The stolen artworks have not yet been returned to the museum.

Some media estimates have put the value of the stolen artworks at as much as $ 500 million, making the theft the largest single property theft in recorded history.

In 1898, stolen base scoring was narrowed to no longer include advancement in the event of a fielding error, or advancement caused by a hit batsman.

Examples include same difference, jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, and hot ice ( where hot means stolen and ice means diamonds, respectively, in criminal argot ).

Cultural achievements of the Polatsk period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polatsk ( 1120 – 73 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Euphrosyne ", a national symbol and treasure stolen during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turau ( 1130 – 82 ).

Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.

Other episodes include Sheriff McCombs deputy growing marijuana, Darnell ’ s daughter being kidnapped, a wife who kills her husband for beating her, a doctor who kills his wife and his mistress to keep them from talking to each other, a real estate developer being killed in an insurance scam, the return of Emily Trundel, and one of the best episodes of the series “ Family Reunion ” in which, an insurance investigator is on the trail of stolen money and is murdered.

* Forged, illegal, stolen, or confidential documents, which include passports, social security cards, drivers licences, voter registration cards, birth certificates, school documents, medical records, financial information, government license plates, government classified information, or CarFax documents.

In recent years in the United States, some models often on lists of most frequently stolen vehicles include Toyota Camry ( best-selling car in USA ), Honda Civic, Honda Accord, Acura Integra as they are easiest to resell at higher margins.

Examples of specific intent crimes include first degree murder based on premeditation and deliberation, attempts, burglary ( intent to commit larceny ), larceny ( intent to steal ), possession of or receiving stolen property ( intent to steal ), and robbery ( intent to steal ).

Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

Examples include the towing by chain of the broken down locomotive Juggernaut and also the pulling of Mrs Porty's donkey cart when this was temporarily set on the railway tracks to pursue ' robbers ' when Ivor had been ' stolen ' in the episode The Lost Engine ; in this latter case, like a locomotive, Bluebell strictly observed the railway signals, halting the chase until Owen the Signal had raised the signal arm.

Two failed attempts to maintain a live beaver mascot include Bevo Beaver ( rescued from Mary's River in 1921 and later stolen ) and Billy Beaver ( made mascot in 1935, and later fell ill and died ).

Some episodes have even featured the crew performing cons that benefit people they have befriended over the course of the episode rather than having them be the sole benefactors of the con ; examples include them faking a jewel theft from the Tower of London and allowed a member of the cleaning staff to discover it after she showed sympathy for team member Ash Morgan while he was working undercover as an immigrant worker ( Eye of the Beholder ), leaving the money stolen from a highly secure slot machine in a casino to a security guard at the casino who had advised Stacie Monroe during her brief employment ( Big Daddy Calling ), stating that they will ' return ' an apparently stolen painting only after the rights to the security system that protected it had been returned to the wife of the original inventor ( The inventor having committed suicide after he was cheated out of the patent ) ( New Recruits ), and arranging for the niece of a friend to get a modelling contract with an agency that has a rivalry with the company that cheated her out of her money in her original application.

Other technologies include reverse-engineered anti-gravity propulsion systems from a crashed UFO, and modified 105 and 120mm cannons stolen from the ED.

His career statistics for his NAPBBP career include: a batting average of. 252, 69 hits, 52 runs scored, 42 RBIs, nine doubles, three triples, and five stolen bases in 60 games.

Other reported experiences include the sighting of a glowing cross on the wall, and the hearing of distant music or the ringing of the stolen bells.

Major published items include Unemployment, ( 1979 ), which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response ; The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia, ( 1984 ), on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media ; The Killing of History, ( 1994 ), a critique of postmodernism in history ; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, ( 2002 ), which accuses a number of Australian historians of falsifying and inventing the degree of violence in the past ; The White Australia Policy, ( 2004 ), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of racism in Australian history ; and The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, which argues the story of the " stolen generations " of Aboriginal children is a myth.

Services that the racketeers may offer may include the recovery of stolen property or punishing vandals.

Although Thor was able to defeat Electro by hurling him into the upper atmosphere, thanks to their use of the stolen objects, the remaining five members of the Sinister Six successfully subdue the Avengers ( which include Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Red Hulk ) leaving only Spider-Man standing.

Until the second half of the 18th century, watches were luxury items ; as an indication of how highly they were valued, English newspapers of the 18th century often include advertisements offering rewards of between one and five guineas merely for information that might lead to the recovery of stolen watches.

Remnants of this period include abandoned railroad pilings in Siskiwit Lake and a legend of stolen gold on Gold Hill at the southeastern edge of the community.

The benefits, they say, include its ability to aid police in tracking down stolen vehicles ; contacting emergency medical services in case of an accident ( should the driver request this or be non-responsive ); notifying drivers of potentially dangerous mechanical problems ; emails are sent to owners that give a diagnostics of their vehicle every month if subscribed to ; and unlocking doors for drivers ( after verifying authorization over the phone ) should their keys be misplaced or locked inside their car.

Other sources of stolen copper include railroad signal lines, grounding bars at electric substations, and even a 3000 pound bell stolen from a Buddhist temple in Tacoma, Washington, which was later recovered.

The theft was referenced in The Simpsons episode " American History X-cellent ," in which one of the stolen works, The Concert by Vermeer, is found in the collection of Mr. Burns.

Statues and other monuments that stood there were stolen, mostly by the waves of Crusaders.

some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed ; ;

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

The urn is stolen by alien robots, as the burnt stump inside is part of a key needed to unlock the " Wikkit Gate " and release an imprisoned world called Krikkit.

* 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

A man with the same name as those given by the FBI turned up alive in Saudi Arabia, saying that he had studied at the University of Denver and his passport was stolen there in 1995.

Again a classic of Renaissance literature was the basis of the libretto by Boccherini, in this case a comic mock-epic by Tassoni, in which a war between Modena and Bologna ensues over a stolen bucket.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

One of the neighboring houses is owned by Marcus Lycus, who is a buyer and seller of beautiful women ; the other belongs to the ancient Erronius, who is abroad searching for his long-lost children ( stolen in infancy by pirates ).

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

( SB ) divided by ( SBA )( stolen bases attempted ).

In baseball statistics, stolen bases are denoted by “ SB ”.

Defensive indifference is generally only scored instead of a stolen base when the game is in a late inning and the team with the stealing baserunner is down by more than one run.

The scoring and criteria for awarding a stolen base to a runner are covered by rule 10. 07 of the Major League Baseball rule book.

The stolen base remained a popular tactic through the 1980s, perhaps best exemplified by Vince Coleman and the St. Louis Cardinals, but began to decline again in the 1990s as the frequency of home runs reached unprecedented heights and the steal-friendly artificial turf ballparks began to disappear.

The first mention of the stolen base, in a statistical sense was in the 1877 scoring rules adopted by the National League which noted credit toward a player's total bases when a base is stolen.

In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.