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Issues surrounding the much talked about Marcos Gold for several decades now. Author's Notes: -A compromise among the concerned parties will successfully fast track the much-awaited distribution of the Marcos earthly possessions. It is high time for the government to consider setting up a Gold Commission and appropriately declassifying the members of the late President's (FM) "Umbrella Foundation." Then and only then can we ascertain if there indeed is an iota of truth to this fabulous fortune, or if it is simply just another grand sting operation of such great magnitude. So many stones have circulated about the so-called fabled Marcos gold hoard; A good number of con-artists, carpetbaggers, and operators nave all provided conflicting data and information about those treasures, either to make a fast buck or to aggravate the mounting confusion, so that, in the end, no one would eventually believe that this hoard did exist after all. Our leaders should carefully consider how to deal with the other country claimants and the banking Mafia (big bankers who keep these fabled war loots). We do not have to fight them, we just need to get what's due us and what's rightfully ours. This will be the great big challenge to the administration. President Ramos has started it, and has led us to our exit from the International Monetary Fund in March 1998. If President Estrada does it right, coupled with his undoubtedly close relationship with the Marcoses, his administration is bound to achieve more. Let us start getting our act together. And may the good God usher our new leaders toward this end.
During the last night of his life on July 25, 1533, the Inca Emperor Atahualpa sent a direct order to Ruminahui, his most trusted field commander, to hide all of the empire's gold. At the time, Ruminahui was leading a train of 11,000 llamas and mules laden with the gold across the Andes Mountains to Cajamarca in Northern Peru. Upon receiving the directive, the commander immediately complied, and fled into the Llanganati Wilderness, only to be pursued by the Conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and one thousand Spanish soldiers. One year later, Conquistador Pizarro returned to Cajamarca with barely a dozen men and without the gold. For the next five centuries, hundreds of expeditions costing millions of dollars would be undertaken to find the lost treasure known as 'El Dorado' or the 'Lost Inca Gold'. Yet, the location of Atahualpa's gold remains a mystery. On a warm autumn day, Professor Grant Cole sits behind a desk in Seville, Spain, reading an ancient manuscript and inadvertently stumbles over a shocking detail involving Atahualpa's treasure. This newfound knowledge will pit him against powerful worldwide intelligence agencies as well as Vatican envoys and the world's most notorious drug trafficker. Thrust into the center of the centuries-old search for the Lost Inca Gold, Cole will be relentlessly pursued. He finds help from an unexpected ally. Halston Von Thiakopolous is an impulsive and wealthy reality television star, but beneath that superficial image is a fierce and determined woman. Together, Grant and Halston will plunge into the violent and mysterious world of El Dorado in their quest to answer one of the world's greatest mysteries before they become its latest victims.
THE book is not only about the legacy of President Ferdinand E. Marcos but also the ignominious story of how two governments - and others - driven by a mixture of greed and vindictiveness, ganged up on him and his family, divested them not just of lawful power, but of honor as well as of possessions. This is the story of how legal systems were manipulated for sinister ends, how God-given rights were wantonly violated by governments professing respect for human rights. This book also consists mostly of official documents that are incontrovertible proof of the unjust punishments inflicted upon the Marcoses without them first being found guilty by the courts of law. These documents chronicled lies, frauds, flawed logic, anomalous processes and judicial partisanship that made adverse decisions against them possible in various courts. The accusatory and punitive documents comprised a paper trail of shameful acts that their authors would regret come Judgment Day. What human law can justify, for instance, the desecration of the dead? What commitment to human rights can legitimize their sustained violation? What advocate of justice can glory in denying it from the accused? Justices, lawyers, students and laymen would no doubt be amused or bewildered by the whirlwind allegations lodged against the Marcoses, and the maze of processes they went through. Legal systems are vulnerable to manhandling that frustrates justice. Most of the holdings against the Marcoses have been based on the discretion of officials of uncertain impartiality. Both legal experts and laymen have to wonder, for example, why one American court cautioned that its decision was not to be published, and why the Supreme Court of the Philippines insisted in another decision that its ruling should not be construed as a precedent. President