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Book Review: Curiosity by Gary Blackwood

Posted on October 15, 2014 by CSL Children's Department

Can you imagine a hoax so successful, that Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin and Empress Maria Theresa were all duped by it? That very thing actually happened, and the hoax revolved around an automaton named the Turk, that was said to be … Continue reading →

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