someone so maddeningly indeterminate.

That's the terror of imposture: the idea that the figure in the mirror might walk off midmorning-routine, beat you to the subway, snatch your tickets to the show, and start living your life before you've even shown up.

He sat at a desk in a shared office and hung out on sets, eavesdropping, inquiring, viewing—a process of bold assimilation and imposture recapped in his 2002 movie, "Catch Me If You Can," in which a real-life teen-ager, Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), insinuates himself into successive careers.

Even though Audiard always restricts himself to the vehicle of genre, from heist movies to film noir to prison dramas, there are several permanent themes and obsessions — fathers and sons, brothers, imposture, replacement, an outsider's movement through education from brutality toward refinement and even delicacy — which, to varying degrees, mark each of his superficially divergent projects like a thumbprint.

For the two Roths finally meet in a Jerusalem that is anxiously hosting the trial of John Demjanjuk, the Ukrainian-born Ohio autoworker who was revealed to have been a sadistic guard at a Nazi death camp: a setting that amplifies the significance of Roth's favorite themes of identity and imposture, truth and fictionality, and gives the ostensibly zany, Quixote-esque plot an ultimately tragic historical resonance.

"A Statement of Facts, Relative to the Supposed Abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire: And a Narrative of the Circumstances Which Led to the Recent Detection of the Imposture," a wonderfully titled, hundred-and-fifty-page-long account of the unfortunate woman, compiled in 1813 by a local clergyman who had participated in the watch, dwells at anxious length on the harm Moore had done her religion by professing her fast to be holy.

The Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1653. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the best of his romantic comedies.Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, A History of English Literature, translated by W. D. MacInnes and Helen Douglas-Irvine; New York, MacMillan, 1926; p. 328. The Imposture was licensed for performance (as The Imposter) by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 10 November 1640.

Such feats of imposture were beyond the powers of a slow-witted, inherently honest philogynist of fourteen.

The partisans are caught in a deadly game of betrayal, fraud and imposture while trying to frustrate the Germans' plans.

Fouke traces Toland's practices to Shaftesbury's conception of a comic or 'derisory' mode of philosophising aimed at exposing pedantry, imposture, dogmatism, and folly.

Nolan, Maggie and Carrie Dawson, ed. Who's Who? Hoaxes, Imposture and Identity Crises in Australian Literature. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004: 16–17.

This may indicate that The Imposture was the first of Shirley's plays acted after his return from Ireland. Shirley dedicated the play to Sir Robert Bolles.

The emperor's favor may have offered him protection, when charges were later laid against him of charlatanism, illegal medicine, false promises of cure and religious imposture.

The Return of Martin Guerre () is a 1982 French film directed by Daniel Vigne, and starring Gérard Depardieu. It was based on a case of imposture in 16th century France, involving Martin Guerre.

C. J. McKenzie, an editor for Horwitz, was commissioned to write ten of the Carter Brown novels while Yates was overseas in 1958. Maggie Nolan, Carrie Dawson, Who's Who?: Hoaxes, Imposture and Identity Crises in Australian Literature, p. 87, footnote 49.

Besides his work as a director, he also works as a cultural advisor for Mauritanian head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.Abderrahmane Sissako, une imposture mauritanienne , Mondafrique, 20 February 2015. Sissako is married to the Ethiopian film director Maji-da Abdi.

Eventually, Max confesses to Georgette that he is not her godson, and the chain of imposture unravels. The Colonel, finding that he has been flirting with Max's wife, hastily overlooks Max's deception and breach of military rules, and all ends happily.

Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, p. 27. he grabbed her by the neck and pushed her temple to the ground. He hit her head with stones then stabbed her in the throat with his flick knife (she reportedly received about fifteen blows).G. Bouladou (2006).

Bouladou (2006). Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, p. 322. and hearing about a local pedophile who wore a red polo shirt or sweater — according to testimonies — similar to the one discovered near the mushroom bed where he had hidden after the murder.G. Perrault (1978).

G. Bouladou (2006). Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, p. 229-230. His appeal for a second trial was denied by the Court of Cassation on June 17, 1976. "Crim., 17 juin 1976, pourvoi n° 76-90888 (Rejet du pourvoi en cassation de Christian Ranucci)" .

Robson, Frank (27 September 2014) The greatest Australian scandals of the past 30 years: Helen Demidenko/Darville/Dale, The Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 16 April 2019.Nolan, Maggie; Dawson, Carrie (2004) Who's Who?: Hoaxes, Imposture and Identity Crises in Australian Literature, University of Queensland Press.

Rieux Cathedral, which is located here, was the seat of the Ancien Régime diocese of Rieux, created in 1317 and dissolved in 1790. In 1560, Rieux-Volvestre was the site of the trial of Arnaud du Tilh, in the Martin Guerre case of imposture.

The contents of the Erwin Tomash library were sold at auction by Sotheby's in London in September 2018. The copy of Galileo's Difesa contro alle Calunnie et Imposture di Baldessar Capra Milanese (1607), with a handwritten inscription by Galileo, sold for £466,000 (US$616,378).

Autopsie d'une imposture. L'affaire Ranucci, toute la vérité sur le pull-over rouge, Pascal Petiot, pp. 157; 216-218. When the Rambla children were alone, around 11:10am - 11:15am, he moved his car to the car park, on the same level where the children were.

Neculai Constantin Munteanu from Radio Free Europe wrote that he supports Dan for his unselfish way of caring about Bucharest and that his opponents are "comedians", for which one can "admire the imposture, ludicrousness, and incompetence".Neculai Constantin Munteanu, "Un primar pentru București", Radio Free Europe, 10 April 2012.

Simone Assemani (February 19, 1752 - April 7, 1821), grand-nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani, was born in Rome. He was professor of Oriental languages in Padua. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese priest, which claimed to be a history of the Saracens in Syria.

Jabar, then, decides to take revenge upon all those who inflicted pain in his life. He comes back to India to take care of several issues. Blackmail, imposture, murders, robberies, gold making, and a secret to live for hundreds of years are some of those interests. He is also a chemist and a good scientist.

Of that > Gospel, the Rev. Jeremiah Jones supposed that there were no fragments > extant. He refers to the Italian MS. of it in Prince Eugene's Library, > quoted by Toland and La Monnoy, and gives their citations, at the same time > observing that the piece is a Mahometan imposture. From another MS. > belonging to Dr. Monkhouse, the Rev.

It was the poet Robert Browning however, who proved to be one of Home's most adamant critics. After attending a séance of Home's, Browning wrote in a letter to The Times that: 'the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture'. Browning gave his unflattering impression of Home in the poem, "Sludge the Medium" (1864).

The lack of reaction from the streets proved that the revolution was, indeed, over. "A shabby compound of brute force and imposture, the 18th Brumaire was nevertheless condoned, nay applauded, by the French nation. Weary of revolution, men sought no more than to be wisely and firmly governed." Resistance by Jacobin officeholders in the provinces was quickly crushed.

Hugh White buries her in secret and, producing proofs, tells her disciples that the body has been swept up to Heaven. John, disgusted, searches in secret for her grave. He discovers instead the graves of unwanted babies born to the sect. He is "resolved that this imposture should now finish" and calls in Sir Alexander Gordon, Sheriff of Kirkcudbright.

Gurney began at what he later saw was the wrong end by studying, with Myers, the séances of professed spiritualistic mediums (1874–1878). Little but detection of imposture came of this. In 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded. Paid mediums were discarded, at least for the time, and experiments were made in thought-transference and hypnotism.

