Ernest Hemingway’s Brother Tried To Make Half Of A Raft Into A Country

21/07/2021 3 min Temporada 3 Episodio 578

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Like his famous brother Ernest, who was born today in 1899, Leicester Hemingway was a novelist and a storyteller. But Leicester did something even Ernest never did: he created his own micronation. Here's the story of the Republic of New Atlantis. Plus: back in 1958, a farmer in Florida made his first payment on a new Chevrolet in an unusual way. 
Contents of a country: Leicester Hemingway’s Republic of New Atlantis (University of Texas)
Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1958 (TIME)
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