The American Goliath hoax giant's rise and fall
The record recounts the 1869 Cardiff gypsum statue fraud known as The American Goliath. William Newell and partners staged a ten foot seven inch figure drawing crowds, rail traffic, and expert speculation for decades before the hoax was exposed. The statue, quarried near Fort Dodge, Iowa, was bought in 1912 for a gullibility monument and linked to broader early anthropology debates.
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William Newell
Cardiff
New York
Newell
John F. Boynton
D. C. Marsh
Newell and Partners
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Binghamton
Boston
Sussex
Olark Kinnaird
Westmoreland Urges Armed Peace At Virginia Tech Ceremony
General William C Westmoreland told a Virginia Tech crowd that peace must be backed by armed forces until all forces can be banished He insisted a strong military is needed to deter war and cope with harsh realities of international violence A protest group gathered outside Lane Stadium but demonstrated peacefully, with few outsiders present and security on site from state troopers campus police and nearby towns.
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Blacksburg
William C. Westmoreland
Army
Satur
Westmoreland
Tech
Virginia Tech
Radford College
Fee
Christiansburg
Covington
Lane Stadium
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State To Ask Bids On Road Projects Costing $90.7 Million
The Virginia Department plans to ask bids on a statewide road program totaling 90.7 million dollars. The package includes 230 miles of highways with 18 projects in the Interstate system and 14 arterial jobs, the Shirley Highway rebuild and center lane reversals for rush hour.
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Ieee
Globe Road
Sue Peasee
Pentagon
Shirley Highway
Interstate 95
North
Virginia
Woodbridge
Virginia District of Columbia
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