Channel: Zepherus

Category: Education

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Description: The story of a group of students trying to fool their mayor into thinking they were the royals of a far-off African land - and it working. WATCH PART 2 HERE - youtube.com/watch?v=2Qqz6ekyOCU Topic suggested (sort of) by Chachenhouser. Got a video idea? Let me know below. Zepherus Discord: discord.gg/VK5dk3V Zepherus Twitter: twitter.com/ZepherusYT Image credits: By Oliver Woodford - Radcliffe Camera, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6202633 By Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32835497 By: Harland Quarrington DDef Pub Pho/MOD, OGL, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26911355 By: IWM, © (HU 124255) Sources: Primarily 'The Dreadnought Hoax' (1936) by Adrian Stephen, but also... creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/guildhall-and-market-square cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/guildhall/about-guildhall british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp116-122#h3-0005 britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1905-01-01/1905-12-31?basicsearch=zanzibar%20hoax&somesearch=zanzibar%20hoax&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=score&page=2 cambridge.gov.uk/the-mayor shootingparrots.co.uk/2017/01/25/c-is-for-horace-de-vere-cole archive.org/details/b21687456 and miscellaneous other sites. Ask me if the one you're looking for isn't here and I'll happily give it to you. Also, surprised you scrolled down this far. Thanks for watching.