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Once, Twice, Three Times an Art Crime: Theft of "Two Laughing Boys"

Ridiculous Crime

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The Netherlands Beat the Soviet Union at the UEFA Euro Championship

Two paintings by Dutch masters Franz Hall's and Jakob von Ruzdell were stolen at gunpoint from a small museum early Thursday. The couple who live in the premises was released unharmed, she said. A canvas by Hall's entitled The Laughing Boys with the Beer Mug worth at least $438,000 is believed to have been taken. In 1988 an infamous Dutch drug lord named Klaus Bruinsman made it his full time job selling hash,. hashish, compressed cannabis concentrate. By 1988 he was pulling in the equivalent of $500,000 a day - almost $1.3 million today.

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