On the day before his wedding, Latvian Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by Agnes Scuffs on the grounds that he was too poor. Traumatised, Ed left Latvia and, after spells in...

No, not the same Deering who built Vizcaya, but close. The Deering Estate was, in fact, set up and built by James's similarly well-off brother Charles, who erected his own...