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Joice Heth
Type: Show-business hoax.    Summary: An elderly black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. A pamphlet advertising the exhibition of Joice HethJoice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161 year…

Princess Caraboo
Type: Impostor Summary: A nineteenth-century British maid pretended to be a princess from the exotic land of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, by Edward BirdOn Thursday April 3, 1817, a strange woman appeared in Almondsbury, a small town near Bristol in Gloucestershire, England. She was five foot two, extremely attractive, and wore…
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