Thursday, December 12, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

by Bob Walsh

In 1901 the first trans-Atlantic radio message was sent.

In 1913 the Mona Lisa, which had been stolen two years previously, was recovered in a ratty hotel room in Florence occupied by a former employee of the Louvre museum who had been believed to be in on the theft. To this day many people believe the recovered painting is in fact a forgery and the real one is in a very private collection somewhere.

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