MY INBOX: December 2000

DATE COMMENT
December 28, 2000 I would like to see:
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Cold Fusion

December 26, 2000 Area 51 and the surrounding hype ... or is it all real?

I guess we'll never really know, right? :-)
December 23, 2000 The so-called Historia Augusta, a book written at the end of the 4th century, under six different names. So it seemed a collection ofseveral biographies. The fake authors pretend to have been present at historic facts of the 3d century. To make the parts seem authentic the maker of the collection even faked lapses. The beginning of what seems a transcript of a decayed manuscript and the names of several 3d century emperors are missing. The unknown author even invented emperors and empresses. Nonetheless this work is a vast source of -- although not reliable -- information on the Roman emperors.
December 17, 2000 The deluded folks you refer to as "self-heaxed" are treated at considerable and entertaining length in Augustus de Morgan's book "A Budget of Paradoxes". As you might gather from the title, de Morgan called these people "paradoxers".
I found your site by looking for the hollow-Earth nut, John Cleves Symmes. He's mentioned in Umberto Eco's book "Foucault's Pendulum", and a number of places and features in Ohio are named after him.

Actually, the landmarks in Ohio are named after his more famous uncle who founded the city of Cincinnati and was also named John Cleves Symmes.
December 17, 2000 You don't have the "Solid Muldoon" from 1877. Thank you for this site. I did my independent study on hoaxes and "The Museum of Hoaxes" was very helpful.
December 11, 2000 Is perpetual motion possible?

Physicists say it's not.
December 9, 2000 This is a great site. I've just spent 2 hours reading most of the entries. Hope you add more. BTW I enjoyed the Marco Polo one best but I also enjoyed the Voynich Manuscript too!
December 7, 2000 Freudian psychotherapy but there are still too many believers to make an issue of it.
December 3, 2000 I enjoyed your piece on Dick Tuck. Just two comments. Regarding the questionable story on the train leaving the station -- I think it was Barry Goldwater speaking, not Nixon but I heard the story was true. But Tuck said on the Dick Cavett show that the black pregnant ladies story isn't true, or at least that he didn't do it.