Dinesh's photos with the keyword: The Delusion of the Crowds

Image : Wikipedia -- public domain plates by S.G. Hughes and H. Pyall after T. Bury, plates watermarked "J. Whatman, 1831" - Bonhams hand-coloured aquatint plate from Drawing Made on the Spot

"The South Sea Bubble, a Scene in 'Change Alley in 1720,' " painting by Edward Matthew Ward, 1847. Digital Photograph: Photo - 'Tate Gallelry, London'

In 1948, Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Jerusalem front commander, dressed himself in Arab garb and traveled by car with his opposite number, Abdulla el-Tell, picture in the above photograph, to Amman for talks with the Jordan King Wikimedia Commons

This 1720 Dutch cartoon depicts John Law as Don Quixote. Courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard University

Jan Bockelson had charisma and theatrical skills that propelled him into the leadership of the catastrophic 1534-1535 Munster end-times rebellion (Courtesy Stadimuseum Munster)