The hoax was lent an air of credibility because often medieval monks did discover scientific and mathematical theories, only to have them hidden or shelved due to persecution or simply ignored because publication prior to the invention of the printing press was difficult at best.

Writing about Lewis-Smith's hoax phone calls in The Times Higher Education, Sally Feldman observed that " He chooses his victims carefully, pricking the pompous and the powerful in the very best traditions of satire.

Nick Austin, who was editorial director of Sphere Books when Watkins ' adaptation was commissioned and published, writes that the book was the " best chance I ’ d ever be likely to get to participate in a hoax of truly Guy Grand proportions — the best thing of its kind since Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

Austin writes that he was both delighted and disturbed by the Alternative 3 controversy, and adds that the reasons " a clever hoax, openly admitted to be such by its creators, should continue to exercise the fascination it so obviously does the best part of a generation after its first appearance is beyond my feeble powers of analysis and explanation.

Her best-selling book, which purported to describe the honor killing of her best friend, was exposed as a literary hoax the next year.

One of the first newspaper pieces about the K Foundation appeared in The Guardian the following Monday, correctly pointing out that the shortlist and exhibition were actually for the 1993 Turner Prize, the controversial £ 20, 000 annual award given by the UK art establishment to the best young contemporary artist, but assuming that the K Foundation prize was a hoax.

Harris, however, once he recovered from his humiliation in the Ern Malley hoax, made the best of his notoriety.

Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000 ) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the " Great Monarch " prophesied by Nostradamus.

Clifford Michael Irving ( born ) is an American investigative reporter and author of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for his hoax " autobiography " of reclusive and eccentric businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s.

The women arrive and after discovering the truth, namely that it was merely a hoax, decide to make the best of the situation by spending two weeks vacationing on the island.

He is best known for his creation of fake parchments published in the 1967 book L ' Or de Rennes by Gérard de Sède, as part of his involvement in the Priory of Sion hoax between 1962-1983.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.

This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.

As the practitioner turns the wheel, it is best to focus the mind and repeat the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra.

In Premiere, Glenn Kenny gave the film four stars and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 2005 :" Insanely evocative ' 60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises ; everyone smokes and drinks too much ; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return.

Jabir ibn Abd-Allah reported that Muhammad, said: " The best remembrance of Allah is to repeat La ilaha ilallah and the best prayer ( du ' a ) is Alhamdulillah ( all praise belongs to Allah ).

I'm going to try and repeat it a number of times without any development, gradually increasing the orchestra as best I can.

More specifically, ignition interlock devices work best when they are installed, although there is also some evidence that judicial orders to install an interlock are effective for repeat DUI offenders, even when not all offenders comply and install a device.

Masyk is probably best known for his highly controversial comments that ran in an Edmonton Journal column on February 27, 2003 ; elaborating on his proposal to send repeat offenders to Russian salt mines, Masyk seemingly praised the hardline intimidation tactics employed in Soviet Union gulags during the Stalinist era.

More specifically, ignition interlock devices work best when they are installed, although there is also some evidence that judicial orders to install an interlock are effective for repeat DUI offenders, even when not all offenders comply and install a device.

Under Kerley players such as Roger Luders, Bruce Lindner, Ian Borchard, Peter Meuret, Geoff Morris and Mark Mickan all started to play their best football and 1982 was almost a repeat of the 1981 season.

Director Brad Bird had originally sought out John Barry – perhaps best known for his work on the early James Bond films — but Barry was reportedly unwilling to repeat the styles of his earlier works.

He contended that under the leadership of Werner von Blomberg and Werner von Fritsch, the German Army chose to acquiesce in the Nazi regime as the kind of government best able to achieve what the Army wanted ; namely a militarized society that would ensure in the next war that there would be no repeat of the “ stab in the back ”.

WCW would repeat the practice again the following year with a Clash coinciding with the WWF's WrestleMania V. Although the main event of NWA Champion Ricky Steamboat defeating Ric Flair in a best of three falls match was widely considered the best wrestling match that took place among the two promotions on that day, ratings and attendance for the event fell well below expectations and the practice of conflicting major events would cease until the Monday Night Wars began in 1995.

The statement that " we live in the best of all possible worlds " drew scorn, most notably from Voltaire, who lampooned it in his comic novella Candide by having the character Dr. Pangloss ( a parody of Leibniz and Maupertuis ) repeat it like a mantra.

CKOs can help an organization maximize the returns on investment in knowledge ( people, processes and intellectual capital ), exploit their intangible assets ( know-how, patents, customer relationships ), repeat successes, share best practices, improve innovation, and avoid knowledge loss after organizational restructuring.

The episode originally aired during the 2001 – 2002 television season, ironically the season in which the PTC named SpongeBob SquarePants among the best programs on cable television, but the report cited a repeat broadcast of the episode from 2005 to prove its point that it promoted use of profanity among children.

She ran a season's best time of 55. 00 seconds in the heats, but did not repeat this in the final round and finished seventh with 55. 60 seconds.

In 1900, Wilson passed 100 wickets for the first time, a feat he was to repeat in 1901 and 1902, his best being 122 wickets in 1901.