Great Moon Hoax

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Great Moon Hoax
Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Great Moon Hoax

Summary

Great Moon Hoax is a news article[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of news_article entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (609 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Moon Hoax authored Richard Adams Locke[3].
  • Great Moon Hoax's instance of is recorded as news article[4].
  • Great Moon Hoax was published by The Sun[5].
  • Great Moon Hoax's genre is science fiction[6].
  • Great Moon Hoax's genre is pseudoscience[7].
  • Great Moon Hoax's Commons category is recorded as Great Moon Hoax[8].
  • Great Moon Hoax's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Great Moon Hoax's has edition or translation is recorded as The Moon Hoax[10].
  • Great Moon Hoax's has edition or translation is recorded as The Moon Hoax[11].
  • Great Moon Hoax's main subject is Vespertilio-homo[12].
  • Great Moon Hoax's work available at URL is recorded as http://hoaxes.org/text/display/the_great_moon_hoax_of_1835_text/[13].
  • Great Moon Hoax's published in is recorded as The Sun[14].
  • Great Moon Hoax's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE BY SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. At the Cape of Good Hope [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science]'}[15].
  • Great Moon Hoax's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope'}[16].

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Designation and Status

Great Moon Hoax's instance of is recorded as news article[4].

Why It Matters

Great Moon Hoax ranks in the top 8% of news_article entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (609 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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