So what if they were drafty and crawling with bugs?
Ghosts in white sheets have become a classic Halloween icon, but where did this costume actually begin?
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock
-Thomas Jefferson
In 1911, a former Louvre employee perpetrated one of the greatest art heists in history.
In most cases, millions of dollars worth of diamonds, gems and watches remain largely unrecovered.
Thieves stole 13 masterpieces worth $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. The case remains unsolved.
Payne, deciding she was ‘never going to be under the thumb of a man,’ took to a life of crime and mastered the jewel heist.
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