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Gregor MacGregor’s fake country
The wildest part of Gregor MacGregor’s scam is not that he invented a country. The wildest part is that he invented one in a form people were already primed to trust. Early nineteenth-century Britain ...
Gregor MacGregor, equal parts swindler and sociopath, promised farmers a paradise where three corn crops could be grown in a single year. One agriculture fraud to rule them all. In an 8-million-acre ...
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