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May 26, 2014 05:27 pm PDT
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The Abyssinian Princes Hoax of 1910 [Futility Closet#011]
Irish practical joker Horace de Vere Cole orchestrated his masterpiece in 1910: He dressed four friends as Abyssinian princes and inveigled a tour of a British battleship. One of the friends, improbably, was Virginia Woolf disguised in a false beard and turban (far left in above photo). Read the restOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9wrKYC6RTGk/the-abyssinian-princes-hoax-of.html
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