Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked...

He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds

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The Legend Of the Crystal No-Brainer

The package was addressed to the "MezoAmerican Museum". which isn't real. And the letter said the crystal skull was made by the Aztecs, which isn't true. "Legend of the Crystal Skulls" recounts how the objects captured popular imagination, spawning countless tales, namely, there are 13 such skulls

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Mark Twain’s Amazing Hoax that Deceived the World

In Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Hank Morgan watches his medieval companion wallow with pigs she believes to be enchanted nobles and proclaims, “I was ashamed of her, ashamed of the human race.” Twain’s own shame at the human race’s partiality to superstition and pseudoscience was revealed on a much larger scale by his au

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In Japan, Buddhism May Be Dying Out

When it comes to funerals, though, the Japanese have traditionally been inflexibly Buddhist — so much so that Buddhism in Japan is often called “funeral Buddhism.” That expression describes a religion that, by appearing to cater more to the needs of the dead than to those of the living, is losing its standing in Japanese society.

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