http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/taxonomy/term/99 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/princess_cariboo boundary cases impersonation precursors royalty M-R Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:09:08 -0700 byeongsam 52 at http://fictive.arts.uci.edu http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/princess_anastasia boundary cases impersonation precursors royalty M-R Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:08:38 -0700 byeongsam 51 at http://fictive.arts.uci.edu http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/cottingley_fairies <p>Beginning in 1917, two English girls, Elsie Wright (1901-88) and Frances Griffiths (1907-86), made a series of five photographs that purported to show them with real fairies. Although suspected as fakes from the outset, the controversy over their status continued for decades.</p> <p><img width="381" vspace="20" hspace="20" height="305" border="1" align="right" alt="Cottingley fairy photo" src="/files/image/pix/cottingley_fairies_1.jpg" /></p> <p><a href="http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/cottingley_fairies">read more</a></p> boundary cases hoaxes precursors A-F photograph Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:39:36 -0700 byeongsam 35 at http://fictive.arts.uci.edu http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/george_psalmanazar <p>George Psalmanazar (?1679-1763) was a French adventurer who told many different tales about himself in the course of a wide variety of impersonations: Irish pilgrim, Japanese convert, beggar, soldier, chaplain. He is best know for claiming to be the first Formosan ever to visit Europe, a story supported by his 1704 book <em>An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan. </em>Two years later he confessed to his fabrications and spent the rest of his long life as&nbsp; writer and editor.</p> <p><a href="http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/george_psalmanazar">read more</a></p> boundary cases impersonation precursors M-R Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:09:20 -0700 byeongsam 24 at http://fictive.arts.uci.edu