Throughout history, many crimes have been described as the “crime of the century.”These come with Lindbergh’s kidnapping, Tate-Labianca’s murders and the O.J.Simpson case, for calling some great ones.However, not all crimes of the century fear murder and sex.Sometimes it’s about fraud and fashion theft.Here are five of his stories.
Piltdown’s Man’s Deception
The concept that human beings, as we are now, “descend from monkeys” is excessive simplification in a much deeper way than evolution shows us having unusual ancestors.Despite this, there is a fake fossil called Eoanthropus dawsoni that purported to be the “missing link” between us and the rest of our primate family.Called the Piltdown Man, he learned through Charles Dawson in 1912 in Piltdown, Sussex.
Dawson, an amateur archaeologist who is guilty of various deceptions, however, his maxim was noticed and lasting.When this skull was discovered, its validity was accepted through the clinical network in England at the time.It was even referenced in the unnotated Scopes Monkey Trial.
The Piltdown-type deception began to collapse when more Huguy fossils were discovered in the 1930s.When you compare the fossil Dawson had discovered with them, you may see that the Piltdown Man fossil had been altered from that of a 10-year-old fossil.old orangutan, with his teeth crushed and bones chemically changed to look older.
In 1953 it was revealed that it was a fraud, however, it did great damage to the clinical network at the time because many scientists had used this “lost link” as evidence on their own.Works.
Barings Bank Cave
Founded in 1762, Barings Bank had a reputation for being the oldest investment bank in the world and the oldest in expensive England.Even Queen Bess II kept her cash there. But in 1995, the collapse of the bank would mean a loss.1.6 billion pounds in cash today, how did this happen?
Baby fraud.
Nick Leeson was the leading derivatives trader at Barings; had temporarily ascended to the corporation and had one of its stars.According to Time, “at one point, his speculations accounted for 10% of Barings’ profits.”He then bankrupt him by making fraudulent and unauthorized transactions.
He risked large sums of cash on the Japanese stock market, thinking it would increase; however, he did not expect the great earthquake in Kobe on January 17, 1995, which caused a market collapse and Leeson with him.much cash he took care of, not only of him, but of Barings himself.The bank eventually bought through the Dutch for a pound sterling.
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So what do you think of when a bank that is many years old at the age of twenty-eight goes bankrupt?
See… Leeson was sentenced to six and a half years in Changi’s criminal in Singapore, then released in 1999 after having cancer.He wrote an e-book about it that became a film starring Ewan McGregor.Oh, and he at UK Celebrity Big Brother 2018, where he finished fourth.
Stealing the Mona Lisa
People are obsessed with this woman and her smile, which continues, but still, in 1911, the obsession reached new heights when she was robbed of her home at the Louvre in Paris, France.
Borders have been closed. Pablo Picasso, concerned about the crime, spent months and everyone feared that one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest iconic works, the ninja turtle, was destroyed, news broke from Italy that a guy named Vincenzo Perugia had gone to Florence with the Mona Lisa in a trunk, “hidden under a false background.”
He had asked for a compliment of 500, 000 lire. You see, Perugia believed that the Mona Lisa had been stolen from other Italian people through Napoleon, so in her brain she simply brought the image to Florence, where she “was born”.The Italians flooded the Uffizi Gallery in Florence where I hung, crying in plain sight, which is a lot, however, I cried watching Dragon Ball Z last night, so for each of them.
The Louvre, however, recovered Florence’s painting, and Perugia only spent a few months in crime because the other Italian people weren’t crazy about all that.
Since then, Mona has been to France.
Brinks work
There’s a quote attributed to Groucho Marx where he allegedly said Judy Garland wasted her Oscar in favor of Grace Kelly, the “biggest flight since Brinks.”Well, here’s a context for that quote.
On January 17, 1950, an armed men’s organization stormed Brinks’ Boston headquarters, stealing “$1,218,211.29 in money and $1,557,183.83 in checks, arrest warrants, and other warranties.”FBI, the thieves seemed to just disappear.
According to witnesses at the site, “they were all dressed in military huts, gloves and driver’s hats.Each thief’s face was absolutely hidden behind a Halloween mask.”Everything about the flight showed careful elaboration of plans and studies on the component of those involved.Mafia members who were destined to be guilty of the robbery were victims of infighting, especially Joseph “Specs” O’Keefe, who felt he had not won his fair share.
Although O’Keefe eventually opposed them and many went to prison, the cash was never recovered.
The flight of “The Scream”
Now, to art.
We all know Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” his German call is Der Schrei der Natur.It has been reprinted in countless socks and is probably one of the first memes.On August 22, 2004, the portrait was stolen for the time being, along with Munch’s lesser-known work, “Madonna”.The gunmen almost ripped them off the walls and walked away, prompting a great search for portraits.
Unlike the previous art heists, there seemed to be no genuine reason for this theft other than chaos.It took two years to get the art back. Many feared that the works had been burned, but that they had been damaged by negligence.were largely intact.
According to Smithsonian Mag, many were stolen to distract police from investigating the murder of a Norwegian policeman, hence claims that thieves seemed clumsy and even abandoned art on the way out.
Both had to be restored and in May 2008, both were put back into their new broken forms.
The symbol presented is: “Group portrait of Piltdown’s skull revision.Back (left to right): FOBarlow, G.Eliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward.Front row: ASUnderwood, Arthur Keith, WPPycraft and Ray Lankester.Look at Charles Darwin’s portrait on the wall.Painting through John Cooke, 1915.”
(Image: John Cooke / Public Domain)
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