Stuff You Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Horace de Vere Cole and the Dreadnought Hoax
34 minutes Posted May 10, 2017 at 12:00 am.
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Cole was a lifelong prankster, but none of his stunts could compare with his scheme to gain access to the HMS Dreadnought by getting his friends -- including Virginia Woolf -- to pretend they were Abyssinian royalty.

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