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A Moment in History: The Ghost Army that Scared the Nazis!

After that, they continued setting up inflatable “tanks”, dummy planes and vehicles, fictitious radio transmissions, and vehicle-mounted speakers that played pre-recorded sounds of battle and troops moving.

These Old Photos Show a Fascinating Side of History

Test dummies, Nevada’s atomic bomb test site, 1950s. The Disney brothers, Roy and Walt, opening Disney Studios, 1923. The last inmates of Alcatraz leaving the famous prison in 1963. The Quagga, an extinct animal related to the zebra, South Africa, late 19th century.

Museum of the Weird: 15 Fascinating Finds

Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin made these dummy soap heads, which they tucked into their beds to fool the night guards during their successful escape from Alcatraz Penitentiary in June 1962. Image source: r idiculously_interesting 12. 

Check Out These Rare and Fascinating Antonyms!

Placebo As you likely know, the placebo effect refers to an improvement in a patient’s condition after they were given sugar pills or any other “dummy” medication or treatment. In Latin, placebo means “I shall please.”

15 Latin Phrases We Use to This Day Without Even Realizing

Apart from that, the term is sometimes used as a fancy way to call someone a dummy, although this use is mostly obsolete today. 15.

The Most Successful Hoaxes In History

In 2006, Santill confessed that he had shot the film himself with a homemade dummy.

The Invisible War: Deception and Espionage in WWII

Operation Fortitude South: The Phantom Army That Guarded Calais Dummy landing craft used as decoys in south-eastern harbors before D-Day. (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) To ensure the Normandy landings went as planned, the Allies devised a clever scheme known as Operation Fortitude South.