The sight was really not for the faint-hearted. Behind the glass there was a creature that did not resemble a mermaid (as we used to imagine - half-woman, half-fish). It was some kind of hybrid, with the upper part resembling a humanoid creature and the lower part - a fish.

The name of an international criminal, retired cornet Savin, also known as the Count de Toulouse-Lautrec, for many years did not leave the newspaper pages of Europe, Russia and the world. Nikolai Savin lived a long and turbulent life filled with high-profile scandals and scams, for which he served a total of 25 years in prison - he believed in his own fantasies.

In the 80-90 years of the XIX century in the American city of San Francisco lived a world-famous cheat named George Keplinger. Even now he is considered a genius at card cheats. The biography of this man is almost unknown, but he became famous in the world as a player of the highest level. The talents of this man manifested themselves exclusively in one area - the card game. In it he was an ace, a true professional. 

Frederick Waldo Demara, nicknamed "The Great Impostor", was a man who spent his entire life pretending to be someone else. He had virtually no education, but managed to try himself in many professions, and very successfully. He himself said about his life that it was a fraud and nothing more.....