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of the hoax will now have a set of false beliefs about the past. Only if a searcher returns to this article, or one derived from it, can the hoax be discovered. There remain other references to the so-called pirate, even within
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students may have thought what they were doing was instructive, but they quickly lost control of the information. So
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