was there a real Yamashita's gold?
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This was a question much pursued by the Allies during the little publicized Japanese War Crimes Trials immediately following the end of  hostilities.\n\nIt has been said that gold and other valuables that the Japanese stole during their occupation of the Philippine Islands is still there, perhaps buried, or maybe hidden in a cave.\n\nAdventurers and historians, to this very day, are still searching for Yamashita's Stash.\n\nDo I believe it still exists, remaining uncongenial to discovery?\n\nI like to think so..
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What you mean Gold, Frankincense and myrrh
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Actually, contrary to what some people obviously believe, gold is really soft. If you can make a mark on it when you bite down, it is real.
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I think you have that backwards.  There are no physically existant tablets of emerald (or jasper, or tanzanite garnet) which were engraved with the writings.  There are no Atlanteans, much less Atlanteans who are responsible for its writing.  And there probably never was a Hermes Trismegistus either.  The Emerald Tablets of Hermes is an ordinary book that was written in the 12th century in Latin.  And while it is possibly a redaction of an older 9th century Arabic text, both the 12th and 9th centuries are decidedly post-biblical. It was quite common at that time for authors of mystical texts to attribute their writings to someone older and long deceased but reknown, in order to lend their work more credit.  It was also common for some of them to invent fantastic tales that anyone with a shred of common sense would realize were complete and utter tosh.
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mmm... no, there's no replica of any temple...\nthat's a funny idea, u know? :-) where did u got it?
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this treasure hunters site has a couple of mentions in\nits various forums.
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I just knew about it yesterday.It's about selling coins made of gold,and getting a commission,but you have to buy to become a representative-minimum:$600.\nThen you get others to buy also,and when they sell,you also get commission,and so on...But.....is it real gold???\nHave you signed yet?\nEmail me at roland999-myway.com for personal mail.
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I don't know for sure if the one you are looking for is here, but there is one that sounds like it.   I can't believe how many versions I found of this poem!!!
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Sorry this isn't an answer but as I began searching, I found a mysterious trail of identical questions... actually, it made me curious if any of them were you...\n\nhttp://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/project-wombat/2006-February/000520.html\n\nhttp://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=5131010611\n\nnone of them seem to be coming up with an answer... or at best, the answers given are refuted.  It's weird.\n\nThere's also someone talking about it on eBay but every time I'm linked to the chat page, my search can't find the quote.
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I've wondered that as well.  But I wonder that about most religions, to be truthful.  But it doesn't have a good history either.  The Miracle Wheat Scandal, the fact that the founder sued another Pastor who wrote a pamphlet about him but lost because it was the truth, not only lost but perjured himself on the stand in the process, doesn't give it a great reputation.  They've predicted the battle of Armageddon many times, always wrong of course.  \n\n“Pastor” Russell’s Watch Tower publication advertised wheat seed for sale at $1.00 a pound. It was styled “Miracle Wheat,” and it was asserted that it would grow five times as much as any other brand of\nwheat. There were other claims made for the wheat seed, and the followers were advised\nto purchase it, the proceeds to go to the Watch Tower and be used in publishing the\n“Pastor’s” sermons.\n\n\nThe Eagle first made public the facts about this new venture of the Russellites and it published a cartoon picturing the “Pastor” and his “Miracle Wheat” in such a way that\n“Pastor” Russell brought suit for libel, asking $100,000 damages. Government departments investigated the wheat for which $1.00 a pound was asked, and agents of the Government were important witnesses at the trial of the libel suit in January 1913. The “Miracle Wheat” was low in the Government tests, they said. The Eagle won the\n \nsuit.\n\nPrior to entering court the Eagle had said,\n\nThe Eagle goes even further and declares that at the trial it will show that “Pastor” Russell’s religious cult is nothing more than a money-making scheme.\n\nThe court’s decision vindicated the Eagle’s statement and proved its reliability.\n\nAll during this time the “Pastor’s” sermons were being printed in newspapers throughout the world, notably when he made a tour of the world in 1912 and caused accounts to be published in his advertised sermons telling of enthusiastic greetings at the various places he visited. It was shown in many cases that the sermons were never delivered in the places that were claimed.\n\nFor the benefit of any Jehovah’s Witness who may think that the “Miracle Wheat” fraud is an invention of the “jealous religionists” who are trying to defame the “Pastor’s” memory, we document\nthe scandal, trial, and verdict as follows:\nFrom originals (now microfilmed in New York) of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the following articles with dates and pages: Miracle Wheat Scandal, January 1, 1913, 1–2; Russellite Beliefs, January 22,\n1913, 2; Testimony on Wheat, January 23, 1913, 3; Financial statements proving Russell’s absolute control, by Secretary-Treasurer Van Amberg, January 25, 1913, 16; Government experts testify on\n“Miracle Wheat” and ascertain its ordinariness, January 27, 1913, 3; Prosecution and Defense closing arguments, January 28, 1913, 2; Russell loses libel suit, January 29, 1913, 16.\nThe Watchtower Society has maintained that Russell never made money on the “Miracle Wheat,” and that proceeds from its sale were “contributions” to the organization. They fail to note that Russell controlled the Watchtower Society, owning 990 of the 1,000 shares of its stock. Any contributions to it\nwere also to Russell!\nTo mention one instance in addition to the Eagle suit, Russell brought suit for “defamatory libel”\nagainst the Reverend J. J. Ross, pastor of the James Street Baptist Church of Hamilton, Ontario, when\nthe fearless minister wrote a blistering pamphlet denouncing Russell’s theology and personal life.\nRussell lost this attempt (see The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 11, 1913), with J. F. Rutherford as his attorney. For the benefit of the interested reader, at this time we recount the facts concerning the libel\nsuit as it actually occurred.\nIn June, 1912, the Reverend J. J. Ross, pastor of the James Street Baptist Church, Hamilton,\nOntario, published a pamphlet entitled “Some Facts About the Self-Styled
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Most of his major sayings aren't original.  The so-called "Golden Rule" was spoken by a Rabbi long before Yeshua was a gleam in his sky daddy's eye.  And the Greeks and Confucians before him.  Several of the beatitudes are also found in Psalms and Isaiah.  Not a sign of true original thought.
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Yup. i've seem it. i like when he got new armor from lady blacksmith.\nn the story is like a championship n itsnt happened in the real medieval time right?
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Nowhere as all of the evidence says that it's not credible that he had it in the first place. It seems like yet one more story that is so common when a country is defeated. A story that gives hope that all is not lost. The confederacy in the US has such a story about gold taken to another place in order to finance a return. There are stories of the same with Nazi Germany. Throughout history, same story. But if someone ever did get away with it whatever the period you can bet no one would ever know as they wouldn't want someone coming after them for it later.
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Are you talking about a "hooker with a heart of gold"?
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All that glitters is not gold.\n\nTo gotcandy below: Sorry, if it is any consolation I knew the birds of a feather riddle but was not fast enough.
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Fact: During the early days of the gold rush many easterners came out west looking for gold. Many stopped in Nevada not wanting to make the trip of the Sierras. They mined and mined looking for gold nuggets and all they found were clumps of black metal that they kept throwing out as waste. The black metal was actually pure silver in it's rough, unpolished form and no one realized!\n\nFact: California is called "The Golden State" because of the gold rush of 1949\n\nFact: Pyrite or "Fool's Gold" is often mistaken for gold nuggets but it has little value of it's own.
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everywere some of it might be around my neck!! the question is were is all the gold that the spanish conquistadors took from the aztecs? most of it is at teh bootom of the ocean were some ships sank. i dont know were or or how many ships sank, but just finding one will make you very wealthy