1) describing the Garden of Paradise; 'L'Imposture' ('The Imposture' in Sylvester's translation, II.i.2) which relates the Fall of Man; 'Les Furies' ('The Furies', II.i.3) which describes the diseases, conflicts and vices that plague mankind; and 'Les Artifices' ('The Handy Crafts', II.i.4) which is about the various crafts that humankind learnt, and Cain and Abel.

Pinglet's name on one of them and turns on his bewildered wife and upbraids her for her licentious behaviour. The police arrive with the others who have been at the hotel. In the ensuing row over Victorine's imposture, Pinglet's and Marcelle's part in the evening's events are overlooked and they escape any adverse consequences of their night out.

The king sees through the imposture, but is pleased with the performance. He collects rare people, of which Moon Boy is the jewel. The group settle in and the king serenades Grief of Dawn, as he wants her to join his all-female group of bodyguards, the Golden Girls. Ox and Grief of Dawn go off to be alone.

Brunel, Manuel de guérilla à l'usage des femmes, p. 29. The sociologist Nicolas Jounin, alumnus of Sciences Po, stated that the school is an "intellectual imposture" and a "financial hold-up".Nicolas Jounin, in Il est temps d'en finir avec Sciences Po ! The journalist at France Culture Guillaume Erner stated that the institution is "only advertisement and artifice".

A literary dunce is a person, either real or fictional, who is used in literature as a target of satire. This usage of the term derives from Alexander Pope's landmark poetic satire The Dunciad. Dunces are not villains, although they can be villainous, as much as they are held up as the epitome of stupidity, imposture, and connivance.

The historian Sheila Fitzpatrick has recorded how, in the Soviet Union, "The theatrical metaphor of masks was ubiquitous in the 1920s and '30s, and the same period saw a flowering of that peculiar form of political theater: the show trial."Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, p. 13.

In October 1979, she registered the name MLF as the property of her group,Claire Duchen, Feminism in France, From May 68 to Mitterrand, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1986 creating controversy. Beauvoir wrote against this appropriation of the MLF by one group.Chroniques d'une imposture, du MLF à une marque commerciale, Introduction by Simone de Beauvoir, Voix Off, Paris, 1981.

Notably, the remains were originally classified as Negroid by Boule and Vallois (1921). This identification has been obsolete since at least the 1960s, but it was controversially revived in the 1980s as part of the Afrocentrism propagated by Cheikh Anta Diop.Masset, C. (1989): Grimaldi : une imposture honnête et toujours jeune, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, vol. 86, n° 8, pp. 228-243.

Her devotion to her mother almost leads to her being left behind in England after the exile. The Imposter: Unnamed – a false prophet (from ambition, rather than fanaticism) who creates a radical religious sect in opposition to Adrian while in France. Juliet: A young noblewoman who joins the Imposter's party to support her baby, but is later killed revealing his imposture.

A seventh step could in principle be added, namely a big crisis in society which sparks off a revolution and overturns the existing capitalist system. In that case, it could be argued, the false masks are torn off, and people have to stand up for what they really are, and what they really believe in.Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia.

The Joe Schmo Show was produced for TV2 in New Zealand by Touchdown Television as Living The Dream in 2004. The same year, France released Gloire et Fortune : La grande imposture (Fame and fortune: The great deception). In 2006, the show arrived in Spain with the name of El Show de Cándido (The Candid Show) on the Spanish TV channel La Sexta by Globomedia (Promofilm).

George Powell (1668? - 1714) was a 17th-century London actor and playwright who was a member of the United Company. He wrote a misogynistic play called The Imposture Defeated; or, A Trick to Cheat the Devil, first performed in September 1697. This play portrayed the proper treatment of an adulteress as brutal confinement and isolation from others to punish her and prevent the spread of her attitude.

English translation More subtly, although the story seems told against women, La Fontaine hints at gender reversal throughout the story. At the very start he points out that where gossip is concerned “Many men are women too”. The husband takes on the female role by his imposture, in consequence of which he is referred to as ‘the egg-layer’ (le pondeur) later in the narration.

After being arrested, he was not recognized by the two witnesses to the abduction, and the only physical evidence implicating him in this phase of the crime was a drawing he made while in police custody showing the estate where the Rambla family lived.G. Bouladou (2006). Autopsie d'une imposture..., Pascal Petiot, pp. 116-121. Psychiatrists who heard Ranucci's conversation during sessions diagnosed him as having an "immature and backward sexuality".

He worked mainly in nondescript jobs but on occasion pretended to become somebody higher on the social ladder. In 1910, Weyman's first imposture was as U.S. consul representative to Morocco. He dined in the finest restaurants in New York City, but was eventually arrested for fraud. Next Weyman took on roles as a military attaché from Serbia and a U.S. Navy lieutenant, with each identity using the other as a reference.

Darlington concluded that the climax, at the end of the first act, when the imposture is revealed, leaves the playwright with nothing to portray but other people's reactions to it, "And, somehow, that doesn't make an exciting story".Quoted in Mander and Mitchenson, p. 465 Coward said he came to recognise that there was some truth in this criticism when he played the lead on Broadway.Mander and Mitchenson, pp.

In November 1848, following the assassination of his minister Pellegrino Rossi, Pope Pius IX fled Rome. During a political rally in February 1849, a young heretic, the Abbé Arduini, described the temporal power of the popes as a "historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality."Jasper Ridley, Garibaldi, Viking Press (1976) p. 268 On 9 February 1849, the newly elected Roman Assembly proclaimed the Roman Republic.

Widowed and remarried, Georges Darien died on 19 August 1921. André Breton characterized Darien as "A heart too big and beating too well not to knock in every sense against the walls of its cage.""Un cœur trop grand et trop bien battant pour ne pas heurter en tout sens les parois de sa cage." He described his writings as "the most rigorous assault that I know against hypocrisy, imposture, stupidity, cowardice".

Hewitt's first imposture began in 1945 when he selected a famous name from a list of university teachers and used it to apply for a position of an aerodynamic engineer. However, the name was too recognizable and he was soon exposed. The next identity Hewitt adopted was that of Julius Ashkin, a physics professor. He applied and was accepted first into a pharmacological college in Philadelphia and the next year into teacher's college in Minnesota.

He is a critic of the communist and neo-communist imposture, often expressing his reservations against the modern ochlocratic system in Romania. He actively participated in the revolt of December 1989 and the organization of protests in the Bucharest University Square (1990). He was fellow of the Institute of Culture in Trento and Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin. He participated in numerous international conferences, as well as in writing collective volumes, magazines and international dictionaries.

During the protracted court proceedings that followed Castro's claim, evidence was produced that Castro might in fact be Arthur Orton, attempting to secure the Tichborne fortunes by imposture. The verdict of the jury in Regina versus Castro (1873–74) was that Castro was not Roger Tichborne, and that he was Arthur Orton. He was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for perjury. After his release he lived in great poverty, still insisting that he was Tichborne.

The practice of decoying is essentially little different from the profession of celebrity lookalike, in which people mimic famous entertainers whom they resemble. The only difference is that the "lookalike" presents an acknowledged artifice. The decoy must conceal his or her imposture from the "audience". In 2001, Poland hosted the first-ever doppelganger convention, to which lookalikes from across the country turned up, offering the unlikely spectacle of Joseph Stalin hobnobbing with Elizabeth Taylor.

