heist
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In 2011 a group of Quebecers pulled off what has come to be known as the Great Maple Syrup Heist, “the most valuable theft in the history of Canada.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Ratner has no glaring ties to Trump, however, the director used Trump International Hotel & Tower as the primary location for his thriller "Tower Heist" in 2011.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025
It has “all the markings of a really well-thought-out job” performed by a “professional crew,” according to Scott Andrew Selby, co-author of “Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
England started by winning the first Test, the so-called Heist of Hyderabad, but are ending with a drubbing in Dharamsala.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024
Scheltema, a very competent judge in matters of Dutch art chronology, supposes that Van der Heist was a resident at Amsterdam in 1636.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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