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Daniel Boone: An American Life
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Daniel Boone: An American Life. By Michael A. Lofaro. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2003. Pp. xvi, 216. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2278-3.)
For more than a quarter century, Michael A. Lofaro has tracked Daniel Boone. Beginning with his 1975 dissertation and in a series of subsequent articles, Lofaro has explored the literary image of Boone. Lofaro has also explored the life of Boone, first in a 1978 biography and then in a revised edition published eight years later. Daniel Boone: An American Life, then, marks Lofaro's third shot at a Boone biography. And in this case, the third time ...
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Yamashita gold again? (Editor's note: Battle-scarred generals, like Tomoyuki Yamashita, were not expected to lug a treasure hoard around cited in this article.).(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...memorial shrine here in honor of the fabled general, Tomoyuki Yamashita. In recent years treasure hunters had excavated...Session Road. The improbable gold shipment to PI Tomoyuki Yamashita (18881946) was commander of Kwantung (Guangdong...
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That 'Yamashita gold'.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...treasure hunters in search of the Yamashita gold hoard dont realize that...fabulous gold hoard of Gen. Yamashita. Tireless investors In a previous...Malaya Lets see if indeed Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita carried ten tons of gold to be...
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Yamashita's gold hoard.(Romeo V. Pefianco)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...treasure chests buried by General Tomoyuki Yamashita indicate despair of diggers and...Editor's note: The search for Yamashita's gold started in 1945 and...the author.) Tiger of Malaya Yamashita was hanged on Feb. 23, 1946...
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War note: Yamashita's fall remembered
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter
; ...Reporter 09-01-1995 War note: Yamashita's fall remembered. KIANGAN, Ifugao--Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, Commander of the 14th Area Army of...of the Kiangan Central School where Yamashita surrendered to elements of the U...
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YAMASHITA'S TREASURE FOUND? Multi-million dollar lump of platinum may
Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The
; ...surrounding a war booty called the Yamashita treasure. President Fidel Ramos...believed the metal was part of the Yamashita trove of precious stones, gold...Legend had it that General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who commanded the Japanese...
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The Yamashita treasure.(Merry-Go-Round)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...and deals with the so-called Yamashita Treasure and how it fell into...in the Philippines. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaysia, had...nevertheless named after him, thus the Yamashita Treasure. *** When the war...
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GMA leads Yamashita rites in Ifugao.(Metro & National News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...of Malaya," Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, tomorrow, Friday, Sept...Sept. 2, 60 years ago when Yamashita surrendered to Filipino-American...Veterans of this town said Yamashita and his troops had a long walk...
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Endless water supply; (Editora[euro][TM]s note: Singaporea[euro][TM]s new technology to conserve water is paying off. Yamashita was deprived of any opportunity to amass for himself any form of enemy treasure as noted by the author.).(Romeo V. Pefianco)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...drinking." People here donat shout, TUBIG. Yamashita had no treasure hoard Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita appeared like a bulldog of a man as he demanded...Then known as the "Tiger of Malaya," Yamashita quickly became a living legend after his...
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In civil action by finder against Ferdinand Marcos for converting gold plundered and buried by General Yamashita in Philippines during World War II, Hawai'ian Supreme Court rejects "act of state" defense since defendant failed to prove that Marcos had seized the treasure for other than private purposes.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: International Law Update
; ...the Philippines in 1961, Roger Domingo Roxas ran into two individuals who claimed to know where Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita had buried large amounts of gold and other valuables looted from conquered nations during World War II.
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Profile: War crimes tribunal against a Japanese general after World War II
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...s most important general, Tomoyuki Yamashita, put on trial before a military...tribunal for crimes that Ives knew Yamashita had not committed. The young...said, `Look, I don't think Yamashita is guilty of any of the things...
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