In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon

The began on August 25, 1835, when The Sun, a New York newspaper, ran the first of six articles “about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon,” falsely attributed to the astronomer Sir John Herschel. — Read the rest The post appeared first on .

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