Afrocentrist author Cheikh Anta Diop contrasted "Negroid" with "Cro-Magnoid" in his publications arguing for "Negroid" primacy. Grimaldi Man, Upper Paleolithic fossils found in Italy in 1901, had been classified as Negroid by Boule and Vallois (1921). The identification was obsolete by the 1960s, but was controversially revived by Diop (1989).Masset, C. (1989): Grimaldi : une imposture honnête et toujours jeune, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, vol. 86, n° 8, pp. 228–243.

In 1989, the Freedom From Religion Foundation honored her with its Freethought Heroine Award. "I'm an atheist," she had declared, "and Christianity appears to me to be the most absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm puzzled that so many people can't see through a religion that encourages irresponsibility and bigotry." She told a reporter, "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8 October 1989).

Keable sought to criticise the attitude in the contemporary church toward "traditional Jesus", given how much of the rest of "traditional" religion Protestantism had discarded. However, Keable was at pains to stress that the "traditional" Jesus should not be seen as an imposture, or something to be discarded. The ahistoricity of the traditional Jesus, he said, should not be a reason to leave the church. Without this traditional Jesus, he predicted, Western civilisation would fade and fall.

In an episode entitled "The Court Martial" (1956), Bilko tries to assist the colonel in setting a speed record for inducting new recruits, which accidentally results in a private's pet chimpanzee being enrolled. The animal's failure to answer when addressed by the phrase "Hurry! Speak Up!" is soon misheard and interpreted as being his name, "Harry Speakup," continuing the error and the imposture. Harry passes the medical and psychiatric exams, receives a uniform, and is formally sworn in.

Thierry Meyssan () is a French journalist, conspiracy theorist and political activist. He is the author of investigations into the extreme right-wing (particularly about the National Front militias, which are the object of a parliamentary investigation and caused a separation of the extreme right-wing party), as well as into the Catholic church (Opus Dei, for example). Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture) challenges the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Title page of Arrest Memorable, an account of the case written by trial judge Jean de Coras in 1560 and published in 1565 Martin Guerre, a French peasant of the , was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village, a man claiming to be him appeared. He lived with Guerre's wife and son for three years. The false Martin Guerre was eventually suspected of the impersonation.

After a month with little Avtonomov arrived in Berlin, and at a meeting with Peter Krasnov was able to make a favorable impression on the general. August 8 Head "church essay" Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Neuhaus agreed to the appointment of Bishop Nicholas of the Main Department of Cossack troops. On August 16, 1945 Avtonomov wrote another petition to the Synod of Bishops, and on August 26, 1945 personally Metropolitan Anastasia (Gribanovsky). The Synod has conducted an investigation and found Avtonomov's imposture.

This focused on giving the viewer the freedom to think for themselves and decide what they see. Greco only desired a handful of things, such as validation, glory, and fame, and tried getting them through a variety of ways. Due to his eagerness to be famous and his rebellious ways, Greco would often get himself invited into places to later on not show up. Soon after this period, Greco's name began to be associated with the idea of scandal and imposture.

Several historiansPaul-François Paoli, Les tridents de la mer : Polémique entre Régis Boyer et Joël Supéry, Le Figaro, 27 July 2005 contest this invasion followed by an occupationFrédéric Boutoulle, Par peur de Normands. Les Vikings à Bordeaux et la mémoire de leurs incursions, Revue archéologique de Bordeaux, 2008, tome ic (p.23 ff) and in particular the existence of a Viking principality in GasconyAlban Gautier, Une principauté viking en Gascogne ? A propos d'une imposture... , Annales de Normandie, January 2018, p. 173-185.

Keen to prove the ghost was not an imposture he allowed his daughter to be examined at a house on The Strand from 7–10 February, and at another house in Covent Garden from 14 February. There she was tested in a variety of ways which included being swung up in a hammock, her hands and feet extended. As expected, the noises commenced, but stopped once Elizabeth was made to place her hands outside the bed. For two nights the ghost was silent.

The > marquis took no steps to dissolve the marriage, and his brother had no means > to dispute the legitimacy of the so-called Earl of Leicester, because no > property depended on the title. As time went by and witnesses died off, it > seemed the imposture might not be preventable. So the brother and heir > presumptive petitioned the House of Lords for inquiry respecting the descent > of these honours in May 1842. The next year the marquis himself also > petitioned the House.

Imposture (2007) looked at the poet from the point of view of his friend and doctor, John Polidori. A Quiet Adjustment (2008), is an account of Byron's marriage that is more sympathetic to his wife, Annabella. Childish Loves (2011) is a reimagining of Byron's lost memoirs, dealing with questions about his childhood and sexual awakening. Stephanie Barron's series of Jane Austen Mysteries has Lord Byron a suspect of murder in the 2010 book, Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron.

At the party, all goes well until Horridge bids Platt ring the Duke to tell him that his son is engaged to Florence. Delphine has immediately recognised that Horace is not Lord Brancaster, but refrains from exposing him. The imposture is revealed when the Duke and Duchess arrive, along with the real Lord Brancaster. Horace returns to work at the hairdressing establishment, but after a sequence of farcical comings and goings there is a happy ending with Florence and Horace united.

There he is astonished to find his father, King Constans of Karlova, awaiting him. Having been told everything about the double imposture and the ensuing misadventures by Bakla, Constans had come to Margoth and intervened with Alexis. The charade of the execution had been allowed to proceed almost to the end in order to teach Boris a lesson. After a general reconciliation, Prince Boris meets Princess Mary and they pledge their love anew, and the hoped-for peace between their countries is cemented.

General Reinhard Gehlen, head of Fremde Heere Ost, passed his assessment to Heinz Guderian. Guderian in turn presented the intelligence results to Adolf Hitler, who refused to believe them, dismissing the apparent Soviet strength as "the greatest imposture since Genghis Khan".Beevor, pp. 6, 7 Guderian had proposed to evacuate the divisions of Army Group North trapped in the Courland Pocket to the Reich via the Baltic Sea to get the necessary manpower for the defence, but Hitler forbade it.

North attracted the attention of Francis Wise and other antiquaries by An Answer to a Scandalous Libel intituled The Impertinence and Imposture of modern Antiquaries displayed, published anonymously in 1741, a reply to William Asplin. In 1752 he published Remarks on some Conjectures (London), in answer to a paper by Charles Clarke on a coin found at Eltham. In this pamphlet North discussed the standard and purity of early English coins. He corresponded with the numismatist Patrick Kennedy on the coins of Carausius and Allectus.

In 1830 his parishioner Mary Campbell professed to have received the gift of tongues; and, though Story exposed her imposture, she found disciples in London, and was given credence by Edward Irving. Her claims led to the founding of the Catholic Apostolic Church. Story remained in his charge at the Great Disruption of 1843. In 1853 saw a new parish church erected and a supplementary church placed on his southern borders—which he largely paid for—for a young community when Lochlongside was feued.

He was prevented from doing so by the town militia, and upon returning to Paris reported on the state of affairs in Loudun including the recent disturbance at the Ursuline convent. In November 1633, M. de Laubardemont was commissioned to investigate the matter. Grandier was arrested and confined to the prison at Angers. Laubardemont returned to Paris, where letters in support of Grandier from the Bailly of Loudun to the Procurator-General of the Parliament, stating that the possession was an "imposture" were intercepted.

After Lawrence had completed a three-month sentence for fraudulent imposture at Coldbath Fields prison,Hoare, England's Lost Eden, chapter 11 'Mr Peterson's Tower', pp. 346-371 he became Peterson's personal medium, channelling spirit messages from 'controls' including Pythagoras, Aesop, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Brutus, Julius Caesar, Buddha, Muhammad, Jesus, Martin Luther, John Knox, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift and Thomas Paine.Blake Pinnell, Country House History Around Lymington, Brockenhurst and Milford-on-Sea, ch. 8 'Arnewood Court', pp.

