I have just wasted a long afternoon in allowing myself to be interviewed by a charming television crew from Norway who are making a four-part documentary about a claim by a compatriot that he has identified treasure that for over 20 years has been rumoured to have been buried on an island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
While on the map, characters can use various skills to identify treasure, monsters, and other points of interest, such as side quests and secret locations.
Striding through the Matsuoka Museum of Art in downtown Tokyo one morning early this year, 93-year-old Seijiro Matsuoka enthusiastically identified his treasures".The only one in the world," he shouted, waving at an orange and green Tang dynasty jar.
He had finally identified the treasure that many had spoken about but none had found.
Once the love affair kicked in, I identified our newfound treasure as Epimedium x versicolour "Suphureum", a reliable and long-lived perennial known for its ability to deal with dry shade.
The Geiger counter that the Mint Theater Company waves over theater history in search of long-unperformed treasures has identified a still-ticking nugget in "Rutherford and Son".
Mr. Campbell added that when New York City faced its own fiscal crisis in 1975 and the nationwide financial crisis of 2008, "the cultural treasures closely identified with our own city were never on the table — never considered an asset that might be cashed in during a crunch to bridge a negative balance sheet".
Nevertheless, the treasure he had found and smuggled out was thereafter identified as Priam's Treasure.
None of us was quite sure what to expect when James Prosek, the precocious artist identified as a "national treasure" by Tom Brokaw, and hailed by many as the "heir to Audubon," agreed to come saltwater fly-fishing with us during the annual east end of Long Island Octoberfest of bluefish, striped bass and false albacore.
Legions of fans are intimately familiar with every twist and turn of its epic fantasy plot, which pitches great dynastic houses into war over control of their galaxy's supply of "spice," a life-sustaining commodity identified as "the greatest treasure in the universe and the never-ending cause of conflict, betrayal and murder".
