SYMHC Classics: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 2
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 1 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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We're revisiting part two of the Great Moon Hoax! As the New York Sun's series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a hoax. But what made people buy into the tall tale in the first place?
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| 0:33.1 | Hi and happy Saturday. |
| 0:34.4 | Today we are concluding our two-part podcast on the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, |
| 0:39.3 | which is where the hoax gets really weird. |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, it's weird from the beginning. |
| 0:44.2 | Here's where it gets really weird. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's also where we talk about how the hoax was received by the end of the whole thing. |
| 0:51.8 | We hope you have fun and laugh a little bit. |
| 0:54.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 1:12.5 | And today is the second part of our two-part episode on a series that ran in the New York |
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