Meet Dennis Hope: The unemployed man who claimed the Moon, sold 611 million acres and made millions from $19.95 lunar plots |
For centuries, owning land has meant having a place that can be measured, divided and legally transferred. Dennis Hope thought he had found an exception. In the late 20th century, while considering how to make money from property, the unemployed American turned his attention away from land on Earth and towards the moon. He had…