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• ... that '''[[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]]''' wrote to the British Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, offering his services, but they declined; and that Crowley associated with a variety of figures in Britain's intelligence community at the time, including Dennis Wheatley, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and Maxwell Knight; and that Crowley claimed to have been behind the "V for Victory" sign first used by the BBC, although this has never been proven? | |||
• ... that astronomer, lens-maker, and scientist '''[[Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|Geminiano Montanari]]''' (1 June 1633 – 13 October 1687) taught astronomy at the observatory of Panzano, near Modena, where one of his duties was to compile an astrological almanac; and that he did so in 1665, but perpetrated a deliberate hoax by writing the almanac entirely at random, to show that predictions made by chance were as likely to be fulfilled as those made by astrology? | • ... that astronomer, lens-maker, and scientist '''[[Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|Geminiano Montanari]]''' (1 June 1633 – 13 October 1687) taught astronomy at the observatory of Panzano, near Modena, where one of his duties was to compile an astrological almanac; and that he did so in 1665, but perpetrated a deliberate hoax by writing the almanac entirely at random, to show that predictions made by chance were as likely to be fulfilled as those made by astrology? | ||
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• ... that Aleister Crowley wrote to the British Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, offering his services, but they declined; and that Crowley associated with a variety of figures in Britain's intelligence community at the time, including Dennis Wheatley, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and Maxwell Knight; and that Crowley claimed to have been behind the "V for Victory" sign first used by the BBC, although this has never been proven?
• ... that astronomer, lens-maker, and scientist Geminiano Montanari (1 June 1633 – 13 October 1687) taught astronomy at the observatory of Panzano, near Modena, where one of his duties was to compile an astrological almanac; and that he did so in 1665, but perpetrated a deliberate hoax by writing the almanac entirely at random, to show that predictions made by chance were as likely to be fulfilled as those made by astrology?