There were about forty of > these latter known in museums and they are all very similar in character. > Joseph Smith's interpretation of these cuts is a farrago of nonsense from > beginning to end. Egyptian characters can now be read almost as easily as > Greek, and five minutes' study in an Egyptian gallery of any museum should > be enough to convince any educated man of the clumsiness of the imposture. The controversy intensified in the late 1960s when portions of the Joseph Smith Papyri were located.

Like many educated Moldavians, he expressed distaste for Bucharest, considering it the root of all evil. He derided the Romanian Parliament as a gathering of "wretched undertakers", and railed against the Romanian Academy, which he saw as a hastily improvised imitation of prestigious Western academies, rife with imposture and improvisation, its members concerned with getting rich quickly rather than finding comfort in the rewards of philosophy.Patraș, p. 82 Philippide, in common with other Junimists, deplored the French influence on Romania, believing the country needed a Germanic touch for its betterment.

They pretend to be sailors, and almost get away with their imposture. However, they are let down by their ignorance that sailors' bell- bottom trousers have real bells attached to them and none of the Goodies are able to lower their singing voices to reach the deepest and lowest note of the verse of the song There Is Nothing Like a Dame. Then Tim, Graeme and Bill are tossed overboard. The Goodies swim ashore and find that they have reached the Lost Island of Munga, where strange natives are dumping sliced potatoes into the sea.

After his military service, Manbar moved to Tel Aviv and opened up a series of businesses. His business ventures mostly ended with police investigations and indictments for crimes such as fraud, passing bad checks, and stealing checks from government employees. In 1984 he fled to the United Kingdom after being indicted for fraud, imposture, and theft, and was declared by Israel to be a fugitive from justice. He then began selling produce at the Covent Garden market in London, but soon left Britain and entered the arms trade.

Although Margaret Erskine had married Robert Douglas there is evidence that James V may have considered arranging their divorce and marrying his mistress. It seems that James or one of his advisors sought the advice of the Pope in the matter in June 1536. Shortly before James V finalised his marriage contract with Madeleine of Valois in November 1536, Charles, Bishop of Macon and French ambassador at the Vatican, wrote discussing his audience with the Pope. The Bishop had told the Pope that James never intended to marry Margaret and the petition was an imposture.

In the spring of the latter year he organized the City government of Jeffersonville, under a charter that he drafted and had passed by the legislature. As a doctor Field was author of a paper on Asiatic Cholera and various other medical articles. His common interests in religion and science led to lectures such as "The Mosaic Record of Creation," "The Age of the Human Race," and "The Chronology of Fossils". He also published humorous pieces such as "Arts of Imposture and Deception Peculiar to American Society" (1858).

Innes eventually went to Portugal as chaplain general to the British forces. By then, however, he had developed an opium addiction and had become involved in several misguided business ventures, including a failed effort to market decorated fans purported to be from Formosa. Psalmanazar's claims became increasingly less credible as time went on and knowledge of Formosa from other sources began to contradict his claims. His energetic defence of his imposture began to slacken and in 1706 he confessed, first to friends and then to the general public.

Wells rebelled against these beliefs early on. "I was indeed a prodigy of Early Impiety. I was scared by Hell, I did not at first question the existence of Our Father, but no fear no terror could prevent my feeling that his All Seeing Eye was that of an Old Sneak and that the Atonement for which I had to be so grateful was either an imposture, a trick of sham self-immolation, or a crazy nightmare. I felt the unsoundness of these things before I dared to think."H.

Viewed through The Library of Iberian Resources Online When the death of King Fernando VII in 1833 was followed by the Carlist war, "the clericals, who favoured Don Carlos, saw in her a useful instrument. She was made to prophesy the success of the Pretender (Don Carlos) and to furnish proof of the illegitimacy of the young Queen Isabel". In November 1835 Patrocinio was put on trial accused of imposture and of supporting the Carlist cause. The trial sought to establish the true origin of the wounds she then bore.

He was soon committed to The Marshalsea, Dublin, when the duke again paid his debts and sent him out of the country. Hatfield continued a career of imposture until arrested for an hotel bill at Scarborough on 25 April 1792. He remained in the Scarborough gaol for more than seven years, but eventually managed to excite the pity of Miss Nation, a Devonshire lady, who lived with her mother in a house opposite the prison. She paid his debts, and, though she is said never to have spoken to him till he left the gaol, married him next morning (14 September 1800).

The qualities that gave Dr Anugrah Narayan Sinha a place among the eminent nationalists of his time were moral as well as intellectual. His genuineness, intensity, abhorrence of sham trickery and imposture and his dauntless determination to arrive at facts gave his action a ring of truth.Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan in his essay "Hamare Anugrah Babu" wrote that: He was born to Visveshwar Dayal Singh on 18 June 1887 in a family of Poiwan village of the erstwhile Gaya district (today known as Aurangabad) of Bihar. He belonged to the Rajput caste, his younger son Satyendra Narayan sinha became chief minister of Bihar.

In 1902 he issued the History of the Parish of Buxhall, of which he was lord of the manor. Between 1904 and 1907 the History of Suffolk as described by Existing Records (in 5 vols.) made its appearance together with the Manors of Suffolk: Notes on their History and Devolution (7 vols. 1905–11). He also compiled the History of the Smith-Carrington Family (2 vols. 1907), which was severely criticized for its dependence upon inauthentic sources,'The Great Carington Imposture', in J.H. Round, Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage Law and Family History, 2 vols (James Nisbet & Co., Ltd.

The play was published in 1653 in the octavo collection Six New Plays, issued by the booksellers Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley. The other five Shirley plays in that collection are The Sisters, The Brothers, The Cardinal, The Doubtful Heir, and The Imposture. Each play has a separate title pageThe first five plays in the collection are dated 1652, while The Court Secret is dated 1653. and (except for the first) a separate dedication; Shirley dedicated The Court Secret to William Wentworth, the son of the executed Earl of Strafford, whom Shirley had praised in the Epilogue to his The Royal Master (1638).

Picard is noted for his scathing tract "Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture?" ("New Criticism or New Fraud?"), which was aimed at the "subjective" analytical approach of Roland Barthes (as found in "On Racine") and other non-traditional approaches by writers and academics of "New Criticism", including Lucien Goldmann, Charles Mauron, Jean-Paul Weber and Jean-Pierre Richard. Barthes' response to this critique came in the form of Critique et vérité, which postulated a 'science of criticism' to replace the 'university criticism' perpetuated by Picard and his colleagues "Roland Barthes Biography and List of Works" - Article from "litweb.net".

Reduced to dire poverty, she subsisted on the minimum amount of food necessary to support a human being, and the astonishment created locally by her long fasts doubtless encouraged her to undertake the imposture which made her notorious. It was given out that she had lost all desire for food from November 1806. Six months later the interest taken in her in the neighbourhood was sufficient to warrant her in taking permanently to her bed. On 20 May 1807 it was reported that she attempted to swallow a piece of biscuit, but the effort was followed by great pain and vomiting of blood.

The only 'signal' of his specific involvement is, perhaps, the unmistakable crystal-like nature of his speech, the break-through diction, the natural attention toward the clarity of the vocal emission and the message. And this does not mean the usual affectation of the stage, the pedantic, artificial care for sound effects, for the virile imposture of the voice. It means the respect for the text, for the partner in dialog and for the language. Victor Rebengiuc's talent stems, most of all, from a certain cult for the truth [...] and a most rare ability for what is natural.

