The story of Inês De Castro is so iconic and so well known in Portugal that once you've read it, you wonder why it isn't known as well as Romeo and Juliet. And they were fictional characters! Inês De...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/22/Ins-De-Castro-The-Skeleton-Queen/The first World's Fair I recall reading about was Expo '67 in Montreal. It seemed so exciting, and I wanted to go, but I was just a kid. Then when the 1982 World's Fair launched in Knoxville, I lived relatively close by,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/22/Whatever-Happened-to-the-Worlds-Fair/Financial crimes can be irresistible to the greedy and the desperate, and there have always been an awful lot of greedy or desperate people. Victor Lustig got away with so many schemes because he conned people who were w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/22/The-Con-Man-Who-Sold-the-Eiffel-Tower/
