{"id":111840,"date":"2017-11-28T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:14:21","slug":"the-man-who-broke-bank-at-monte-carlo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-man-who-broke-bank-at-monte-carlo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Broke The Bank at Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charles Wells was a very dubious inventor. <\/div>\n
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Wells born sometime around 1860 duped people into investing in far-fetched inventions, among them a musical skipping rope. He was successful enough to buy a yacht equipped with a ballroom and church organ. In 1892, he sailed in it to Monte Carlo, where he had a spectacular win of 16,000 pounds at the casino and was later dubbed \u2018the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.\u2019 The attendant notoriety alerted disgruntled former investors to his whereabouts and he was sentenced to 8 years hard labour. On his release, he invented a lifebelt, which was demonstrated by a defrocked clergyman,<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Wells was a very dubious inventor.  Wells born sometime around 1860 duped people into investing in far-fetched inventions, among them a musical skipping rope. He was successful enough to buy a yacht equipped with a ballroom and church organ. In 1892, he sailed in it to Monte Carlo, where he had a spectacular win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t