Powell was a rival playwright and the manager of the Drury Lane theatrical company. Pix sent her play, The Deceiver Deceived to Powell's company, as a possible drama for them to perform. Powell rejected the play but kept the manuscript and then proceeded to write and perform a play called The Imposture Defeated, which had a plot and main character taken directly from The Deceiver Deceived. In the following public backlash, Pix accused Powell of stealing her work and Powell claimed that instead he and Pix had both drawn their plays from the same source material, an unnamed novel.

Maureen Clark Mudrooroo: a likely story : identity and belonging in postcolonial Australia p. 41Fakes, Literary Identity and Public Culture Maria Takolander and David McCooey Deakin UniversityWho's who?: hoaxes, imposture and identity crises in Australian literature Maggie Nolan, Carrie Dawson 2004 p. 102 – 104 A request by the Nyoongah community to substantiate his claimed kinship to the Kickett family was not acknowledged because he was overseas and then in the process of relocating interstate. On 27 July 1996 the Nyoongah elders released a public statement: "The Kickett family rejects Colin Johnson's claim to his Aboriginality and any kinship ties to the family".

The imposter Olivia Serres, who claimed to be a legitimate child of the Duke, forged a succession of documents to prove these events, including this 1759 marriage. When Olive's daughter "Princess Lavinia" produced these documents in court in 1866 the case was dismissed, the Lord Chief Justice saying 'I believe them to be rank and gross forgeries' and the Attorney General declaring her action as 'a case of fraud, fabrication, and imposture from beginning to end'. The documents are now in The National Archives at Kew (reference J77/44). Although not accepted by any academic historian these claims are sometimes still asserted: see Kreps in references below.

Only two years after the Battle of Bosworth, Yorkists rebelled, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, who had been named by Richard III as his heir but had been reconciled with Henry after Bosworth. The conspirators produced a pretender, a boy named Lambert Simnel, who resembled the young Edward, Earl of Warwick (son of George of Clarence), the best surviving male claimant of the House of York. The imposture was shaky because the young earl was still alive and in King Henry's custody and was paraded through London to expose the impersonation. At the Battle of Stoke Field, Henry defeated Lincoln's army.

Though writing that it shows psychoanalysis "to have been a mistake that grew into an imposture", he observes that it represents a range of different views, some more critical of Freud and psychoanalysis than others. Crews also writes that all of the features of recovered-memory therapy were pioneered by Freud, and that it is an example of the harmful influence of psychoanalysis. Sulloway's contributions are an extract from Freud, Biologist of the Mind (1979) and a subsequent article on Freud's case histories. The contribution from Grünbaum is an extract from The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984), while that of Macmillan is an extract from Freud Evaluated (1991).

Richard Hodgson had observed Palladino free a hand to move objects and use her feet to kick pieces of furniture in the room. Because of the discovery of fraud, the British SPR investigators such as Henry Sidgwick and Frank Podmore considered Palladino's mediumship to be permanently discredited and because of her fraud she was banned from any further experiments with the SPR in Britain. In the British Medical Journal on 9 November 1895 an article was published titled Exit Eusapia!. The article questioned the scientific legitimacy of the SPR for investigating Palladino a medium who had a reputation of being a fraud and imposture.

Schnaps, the protagonist, is a rascally barber who poses as a revolutionary general using an outfit stolen from a dying French prisoner of war: a French National Guard uniform, a liberty cap, a tricolour cockade and a sabre. He pretends to be part of a conspiracy working towards an imminent revolution, in order to trick Märten, a wealthy but elderly peasant, into providing him with a free meal of bread and milk. Märten's son-in-law Görge and wife Röse see through the imposture and attack Schnaps with a cudgel. The magistrate becomes involved and the household is suspected of involvement with the revolutionary Jacobins.

Charles's son George hired the medium Charles Williams, and they sat round the table in the dark, though Charles left to lie down, missing the show. It "took away all their breaths" with a ringing bell, rushing wind, jumping candlestick and the table rising up above their heads. Galton thought it a "good séance" and Erasmus dabbled in "spirit photographs", but Charles remained convinced that it was "all imposture", as Huxley and George proved at a second séance. By the autumn of 1880 Erasmus was in poorly health, suffering from the effects of time and opium, in constant pain and scarcely able to leave home.

Failing in his object, he vowed to be revenged on the archbishop. As soon as he was released he forged a new set of testimonials with a dexterity which was generally admitted to be marvellous, and set to work, with a new alias and a new story, collecting large sums of money from wealthy clergymen, including three bishops who were intimate with Sancroft, and believed that they recognised his hand. At length in 1687 the imposture came under the notice of the archbishop, who caused to be inserted in the London Gazette (September and October 1687) advertisements warning the charitable to beware of Mrs. Jones and Robert Smith (i.e.

For more than a century, the Habsburg dukes had chafed at the popes' failure to make Vienna the seat of its own diocese, a status that they considered appropriate for the capital of a duchy. Instead the city parish was subordinate to the bishops of Passau, who had excellent connections to the pope, apparently dooming Vienna's prospects in this regard. Rudolf, however, resorted to something which could be considered imposture: He initiated the creation of a "metropolitan cathedral chapter" at the church of St. Stephen (which, according to the name, should be assigned to a bishop), whose members wore red garments as cardinals do. The provost of the chapter received the title of an "archchancellor of Austria".

Talbot's tale aroused some sympathy and even a case of imposture when a woman in a Light Horseman's uniform tried to use a name John Taylor to solicit money in London. However, the truthfulness of Talbot's story has been thrown into doubt, due to the discrepancies of the tale of her supposed time at sea, recorded in her biography and published in 1804. Among these, there is no record of any seamen on board the ships she claimed to have served in with the name Taylor. The unlikeliness of several of her accounts is also shown with her claim to have been on the Vesuvius as a midshipman when it was captured by the French on the English Channel.

Francis Galton was attracted to the recent spiritualism movement. On a visit to London in January 1874 Darwin attended a séance at Erasmus's house with relatives including Hensleigh Wedgwood, as well as Huxley. George had hired the medium Charles Williams, and they sat round the table in the dark, but as the room grew stuffy Darwin went upstairs to lie down, missing the show, with sparks, sounds and the table rising above their heads. While Galton thought it a "good séance", Darwin later wrote "The Lord have mercy on us all, if we have to believe such rubbish" and told Emma that it was "all imposture" and "it would take an enormous weight of evidence" to convince him otherwise.

Helmut Zemo as Citizen V. Art by Mark Bagley The supervillain Helmut Zemo took the Citizen V name for his imposture as a superhero when various superheroes were thought to be killed. Claiming to be John Watkins' grandson, Helmut took the name as an ironic taunt, due to the fact that his father had murdered the original war hero. Helmut assembled a group of villains and changed their costumes and codenames to pretend to be a new superhero team. Helmut's leadership and fighting abilities allowed him to successfully pose as Citizen V. Eventually, Helmut revealed himself as a villain and was defeated by the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the Thunderbolts that turned against him.

Responding in an opinion piece, Levy wrote: "It was a truly brilliant and very believable hoax from the mind of a Canard Enchaîné journalist who remains a good philosopher all the same. So I was caught, as were the critics who reviewed the book when it came out. The only thing left to say, with no hard feelings, is kudos to the artist." In the essay Une imposture française, journalists Nicolas Beau and Olivier Toscer claim that Lévy uses his unique position as an influential member of both the literary and business establishments in France to be the go-between of the two worlds, which helps him to get positive reviews as marks of gratitude, while silencing dissenters.

