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Zooming through the sky
100
Before her death, she was charged with many crimes, including orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, planning the massacre of the National Guards in 1792, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and incest .
Marie Antoinette
100
His number, 99, is the only one retired across the entire NHL
Wayne Gretzky
100
Found in Hunefer's tomb, it's a page from this book.
Book of the Dead
100
This famous piece was stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia in 1911 to take back to Italy, but was returned to France two years later
The Mona Lisa
100
This plane is the most produced US jet airliner at over 12,000 produced since 1967.
Boeing 737
200
Lasting a mere 5 years (1789-1794), this political club was anti-royalist and very influential.
The Jacobin Club (or Society of the Friends of the Constitution)
200
15 years into his playing career, this hockey player decided to also go into the restaurant business, opening his first donut shop in Ontario in 1964.
Tim Horton
200
Unlike most mosques, the Hagia Sophia still depicts human and animal figures, as it was originally a church built by this Byzantine Emperor.
Justinian 1
200
Occurring just a couple days ago, the total worth of the stolen jewels from the Louvre is estimated to be worth this much, although it could be less if the pieces are broken down.
€88 million or $102.3 million
200
This plane became famous in pop culture due to its prominence in Top Gun.
F-14 Tomcat
300
Lasting 10 months, the Reign of Terror resulted in the deaths of this many people by execution (with and without trial) and imprisonment.
35,000-45,000
300
Known as "The Russian Machine" and "The Great Eight" this Washington Capitals player scored goal number 895 in April in order to become the record holder for most goals in the NHL
Alexander Ovechkin
300
The Horse in Motion, a series of photographs captured by Eadweard Muybridge through the use of multiple cameras and trip wires, was taken in order to prove this.
If, when a horse gallops, all of its legs come off the ground
300
Estimated to be worth over $250 million and stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, "The Concert," is one of only 34 attributed to this Dutch Baroque painter.
Johannes Vermeer
300
This B-9 Superfortress bomber was used by the US to drop the "Little Boy" Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
The Enola Gay
400
This revolutionary famously said "Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts"
Maximilien Robespierre
400
This former Boston Bruins captain (right) was traded to the Florida Panthers last season, and is famous for being a "rat". His hijinks include licking opposing players a couple times, trash talking, and being annoying.
Brad Marchand
400
One of the most famous Marian apparitions in the world, Our Lady of Guadalupe is said to have appeared four times to Juan Diego speaking Nahuatl, with the last appearance causing her image to appear on this.
His cloak
400
Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers was stolen twice, once in 1977 (recovered 1987) and then again in 2010 from the Khalil museum in this capital city. It has yet to be recovered.
Cairo
400
Recognizable for its distinctively sharp nose, this is the first supersonic airliner to enter service, doing so in the mid-1970s.
Concorde
500
This scandal, named after a luxurious object, falsely implicated Marie Antoinette in a scheme to defraud the royal jewelers, although it turns out her signature had been forged (not that it helps).
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
500
This man was the direct cause of the founding of the NHL, because the other owners of the NHA didn't want to work with him
Eddie Livingstone
500
The Nkisi Nkondi of the Kongo peoples are figures that have nails or other sharp objects driven into them, and mirror or glass covered holes that hold this.
Medicine bags
500
The largest diamond heist ever ended with $100 million worth of diamonds, gold, silver, other types of jewellery, cash, and securities stolen from a bank in Antwerp in 2003. How many people and how long did it take to plan and execute?
5 people 2 years
500
This spy plane set multiple speed records, and still holds several, including fastest time between London and New York (1hr, 54mins, 56s) in 1974. It was fully retired by NASA in 1999, and was used to fly reconnisance over countries such as Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Cuba, Libya, and others.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird