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Teen Who Scammed Wall Street 🧼😱

4 Jun 2025 1 minute read 4 comments TrevorBalthrop

Teen Who Scammed Wall Street with a Fake Carpet Cleaning Company🧼😱 At just 16 years old, Barry Minkow wasn’t worried about homework or high school drama. He was too busy scamming millions out of investors on Wall Street.   In 1982, Barry launched...

What The Tech?! Penicillen

31 May 2025 6 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

As we’ve explored this series, we’ve gone to great lengths to explain that the “tech” that changed our world isn’t always electronic. As such, we’ve explored railways, steam engines and other pieces of technology that aren’t electronic at all!  In to...

The Proof is in the Woes

30 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

In previous articles I have covered what undesigned coincidences are and why they matter, and then several such undesigned coincidences in the retellings of the feeding of the 5000 - Here, and here, and also here.  Here's yet another one from the sam...

Pratappur Zamindar Bari: A Silent Witness of History

29 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Taherul Islam

Bangladesh is a land rich in historical heritage. Many palaces built during the reigns of kings, emperors, and zamindars in the Indian subcontinent still stand today as silent witnesses to history. For nearly 200 years, the British ruled this region,...

He Scammed Wall Street With Salad Oil 🥗💸

27 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments TrevorBalthrop

The $180 Million Salad Oil Swindle That Shook Wall Street In the early 1960s, a little-known con artist named Tino De Angelis pulled off one of the most bizarre and devastating financial frauds in U.S. history—using nothing more than soybean oil, wa...

Counting to a Miracle

24 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

As I mentioned in my last article, we still haven't emptied out the undesigned coincidences in the accounts of the feeding of the 5000. I have already covered a couple, but there's yet another one, just surrounding this event. So, have you ever wonde...

Glass House

22 May 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Glass House, as it came to be known over time, was a memorable and dare I say even legendary residence located at the corner of Mulford Avenue and McClain Road. Well, the house is still there, of course – it’s just that the people and circumstances...

What The Tech?! Laptop Computers

17 May 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

The laptop would help humanity take computing on the go. Technology has helped to shape our modern world in a myriad of different ways, and one of the biggest indicators of this trend has been the meteoric rise of computing devices in all shapes and...

The Woman Who Invented Ponzi Schemes BEFORE Ponzi! 🤑

16 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments TrevorBalthrop

The Woman Who Invented Ponzi Schemes BEFORE Ponzi! 🤑 YouTube Short Link 🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/MoK0oCKvGXo?si=LtCTw6k3CczUOZq7   Before Charles Ponzi became synonymous with financial fraud, Sarah Howe pioneered the Ponzi scheme blueprint in...

Victorian's Midnight Cafe

15 May 2025 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Victorian’s Midnight Cafe was a former…well, I’m not even sure what you’d call it, but it sure was something. A cafe, yes, I suppose, and definitely located in Victorian’s Village, in Columbus Ohio. And though I was certainly there past midnig...