When Adam discovers the long-lost Annabel after her late-night visit to the ivy tree (their former rendezvous), he discovers the imposture; but Mary persuades him to keep her identity secret as long as no one is hurt. In a later plot twist, a background story is introduced wherein Mary Grey was herself a double-identity assumed by the original Annabel Winslow. At the climax, Annabel tries to save Adam from a cave-in of an old cellar, and is later confronted by Connor; but he is killed by a nearby horse. In conclusion, Annabel and Julie are confirmed friends, Julie will marry her boyfriend, and Annabel and Adam are presumed to marry, and inherit Whitescar.

As the parts of the ship are replaced, the identity of the ship gradually changes, as the name "Theseus' Ship" is a truthful description only when the historical memory of Theseus' use of the ship—his physical contact with, and control of, its matter—is accurate. For example, the museum curator, before any restoration, may say with perfect truthfulness that the bed in the captain's cabin is the same bed in which Theseus once slept; but once the bed has been replaced, this is no longer true, and the claim would then be an imposture, because a different description would be more accurate, i.e.; "a replica of Theseus's bed." The new bed would be as foreign to Theseus as a completely new ship.

Lyotard claimed that any attempt to impose any in real politics would mean imposture by an empowered faction upon others. In a parallel development, Antonio Gramsci, Benedetto Croce, and later Hans-Georg Gadamer took inspiration from Vico's understanding of common sense as a kind of wisdom of nations, going beyond Cartesian method. It has been suggested that Gadamer's most well-known work, Truth and Method, can be read as an "extended meditation on the implications of Vico's defense of the rhetorical tradition in response to the nascent methodologism that ultimately dominated academic enquiry". In the case of Gadamer, this was in specific contrast to the concept in Kant, which he felt (in agreement with Lyotard) could not be relevant to politics if used in its original sense.

After a series of quick tactical victories on the numerically overpowered Austro-Hungarian forces in Transylvania, in the autumn of 1916, the Romanian Army suffered a series of devastating defeats, which forced the Romanian military and administration to withdraw to Western Moldavia, allowing the Central Powers to occupy two thirds of the national territory, including the state capital, Bucharest. The main causes of the Romanian Army’s defeat by the numerically inferior German and Austro-Hungarian forces in the campaign of 1916 were the major political interferences in the act of military supervision, the incompetence, the imposture and the cowardice of a significant part of the military echelon of conduct, as well as the lack of an adequate training and troops’ equipment for that specific type of war.

Leslie Henson (Bibi) and Phyllis Dare (Lucienne) Kissing Time, and an earlier version titled The Girl Behind the Gun, are musical comedies with music by Ivan Caryll, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, and additional lyrics by Clifford Grey. The story is based on the 1910 play, Madame et son Filleul ("Madame and her Godson") by Maurice Hennequin, Pierre Véber and Henry de Gorsse. The story is set in contemporary France, with a glamorous actress at the centre of a farcical plot of imposture, intrigue and mistaken identity. The piece ran for 160 performances on Broadway in 1918 with its former name, and, after substantial revision, for 430 performances in London in 1919–20 as Kissing Time, to catch the post-war mood.

The Formosan alphabet. Psalmanazar's book also described the Formosan language, an early example of a constructed language. His efforts in this regard were so convincing that German grammarians included samples of his so-called "Formosan alphabet" in books about language well into the 19th century, even after his larger imposture had been exposed. Here is his "translation" of the Lord's Prayer: > Amy Pornio dan chin Ornio vicy, Gnayjorhe sai Lory, Eyfodere sai Bagalin, > jorhe sai domion apo chin Ornio, kay chin Badi eyen, Amy khatsada nadakchion > toye ant nadayi, kay Radonaye ant amy Sochin, apo ant radonern amy > Sochiakhin, bagne ant kau chin malaboski, ali abinaye ant tuen Broskacy, > kens sai vie Bagalin, kay Fary, kay Barhaniaan chinania sendabey. Amien.

The hearing continued and Capra's position was further weakened when he refused to demonstrate to the tribunal how the compass was used. The rectors found him guilty and ordered that all copies of his book were to be destroyed, though some had already been sent outside the Republic of Venice. Galileo published their verdict in his favour, as well as a tract entitled Difesa contro alle calunnie et imposture di Baldessar Capra (Venice, 1607), which showed how Capra's accusations were false. Galileo apparently believed that it had been Simon Mayr who had instigated Capra's false claim, and in his great work The Assayer he accused Mayr of having translated his instructions on the compass into Latin and then having them printed using Capra's name.

However, in his 1957 account of the case, Douglas Woodruff insists that at least some degree of doubt as to the Claimant's true identity must remain. Woodruff argues the sheer improbability of anyone conceiving such an imposture from scratch and at such a distance: "[I]t was carrying effrontery beyond the bounds of sanity if Arthur Orton embarked with a wife and retinue and crossed the world, knowing that they would all be destitute if he did not succeed in convincing a woman he had never met and knew nothing about first-hand, that he was her son".Woodruff, pp. 452–53 Orton's cause continued to be upheld during the 20th century by his eldest daughter, one of four children borne him by his wife, who lived until 1926.

Masters & Co, 1865) Reminiscing about this period of his life he was to write: > I soon came to the conclusion myself that this exhumation of scraps and > snatches of an ancient rite, and the profane distortion of the rubrics of > the Roman Missal for the disguise of Protestant worship was little better > than an imposture.'Hartwell de la Garde Grissell, Esq, MA, Brasenose > College, Oxford' in J. Godfrey Rupert, Roads to Rome: Being Personal Records > of Some of the More Recent Converts to the Catholic Faith (Kegan Paul, > Trench, Trubner & Co, 1908). Whilst working on his book Grissell came into contact with a number of Catholic priests and developed a leaning towards Roman Catholicism. Under the direction of Fr. Edward Caswall, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory, Grissell began to read Catholic works.

Once Elizabeth woke she began to cry, and once reassured that she was safe admitted that she was afraid for her father, "who must needs be ruined and undone, if their matter should be supposed to be an imposture." She also admitted that although she had appeared to be asleep, she was in fact fully aware of the conversation going on around her. Initially only the Public Ledger reported on the case, but once it became known that noblemen had taken an interest and visited the ghost at Mr Bray's house on 14 January, the story began to appear in other newspapers. The St. James's Chronicle and the London Chronicle printed reports from 16 to 19 January (the latter the more sceptical of the two), and Lloyd's Evening Post from 18 to 20 January.

In 1877 Whistler sued the critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler exhibited the work in the Grosvenor Gallery, an alternative to the Royal Academy exhibition, alongside works by Edward Burne-Jones and other artists. Ruskin, who had been a champion of the Pre-Raphaelites and J. M. W. Turner, reviewed Whistler's work in his publication Fors Clavigera on July 2, 1877. Ruskin praised Burne- Jones, while he attacked Whistler: > For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the > purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay [founder of the Grosvenor Gallery] ought not > to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of > the artist so nearly approached the aspect of willful imposture.

