In the early hours of March 18th, 1990, two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

The problem was, they weren't police officers. They were thieves.

In a little over an hour, they stole 13 valuable works of art which had a combined value of over 500 million dollars.

It was the largest robbery in American history.

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trial of skill share premium. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was not

surprisingly founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner. She was a very wealthy woman who lived in Boston and had a very large art collection.

She was known to be a very eccentric woman who would flout the upper class conventions of the

Boston elite.

She famously showed up to a concert of the Boston

Symphony Orchestra in 1912 with a white hat band that said,

Oh you Red Sox! That was a really big deal at the time and caused much clutching of pearls and fainting.

She was born into money, was married into money, and inherited a lot of money.

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