Pinker sets out to disabuse the reader of a number of common ideas about language, e. g. that children must be taught to use it, that most people's grammar is poor, that the quality of language is steadily declining, that language has a heavy influence on a person's possible range of thoughts ( the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ), and that nonhuman animals have been taught language ( see Great Ape language ).

In case of Lake Bonneville ( Great Salt Lake ), the above arguments for the Tollmann Bolide Hypothesis contain factual errors.

* 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.

This event is now referred to as the Great Rose Bowl Hoax.

Poe may have been inspired, at least in part, by a prior journalistic hoax known as the " Great Moon Hoax ", published in the same newspaper in 1835.

Poe had complained for a decade that the paper's Great Moon Hoax had plagiarized ( by way of Locke ) the basic idea from The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall, one of Poe's less successful stories which also involved similar inhabitants on the moon.

* August 25 – In the U. S., the New York Sun prints the first of six installments of the Great Moon Hoax.

In 1835, the New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids.

In Poe's The Balloon Hoax, a gas balloon is reported to have made a trip from Great Britain to Sullivan's Island in three days.

*" The Great Banana Hoax " / " Wind-up Toys " ( Reprise 0607 ) 1967

*" The Great Banana Hoax " / " Wind-Up Toys " ( Reprise RS 20607 ) 1967 UK

*" Long Day's Flight " / " Dr Do Good " / " The Great Banana Hoax " / " Captain Glory " ( Reprise RVEP 60110 ) 1968 France

The publicity of the article was widespread at that time and now is referred to as " The Great Moon Hoax ".

Elf Aquitaine spent millions of dollars in the 1979 Great Oil Sniffer Hoax to develop a new " gravity wave-based oil detection system ", which was later revealed to be a scam, and lost over $ 150 million.

* The Great Moon Hoax, a series of six hoax articles published in New York Sun in 1835

He wrote a story, The Great American Hoax, which sold to Good Housekeeping but was never published.

Chayefsky's The Great American Hoax was broadcast May 15, 1957 during the second season of The 20th Century Fox Hour.

The Great American Hoax was shown on the FX channel after Fox restored some The 20th Century Fox Hour episodes and telecast them under the new title Fox Hour of Stars beginning in 2002.

* 1956 The Great American Hoax

This incident is now known as the Great Moon Hoax.

* The short story, A Great Moon Hoax or A Princess of Mars by Ben Bova, starts with an Interocitor being operated by a Martian and an American industrialist to watch old baseball games.

** Great Oil Sniffer Hoax

Great Moon Hoax lithograph of " ruby amphitheater " for The Sun ( New York ) | New York Sun, August 28, 1835 ( 4th article of 6 )

" The Great Moon Hoax " refers to a series of six articles that were published in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon.

* Evans, David S. " The Great Moon Hoax ," Sky & Telescope, 196 ( September 1981 ) and 308 ( October 1981 ).

* The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, History Buff

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.

Great interest and practical help have been given by the Barker Index Committee.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

* Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

The lives of numerous abbots make up a significant contribution to Christian hagiography, one of the most well-known being the Life of St. Benedict of Nursia by St. Gregory the Great.

The first charter of human rights by Cyrus the Great as understood in the Cyrus cylinder is often seen as a reflection of the questions and thoughts expressed by Zarathustra and developed in Zoroastrian schools of thought of the Achaemenid Era of Iranian history.

Individuals judged by God to be wicked, such as in the Great Flood or at Armageddon, are given no hope of an afterlife.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

In 490, Alaric assisted his fellow Gothic king, Theodoric the Great, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia, where Theodoric had been trapped.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.

From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.