According to Canoutas, accepting that Dishypatos and Columbus were noble kinsmen and longtime sailing companions helped explain many anomalies that had to be ignored, or attributed to error or imposture in order to reconcile the accepted account of Columbus's early life as a wool-worker's son with his later life as a nobleman and Admiral. Canoutas did not identify Columbus’s parents or place of birth, nor did he analyze Columbus’s claimed kinship bond with Dishypatos. However, Canoutas observed that the Byzantine imperial house of Palaiologos, to which Dishypatos was related on his mother’s side, was closely connected by blood or marriage to the ruling families of Italy, including those of Genoa and Montferrat, such as the Doria, Spinola, Centurione, and Gattelusio families.Cf. Entry for "Palaiologos," The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Vol.

Alberto Radicati, Count of Passerano (Torino, 11 November 1698 – 24 October 1737, The Hague), was an 18th-century historian, philosopher and free-thinker. He was the reputed author of the 1732 work A Philosophical Dissertation upon Death, Composed for the Consolation of the Unhappy by a Friend of Truth, published in London. This work created a scandal and led to the arrest of Radicati and his translator.Sylvia Berti, 'Unmasking the Truth: the theme of imposture in early modern European culture, 1660-1730', in James E. Force, David S. Katz (eds.) Everything connects: in conference with Richard H. Popkin: essays in his honor, 1999, p.34; Giovanni Tarantino, “Alternative Hierarchies: Manhood and Unbelief in Early Modern Europe, 1660-1750”, in Governing Masculinities: Regulating Selves and Others in the Early Modern Period, ed.

The French language book Le Buste de Nefertiti – une Imposture de l'Egyptologie? (The Bust of Nefertiti – a Fraud in Egyptology?) by Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin and the book Missing Link in Archaeology by Berlin author and historian Erdogan Ercivan both claimed that the bust was a modern fake. Stierlin claims that Borchardt may have created the bust to test ancient pigments and that when the bust was admired by Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Borchardt pretended it was genuine to avoid offending the prince. Stierlin argues that the missing left eye of the bust would have been a sign of disrespect in ancient Egypt, that no scientific records of the bust appear until 11 years after its supposed discovery and, while the paint pigments are ancient, the inner limestone core has never been dated.

" During the public interest in Modern Spiritualism, Darwin attended a séance at Erasmus's house in January 1874, but as the room grew stuffy Darwin went upstairs to lie down, missing the show, with sparks, sounds and the table rising above their heads. While Francis Galton thought it a "good séance", Darwin later wrote "The Lord have mercy on us all, if we have to believe such rubbish" and told Emma that it was "all imposture" and "it would take an enormous weight of evidence" to convince him otherwise. At a second séance Huxley and George found that the medium was nothing but a cheat, to Darwin's relief. In 1876 Darwin wrote the following regarding his publicly stated position of agnosticism: :"Formerly I was led ... to the firm conviction of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul.

His chief historical work was a volume entitled Ossian and the Clyde, in which he sought to confirm the authenticity of the Ossianic poems by the identification of topographical references that could not be known to James Macpherson. He also claimed to have verified another work widely accepted to be a forgery, Roger O'Connor's Chronicles of Eri, which he said was "forgotten or treated with contempt as an imposture, but now capable of verification in all substantial respects".Waddell, Peter Hately. Ossian and the Clyde: Fingal in Ireland, Oscar in Iceland, or Ossian Historical and Authentic, London: Forgotten Books, 2013, pp. 393-4. (reprint of 1875 edition) He also contributed a remarkable series of letters to a Glasgow journal on Ptolemy’s map of Egypt, showing that the discoveries of Speke and Grant had been foreshadowed by the old geographer.

Among the passages quoted from Pacuvius are several which indicate a taste both for physical and ethical speculation, and others which expose the pretensions of religious imposture. These poets aided also in developing that capacity which the Roman language subsequently displayed of being an organ of oratory, history and moral disquisition. The literary language of Rome was in process of formation during the 2nd century BC, and it was in the latter part of this century that the series of great Roman orators, with whose spirit Roman tragedy has a strong affinity, begins. But the new creative effort in language was accompanied by considerable crudeness of execution, and the novel word-formations and varieties of inflexion introduced by Pacuvius exposed him to the ridicule of the satirist Gaius Lucilius, and, long afterwards, to that of his imitator Persius.

That period is considered the most fruitful of the poet who, halfway between the bohemian and religious life, rejected all imposture or flaunting typical in intellectual circles. Together with her great friend Rosario Oyarzun, who was a lawyer, Urquiza was part of a group of outstanding young professionals and Potosinian university students who would later have an outstanding career: Raúl Cardiel Reyes, Ignacio Retes, Pedro Rodríguez Zertuche, Humberto Arocha, Manuel Calvillo, Antonio Rosillo. Jesús Medina Romero and Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa also attended the meetings held, almost always, at Oyarzun's house and, if not, in the popular cafe Zaragoza. She wrote in 1944 in Viñetas de la literatura michoacana, a monthly literary magazine from Morelia, where she shared credits with Porfirio Martínez, Alejandro Ruiz Villaloz, Alfonso Rubio y Rubio, Miguel Castro Ruiz, Luis Calderón Vega, P. Francisco Alday, Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Ibáñez, Jacques Leguebe, Eduardo de Ontañon, Manuel Ponce, Artemio de Valle Arizpe and Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa.

Commentators have generally accepted the trial jury's verdict that the Claimant was Arthur Orton. However, McWilliam cites the monumental study by Douglas Woodruff (1957), in which the author posits that the Claimant could just possibly have been Roger Tichborne. Woodruff's principal argument is the sheer improbability that anyone could conceive such an imposture from scratch, at such a distance, and then implement it: "[I]t was carrying effrontery beyond the bounds of sanity if Arthur Orton embarked with a wife and retinue and crossed the world, knowing that they would all be destitute if he did not succeed in convincing a woman he had never met and knew nothing about first-hand, that he was her son".Woodruff, pp. 452–53 In 1876, while the Claimant was serving his prison sentence, interest was briefly raised by the claims of William Cresswell, an inmate of a Sydney lunatic asylum, that he was Arthur Orton.

This fifth film of Sissako was inspired by the true story of a young, unmarried couple who were stoned by Islamists in the northern region of Mali that was known as Aguel'hoc. During the summer of 2012, the couple was taken to the center of their village, placed in two holes that had been dug in the ground, and stoned to death in front of hundreds of witnesses. . According to the journalist Nicolas Beau, Sissako wanted to shoot a film on the bondage in Mauritania, denying his president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Sissako then accepted the shooting of a film on the jihadists, with the support of the Mauritanian regime that supplied finances and actorsAbderrahmane Sissako, une imposture mauritanienne, Mondafrique, 20 février 2015.. Shortly before the opening of the film in Cannes in 2014, Sissako set off again to Tombouctou with a small team to add some scenes at the last minute.

Surprised at not being unanimously followed and at finding himself countered on the spot by the partisans of the SI majority — Jeppesen Victor Martin, who immediately circulated a definitive repudiation of his imposture — Nash at first feigned astonishment that things had gone to the point of a complete break with the situationists; as if the fact of launching a public surprise attack full of lies was compatible with carrying on a dialogue, on the basis of some sort of Nashist Scandinavian autonomy. According to the SI, Nash's main goal was to use the seal of "situationism" to attract a few highly profitable art dealers. The SI stated that this was confirmed by the fact that Nash's new Swedish "Bauhaus", which consisted of two or three Scandinavian ex-situationists plus "a mass of unknowns flocking to the feast", immediately plunged into "the most shopworn forms of artistic production".The Counter-Situationist Campaign in Various Countries, Internationale Situationniste #8, 1963.

