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	Horace de Vere Cole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Horace de Vere Cole (May 5, 1881–February 25, 1936) was a British eccentric prankster.
		As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, Cole dressed as a sultan of Zanzibar - who was visiting London at the time - and made an official visit to his own college.
		Once Cole directed a group of workmen to dig a hole in the middle of Piccadilly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole (263 words)

	Dreadnought hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cole had an accomplice send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Weymouth.
		Cole with his entourage went to London's Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was "Herbert Cholmondesly" of the UK Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth.
		One officer familiar with both Cole and Virginia Stephen failed to recognize either one, possibly because he heard the interpreter's strong German accent and was worried in case a German spy came onboard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dreadnought_Hoax (432 words)

	Horace de Vere Cole -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936) was a (The people of Great Britain) British eccentric prankster.
		In another occasion, Cole dared a (An elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons) Member of Parliament to dash before him to the nearest corner with a 10-yard head start - having already slipped his gold watch into the MP's pocket.
		Cole has also been suspected of the (A supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax) Piltdown Man hoax.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ho/Horace_de_Vere_Cole.htm (189 words)

	Encyclopedia: Horace (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Horace Junior Grant (born July 4, 1965 in Augusta, Georgia) is a former NBA basketball player, and the twin brother of Harvey Grant, also a former NBA player.
		Horace Mann was an early leader in education; there is also a Sir Horace Mann, who was an important correspondent of Horace Walpole in the 18th century.
		Horace Porter, (1837-1921), American soldier and diplomat, was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and educated at Harvard University.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Horace-(disambiguation) (555 words)

	Horace de Vere Cole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As an undergraduate to Cambridge University, Cole dressed as a sultan of Zanzibar - who was visiting London at the time - and made official visit to his own college.
		In another occasion, Cole dared a Member of Parliament to dash before him to the nearest corner with a 10-yard head start - when he had slipped his gold watch to MPs pocket.
		In his honeymoon in Italy in 1919, Cole dropped horse manure to Venice's Piazza di San Marco - which could only be reached by a boat.
	www.theezine.net /h/horace-de-vere-cole.html (242 words)

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		The most well-known is probably the Dreadnought hoax of 1910, in which Cole and five friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his posse, and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
		Cole may have been in training for his Dreadnought coup when, as a student at Cambridge, he impersonated the Sultan of Zanzibar, and was wined and dined along with his entourage (other Cambridge students) by the high mucky-mucks of the area.
		Cole once targeted a Member of the British Parliament thusly: he slipped his own gold watch into the M.P. 's pocket, then somehow convinced the man to join him in a brief footrace down the street.
	www.sniggle.net /cole.php (693 words)

	Re: William Horace de Vere Cole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Reply to: William Horace de Vere Cole by J Taylor
		His maternal grandfather was Horatio Francis de Vere, son of Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet, of Currah or Curragh Chase, Askeaton, Co. Limerick.
		Sir Aubrey de Vere was born Sir Aubrey Hunt, son of Sir Vere Hunt, but changed the family name.
	genforum.genealogy.com /vere/messages/269.html (168 words)

	Station Information - Horace (disambiguation)
		Horace Donisthorpe - Eminent British Entomologist, Myrmecologist and Coleopterist
		Horace Benedict de Saussure - Swiss alpinist and mountain pioneer
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	A Mostly Complete Piltdown Man Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vere speaks in a BBC broadcast called "Was Dawson Guilty?" in which he defends that Dawson was not the forger (Spencer 1990b: 226; Vere 1955: 11-2; Vere 1959: 16).
		Vere's first appearance was in a BBC broadcast he made on December 5th or 8th, 1953, called "Was Dawson Guilty?" (Spencer 1990b: 226; Vere 1955: 11-2).
		de Vries and Oakley 1959; Hall 1955; Harrisson 1960; Hoskins and Fryd 1955; Montagu 1960a; Oakley 1954, 1955c, 1960; Oakley and Weiner 1953, 1955, 1957; Oakley, Weiner and Clark 1953; Vogel and Waterbolk 1964: 368; Weiner and Oakley 1954; Weiner et al.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/piltdown/piltref.html (11647 words)