Marcos's vision and ideas about leadership, government and constitutionalism still remain fresh and timeless today. He believed in fair and transparent political competition, operated in the national interest, created more friends and widened his network of friendship throughout the world, including in hostile places where others feared to tread. His enemies and critics saw almost everything he does as a threat to their political ambitions and economic interests. Strangely, they literally "hanged the wrong man" (Hubris 2000) at a time when he was fighting a deadly kidney disease that had emaciated his athletic body not in his homeland but in the United States, a country known for its liberal democracy and many of whose leaders had treated him with dignity and as a reliable ally only to be crucified and abandoned for political, security and economic expediency. Even his wife, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, their children and grandchildren were not spared from all manners of indignity. These tribulations befell the Marcoses, Imelda Romualdez-Marcos most of all. But despite the indignities, she has not crumbled and continued to fight their detractors. Before this book went to press, she has already suffered more than 31 years of persecution that have merely steeled her resolve to regain the family's honor, and perhaps mothered or fathered what the hyenas of history have left of the Marcos fortune. Already 88 when this book went to press, she continued her quest for justice, realizing that there is more at stake than her family's name and material wealth: the unity of the Filipino people, their capacity for reconciliation and their willingness to outgrow the betrayal and conflicts of the past. The Marcoses had been confronted originally with 358 civil and criminal cases (mostly against Imelda), of which some 100 were still current, the rest having been dismissed. Such an extended ordeal certainly adds deeper meaning to what the Irish writer William Butler Yeats penned many decades ago: "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
AAAAHHH....HELP! HELP! SOMETHING'S GOT ME!" screamed Flop. Horrified, Diz watched as the ground swallowed his best friend, replacing him with a cloud of dust. He could hear him but he couldn't see him! The others heard Flop screaming and dashed to the edge of the slope to see what had happened. Logan almost slid down the slope just as Flop had but Jackson grabbed him in time, pulling him back... Hang on as you experience this roller coaster ride for dear life! This sometimes-brave group of seven friends dodges death at every turn while learning about true friendship, courage, truth, and hope... as in the hope of getting out alive! "I've used many children's novels to teach students as an elementary educator of 31 years. I certainly wish I had been able to use this one. Jackson's Raiders has adventure, action, a treasure hunt, and a bit of the supernatural - and teaches some history as well! What more could a teacher or parent ask of a book?" -Debbie Phillips, MA Literature, Editor
True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called “most beautiful woman in the world,” headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and mystery has almost been completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group’s adventures– in the space between fact and faith, science and romance.
This first novel in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series involves sinister pirate forces, strange sea creatures, hospitable native Caribbean people, and issues of environmental management and endangered species. Suddenly faced with the task of saving a lost Spanish treasure embedded in protected coral reef, four enterprising teenagers rely on their courage and scuba-diving skills as they explore and investigate the exotic waters and beaches of the Cayman Islands. Dr. Jack MacGregor is a zoologist who works to save the environment, his wife Mavis is a working paleontologist, and their teenage children—Chris, Heather, and Ryan—though bright, dutiful kids, find themselves making common teenage decisions and mistakes. Consistently entangled in dangerous adventures in exotic locales, they must rely on their common sense, diverse skills, and daring strategies to survive. The fast-paced narrative of each book in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series includes authentic historical and scientific details and shows the developing character, morality, and discipline of the MacGregor teens as they progress through each exhilarating escapade.
Presents a history of England from the departure of Roman forces in 450 A.D. to the Norman invasion of 1066, focusing on the gold and silver artifacts of the Staffordshire Hoard found in 2009 to highlight the events and art of the period.
Based on the screenplay by George Lucas, this is the story of the hit movie with many accompanying movie stills.
Follow Indy on the quest that started it all, as he races from the Himalayan Mountains to the Egyptian desert in a high-stakes chase to track down the Ark of the Covenant. He must recover it before the Nazis do - or whole world could be in danger.