In order to revenge himself, he gave his support to, if he did not originate, the imposture of Alexander Balas, who set up a claim to the throne of Syria, pretending to be a son of Antiochus Epiphanes. Heracleides repaired, together with the pretender and Laodice VI, daughter of Antiochus, to Rome, where, by the lavish distribution of his great wealth, and the influence of his popular manners and address, he succeeded in obtaining an ambiguous promise of support from the Roman senate. Of this he immediately availed himself to raise a force of mercenary troops for the invasion of Syria, and effected a landing, together with Alexander, at Ephesus.Appian, Syrian Wars 47Polybius, The Histories 33.14, 16 What became of him after this we know not, as his name is not mentioned during the struggle that ensued between Alexander and Demetrius, nor after the elevations of the former to the throne of Syria.

Part of the article read "It would be comic if it were not deplorable to picture this sorry Egeria surrounded by men like Professor Sidgwick, Professor Lodge, Mr. F. H. Myers, Dr. Schiaparelli, and Professor Richet, solemnly receiving her pinches and kicks, her finger skiddings, her sleight of hand with various articles of furniture as phenomena calling for serious study." This caused Henry Sidgwick to respond in a published letter to the British Medical Journal, 16 November 1895. According to Sidgwick SPR members had exposed the fraud of Palladino at the Cambridge sittings, Sidgwick wrote "Throughout this period we have continually combated and exposed the frauds of professional mediums, and have never yet published in our Proceedings, any report in favour of the performances of any of them." The response from the Journal questioned why the SPR wastes time investigating phenomena that are the "result of jugglery and imposture" and not urgently concerning the welfare of mankind.

In his book Histoire de la Turquie (1854), Alphonse de Lamartine writes: > If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the > three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in > modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and > empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material > powers, which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only > armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in > one-third of the then-inhabited world; and more than that he moved the > altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls.... His > forbearance in victory, his ambition which was entirely devoted to one idea > and in no manner striving for an empire, his endless prayers, his mystic > conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death – all these > attest not to an imposture, but to a firm conviction, which gave him the > power to restore a dogma.

An early fiction concerning the Empress, La Messalina by Francesco Pona, appeared in Venice in 1633. This managed to combine a high degree of eroticism with a demonstration of how private behavior has a profound effect on public affairs. Nevertheless, a passage such as :Messalina tossing in the turbulence of her thoughts did not sleep at night; and if she did sleep, Morpheus slept at her side, prompting stirrings in her, robing and disrobing a thousand images that her sexual fantasies during the day had suggested helps explain how the novel was at once among the most popular, and the most frequently banned, books of the century, despite its moral pretensions.Wendy Heller, Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice, University of California 2003, pp.273-5 Much the same point about the catastrophic effect of sexuality was made by Gregorio Leti's political pamphlet, The amours of Messalina, late queen of Albion, in which are briefly couch'd secrets of the imposture of the Cambrion prince, the Gothick league, and other court intrigues of the four last years reign, not yet made publick (1689).

In early 1849, elections were held for a Constituent Assembly, which proclaimed a Roman Republic on 9 February. On 2 February 1849, at a political rally held in the Apollo Theater, a young Roman priest, the Abbé Carlo Arduini, had made a speech in which he had declared that the temporal power of the popes was a "historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality". In early March 1849, Giuseppe Mazzini arrived in Rome and was appointed Chief Minister. In the Constitution of the Roman Republic,Full text of the constitution can be found at: religious freedom was guaranteed by article 7, the independence of the pope as head of the Catholic Church was guaranteed by article 8 of the Principi fondamentali, while the death penalty was abolished by article 5, and free public education was provided by article 8 of the Titolo I. Daniele Manin and Niccolò Tommaseo after the proclamation of the Republic of San Marco Before the powers could respond to the founding of the Roman Republic, Charles Albert, whose army had been trained by the exiled Polish general Albert Chrzanowski, renewed the war with Austria.

Since, historically, they were not active in the 1130s, it is possible that the historically-based legend of the pseudo-Alfonso had some influence on the genesis of the Bell of Huesca. The earliest chronicle source for the imposture is Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, writing in the middle of the thirteenth century, who records that there were several legends then current about the death of Alfonso the Battler: some believed he perished in the battle of Fraga, some that his body had never been recovered, others that he was buried in the monastery of Montearagón, and still others that he had fled from Fraga in shame after his defeat and became a pilgrim as an act of penance. Some years later, Rodrigo writes, though he does not give a year, an impostor arose and was received by many as the Battler, though Alfonso II had him arrested and hanged. This is the earliest reference to the impostor's end.The account in De rebus Hispaniae (Madrid: 1793), II, 150–51, quoted in Ubieto Arteta (1958), note 1: > [Alfonsus] nam victus occiditur et si occisus inventus fuerit dubitatur.

First published in 1933 in a version for violin and piano, the concerto was said by Casadesus, the "editor," to have been arranged from a manuscript by the ten-year-old Mozart, with a title page containing a dedication to Madame Adélaïde de France, the fourth daughter of King Louis XV. Conveniently enough, this alleged manuscript was never accessible to later enquirers such as Alfred Einstein and Friedrich Blume, but Casadesus described it, according to Blume, as "an autograph manuscript in two staves, of which the upper stave carries the solo part and the lower carries the bass." In what was surely a nose-tweak at those fooled by this imposture, Casadesus also reported that "The upper stave is notated in D, the lower in E"! Since the violin is not a transposing instrument, there would have been no obvious technical reason for the upper staff to be written in a different key from the lower staff, especially for what sounds more like a short score than a completed score. Despite the lack of provenance, Blume was thoroughly taken in by the concerto, although Einstein professed himself skeptical.

Queens Bench Division Vol IX pp. 308–315 Of an attack in Bethnal Green in November 1882 the Bethnal Green Eastern Post stated: > A genuine rabble of 'roughs' pure and unadulterated has been infesting the > district for several weeks past. These vagabonds style themselves the > 'Skeleton Army'.... The 'skeletons' have their collectors and their > collecting sheets and one of them was thrust into my hands... it contained a > number shopkeepers' names... I found that publicans, beer sellers and > butchers are subscribing to this imposture... the collector told me that the > object of the Skeleton Army was to put down the Salvationists by following > them about everywhere, by beating a drum and burlesquing their songs, to > render the conduct of their processions and services impossible... Amongst > the Skeleton rabble there is a large percentage of the most consummate > loafers and unmitigated blackguards London can produce...worthy of the > disreputable class of publicans who hate the London School Board, education > and temperance and who, seeing the beginning of the end of their immoral > traffic, and prepared for the most desperate enterprise. Both sources agree Salvationists were pelted with missiles.

The President of the Republic of Vietnam Saigon Mr. President: We the undersigned, representing a group of eminent citizens and personalities, intellectuals of all tendencies, and men of good will, recognize in the face of the gravity of the present political situation that we can no longer remain indifferent to the realities of life in our country. Therefore, we officially address to you today an appeal with the aim of exposing to you the whole truth in the hope that the government will accord it all the attention necessary so as to urgently modify its policies, so as to remedy the present situation and lead the people out of danger. Let us look toward the past, at the time when you were abroad. For eight or nine years, the Vietnamese people suffered many trials due to the war: They passed from French domination to Japanese occupation, from revolution to resistance, from the nationalist imposture behind which hid communism to a pseudo-independence covering up for colonialism; from terror to terror, from sacrifice to sacrifice—in short, from promise to promise, until finally hope ended in bitter disillusion.