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  2. Anna Faris - Wikipedia

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    Anna Kay Faris (/ ˈ f æ r ɪ s /; born November 29, 1976) is an American actress, podcaster, comedian and singer. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006).

  3. There Are No Fakes - Wikipedia

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    There Are No Fakes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2019. Starting with musician Kevin Hearn's lawsuit against the Maslak McLeod Gallery after being informed that a Norval Morrisseau painting he had purchased appeared to be a forgery, the film expands into an exposé of a significant art fraud ring that has produced many fake Morrisseau paintings ...

  4. Fads, Fakes, and Frauds - Wikipedia

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    Aptly titled Fads, Fakes, and Frauds, in his book Dr Witkowski provides us with a series of hard hitting, highly skeptical essays on a wide range of issues of contemporary concern. These include our understanding and treatment of mental health problems, including suicide and self-harm; placebo and nocebo in medicine; the quality of scientific ...

  5. Antrea Net - Wikipedia

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    Discovered. 1913. Kamennogorsk, Leningrad, Russia. Discovered by. Antti Virolainen. The Antrea Net is one of the oldest known fishing nets in the world, found from Karelian isthmus in Antrea, in Korpilahti village in 1913. It is dated to 8540 BCE. [1] The net was found by farmer Antti Virolainen in Antrea, Finland (today Kamennogorsk, Russia ...

  6. Frank Abagnale - Wikipedia

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    Frank William Abagnale Jr. ( / ˈæbəɡneɪl /; born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant, author, and convicted felon who committed frauds that mainly targeted individuals and small businesses. [1] [2] [3] He later gained notoriety in the late 1970s by claiming a diverse range of workplace frauds, [4] many of which have since ...

  7. Julian Assange - Wikipedia

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    Julian Paul Assange (/ ə ˈ s ɑː n ʒ / ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning: footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars ...

  8. Head fake - Wikipedia

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    In sports, a head fake is a type of feint in which someone moves the head to fake an intended change in direction and thereby deceive opponents. [1] The term originated in sports, but it has become applied metaphorically in other senses. In financial markets, a head fake refers to a time when the market appears to be moving in one direction ...

  9. Deepfake - Wikipedia

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    Technology steadily improved during the 20th century, and more quickly with the advent of digital video . Deepfake technology has been developed by researchers at academic institutions beginning in the 1990s, and later by amateurs in online communities. [19] [20] More recently the methods have been adopted by industry.