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	Charlatan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word calls forth the image of an old-time medicine show operator, who has long left town by the time the people who bought his snake oil tonic realize that it does not perform as advertised.
		Synonyms for "charlatan" include "mountebank", "crank" and "quack".
		A Charlatan is also a human unit in the game Age of Wonders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mountebank (349 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/mountebank
		To his critics including some of the other topnotchers in the school of Paris, he is a talented mountebank and irrepressible showman who has lured his followers and the world up a blind artistic and intellectual alley.
		Yet to make such judgments on any question rather than trying to examine the question properly, to discover what the full answers might be, is coercive philistinism: it is to allow the mountebank to triumph over the critic, the mob orator to drown the doubts of the sceptic.
		Mountebank comes from the Italian montambanco, montimbanco, from the phrase monta in banco, literally "mounts on bench" (i.e.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/04/03.html (202 words)

	MaxSpeak, You Listen!: THOMAS FRIEDMAN, MOUNTEBANK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1800), says of the Mountebank: 'It is uncertain at what period this vagrant dealer in physic made his appearance in England; it is clear, however, that he figured away with much success in this country during the last two centuries...
		The mountebanks usually preface the vending of their medicines with pompous orations, in which they pay as little regard to truth as to propriety.'"
		So, Thomas Friedman "upgraded his skills" (as a mountebank) learning "all kinds of economics." Especially, tales about lumps of labor that have no greater substance than tales about the Spanish clergy believing that the world was flat.
	maxspeak.org /mt/archives/001811.html (644 words)

	Articles: Easy pickings
		The game was so called because of the “mountain” (monte in Spanish) or stack of cards on the table during play; the mountebank was someone who mounted a bench (monta in banco in old Italian) to harangue a crowd and so sell quack medicines and the like.
		As a further aside, the mountebank often had an accomplice, a comic character who clumsily or foolishly imitated his master’s actions to get laughs, and who was called a zany, a name which is a corruption of the Italian Gianni, Johnny, and which was also the name of the clown-servants in the commedia dell’ arte.
		In Britain, the person taking the role of the zany was sometimes called a Merry Andrew (deriving in part from the use of “Andrew” as a generic name for any male servant, in a similar way to “Abigail” for a female one) or a Jack Pudding.
	www.worldwidewords.org /articles/easypick.htm (1261 words)

	Mountebank - definition from Biology-Online.org
		One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
		Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank.
		Montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount _ in in, upon _ banco bench.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Mountebank (155 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		[1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Mountebank *\Mount"ebank\**, v.
		One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor.
		[1913 Webster] Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=mountebank (140 words)

	triple j's unearthed 2003 \| mountebank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is a time & place for everything, and Mountebankâs time is now.
		Formed in late 2002, by three high school friends, Mountebank locked themselves in the bedroom and set about to write the songs they always wanted to hear.
		Now armed with a swagger of songs they are ready to take over the world with a bar chord.
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/unearthed/bands/3272.htm (121 words)

	St. Paul: Missionary Or Mountebank?
		Why does a man who knows that through his faith he can move mountains, multiply fish, and turn water into wine have to collect mere money and crave lodging?
		I think that the key to understanding the Epistles is to see St. Paul as a mountebank.
		About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/05dec/article251.html (725 words)

	SuicideGirls > Members > mountebank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Around mountebank, birds suddenly appear, and choruses of angels sing hymns to mountebank's bonny face.
		Sadly, unless mountebank tells you more about mountebank, this is all you'll ever know about mountebank.
		Actually, I'm in the mood for more complaining now but am too tired.
	suicidegirls.com /members/mountebank (393 words)

	mountebank - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary
		mountebank - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary
		Mountebank may be used as a verb, as to mountebank among the hoity-toity, and mountebankery has been widely used to refer to the activities of a mountebank.
		In Play: Mountebanks naturally gravitate toward money: "Many people are already convinced that the Enron corporation was run by mountebanks solely to enrich themselves." Television now brings the mountebank's bench right into our living rooms: "Gilda Lilly worked for 17 years as a TV mountebank who hawked weight-loss pills to a gullible public."
	www.alphadictionary.com /goodword/word/mountebank (341 words)

	MarcoM the Mountebank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the home page of Dr. Ralph A. MarcoM, MIMC, multiple award-winning magician, raconteur, sage, actor, author, world traveler and columnist for The Linking Ring, the official magazine of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
		His latest book Lord of Legerdemain, the Renaissance Magick of MarcoM the Mountebank, may be purchased from Adesso Verlag.
		For almost 35 years, my constant companion and wife was the late Gloria Marcom, also known to her friends and fans as Vampira!
	www.marcomthemountebank.com (93 words)

	Mountebank - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall - World's Largest Selection!
		Mountebank - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall - World's Largest Selection!
		Titles - Authors - Literature - Literature - William J. Locke - The Mountebank eBooks
		She was dressed quite tastefully: white felt hat, white skirt, and a silken knitted yellow chandail.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/mountebank-locke-ebooks.htm (127 words)

	Have Gun, Will Travel: The Mountebank - TV.com
		Have Gun, Will Travel: The Mountebank - TV.com
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	tv.com /have-gun-will-travel/the-mountebank/episode/124728/summary.html (71 words)

	Celebrity Jeopardy
		Alex Trebek: I really thought that was going to work.
		Sean Connery: Well, you were wrong, you mountebank.
		I pose a conundrum to ya, I riddle if you will
	snltranscripts.jt.org /00/00hjeopardy.phtml (798 words)

	Infallible Mountebank - 1707
		Cast: (Click on any name for the character name index.
		This song also appears later in broadsides under the title "The Infallible Mountebank, or Quack Doctor".
		It gives a long list of cures, many of which are used in the "Alexander and the King of Egypt" chapbook.
	www.folkplay.info /Texts/70----im.htm (127 words)

	TalentMatch - The Great Mountebank, Comedian
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		My name is Bill Chott, and I've developed a new act performing as the Great Mountebank, a comedy mindreader.
		I began working as an MC and member of the house improv troupe at St. Louis's Catch a Rising Star.
	www.talentmatch.com /search/allView.asp?pid=20124 (167 words)

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