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Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871 (5)

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Journalist and editor of the New York Sun; known for a literary hoax pertaining to lunar discoveries. Writer. Locke was a friend of Edgar Allan Poe and became famous for his controversy with P.T. Barnum over the authenticity of the curios in Barnum's Museum, and for his own 'Moon Hoax', a piece in which he contended that he made a 'Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings'. The 'Moon Hoax' was published in 1835. Loc...

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