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Who was the most successful thief in history (that we know of)?
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Who was the most successful thief in history (that we know of)? Can be thieves that were identified or thieves that were never identified, but whose crimes were noticed.
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Probably some art theft
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>>1194051
Queen Victoria
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Alexander the Great
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>>1194051
The Brits are the greatest thieves in all of history.
As an example, stole all of their culinary traditions from other cultures. Tea is from China, and the Brits stole it and now claim it's an essential ingredient to "Britishness". They stole curry from the Indians. Even fucking battered fish, aka the key ingredient of fish and chips, was stolen from Sephardic Jews who moved to England in the 17th century.
This isn't even getting into their stealing of ancient culturally-significant archeological artefacts.
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>>1194051
>Who was the most successful thief in history (that we know of)?
Government.
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>>1194325
You boring bastards, he means career criminal thieves. Oceans 11 shit, not some monarch who had an army that looted.
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>>1194325
So edgy.
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Just off the top of my head-

Probably Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy
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Who developed the first 60 dollar game with microtransactions?
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The United States government
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>>1194325

>Give back the Parthenon galleries!
>You stole it from us after we blew the damn thing up because munitions storage! Why would you take it!?
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>>1194051
Enrico Dandolo
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>>1195012
It's the Venetians who blew up the Parthenon, dumbfuck.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7538617/Paris-robbers-tunnel-into-bank-and-steal-from-200-vaults.html

Still haven't been caught.
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>>1194051
Based Ronald Biggs
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>>1194051

Don't know about thief but the greatest trick ever pulled was the tans, after doing everything the nazis ever did and worse, for far longer, weren't every bit as bad as them, even appearing on the side of """"good"""" to some
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>>1197726

The who? The Communists? The US?
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[meme answer]
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>>1194983
Or just the first microtransaction game
>for FREE you can pay us money small bits at a time!!
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>>1194051
not sure if this is the best but it must come close (not thief in this case, but thieves instead, btw)
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>>1198779
whoops, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Panthers
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>>1194051
The Venetian merchant who stole St. Mark's corpse of the Mohammedans in Alexandria and brought it to Venice.
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>>1195059
A Swede actually.
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Obongo stole the white house (the world)
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>>1194051
The government.
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>>1194051
Jimmy Conway

Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_heist
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>>1194051
the american goverment
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>>1194051
THey wouldnt be a very good thief if we knew their name.

*Tips Fedora*
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>>1194325
No British person claims curry is British. Most curry restaurants in the UK are run by Indians...
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>>1194325
And how much do you want to bet those cultures stole it from some other culture
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>>1194325
This is accurate

They stole North America as well
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The crafty shits who made up the Donation of Constantine.
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>>1194051
Columbus
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>>1194325

They appropriated.

Good on them.
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I don't know about successful, but I learned that in the 80s some guys helicoptered into town, robbed a bank and took off. I think they were caught, I don't remember.
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