August 21, 1911. On a Monday morning, a department store employee on a Paris street sees a man hurrying by. He carries a white-wrapped package and, as the employee watches, he throws something small and shiny over his shoulder...it's a doorknob. Then the man disappears into the streets of Paris. That store employee has just witnessed a small part of what will soon become the world's most famous crime. In that white-wrapped package was...the Mona Lisa. Why has the Mona Lisa enchanted so many people since the 1500s? And how did a struggling Italian handyman manage to steal it? Podcast [28:00] (Aired August 16,2021)

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• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)