In 1821, Gregor MacGregor made a fortune off of European elites by selling them shares in his fake utopia — then got off scot-free.National Portrait GalleryGregor MacGregor, Prince of his fabricated kingdom of Poyais.
As Europe raced to conquer vast tracts of undiscovered land in the Americas, a Scottish conman named Gregor MacGregor hatched a plan to capitalize on the lucrative colonization game.
In 1821, MacGregor fabricated a colony called Poyais on the Bay of Honduras in Central America and scammed the British into investing in it. Read More...
For nearly two centuries, Australia pursued deliberate policies of extermination against the native people that have left scars visible to this day.Wikimedia Commons
Writing about the two months he spent in Australia during the around-the-world voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin recollected this about what he saw there:
Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal. We may look to the wide extent of the Americas, Polynesia, the Cape of Good Hope, and Australia, and we find the same result… Read More...
Outrage has grown across India as many have viewed the teen's punishment as too lenient, with family members of the victims calling for the cancellation of his bail.NDTVThe damaged Porsche involved in the accident.
After a 17-year-old Indian teenager allegedly killed two people while driving his Porsche drunk and ramming it into a motorcycle, the court granted him bail on a single condition: that he “write an essay” about the incident. Read More...