	Seasons India :: Hoaxes & Frauds
		But he reckoned without the wiles of Horace de Vere Cole, a brilliant practical joker who was quick to prove him wrong.
		Cole challenged the politician to a race along a London street, which Locker-Lampson accepted.
		Soon Cole was in pursuit, shouting,'Stop, thief!' The police joined in the chase, and when the stolen watch was discovered in Locker-Lampson's pocket the unfortunate politician was arrested.
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	Horace (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horace de Vere Cole - eccentric British aristocrat and prankster
		Horace series - The series of 1980s video games with a character named Horace.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horace_%28disambiguation%29 (143 words)

	April Fool Prank Ideas For Rich - Millionaires April Fool Trick - April Fool Extensive Pranks
		British prankster Horace de Vere Cole was honeymooning in Piazza San Marco in Venice in 1919, when he thought of astonishing its citizens with the processions of the horses that were not there.
		Horace transported a load of manure overnight on 31st March from the mainland with the help of a gondolier and then deposited small piles of it throughout the Piazza.
		Unfortunately, a few years later, Horace's wife divorced him, as she got tired of his constant pranks.
	www.thefoolsday.com /millionaires-ideas.html (465 words)

	keyshia cole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Cole George Cole (born April 22, 1925) is a British actor born in Tooting, London, best known for his roles as Flash Harry in the St Trinians films and as Arthur Daley in the TV series Minder.
		Horace de Vere Cole William Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936) was a British eccentric prankster.
		Cole suffered severe damage in a suicide bombing attack when the ship was in the port of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop.
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	Vere - Stromata Blog: New Light on Edward de Vere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Vere Bird Sir Vere Cornwall Bird (December 7, 1910 — June 28, 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
		Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is often regarded as the epitome of the Through an examination of the extraordinary life of Edward de Vere,
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	horace art - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And Horace's Art of Poetry is full of information...and execution it was inspired by Horace's Art of Poetry; but its polished maxims...
		For example, in Epodi 11.27-28, Horace speaks of his burning passion for some...scenes of a homoerotic nature in Roman art,(152) those on the Warren Cup suggest no...homoerotic scenes in both Greek and Roman art, such an interpretation would be a false...
		The satire of Horace is mild, gently amused...Sontag as meaning works of art that can be enjoyed but...fraudulent as a true work of art, thus rendering the whole...
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	Horace de Vere Cole - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Books by Anthony Buxton - Travelling Naturalist - 1112413944 notes
		One officer familiar to both Cole and Woolf failed to recognize either one.When they were departing by train, Anthony Buxton sneezed and blew off his false whiskers but managed to stick them back before anyone noticed.
		Cole had not had enough and told a train conductor that he could serve royals lunch only with white gloves.In London, they revealed the ruse by sending a letter and a group photo to''The Daily Mirror''.
		The Navy sent two officers to cane Cole as a punishment - but Cole countered that it was they who should be caned because they had been fooled in the first place.
	www.academicpublications.com /50925_anthony-buxton_1112413944travellingnaturalistnotes.html (443 words)

	Ireland - St Clerans Country Manor in Galway and Horserides with Hidden Trails.
		One of the sons of J. Burke, the builder of the new block, was Robert O'Hara Burke, who perished when leading the ill-fated Burke-Wills Expedition across Australia in 1861.
		Issercleran was inherited in 1914 by R. O'Hara Burke's niece, who was the mother of the practical joker, Horace de Vere Cole and of Mrs.
		It was sold in 1954 and subsequently became the home of the late Mr.
	www.hiddentrails.com /europe/ireland/clerans.htm (471 words)

