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2 unusual facts about Forgery


Astrid Proll

Back in Germany, Proll's attempted murder charge was dropped when it was gathered that the state had withheld information that could have cleared her but she was still sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment on account of bank robbery and falsifying documents; however, she had already spent at least two-thirds of that time in German and English prisons and therefore was released immediately.

Clayton Luckie

The felony charges included Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity, Theft in Office, Money Laundering and Forgery.


Adémar de Chabannes

Unfortunately for Adémar, the liturgy was disrupted by a travelling monk, Benedict of Chiusa, who denounced the improved Vita of Martial as a provincial forgery and the new liturgy as offensive to God.

Artemidorus Ephesius

Richard Janko, in Classical Review 59.2(2009) pp. 403-410 has offered arguments favoring the case for forgery.

Authorship of Luke–Acts

According to Bart D. Ehrman, the "we" passages are written by someone falsely claiming to have been a travelling companion of Paul, in order to present the untrue idea that the author had firsthand knowledge of Paul's views and activities, and Acts of the Apostles is thereby shown to be a forgery.

Aviva Burnstock

Burnstock was one of the team that confirmed that The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection, a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was a modern forgery by Han van Meegeren.

Bapchild

According to a late seventh or early eighth century charter, the Synod of Baccanceld was held in Bapchild, but historians now believe that the charter is a forgery.

Book of Plays

In 1933 Samuel A. Tannenbaum published an elaborate case arguing that the section was a forgery.

Book of Veles

Most of the scholars that specialize in the field of mythological studies and Slavic linguistics (such as Boris Rybakov, Andrey Zaliznyak, Leo Klein and all Russian academic historians and linguists) consider it a forgery.

Bryan Donkin

In 1820 Donkin worked with Sir William Congreve on preventing the forgery of excise stamps, using a method of two-colour printing with compound printing plates.

Bugs and Thugs

The next day, Bugs becomes a criminal-catching detective talking on the phone, as a member of Detectives Guild: Local 839 (a pun on the cartoonists' union), styling himself as "Bugs Bunny, Private EyeballThugs Thwarted, Arsonists Arrested, Bandits Booked, Forgers Found, Counterfeiters Caught, and Chiselers Chiseled."

Charles Doudiet

In January 2012 an article in The Age newspaper discusses a theory that the work Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross is a forgery, although the writer concluded I don't for a minute believe that Doudiet's watercolours are fake, ....

Crime Survey for England and Wales

Lord de Mauley has said the BCS omits rape, assault, drug offences, fraud, forgery, crime against businesses and murder, while accepting that it "is accepted as a gold standard by most British academics and internationally".

Donation of Constantine

During the Middle Ages, the Donation was widely accepted as authentic, although the Emperor Otto III did possibly raise suspicions of the document "in letters of gold" as a forgery, in making a gift to the See of Rome.

Étienne Léandri

He led mafia criminal activities, mainly drug shipping and money forgery, notably working with Lucky Luciano.

Fabre d'Églantine

On 12 January 1794 Fabre was arrested by order of the Committee of Public Safety on a charge of malversation and forgery in connection with the affairs of the French East India Company.

Finding in the Temple

The subject has attracted few artists since the 19th century, and one of the last notable depictions may be the one painted, as a forgery of a Vermeer, by Han van Meegeren in front of the Dutch police, in order to demonstrate that the paintings he had sold to Hermann Göring were also fake.

Flacinus

A document of 27 May 912 in the Libro de los Testamentos that cites Flacinus is a twelfth-century forgery of the bishop Pelagius, not as it claims of a certain bishop Hermenegild.

Franklin Prophecy

Beard, Charles A. “Exposing the Anti-Semitic Forgery about Franklin.” Jewish Frontier. New York, March 1935, pp.

Herbert Eugene Bolton

Bolton's biggest mistake was his February 1937 authentication of Drake's Plate of Brass, which was a forgery of a mythical brass plaque purportedly placed by Sir Francis Drake upon his arrival in 1579.

Horst Bredekamp

In 2012 art historian Nick Wilding discovered, that this proved copy was a complete forgery which had been brought by the Italian antiquarian Marino Massimo De Caro in the U.S. antique trade.

James Ossuary

Hershel Shanks declared that he did not believe the evidence of forgery and launched a personal complaint against IAA director Shuka Dorfman.

Joseph Lycett

A penciled note in a copy of his Views in the State Library of New South Wales, states that, when he was living near Bath, he was again arrested for forgery of some notes on the Stourbridge Bank.

Love and Madness

The novel was apparently a major influence on William Henry Ireland, the author of the Shakespeare Forgeries, who used the subplot about forgery as an inspiration.

Maharaja Nandakumar

They were accused by Burke (and later by Macaulay) of committing judicial murder; but Sir James Stephen, who examined the trial in detail, states that the indictment for forgery arose in the ordinary course, was not brought forward by Hastings, and that Impey conducted the trial with fairness and impartiality.

National Heritage Memorial Fund

The Amarna Princess, an ancient Egyptian statuette, later proved to be a forgery by Shaun Greenhalgh

New Wafd Party

In an interview with The Washington Times in July 2011, Wafd Party vice-chairman Ahmed Ezz el-Arab dismissed the Holocaust as a "lie" (while accepting that the Nazis killed "hundreds of thousands" of Jews, but not 6 million), and the Diary of Anne Frank as a "forgery".

Pierre Grassou

Grassou is invited to Ville-d'Avray, where the Vervelle mansion is garishly decorated, and also includes a large collection of Grassou’s work, including the forgery of a Titian.

Pope Sylvester II

The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to Stephen I of Hungary by Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the title 'Apostolic King') is noted by the 19th-century historian Lewis L. Kropf as a possible forgery of the 17th century.

Samuel A. Tannenbaum

He believed the entire account book of the Office of the Master of the Revels was a Collier forgery—an extreme view that has found no other defenders; he was also convinced that Simon Forman's Book of Plays was a Collier forgery, a position that only a minority of commentators support.

Sarah Bakewell

The Smart (Chatto & Windus, 2001; Vintage, 2002) is about an 18th-century forgery trial she came across while working at the Wellcome Library.

Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School

The school was featured on MTV's High School Stories for a student off-campus lunch pass forgery ring.

Tarim mummies

Reference to the Yuezhi name in Guanzi was made around 7th century BCE by the Chinese economist Guan Zhong, though the book is generally considered to be a forgery of later generations.

The Art Fund

In 2006 it was caught out when it was discovered that the Amarna Princess, purportedly an ancient Egyptian sculpture, was actually a forgery by Shaun Greenhalgh.

Thomas Wiggin

This document, which some historians have claimed is a forgery, purports to transfer land along the seacoast of present-day New Hampshire from the local Indians to a group of English colonists led by Reverend John Wheelwright.

Yusuf Bey IV

But after a string of arrests ranging from traffic violations to forgery, grand theft, assault, and kidnapping, he was arrested and charged with ordering the murder of Oakland Post journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was preparing to publish a damaging article about the power struggle inside the bakery and its related businesses, and their impending failure.


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