Lucretia and the monarchy cannot therefore be total myth or an elaborate literary hoax to deceive and entertain the Roman people about an early history that can not otherwise be known.

* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an " elaborate accounting hoax ," and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron's law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.

The figurines, which most archaeologists dismiss as an elaborate hoax, depict humans interacting with dinosaurs and various other " monsters " such as horned men.

In the novel Baudolino ( 2000 ), Umberto Eco describes the discovery and subsequent donation of the Magi's relics as an elaborate 12th century hoax perpetrated by the title character.

Léo Taxil's elaborate hoax employed a version of Lévi's Baphomet on the cover of Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés, his lurid paperback " exposé " of Freemasonry, which in 1897 he revealed as a hoax satirizing ultra-Catholic anti-Masonic propaganda.

After the family moved back to the states, they encountered Chip again, but they staged an elaborate hoax, which resulted in Chip disappearing from their lives.

It all turned out to be a collaborative hoax, however — cooked up by Capp and his longtime pal Saunders as an elaborate publicity stunt.

He does not try to create a personal relationship with his marks, or set up an elaborate hoax using roleplaying.

An article appeared in the University of Adelaide student newspaper ridiculing the Malley poems and suggesting that Harris had written them himself in some elaborate hoax.

Project Alpha was an elaborate hoax in 1979, orchestrated by the stage magician and skeptic James Randi.

From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax.

While he respected Kempelen as " a very ingenious man ", he asserted that the Turk was an elaborate hoax with a small child inside the machine, describing the machine as " a complicated piece of clockwork ... which is nothing more, than one, of many other ingenious devices, to misguide and delude the observers.

From 1959 to 1962, as part of an elaborate hoax by comedian Alan Abel, he pretended to be G. Clifford Prout, the quietly outraged president of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, who presented his point of view on talk shows.

Palisade was the site of an elaborate hoax during the early 1870s, probably to boost tourism.

In order to entice the hacker to reveal himself, Stoll set up an elaborate hoax ( known today as a honeypot ), inventing a new department at LBL that had supposedly been newly formed because of an imaginary SDI contract.

Beginning May 27, 1959 with a story on the Today Show, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals ( SINA ), was Abel's most elaborate hoax.

In 1916 he was one of the perpetrators, with Arthur Davison Ficke, a friend from Harvard, of an elaborate literary hoax.

I ’ m just glad someone thinks The New York Times print edition is worthy of an elaborate hoax.

This story's plot is reminiscent of that in " The Red-Headed League ", for it, too, involves an elaborate hoax designed to remove an inconvenient person from the scene for a while so that a crime can be committed.

He called the police who tell him that the culprits sound like the Patterson gang and that he has been the subject of an elaborate hoax to get into people's houses and distract them with wild stories while they are robbed.

Initially Gonzales researched the idea of poisoning his family, which led to an elaborate contamination hoax.

Prosecutors produced evidence that Donovan staged an elaborate hoax — which included shooting himself in the stomach and then blaming the shooting on his eldest son.

On August 17, 2007 John J. Donovan was convicted of staging an elaborate hoax which included shooting himself in the stomach — as part of a bizarre attempt to accuse his oldest son of being involved in a plot to kill him.

James J. Kelly decides to save the human race through an elaborate religious hoax, declaring himself to be Kalki and announcing the end of the world.

It was a difficult shoot for Campbell who had to learn elaborate choreography for the battle scenes, which involved him remembering a number system because the actor was often fighting opponents that were not really there.

Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cults.

And yet, the connection of all Christians is also asserted, albeit in a way that defenders of this view usually decline, often intentionally, to elaborate more clearly or consistently.

Game of all kinds is eaten, often in elaborate dishes that celebrate the success of the hunt.

" The most striking example of an elaborate classification according to craft is found in the metal-workers: the farriers, knife-makers, locksmiths, chain-forgers, nail-makers, often formed separate and distinct corporations ; the armourers were divided into helmet-makers, escutcheon-makers, harness-makers, harness-polishers, etc.

Gates to official residences often feature elaborate ironwork.

This often takes the form of a small crowned, wide brimmed hat called a galero with the colors and tassels denoting rank ; or, in the case of Papal arms until the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, an elaborate triple crown known as a tiara.

In Shaka's day, warriors often wore elaborate plumes and cow tail regalia in battle, but by the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, many warriors wore only a loin cloth and a minimal form of headdress.

The post-biblical Jewish interpretations often elaborate the role of Isaac beyond the biblical description and largely focus on Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac, called the aqedah (" binding ").

Because of his lifelong love of theatre, he often financed elaborate musicals, often to his financial detriment.

The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate " production numbers ".

In historical polytheism, a priest administers the sacrifice to a deity, often in highly elaborate ritual.

This is most common in the post-1980s US hardcore punk scene, where members of the subculture often dressed in plain T-shirts and jeans, rather than the more elaborate outfits and spiked, dyed hair of their British counterparts.

Passage tombs of the cairn type often have elaborate corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs.

Pterosaurs are well known for their often elaborate crests.

Polyphony became increasingly elaborate throughout the 14th century, with highly independent voices: the beginning of the 15th century showed simplification, with the voices often striving for smoothness.

The peacock, with its elaborate and colorful tail feathers, which the peahen lacks, is often referred to as perhaps the most extraordinary example of a dimorphism.

He has a flair for showmanship and will prepare elaborate traps to capture and expose a culprit, often to impress Watson or one of the Scotland Yard inspectors.

Synchronized swimming ( often abbreviated to Synchro ) is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers ( either solos, duets, trios, combos, or teams ) performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.

Shriners often participate in local parades, sometimes as rather elaborate units: miniature vehicles in themes ( all sports cars ; all miniature 18-wheeler trucks ; all fire engines, and so on ), an " Oriental Band " dressed in cartoonish versions of Middle Eastern dress ; pipe bands, drummers, motorcycle units, Drum and Bugle Corps, and even traditional brass bands.

The long-haul tractors used in interstate travel are often equipped with a sleeper behind the driver's cab, which can be anything from a small bunk to a rather elaborate miniature apartment.

He said some such features could have been by-products of adaptive changes to other features, and that often features seemed non-adaptive because their function was unknown, as shown by his book on Fertilisation of Orchids that explained how their elaborate structures facilitated pollination by insects.

Originally each installment of the TWERPS system was sold in a small plastic bag containing an 8-page leaflet, a sheet of cardstock counters to be cut apart, little cardstock hex-maps and a tiny ten-sided die, each being a down-sized imitation of elements often found in larger, more elaborate games.

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.