The Dreadnought Hoax

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🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole's collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephenhad organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905.

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0:00.0	Dude, I can't believe president Barack Obama is gonna be on this week's episode.
0:07.7	Where Ethan Eli for Christ is unreal.
0:12.0	Just my hair look okay guys do I do I look okay can I call him just Barack or do you
0:16.7	think that I think it's still Mr. President.
0:19.6	I got the job.
0:21.1	The motorcade is pulling up.
0:22.7	Oh my god, oh my god.
0:25.0	Noah brief.
0:26.0	He's just a dude.
0:27.5	I do like you and me.
0:31.9	Gentlemen thanks so much for having me Eli.
0:36.3	What are you doing?
0:38.0	Where's Barack where is Barack Obama?
0:40.5	Where is he?
0:41.5	Cecil what are you talking about?
0:43.5	I am Barack Obama.
0:45.4	We talked on the phone remember.
0:47.0	No no no no no no.
0:48.9	He's no.
0:49.9	He's not coming is he?
0:52.3	Ah!
0:53.3	Got you guys this is me Eli.
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