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The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by William Horace de Vere Cole in 1910.

The hoax involved Cole and five friends, including Virginia Woolf, who dressed up in blackface and turbans and posed as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. In these costumes, they managed to talk their way onto a British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought, where they were treated as VIP guests. They spoke a jargon they invented on the fly while aboard.

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