Bunk (band)
Bunk may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Nickname, given name or stage name * Bunk Congalton (1875–1937), Canadian Major League Baseball player * Bunk Henderson, American Negro league catcher in 1925 * Bunk Johnson (1879–1949), New Orleans jazz trumpeter * Oscar Requer (), nicknamed "The Bunk", a former Baltimore police detective upon whom the character Bunk Moreland (see below) is based * Bunk Gardner, stage name of American musician John Leon Guarnera (born 1933), a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention Surname * Carsten Bunk (born 1960), German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics * Leo Bunk (born 1962), German former footballer * Tom Bunk (born 1945), American cartoonist Arts and entertainment * Bunk (TV series), ''Bunk'' (TV series), a 2012 television show on the Independent Film Channel * "Bunk", an episode of the television series CSI: Miami (season 1), ''CSI: Miami'' (season 1) * Bunk (book), ''Bunk'' (book), a 2017 book by Kevin Young * Bun ...
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Bunk Congalton
William Millar "Bunk" Congalton (January 24, 1875 – August 19, 1937) was a Canadian right fielder in Major League Baseball. A native of Guelph, Ontario, he stood 5'11" and weighed 190 lbs. Congalton was a minor league star who twice led the Western Association in batting average (baseball), batting average. He reached the major leagues at the age of 27 with the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Orphans, then was back in the big leagues three years later with the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Naps. He was fourth in the American League in 1906 with a .320 batting average, and also ranked in the league's top ten for on-base percentage (.361), slugging percentage (.396), and home runs (3). Playing for Cleveland and the Boston Red Sox, Boston Americans in 1907, his .282 average was tenth-best in the league. Congalton died at the age of 62 in Cleveland, Ohio after suffering a myocardial infarction, heart attack the previous Sunday at a Cleveland Indians game. He was interred at the Crown H ...
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Bunk (book)
''Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News'' is a 2017 book by Kevin Young that examines the history of hoaxes and fake news Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and hoaxes) claiming the aesthetics and legitimacy of news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person ...

History
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives of several sources to develop a ...
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