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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Oct 8, 2015 - In August of 1835 a curious report made its way to the pages of a New York newspaper. A series of six articles entitled "Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately...
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