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    The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound purported "petrified...
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  • increasingly described as physically superior giants.: 242 : 154  Con artist George Hull created the Cardiff Giant hoax after an argument with Henry Turk, a...
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  • Wales. It was the site of the William C. "Stub" Newell farm where the "Cardiff Giant", a famous hoax, was "discovered" on October 16, 1869. Gannett, Henry...
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    Nephilim (redirect from Giant (Biblical))
    mastodon remains. In 1869, the Cardiff Giant, a hoax intended to fool believers in Nephilim, was supposedly discovered in Cardiff, New York. The name and idea...
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    in the 18th and 19th centuries of giant human skeletons may have inspired the case of the "petrified" Cardiff Giant, a famous archaeological hoax.   Living...
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  • Hannum in reference to Barnum's part in the Cardiff Giant hoax. Hannum was exhibiting the "original" giant and had unsuccessfully sued Barnum for exhibiting...
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  • upstate New York. For example: The Cardiff Giant, buried and "discovered" in the Onondaga County hamlet of Cardiff, attracted such attention from the...
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    with BMG". 23 February 2023. "Hotly-tipped LA duo Loveless sign to Cardiff Giant Management, group set "global plans" for 2023". "Loveless: Dynamic duo...
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  • The Taughannock Giant, a petrified giant "discovered" in Ithaca, New York, in 1879. This copycat hoax was inspired by the Cardiff Giant ten years earlier...
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  • Trial. The episode also makes allusions to actual hoaxes, such as the Cardiff Giant. It has been discussed in the context of ontology, existentialism, and...
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  • Literature Comics Television Film Video games Paleoanthropological hoaxes Cardiff Giant Nebraska Man Piltdown Man Freak show Humanzee List of fictional extraterrestrials...
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  • father's legacy. Among the collection is P. T. Barnum's replica of the Cardiff Giant, one of Sing Sing Prison's electric chairs in which 30 people died,...
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    music and lyrics to Urinetown. He is a former ensemble member of the Cardiff-Giant Theatre Company in Chicago. He played trombone for the Chicago art rock...
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    effect Barnum's Aquarial Gardens, Boston, Massachusetts (1862–1863) Cardiff Giant Colonel Routh Goshen Carl Hagenbeck Human zoo Fedor Jeftichew Nellie...
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    patented by a Fort Dodge resident, and the gypsum used to create the Cardiff Giant hoax of the late 19th century was mined at Fort Dodge. Currently National...
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  • program features historical narratives concerning such subjects as the Cardiff Giant and the CIA project Acoustic Kitty. It is currently distributed online...
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    had been inspired by the Cardiff Giant, a similar "discovery" in nearby Cardiff, New York in 1869. Although the original giant has been damaged and lost...
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  • Bigfoot) from Vietnam when he was a military pilot during the Vietnam War. Cardiff Giant Almas Bigfoot Homo pongoides (Fr) Joshua Blu Buhs (2009). Bigfoot: The...
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  • wouldn't otherwise hear, just like a satellite dish! Cowboy Mummy and Cardiff Giant November 21, 2005 62 Christina examines a cowboy "mummy" from a roadside...
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  • Gordon Clark: a computer engineer at Cardiff Electric who Joe recruits to reverse engineer the IBM PC and lead the Giant's hardware team. After the failure...
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  • The Cardiff Devils (Welsh: Diawliaid Caerdydd) are a Welsh professional ice hockey team who play in the British Elite Ice Hockey League. The team plays...
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    Time in 1955 stated that Sullivan resembled a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He...
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    Tregeseal Dancing Stones, and The Hurlers. The supposedly petrified Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. Stheno,...
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    later revealed to be a hoax. Cardiff Giant: A 19th-century hoax of a ten-foot-tall supposedly petrified man exhibited as a giant from biblical times. Quickly...
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    exhibits of nineteenth-century games, a children's barnyard and the Cardiff Giant. The Farmers' Museum is home to the Empire State Carousel, a hand-crafted...
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  • George A. Romero. American Goliath, a fictionalized account of the Cardiff Giant hoax, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1998...
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     1959 (1959-11-06) Zacherley decides to put together a brain for the Cardiff Giant, but over-activates the parts. The Film: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason...
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    Cardiff International Arena (formerly known as Cardiff International Arena & Convention Centre and currently, for sponsorship reasons, as Utilita Arena...
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  • Ooola from the Cardiff Giant October 23, 1933 November 4, 1933 A hero's welcome November 6, 1933 November 17, 1933 Oop vs Cardiff Giant, round two November...
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  • Club Rugby competitions. Based in Cardiff, the team play at Cardiff Arms Park and are the professional arm of Cardiff Rugby Ltd. From 2003 to 2021 the...
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