	Omir the Storyteller: 06/12/2005 - 06/18/2005
		Cole (1881-1936) was an aristocrat, the brother-in-law of Neville Chamberlain, and a man with a fertile imagination that seemed perfectly tuned to making mischief.
		Smith was an admirer of Troy and Cole, and recounted several of their exploits in the book.
		I'm sure that wherever he was at the time, Cole looked down on the scene with approval and amusement.
	omir-the-storyteller.blogspot.com /2005_06_12_omir-the-storyteller_archive.html (1498 words)

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		Which begs the question: why has Nicholas de Vere spent the last twenty years The right of fons honorum held by Nicholas de Vere is also acknowledged by
		Mistress Sascha de Vere, lifestyle professional Dominatrix, skilled in the dungeon arts of sadomasochism, bondage, roleplay and fetishism.
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	HMS_Dreadnought_(1906) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In reality, the "Abyssinian royals" were some of Cole's friends in flface and disguise, including a young Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury Group friends; it became known as the Dreadnought hoax.
		Cole had picked the Dreadnought because it was the most prominent and visible symbol of Britain's naval might; but even by 1910 it was obsolete.
		As ever-faster designs were put into service, Dreadnought found herself increasingly outpaced, whilst her unusual turret arrangement had already been abandoned in favour of in-line turrets.
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		The hoax involved Cole and five friends—future author Virginia Woolf, her brother Adrian Green, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant—who dressed up with darkened skin and turbans to make them look oriental.
		Their only main fault was that the "royals" could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined.
		One officer familiar with both Cole and Woolf failed to recognize either one, possibly because he heard the interpreter's strong German accent and was worried in case a German spy came onboard.
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		However, the Prince's visit was really a prank engineered by inveterate prankster Horace de Vere Cole.
		Likewise, the rest of the entourage were also friends of Cole (one of them was a young Virginia Woolf).
		After the tour was over the pranksters successfully made their escape, and later Cole told the press what had happened.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoaxorum/hoaxorum1869.html (1333 words)

	Omir the Storyteller: An Innocent Man Has Nothing To Fear
		Horace was a student at Cambridge, and keenly interested in politics.
		He happened to be in London that day, and had met up with a friend of his, a member of Parliament from Leeds.
		Horace made a great show of reaching into the MP's jacket pocket and he pulled out a watch, which he had slipped into the pocket when his friend wasn't looking.
	omir-the-storyteller.blogspot.com /2005/06/innocent-man-has-nothing-to-fear.html (349 words)

	Horace (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Horace (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		This page was last modified 09:52, 6 Jun 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Horace_%28disambiguation%29 (140 words)

	HMS Dreadnought (1906) - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From 1907-1912 Dreadnought served as flagship of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, as famous in its days as the Concorde SST sixty years later.
		In 1910 it attracted the attention of notorious hoaxer Horace de Vere Cole, who persuaded the Royal Navy to arrange for a party of Abyssinian royals to be given a tour of a ship.
		In reality, the "Abyssinian royals" were some of Cole's friends in flface and disguise, including a young Virginia Woolf; it became known as the Dreadnought hoax.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=HMS_Dreadnought_(1906) (2144 words)

	National Review: BLASTs from the past. (graphic art exhibition o... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Apes of God, a monumental satire as mannered as the epicene phonies it scorns, is a sort of Bloomsbury Chainsaw Massacre in which the Puppet Master lays bare the ratchety clockwork of a monstrous triviality.
		Among those drawn and quartered with grim glee are, recognizably, the young Stephen Spender, Horace de Vere Cole, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, Clive and Vanessa Bell, and all three Sitwells.
		The Apes of God treads ponderously upon the thin ice of tedium, for the boring non-being of its gangling machinery threatens to craze the reader's patience.
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	Loughrea: St. Cleran's House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A statue in his memory is erected in Sydney, Australia for he was the first white man to traverse the continent from north to south.
		It was sold in 1954 and subsequently become the home of the late Mr.
		Present owner Merv Griffin has carefully restored St. Clerans to its original splendour and decorated the house with art treasures from around the world.
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