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HISTOR!CA
  • July 29, 1874

    Politician James Woodsworth, who was first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, was born at Etobicoke, Ont.

  • July 29, 1898

    The last spike was driven on the White Pass and Yukon Railway, from Skagway to Whitehorse.

MASTERMINDS III | Art of Double Dealing, the
Starting in 1990, New York art dealer Ely Sakhai created an ingenious and audacious system to sell multiple forged copies of paintings by such greats as Chagall, Renoir, Modigliani, Monet, Rembrandt and others. After unloading his forgeries on the unsuspecting Asian market for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop, he then turned around and sold the original paintings to the savvy dealers in New York . Sakhai kept his operation invisible for a staggering fourteen years, and made himself over 10 million dollars in the process.
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