Harry Grindell Matthews
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Harry Grindell Matthews was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s.
Matthews in 1924
1925 photo that purports to show a night demonstration of the ray on the island of Flat Holm
Ganna Walska
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Ganna Walska was a Polish opera singer and garden enthusiast who created the Lotusland botanical gardens at her mansion in Montecito, California. Ganna Walska was a coloratura soprano with a vocal ran
Harry Grindell Matthews
…airfield. In 1935, Matthews claimed that he worked on aerial mines and, in 1937, invented a system for detecting submarines. In 1938, Matthews married Ganna Walska, a Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, and feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totalling $125,000,000. In 1935, Matthews…
Passport photo of Ganna Walska (1920)
Ganna Walska after her marriage to Harold F. McCormick
Mansion entrance at Lotusland