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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1835: The New York Sun begins to perpetuate what later became known as the <em><a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxes/moonhoax.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Great Moon Hoax</a></em>, six articles written by a fictitious doctor who claimed that he viewed the moon through &#8220;an immense telescope of an entirely new principle&#8221; and discovered it was inhabited by, among other things, bat-people&#8230;</p>
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<p><div id="attachment_3706" style="width: 545px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3706" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-3706" src="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px-1024x729.jpg" alt="See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons" width="535" height="381" srcset="http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px-1024x729.jpg 1024w, http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px-300x213.jpg 300w, http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px-900x640.jpg 900w, http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px.jpg 1089w" sizes="(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-3706" class="wp-caption-text">See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons</p></div><br />
The articles caused quite a stir, not seen again until another bat-like hoax hit the mainstream many moons later&#8230;</p>
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