Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second truck began to float ashore. In the months that followed, U.S. Navy divers and British frogmen plunged to the 200-ft. to 250-ft. depths of Austria's Toplitz Lake, and later at least three amateur searchers lost their lives seeking the phony treasure believed still hidden there...
Last week, financed by the enterprising German weekly Der Stern, a seven-man team of frogmen, equipped with an underwater TV camera, successfully brought up from the depths of Toplitz Lake 300,000 phony pounds in good condition, the first of an estimated ?16 million believed hidden there. Scotland Yard only yawned: the British long ago had changed the design of their ?5 and ?10 notes. Just to be safe, Austrian police decided to destroy all the notes they could find...
Houdini knew that most of the handcuffs then manufactured could be opened with the same key, and he kept one hidden on his person. Others could be opened by rapping them on a hard surface; so when he challenged an audience to put him in cuffs, there was always a convenient piece of metal strapped to his thigh. When he conned Scotland Yard detectives into trying their "darbies" (handcuffs), they locked Houdini's arms around a stone pillar and left him to suffer. The great escapist simply banged the darbies on the pillar and walked...
...reportedly paid between $15 million and $20 million all told. Because the Japanese government imposed a 100% duty on art works, Matsukata kept the bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World War II; the Paris half was hidden deep in a Norman well, later confiscated by the French government. Of the 400 works from the well, France kept a choice 29, returned the rest to Japan...
...branding the others as heretics. The Shiites acknowledge as their leaders the direct descendants of Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law, consider these imams incorruptible, infallible and immortal; since the disappearance of the last known successor of the house of Ali in 878, the Shiites wait for the "Hidden Imam" to make his earthly return. The Sunnis, on the other hand, refuse to accept divine inspiration by inheritance, recognize first the caliph as the "commander of the community," then turn to the "consensus," made up of the learned and the wise...