Cardiff Giant
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The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall, roughly 3,000 pound purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers
The Cardiff Giant being exhumed during October 1869
The Cardiff Giant at the Fenimore Farm & Country Village
Scopes trial
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The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accus
Cardiff Giant
…years of the newspaper comic Alley Oop. The 1997 The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Skeptic" was inspired by the Cardiff Giant, the Piltdown Man, and the Scopes trial. Myron Edward Batesole was a professional wrestler during the 1940s and 50s billed as "The Cardiff Giant…
On the trial's seventh day, proceedings were moved outdoors because of excessive heat. William Jennings Bryan (seated, left) is being questioned by Clarence Darrow.
John T. Scopes and his legal counsels
John T. Scopes in 1925
Clarence Darrow in 1925, during the trial