Dreadnought hoax
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title:
Dreadnought hoax
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The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole's collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation that Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge University in 1905.
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Practical joke by Horace de Vere Cole
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax
date created:
2003-09-26T20:21:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T00:30:33Z
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