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treasure-trove treasure-trove
treasure-trove in English law, buried or concealed money or precious metals without any ascertainable owner. Such property belongs to the crown. The present practice in Great Britain is for the crown to pay the finder for the treasure-trove if it is of historic or artistic value. In the United... Read more
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Treasure Treasure
654. Treasure Ali Baba uses magic to find thieves’ storehouse of booty. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”] Comstock Lode richest silver vein in world. [Amer. Hist.: Flexner, 177] Dantés, Edmond digs up the treasure revealed to him by a... Read more
loot loot
loot is a traditional perk of victorious armies and those fighting the Second World War were no exception. Art treasures have always been particularly vulnerable to any invader. For example, part of the Schliemann collection, the so-called King Priam's Treasure, as well as a number of paintings by ... Read more
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Arno river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Northern Apennines, Tuscany, central Italy, and flowing south to Arezzo where it turns northwest; it proceeds generally west, through Florence and Pisa, to empty into the Ligurian Sea. The Arno valley is fertile and densely populated. Its upper... Read more
treasurer treasurer
treasurer. The official who guarded the Norman treasure at Winchester in the reign of William I seems to have been more of a custodian than a minister or counsellor. The modern office has been traced back to the reign of Henry I, c.1126, and quickly established itself as of major importance. When... Read more
Monte Cassino Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino , monastery, in Latium, central Italy, E of the Rapido River. Situated on a hill (1,674 ft/510 m) overlooking Cassino, it was founded c.529 by St. Benedict of Nursia, whose rule became that of all Benedictine houses in the world. Monte Cassino was throughout the centuries one of the... Read more
dragon dragon
dragon mythical beast usually represented as a huge, winged, fire-breathing reptile. For centuries the dragon has been prominent in the folklore of many peoples; thus, its physical characteristics vary greatly and include combinations of numerous animals. The dragon has often been associated with... Read more
Lionel Cranfield 1st earl of Middlesex Lionel Cranfield 1st earl of Middlesex
Cranfield, Lionel, 1st earl of Middlesex (1575–1645). Cranfield, of relatively humble origins, competent and industrious, became lord treasurer under James I. He was a successful Merchant Venturer and when in 1613 he was appointed surveyor-general of the customs, it was a case of poacher... Read more
Hermitage Museum Hermitage Museum
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art and antiquities, one of the world's greatest museums. It takes its name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created in the late 1760s for the Empress Catherine II ( Catherine the Great) (1729–96;... Read more

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