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Green River Star -   May 27, 2021 A French television crew was in Rock Springs and Green River earlier this month, shooting a feature about Sweetwater County history. Headquartered in Paris, Invitation au voyage, (“Invitation to Travel”), which covers international travel, culture, and history, spent the last two weeks in Wyoming, shooting in Cody, Casper, Yellowstone Park, and elsewhere, profiling episodes in Wyoming history. Their subject in Sweetwater County - the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, arguably the greatest criminal swindle of the Old West. Over a two year period, from 1870 to ...

French television crew shoot history features in Wyoming By SweetwaterNow on May 17, 2021 Liza Kroh and Pierre Teullieres of the French television show Invitation au voyage at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum with museum staff member Dick Blust. The team was in Sweetwater County this week shooting a feature about the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. (Photo via Sweetwater Now) GREEN RIVER — A French television crew was in Rock Springs and Green River this week shooting a feature about Sweetwater County history. Headquartered in Paris , Invitation au voyage, (“Invitation to Travel”),...

Save Share From Monday, Jetstar, Qantas and Air New Zealand flights will commence the trans-Tasman bubble, with a number of executives aboard, many on combined business and pleasure, or ‘bleisure’. Unicef CEO Tony Stuart is on the first Qantas flight to Auckland out of Sydney on April 19 – and can’t wait to see his mum in Lake Taupo. She turns 90 next week.   Steven Siewert “I think it’s going to be a bit of a party atmosphere on board,” Stuart said on Friday. “New Zealand-born CEOs in Australia have an informal group going; we call ourselves the ABI...

Sure, some con men are just too good with their schemes. However, some scams (like the ones below) were so obvious that only an idiot would have fallen for them. And guess what? Several did—and ended up paying the price for their gullibility. 10 Hongcheng Magic Liquid In the 1980s, Chinese man Wang Hongcheng claimed that he had invented a magic liquid that turned ordinary water into gasoline. He was just an amateur chemist with no advanced education, but that didn’t stop numerous government agencies (including the military) from believing his claims. By the 1990s, Wang had pilfered about...

Great frauds in history: Philip Arnold’s big diamond hoax Philip Arnold and his cousin John Slack lured investors into their mining company by claiming to have discovered large deposit of diamonds. There were no diamonds. 13 Jan 2021 Philip Arnold was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky in 1829. After serving as a soldier in the Mexican-American War (which saw the US take over California), he became a gold prospector and was successful enough to return to Kentucky and buy a farm. By 1870 he was back in California and working as a prospector when he claimed to have discovered, along with his co...